Daite by Hildred Billings has the makings for an entertaining romance. There are sexy women, drama, love, broken hearts, and steamy scenes. Jun is dedicated to her job and she hopes to run her family’s hotel business someday. When she finally thinks her uncle is about to hand over the reins to her, she discoversRead More
Link Round Up: August 22 – 27
AfterEllen posted An Alternative School Reading List: Here Is Every YA Novel With Lesbians. Autostraddle posted Lez Liberty Lit #53: A To-Read Pile To The Moon. Diverse Book Tours posted We don’t just need diverse books, we need to market them too. Gay YA posted We Are Not Just a Diversity Checkbox Part 2. Lambda Literary posted Francine Prose: On Her NewRead More
Rachel reviews Gravity by Leanne Lieberman
For many gays and lesbians, religion, be it Christianity or Judaism, can be very hard to reconcile to and keep true to their identities at the same time. Gravity by Leanne Lieberman explores these very problems for a lesbian Orthodox Jewish teenager. It is the summer of 1987 in Canada, and fifteen year old EllieRead More
Danielle Ferriola reviews Emlyn and the Gremlin by Steff F. Kneff and illustrated by Luke Spooner
Upon discovering rummaged jewelry boxes and messes young Emlyn knows she did not create, Emlyn confronts her two mothers about the probability of a mysterious gremlin sneaking into her bedroom at night. Determined to find out which creature was indeed responsible for displacing shiny items in her room, Emlyn disregards her mothers’ claims that noRead More
Anna M reviews Jolt by Kris Bryant
Jolt is the first novel by Kris Bryant and will be published in September by Bold Strokes Books. I read a review copy courtesy of Netgalley. Mystery author Bethany Lange hasn’t recovered from a bad breakup three years ago, when her closeted partner abruptly left her to be with someone else. Since then, Bethany hasRead More
Hannah reviews Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
I’m ashamed to say that Tipping the Velvet is my first Sarah Waters read, but pleased to report that it didn’t disappoint. Taking place in Victorian England, Tipping the Velvet is a mix of the coming-of-age and coming-out genres; its themes (if I am to reduce a twist-filled tale to such banalities) include leaving home,Read More
Link Round Up: August 14 – 21
AfterEllen posted Exposed: The real reason for censoring “The Miseducation of Cameron Post”. Golden Crown Literary Society is taking hotel reservations and registration for the 2015 GCLS conference in New Orleans, July 22-26, 2015. Lesbian Reading Room posted LESBIAN FOCAL BOOK LIST: FANTASY (pdf). Outer Alliance posted Outer Alliance Podcast #44. Malinda Lo posted Diversity Programming at BookRead More
Krait reviews Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey
Santa Olivia is one of those books that’s really hard to describe. You’ve got a dystopian 10 minutes into the future United States, a daughter of one of the genetically-modified “Wolf Boys,” and boxing. But Carey weaves all of those disparate parts into a ridiculously good story. Loup Garron is born in Outpost 12, aRead More
Elinor reviews One Foot Onto the Ice and When You Know by Kiki Archer
[This review contains some spoilers. -ed.] Kiki Archer’s lesbian romantic comedy, One Foot Onto the Ice, and its sequel When You Know, are the fun tale of Susan and Jenna. Susan is an uptight teacher at the British boarding school she attended just under a decade ago. Jenna is her free-spirited former classmate, now aRead More
Link Round Up: July 24 – August 13
AfterEllen posted The AfterEllen.com Book Club: “Annie on My Mind” and The AfterEllen.com Book Club: August Rewind. Autostraddle posted Lez Liberty Lit #51: Reading While Travelling 40 LGBTQ-Friendly Picture Books for Ages 0-5 Read a F*cking Book: Late Summer Reading For Queers and Feminists If They Build A New Queer Bookstore, Will You Come “FunRead More
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