“Lesbian Crushes and Bulimia” is a year’s worth of diary entries that chronicle with terrifying frankness the author, Natasha Holme’s, first lesbian crushes and her descent into disordered eating. The stark candor of the account paints a fascinating portrait of a person and a specific time in recent history. The book, set in 1989, beginsRead More
Danika reviews The Trouble with Emily Dickinson by Lyndsey D’Arcangelo
The Trouble with Emily Dickinson is a cute lesbian teen book with a few notable features. One is that the main character, JJ, has a lesbian best friend: Queenie. They are not into each other. They’re just super close. The other is that JJ’s love interest? Straight. Or is she?! The point of view switches betweenRead More
Link Round Up: Jan 24-29
The Advocate posted Lesbian Author-Scholar Julia Penelope Dead at 71. Autostraddle posted Queer Latina Punk Artist Cristy C. Road: The Interview and Happy Birthday, Virginia Woolf! I Love You A Lot. Band of Thebes posted Stonewall Book Awards: YA Winner, Honor Titles. Curve Magazine posted The 10 Most Underrated Lesbian Books. Elisa posted LGBT Ebook and Print Releases, JanuaryRead More
Danika reviews Starting From Here by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
The last time I kissed Rachel Greenstein we lay in the bed of Scarlett, my Ford pickup, watching the sun sink beyond West Lake. From this very first sentence, you can already tell this is not going to start on a happy note. Starting From Here follows Colby during a time of crisis in her life. HerRead More
Danika reviews The Narrows by m. craig
The Narrows is a Fantasy novel, but it is not the typical medieval Europe-based Fantasy. It’s what one reviewer called a “down-to-earth fantasy”. The Narrows opens with a barista making espressos using a small dragon. It’s an industrialized Fantasy world, and takes place mostly in the Bicycle Narrows, a little hipster side street in the city, taken overRead More
Danika reviews Hymnal for Dirty Girls by Rebekah Matthews
This a slim (only 40 pages) collection of 6 short stories, making it a little bit hard for me to know how to review thoroughly. From the first couple sentences, I hooked on Matthews’s style. (From “Bedroom”: “Someone keeps leaving used condoms outside my apartment. When I complain about it, you say maybe it’s justRead More
Danika reviews Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love & Revolution by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa
Before the Rain is a beautifully-written memoir that is just what the subtitle promises: about love and revolution. It focuses equally on Torregrosa’s experiences as a newspaper editor and reporter overseas in the 80s, as well as her almost a decade long love affair with a woman named Elizabeth. From the beginning, their relationship comes acrossRead More
Link Round Up: January 15-24
AfterEllen posted 2012: The Year in Lesbian/Bi Books back in December, but I missed it until now! Autostraddle posted Utah School District Returns Controversial Lesbian Family Book To Shelves (also discussed at Huffington Post) and Liberty Lit #12: I Owe Everything To Being Queer. Lambda Literary posted Lambda Literary Goes to the Movies: Filmmakers’ Favorite Books and Honors, Awards, and Nominations forRead More
Kristi reviews Riot Girl by Louise Davis
Alecia passes the time by waitressing during the day, but at night she works hard trying to get her band to the right place. When Sam, the owner of the hot 55 Bar, walks into her restaurant, Alecia takes a chance that Sam might be interested. Which she is–and not just in the music. AsRead More
Guest Lesbrarian Relme reviews Radclyffe’s romances
Note: Oh no! Another post that was swallowed in the drafts! Click to see the image in full, or see the text under the cut. Thanks for the review, Relme! You can find her at her tumblr, Reluctantly, Me. If you’d like to submit a guest review for the Lesbrary, email me at danikaellis@gmail.com!
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