What to say about this book? I can’t quite put my finger on Valencia, can’t pin it down or summarize my reaction to it. Perhaps my first mistake was to read the introduction. My copy is a reprint, with Tea adding commentary on her own ambivalent feelings regarding the semi-autobiographical story of being young, queer, drunkRead More
Link Round Up, Part 2
This post catches us up with August! By Wednesday I will be all caught up again. Autostraddle posted The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, With A Side of RADCLYFFE. Good Lesbian Books posted Lesbian Fairytale Fiction. Indie Lit Awards are now accepting nominations for the LGBTQ category! (Oh, and the categories, too.) Go nominate your favourite 2011 LGBTQ books! ThisRead More
Weekly…ish (who am I kidding) Link Round Up!
Well, school has started, and somewhat predictably I’ve fallen behind in link round ups. This will bring us up until Aug 26th (that’s it?!), and I hope to do another week (ideally two) tomorrow. Bold Strokes Books posted Going Evil: Keeping Romance Alive in Series Writing. Elisa posted Rainbow Awards: Current Submissions 171-180 and Del Martin (May 5, 1921 –Read More
Anna reviews The Jewel Box by Alcamia Payne
Clemmie Beaumont is a just-widowed southern belle who prefers the company of women. Pearl, a recently freed slave, is her new maid. She’s described as a sensual, “exotic” creature who has been watching Clemmie from the shadows and jumps on her first opportunity to slide a well-formed and “dextrous” [sic] toe up Clemmie’s skirts. Yes,Read More
Maryam reviews Black Girl Love by Anondra Williams
I started to review another book for this month, but I put that book down and picked up Black Girl Love instead, and I’m glad that I did. Black Girl Love is a series of fictional vignettes punctuated by the occasional poem. The poetry sets the tone for the author’s style, and the short stories are so vibrant inRead More
Kristi reviewed “Better With Age” by Beth Wylde
Olivia just went to pick up a birthday cake for her daughter Felicity, not to revisit the past. Yet when she discovers the shop owner is none other than her first — and last — love, Aleesha, everything comes back. As a kiss has Olivia thinking about her own mother’s actions which resulted in theirRead More
Allysse reviews Becoming by Wendy Clark
Becoming is the story of Alison and Marilyn. Told from the point of view of Alison, we follow her life from the moment Marilyn reappears in it while wandering into their common past at university. The novel is divided into two parts. The first one, called “cocoon”, introduces us to the characters and their present.Read More
Giant Link Round Up
Well, you may have noticed that the Lesbrary has been a little quieter than usual. I was moving and changing jobs and then promptly got sick, so it’s been a little hectic lately. I do have a huge amount of links to share with you, though, so here they are! About.com Lesbian Life posted Books forRead More
Anna reviews Rulebreaker by Cathy Pegau
Rulebreaker by Cathy Pegau, is set on a mining colony on a planet somewhere far away from Earth and some time after the year 2100. Liv Braxton is a small-time criminal who is convinced by her ex-husband, Tonio, to perpetrate one last con. This job will give her the money she needs to leave the businessRead More
Laura Mandanas reviews Fearless by Erin O’Reilly
Fearless by Erin O’Reilly is a work of historical fiction about the brave members of the Auxiliary Transport Authority who ferried planes during World War II. Delivering aircraft from the factories to Royal Air Force stations throughout the United Kingdom, ATA pilots flew in the face of danger on a daily basis. This book follows pilotsRead More
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