It’s perhaps best to begin with the fact that happiness you won’t find much in Chinelo Okparanta’s short story collection Happiness, Like Water. After all, as one character points out, happiness is like water if “we’re always trying to grab onto it, but it’s always slipping through our fingers.” What you will find, however, areRead More
Kalyanii posted Her Name by Alicia Joseph
There is a good chance that any woman who has experienced the sense that hers is not the life she was destined to live will find something of a kindred spirit in Madison Andrews, the protagonist of Alicia Joseph’s novella, Her Name. Especially for those of us who have heard the not-so-distant ticking of the biologicalRead More
Link Round Up: November 24 – 30
The Advocate posted Transgender Pioneer and Stone Butch Blues Author Leslie Feinberg Has Died (an obituary by Leslie’s partner, Minnie Bruce Platt). Autostraddle posted Drawn to Comics: Lumberjanes’ Epic Friendtastic First Run Finale is Here! How Leslie Feinberg Changed Our Lives: The Autostraddle Roundtable Lez Liberty Lit #60: Buried Under Books Hey, Dollface byRead More
Danika reviews Tributaries (Eikasia Book One) by Illise Montoya
I am conflicted about Tributaries. It’s one of those books where some aspects I absolutely loved, and some I didn’t like at all. First of all, I have to point out that gorgeous cover. I just want to stare at it for a while. Okay, onto to the book itself. We’re first introduced to Nyx, a youngRead More
Danika reviews Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
This is a powerful book. Lies We Tell Ourselves is about Sarah, one of the first black kids to integrate into a formally all-white school in Virginia, 1959. The other main character is Linda, the daughter of a staunchly segregationist public figure. The two find themselves inexorably drawn to each other. The premise alone wasRead More
Danika reviews Don’t Bang the Barista! by Leigh Matthews
Kate is a twenty-something lesbian in Vancouver, still recovering from her last break up (which happened a year ago), and hopelessly crushing on her barista. The title is her friend Cass’s number one rule of coffee shop dating, but Kate thinks it might be worth breaking. Don’t Bang the Barista! follows Kate as she tries toRead More
Rachel reviews Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden
Fans of lesbian young adult literature should really pick up Annie On My Mind, by Nancy Garden. First published in 1982, Annie was one of the first lesbian fiction novels to have a happy ending. Garden put so much care and love into her story, and it really shows. The story is told in the voiceRead More
Link Round Up: November 13 – 23
AfterEllen posted “Stone Butch Blues” author Leslie Feinberg passes away. Autostraddle posted Lez Liberty Lit #59: Luminous Misandry and Jacqueline Woodson, Ursula LeGuin Reign Triumphant at the 65th National Book Awards. Lambda Literary posted Transgender Pioneer, Activist, and Author Leslie Feinberg, 65, Has Died and Losing our Hero, Rest in Power Leslie Feinberg. We Need Diverse BooksRead More
Danika reviews Domestication Handbook by Kristen Stone
I’m not sure exactly how to review Domestication Handbook, because I’m not sure I fully understand what it is. It seems to blend together fiction, memoir, and book of poetry. The book is divided into three sections: “Part 1: A basic guide to farming”, “Part II: How to write a suburban memoir”, and “Part III: positiveRead More
Danika reviews Hero Worship by Rebekah Matthews
I don’t think I’ve ever had a book that was simultaneously so good and so painful to read, which is appropriate for Hero Worship. The book follows Valerie, a twenty-something who’s had a string of bad relationships and is still trying to figure herself out. In the first part of the story, she is writing lettersRead More
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