Nell Stark’s All In, published this month by Bold Strokes Books, is a sweet romance that involves high-stakes poker and Las Vegas. Annie Novarro, the self-styled “Nova” of online poker-playing, has a dilemma. When she loses almost all of her substantial winnings due to a federal crackdown on online gambling, she must either face factsRead More
Krait reviews The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan
Caitlin R. Kiernan, known for her strange dark fiction, hits it out of the park with The Drowning Girl. The protagonist, Imp — India Morgan Phelps — writes the book as a memoir to seal away the events of her past several years. Imp is schizophrenic and struggles with her perceptions of the world onceRead More
Ashley reviews Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
In the interest of full disclosure, I should probably tell you that Love Letters to the Dead is not exactly a lesbian book – the main character, Laurel, is definitely interested in boys. But despite its casting of a straight protagonist, Love Letters is a beautiful example of how to write a pair of lady-loving secondary characters, something thatRead More
ally reviews The Tolernce Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality by Suzanna Danuta Walters
I hate to admit it: Iʼm sort of a newbie in the LGBT politics/theory section of the second- hand book store. I am always seeking out new works of fiction and poetry from queer authors or with queer themes; as a queer writer myself I see it as my duty. But Iʼm realizing Iʼve beenRead More
Ally Blumenfeld reviews The Most Beautiful Rot by Ocean Capewell
The Most Beautiful Rot is exactly what its title suggests: the story of four not-so-beautiful lives making the most out of what they are given, which, among addiction and disease, includes a literal rot – a giant compost pile in the backyard of a crumbling house in a poor urban neighborhood. Ocean Capewell is aRead More
Casey reviews If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous
Maybe my expectations were too high for Malena Watrous’s first novel If You Follow Me. I was pretty psyched about it from the get-go because it was about a bisexual English as a second language teacher who goes to Japan (just like me! well, except for the Japan part). But overall I felt like thisRead More
Link Round Up: May 29 – June 3
The Advocate posted 10 Great LGBT Summer Reads. AfterEllen posted The AfterEllen Book Club: Choices for June. Autostraddle posted Lez Liberty Lit #47: Filled With Poetry. Bold Strokes Nottingham Festival is happening on June 7th and 8th! Authors who are attending have been posting on BSB blog. LGBTQ Recs Month posted Posting Instructions. The RainbowRead More
Kalyanii reviews My Awesome Place by Cheryl Burke
It is not in spite of the grit, irreverence and sordid encounters that Cheryl B.’s life serves as an inspiration; rather, it is because of the rawness and honesty with which she relays each and every detail. Without apologies, Cheryl B. within her posthumously published memoir, My Awesome Place, recounts the most tragic and triumphantRead More
Nicole reviews A Good Death by Helen Davis
To begin: this book is very well written. The prose is crisp, adept, and emotionally evocative. I read the entire book in two absorbed sittings. It’s a refreshing piece of literature. It also, towards the end, gets crazy insane. Let’s start from the beginning. This novel covers the story of four close friends: Helen, Sophie,Read More
Danika reviews Gender Failure by Rae Spoon & Ivan E. Coyote
Ivan Coyote is one of my favourite authors, and this is actually the ninth book edited or written by them that I’ve read. Rae Spoon was already one my most listened to musicians before their first book, First Spring Grass Fire blew me away. So it’s no great surprise that I loved this book. IRead More
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