Lyssa, the insecure and deeply sensitive narrator of “The Third Kind of Horse,” reminds the reader several times that her story is not a love story. Each time it’s tossed off with such flippant conviction that we can’t help but believe her even as she falls in and out of love. Michelle Auerbach’s novel isRead More
Karelia Stetz-Waters reviews From the Boots Up by Andi Marquette
Students often tell me that they want to major in English because they love to read. I am professionally obligated to be happy about this announcement. However, I have reservations. I enjoyed reading more in high school than I did after my two degrees in literature. Mind you I can spot a Shakespearean reference aRead More
Link Round Up: June 21 – July 9
Sorry for the delay in posting links: I expected I would be able to spend more time on a computer last week while I was on vacation, and I am still catching up. AfterEllen posted Chin up, lesbians! Gertrude Stein got rejected too! and The AfterEllen.com Book Club: “A Thousand Mornings”. Autostraddle posted Liberty Lit #23: ARead More
Tag reviewed Dancing with Venus by Roscoe James
Usually if I don’t already know an author, I try to not read about them until I know how their work stands on its own. Once I’m done, I’ll decide if I’m interested in the rest of the writer’s work, and find out about them as a person on the way. The more critically IRead More
Marcia reviews Born Wicked: The Cahill Witch Chronicles, Book One, by Jessica Spotswood
Quick note: This review does not discuss in-novel lesbianism at length, as I consider the hints and reveal to be a pretty significant spoiler. You’ll just have to trust me. Lesbians are here. The year is 1896, the place is New England — but it is not the New England we know, not even theRead More
Jordan reviews Fairy Tales for Princesses who love Dames by Rene von Bonaparte
Where ever I go fairy tales always follow me. Although, particularly I’ve been scavenging for fairy tales of the queer variety lately, which means I’ve picked up quite a bit of Sarah Diemer’s work, and I’ve done some reviews on some older ones like Kissing the Witch. But I wanted to try something more recentRead More
Link Round Up: June 13 – 20
AfterEllen posted Kate and Maggie make out and beat up bad guys together in “Batwoman #21”. Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian posted Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian Recommends… Danika Leigh Ellis (that’s me!) posted Lesbian Summer Reads! housequeer posted MORE Queer Young Adult Fiction To Curl Up With: My To-Read Edition. Lambda Literary posted Notes on Teaching Kate Bornstein. LGBT@NYPLRead More
Jill Guccini reviews If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
Sara Farizan’s If You Could Be Mine tells a story that I don’t think has ever been told in Young Adult fiction before, and it’s an important one. Set in contemporary Iran, it’s told from the point of view of 17-year-old Sahar, who has been in love with her best friend Nasrin for almost asRead More
Katie reviews Twixt by Sarah Diemer
Sarah Diemer’s Twixt drew me in from the first sentence, sunk its claws into me, and didn’t let go until the last page. The novel is named after the world it resides in – Twixt – and the world is a strange, frightening, utterly fascinating one. People wake up in Abeo City with no memories, and they’reRead More
Karelia Stetz-Waters reviews Bella Key by Scarlet Chastain
Somewhere in Manhattan there is a think tank wherein scientists have spent the last ten years perfecting an instrument that will allow them to measure a book’s suitability for beach reading. On the Beach Readability Index (BRI) the novella Bella Key, by Scarlet Chastain, scores a perfect ten. The first point in Bella Key’s BRIRead More
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