I don’t even know where to start in describing how much I loved this. I am tempted to just tell you “This is a queer punk retelling of Peter Pan.” If that intrigues you (as it did me), don’t hesitate. It will be all you dreamed of and more. And if that doesn’t interest you–ifRead More
Danika reviews Where the Words End and My Body Begins by Amber Dawn
Where the Words End and My Body Begins is a collection of glosa poems, which means, in part, that each poem incorporates four sequential lines from another poem. What makes this collection especially interesting is Amber Dawn’s selections: each poet glossed “find[s] themselves somewhere along the queer, gender-creative, feminism and/or survivor spectrum.” Although each poetRead More
Rachel reviews The Year They Burned the Books by Nancy Garden
Nancy Garden, author of the classic Annie on my Mind, wrote another poignant novel about lesbians. This time, she touched on controversy about homosexuality, censorship, and free speech. The Year They Burned The Books is that novel. Published in 1999, this story still rings true today about how far censorship and prejudice can go. TheRead More
Elinor reviews How Sweet It Is by Melissa Brayden
Molly O’Brien runs a bakeshop, Flour Child, in her impossibly charming hometown of Applewood. She’s never left Applewood, and why would she? Applewood is the sort of small town that exists in fiction, a real community where people all know and care about each other, where nothing terrible really ever happens. Plus, it’s only severalRead More
Link Round Up: May 4 – 10
There’s so much to like about this book. It’s just phenomenal fantasy from a queer and Indigenous (Cherokee) perspective. If you like fantasy, you really cannot go wrong with Kynship. Although it’s published by a small Native press in Ontario, I found the whole series at the public library in Vancouver, so it’s not evenRead More
Audrey reviews My Real Children by Jo Walton
My Real Children is terrifically problematic in the best possible way. Patricia in 2015 is at the end of her life, relegated to a nursing home, left mostly alone by her family–but until she opens her eyes and sees the colors of the curtains and which side of the hallway the bathroom is on thatRead More
Amanda Clay reviews The Summer I Wasn’t Me by Jessica Verdi
Here’s a confession: I don’t do Jesus. I don’t like queer books with religious themes, I don’t like books about conversion camps, I don’t like gay Christian apologist books with their interminable, inevitable scenes where one character quotes the Bible and the other character dismantles the hate with explanations of what surely this REALLY meansRead More
Kalyanii reviews Pissing in a River by Lorrie Sprecher
Throughout my reading of Lorrie Sprecher’s latest release, there was no denying the frustration — in fact, near torment — I endured in witnessing the chasm between what Pissing in a River is and what it could have been. One might equate the experience to an encounter with a woman who inspires boundless passion andRead More
Link Round Up: April 27 – May 3
Autostraddle posted Read a F*cking Book Review: “She Speaks Poetry” Is a Book for the Revolution Drawn to Comics: Jillian Tamaki’s “SuperMutant Magic Academy” Will Change the Way You Look at High School, Mutants, Graphic Novels Lez Liberty Lit #71: Books Alter You The Lesbian Review posted Top 10 Lesbian Book Beginnings. Read More
Danika reviews My Education by Susan Choi
I have a weakness for media about a certain kind of relationship. The passionate, destructive, almost-certainly-doomed kind. (This probably doesn’t say anything good about me.) My Education fits neatly into this category, and it definitely delivered the kind of drama that I was looking for. Regina, a university grad student, can’t resist the urge to takeRead More
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