Everybody Else’s Girl, by Sarah Sawyers-Lovett, is set in Tazewell, Virginia. The town has two sides: quaint storefronts and poverty. The author shares what it was like growing up in extreme poverty and violence. It’s a true story, even though at times it’s hard to believe one person was able to overcome so much asRead More
Link Round Up: April 17 – 23
AfterEllen posted Kelly Cogswell on “Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger”. Autostraddle posted Lumberjanes #1 is Soooooooooooo Good! In Spring Love With These Three Books, Latinas in Media and Sister Spit Lez Liberty Lit #44: Silent Reading Party Bisexual Books posted Finalists for the Bisexual Book Awards! Black Lesbian Books posted Looking for something new to read? Here’s aRead More
Kathleen Wheeler reviews Finding the Grain by Wynn Malone
Finding The Grain by Wynn Malone is, in my mind, one of those rare treasures destined to become a classic- if not an instant classic, it is certainly a cut well above. It’s one of those books that, as a writer, I read and get jealous because I WISH I could write like that! Maybe someRead More
Krait reviews Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block
Love in the Time of Global Warming follows Penelope – Pen – through a modern dystopian retelling of The Illiad. After a catastrophic earthquake (appropriately named the Ground Shaker) destroys her happy teenage life, Pen embarks on a dark myth-steeped adventure to find her missing parents and brother. Along the way, she encounters monsters, both literalRead More
Danielle Ferriola reviews Hood by Emma Donoghue
Hood is not your light reading on the beach, rather a long sitting in bed with a box of tissues and a warm blanket. Emma Donoghue writes a tragically beautiful story about two women who shared a special kind of love –a love that many might not agree with. Pen O’Grady and Cara Wall haveRead More
Sarani reviews Protection by Carla Blake
Protection by Carla Blake is labelled an erotic thriller. The story is centred on the relationships between actress Carrie Shilling, her bodyguard Andrea Stone and Isobel Pearce, a woman fascinated with Carrie. Carrie is a rising star, who recently left a popular TV soap to star in high profile movies. After a terrifying run-in withRead More
Link Round Up: April 10 – 16
Autostraddle posted Lumberjanes Launches TODAY! Grace Ellis and Shannon Watters Are Spilling Their Guts. Diversity In YA posted Want More Diversity in Your YA? Here’s How You Can Help. YA LGBT Books (Goodreads Group) posted YA books with butch lesbian characters. Balance by Georgia Beers was reviewed at C-Spot Reviews Hysterical: Anna Freud’s Story by Rebecca Coffey was reviewedRead More
Hannah reviews The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer
The Dark Wife is a retelling of the ancient Greek myth involving Persephone and Hades. This myth is one of my favorites, so I picked up its reinterpretation eagerly. Diemer’s tale didn’t disappoint.This book simply holds a solid, good story. The prose is immediately engrossing and full of similes which paint the ancient world DiemerRead More
Jess reviews Babyji by Abha Dawesar
Babyji (2005) by Abha Dawesar is an atypical ‘coming of age’ novel featuring an academically gifted, sexually empowered female protagonist Anamika Sharma. Dawesar returns to her Indian roots, placing Anamika in the heart of a class-divided Delhi, juggling the pressures of being both a student and a lover. This is an unapologetic exploration of theRead More
Kalyanii reviews Tell Me by Deanna DiLorenzo
There is something haunting about a novel that engages in a manner such that the reader feels the story to be her story, seducing to a degree wherein the experience conveyed comes to flow through her veins and beat with her heart until it leaves her all but trembling with emotion, eventually settling within theRead More
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