Shamim Sarif’s novel, I CAN’T THINK STRAIGHT, focuses on several issues that are close to my heart: love, friendship, and families. Many of us can relate to these topics on some level, even if the main characters come from different backgrounds. Tala is a Palestinian who lives in London. In the opening pages, she’s preparingRead More
Jordan reviews A Pirate’s Heart by Catherine Friend
Pirates are one of those passions that tend to capture people in a phase, like your teenage mutant ninja turtle phase. And just like how I will always love those pizza pounding turtles, there will always be some part of me that jumps at anything about pirates; particularly when I can come across stuff aboutRead More
Link Round Up: March 20 – 26
AfterEllen posted A.K. Summers illustrates the life of “Pregnant Butch”. Autostraddle posted Lez Liberty Lit #42: Didactic Dialogue and Book Doctors. Lambda Literary posted A.K. Summers: Tales of the Pregnant Butch. Women and Words posted Coming Attractions, April 2014 Hot off the Press, March 2014 Lonestar Lesfic Festival 2014 The Kate Delafield series by Katherine Forrest was reviewedRead More
Rachel reviews The Child Manuela by Christa Winsloe
German novelist and playwright Christa Winsloe wrote a daring book for her time: The Child Manuela, published in 1934; a novel about a young lesbian’s love for an older woman. It was first published as a play, and later adapted into two movies: Madchen (Girls) In Uniform in 1931 and the 1958 remake of theRead More
Danika reviews Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley
The foreword to Open Road Media’s edition of Loving You begins with a quotation, and I can’t help but use the same one to begin my review: “For black lesbians,” writes novelist and critic Jewelle Gomez, reading Ann Allen Shockley’s first novel, Loving Her (1974), “was like reading The Well of Loneliness for the first time as teenagers andRead More
Sarani reviews On Her Lead by Hayley Cooke
On Her Lead is a collection of lesbian BDSM short stories by Hayley Cooke. Having never heard of Cooke before, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect but overall, I was impressed by this collection and ended up really enjoying it. There are six short stories and each explores a slightly different aspect of BDSM. AllRead More
Link Round Up March 13 – 19
Autostraddle posted Movie Review: Biopic “Reaching For The Moon” Lets Us See Elizabeth Bishop in Love. LadyLike Book Club posted Episode 29 – Uncommon Romance. Lambda Literary posted The Publishing Triangle Award Finalists Announced. Tides by Anne Azel was reviewed at Piercing Fiction. Portable Homes collected by Lexie Bean was reviewed by Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian. Sex, orRead More
Hannah reviews Waiting for the Violins by Justine Saracen
I read Justine Saracen’s Waiting for the Violins because it’s chockfull of hearty elements that a make up a good tale: espionage, clever women, French poetry, and romance. Set during WW2, an English nurse, Antonia Forrester, is injured at Dunkirk. During her recovery, her past experience and French skills catch the attention of the BritishRead More
Krait reviews Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History edited by Rose Fox and Daniel José Older
Long Hidden features 27 stories, focusing on (as the editors put it) “stories from the margins of speculative history, each taking place between 1400 and the early 1900s and putting a speculative twist—an element of science fiction, fantasy, horror, or the unclassifiably strange—on real past events.” The anthology features many people and women of color, trans* characters, lesbians, and storiesRead More
Danika reviews Falling into Place: An Intimate Geography of Home by Catherine Reid
When I first picked up Falling into Place, I thought it was a memoir. While it can read like one, it’s actually a collection of related essays. This collection focuses in equal parts on Reid’s personal life and her love of nature, weaving in narratives about a particular otter, or the story of passenger pigeons,Read More
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