The first sentence of emily m. danforth’s much-talked about debut young adult novel, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, is one of those opening lines you’ll never forget, like Jane Austen’s brilliant opening to Pride and Prejudice: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be inRead More
Link Round Up
Bold Strokes Books posted The Amazon Trail and Still Fighting For Freedom. C-Spot Reviews posted a collection of mini reviews. Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian posted Amber Dawn Wins This Year’s Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBTQ writer Happy Victoria and Toronto Pride! Some Literary Events for Queer Book Nerds Daphne Marlatt to be AwardedRead More
Danika reviews When We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Cordova
It was a happy coincidence that When We Were Outlaws reached the top of my TBR stack just after it won a Lambda Literary Award. I was already looking forward to it, but the win pushed my expectations a little higher. I can definitely see when Cordova won. When We Were Outlaws is equal parts a historical look intoRead More
Link Round Up: June 19-26
The Advocate posted Disney Dykes and Bourbon Street Boys: Authors Lisa Girolami and Greg Herren. AfterEllen posted “It Gets Better” and “The Letter Q”: Two books every queer youth should read The best women authors of science fiction and fantasy: Who’s on your list? Kate Kane learns an important lesbian lesson in “Batwoman #10” Autostraddle posted QueeringRead More
Allysse reviews Sapphistires: A global history of love between women by Leila J. Rupp
Sapphistires: A global history of love between women By Leila J. Rupp Sapphistires: A global history of love between women is a non-fiction book that aims to take the reader through the history of love between woman from all era and all places. Leila J. Rupp succeeds quite well in doing that. Her perspective isRead More
Danika reviews The Mere Future by Sarah Schulman
This was a puzzling book to me. The Mere Future takes place “In the future, when things are slightly better because there has been a big change.” I was expecting a dystopia, but I finished the book still not certain whether things were, in fact, slightly better. “The big change” is a political one, involving housing costsRead More
Guest Post and ebook Giveaway by Prologue Books: Interview with Marijane Meaker
1. What are the origins of the Vin Packer name? I was having lunch with a man named Vincent and a woman whose last name was Packer. I told them I’d just become a Literary Agent after trying in vain to get one. I had printed stationery with Marijane Meaker, Literary Agent on it andRead More
Link Round Up
AfterEllen posted What Are You Reading? “Spandex: Fast and Hard” is the world’s first all-gay superhero comic book Across the Page: Meredith Maran, Linda Hirshman, Arisa White Autostraddle posted Trials and Titillation in Toronto: A Virtual Tour of the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives and The Very Lesbian Life of Miss Anne Lister. Bella Books posted Goldie AwardsRead More
Danika reviews Seasons Change by Jennifer A. Lightburn
I have read quite a few self-published books for the Lesbrary now, and the majority of the time I come back to one point: editing. Some authors do self-publishing well and put in the time to have their work edited thoroughly (I haven’t had any issues with Sarah Diemer’s editing, for instance), but a lotRead More
Casey reviews Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel’s second graphic memoir Are You My Mother? (2012) certainly has an huge mountain of success to live up to: unbeknownst to Bechdel herself and all her leftist, alternative lesbian Dykes to Watch Out For fans, her first memoir Fun Home (2006) became a best-seller, was named Time magazine’s number one book of theRead More
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