Lonnie Squires has an unusual profession for a lesbian mystery protagonist; she is an Episcopal priest. As far as I know, Joan Albarella’s Nikki Barnes is the only other woman of the cloth in lesbian mystery fiction. In fact, it is unusual to find religious references at all in the genre other than casual referencesRead More
Danika reviews Painting Their Portraits in Winter by Myriam Gurba
This is a book with a heartbeat, as alive as if the words were put down in blood. Probably a macabre first impression of a book, but one that I think really fits Painting Their Portraits In Winter. This is a collection of short stories, some interlinked and some freestanding, rooted in Mexican culture and storytellingRead More
Link Round Up: August 31 – September 13
AfterEllen posted Official U.S. trailer for “Carol”. Autostraddle posted Lez Liberty Lit #79: Still Waiting For My Owl. Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian posted Ask Your Friendly Neighbourhood Lesbrarian # 11: Bisexual Women Navigating Queer Communities and Ask Your Friendly Neighbourhood Lesbrarian #10: Asexual YA Characters with Different Romantic Orientations. Lambda Literary posted Sara Jaffe: On Her New NovelRead More
Marthese reviews Elves and Escapades by Eleanor Beresford
“you’ve grown up more than you want to admit” Elves and Escapades is the second book in the Scholars and Sorcerers series. The book is only 136 pages and you’ll fly through it like a Pegasus (heh). This book picks up after the events of the first one and is similar in its tender toneRead More
Audrey reviews In Every Cloud by Tina Michele
Having read this book at the end of July, I was happy to remember that I had written a couple sentences about it to my fiancee, because I was having fun. In looking back, it was more than a few. Here’s the initial raw impression: “I was completely delighted to go to NetGalley (on theRead More
Elinor reviews Searching for Celia by Elizabeth Ridley
Searching for Celia by Elizabeth Ridley is a fast-paced mystery about identity. It starts with our American narrator, Dayle, on a plane to visit London and deliver a keynote speech at a writing conference, and more importantly, to visit her lifelong friend and one-time girlfriend, Celia. Dayle and Celia meet as young teenagers when Celia’sRead More
Danika reviews the Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie
The overwhelming image I get when trying to describe The Summer We Got Free is the moments just before a summer thunderstorm: the charged anticipation, the humid heat, the claustrophobia of it. It also reminded me of Toni Morrison’s Beloved in that this is a story about a family and a house haunted by their past. The storyRead More
Danika reviews Hayate X Blade Omnibus 1 (Volumes 1-3) by Shizuru Hayashiya
I’ve only read a handful of manga, but every time I do I find them completely engrossing. So of course I’ve been trying to make my way through the yuri manga that is available in English. I know, though, that there is context to manga in general as an art form and yuri in particularRead More
Danika reviews Bodymap by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
I don’t typically read poetry, and this was a collection that made me realize what a mistake that is. Bodymap is about Piepzna-Samarasinha’s life as a queer disabled femme of colour. It’s political, but it’s politics rooted in everyday experiences of injustice and survival, not abstract theorizing. Although her poetry experiments with style, they all are accessible andRead More
Link Round Up: August 24 – 30
Alison Bechdel‘s Fun Home was included on a summer reading list at Duke University and several students refused to read it for “moral reasons”. The original article is at The Duke Chronicle and several other outlets have covered it, including Slate, Jezebel and Book Riot. About a Girl by Sarah McCarry was reviewedRead More
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