When Southern debutante Mae St. John learns from her grandmother’s will that not only is the family fortune gone (with all the remaining income designated for the care of Big Mae’s poodle), she thought things could not get more surprising. Then a note left by Big Mae reveals that Mae’s long presumed dead father isRead More
Link Round Up: Sept 18 – 25
Autostraddle posted Lez Liberty Lit #29: Against Stupidity, Apathy, And Zombification and Drawn to Comics: Princess Princess Makes All Of Your Queer Fairy Tale Fantasies Come True. Lambda Literary posted An Evening of Lesbian Pulp Fiction (New York, October 10th). Piercing Fiction posted Rainbow eBooks is closing. Queer Books Please posted Episode 35 – If You Follow Me, The Courier’s New Bicycle, underrated lesbianRead More
Rachel reviews Pembroke Park by Michelle Martin
Pembroke Park by Michelle Martin is a daring novel for its time. Published in 1986, it is the story of two lesbian women in the regency period of England. The year is 1817 in Herefordshire, and wealthy widow Joanna Sinclair, one of England’s privileged “ton”, the upper class society of England, meets her new neighbor,Read More
Danika reviews Love In the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block
Love In the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block is a post-apocalyptic Fantasy teen re-telling of The Odyssey. Yes, it has a lot going on. The book is set decades in the future, but for the most part it seems like it could be current day. The main character, Penelope, has survived (so far)Read More
Link Round Up: Sept 4 – 18
AfterEllen posted “Batwoman” writers resign, say DC won’t allow Kate and Maggie to get married and AfterEllen.com Book Club: “Will of the Empress” and “Ammonite”. Autostraddle posted Lez Liberty Lit #28: Reviewing Reviews of Reviews Batwoman Creative Team Quits After DC Editors Prohibit Planned Lesbian Marriage DC Hires an Openly Gay Writer for Batwoman to AppeaseRead More
Erica Gillingham reviews Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden
“Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can’t understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins? I think it was Sunday when that feeling began.” Let me give you a little background on me before I tell you how awesome Annie On My MindRead More
Jill reviews Strangers In Paradise: Volume One by Terry Moore
I’ve heard so much about Terry Moore’s Strangers in Paradise over the years, especially this year as he released a special box set edition of the entire series for its 20th anniversary, that approaching it started to seem intimidating, and also complicated. I’ll probably lose some nerd cred for saying this, but compilations of longRead More
Carol reviews Women Float by Maureen Foley
Publisher: CCLaP Publishing ASIN: B00D208K98 Genre: Fiction Overview from Amazon.com Lonely California pastry chef Win never learned how to swim, despite growing up just miles from the Pacific Ocean. Even Janie, her flaky pro-surfer single mother, couldn’t convince her to brave the water, solidifying Win’s fear when she leaves her at the tender age ofRead More
Karelia Stetz-Waters reviews The Stranger You Seek by Amanda Kyle Williams
When I was at the university studying literature, I took a lot of classes on the writing of minority groups. The question often came up: what makes this book representative of the group? In other words, if a Native American writes a Harlequin romance with an all white cast, is that truly a Native AmericanRead More
Danika reviews Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown
Between being an English major (recently graduated!) and a book blogger, it has been years now since I’ve been able to just pick a book to read because I was in the mood for it. I always had a stack of school books and review books I had to get through first. Finally, IRead More
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