Well, we are living in weird times. I hope that everyone is staying safe and healthy, and that you’re using this time inside to catch up on reading. If you have to be on the front lines, whether as a grocery worker or as a nurse or doctor, or anything else that is helping the world keep turning right now, I am grateful for you. Personally, I’m temporarily out of work, but I’m in Canada, so monetary help should be coming soon (fingers crossed). On to your regularly-scheduled links!
I follow hundreds of queer book blogs to scout out the best sapphic book news and reviews! Many of them get posted on tumblr and twitter as I discover them, but my favourites get saved for these link compilations. Here are some of the posts I’ve found interesting in the last few weeks.
- Autostraddle’s The Future We Lost in the Fire is one of my favourite articles I’ve read in recent memory: it explores the Nazi burning of the Magnus Hirschfeld library, and the forgotten queer history of Berlin.
- Also on Autostraddle, they are continuing their Year of Our (Audre) Lorde, reflecting on Lorde’s ongoing legacy and how it relates to our current struggles, with March’s Poetry Is Not a Luxury.
- The New Yorker’s Inside Tove Jansson’s Private Universe is a thoughtful biography of Tove Jansson, which has reminded me that I really want to pick up some full-length biographies of her, because she seems like such an interesting character.
- Book Riot’s Queer Representation in Books: Give Me All of It, Every Kind is a personal essay about the importance of a diversity of queer representations, including different identities, genres, and tones.
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- As always, there are a selection of lists worth checking out, starting with Autostraddle’s Eight Great Angsty Lesbian Romance Books and their 11 Books for Getting Started with Polyamory and Non-Monogamy.
- Tor.com is celebrating ten years of their Queering SFF column with Five Series From the Last Decade That Can’t Be Missed. On the Sleeps With Monsters column, they also provided some (queer SFF) recommendations for What to Read When the Whole World’s Falling Apart.
- My latest Book Riot video is 28 LGBTQ Books with Rainbow Covers, because a) April 3rd is Find a Rainbow Day and b) I think we could all use some pretty covers to look at right now.
- The 2020 Lambda Literary Awards Finalists and 2020 Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists have been announced!
- If you’re looking for bisexual rep, check out Reads Rainbow’s Book Releases: January-June 2020 Books With Bi Protagonists
- And if you just want to add to your TBR in general, take a look at Autostraddle’s 25 Books Relevant to Your Queer Feminist Interests Coming Out Spring 2020
April new releases are going to be their own post, which will be up in the next few days!
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