Link Round Up: August 8 – 22

This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet!

Olivia by Dorothy Strachey  Bury the Lede by Gaby Dunn  Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett   The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus   Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis

Autostraddle posted “Olivia” Is One of the Best Lesbian Films of All Time and Now You Can Finally See It and 30 New Books of Queer and Feminist Interest to Get Excited About This Fall.

Bustle posted These 4 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Authors Are Writing The Women-Loving-Women Novels They Always Wanted To Read and I’m So Jealous You Get To Read Heather Rose Jones’s The Alpennia Series For The First Time.

Logo posted 11 Queer Books You Need to Read Before Summer Ends.

Queer Book Corner posted Queer YA: 2019 March-April Recap and Queer YA: 2019 May Recap.

Women and Words updated their New Releases & Coming Up page.

The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas  The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz  PS I Miss You by Jen Petro-Roy cover   Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield  Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson

“Why are there so many new books about time-travelling lesbians?” was posted at the Guardian.

“The word is out: Val McDermid selects Britain’s 10 most outstanding LGBTQ writers” was posted at the Guardian.

“Pulp Fiction Helped Define American Lesbianism” was posted at JSTOR.

“New Illinois Law Requires LGBT History To Be Taught In Schools” was posted at Townhall.

“How LGBTQ books and authors are being censored in middle schools” was posted at Entertainment Weekly.

“Literature’s Wildest Lesbian Love Story Is Coming to the Big Screen” was posted at The Stranger.

Motherland by Elissa Altman  Precious and Adored edited by Lizzie Ehrenhalt and Tilly Laskey  The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins  Orlando by Virginia Woolf  

Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing by Elissa Altman was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple 1890-1918 edited by Lizzie Ehrenhalt and Tilly Laskey was reviewed at Washington Blade.

The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins was reviewed at Black Lesbian Literary Collective.

Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

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