The short lists for the 2011 Indie Lit Awards have been posted! I’m a judge in the GLBTQ category again this year, and here is the list! Well With My Soul by Gregory Allen Swimming to Chicago by David Matthew Barnes Songs for the New Depression by Kergan Edwards-Stout Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender by NickRead More
Laura Mandanas reviews Ash by Malinda Lo
The first chapter of Ash by Malinda Lo stopped me in my tracks. Lo’s writing here is not the type that should be read hurriedly — speed reading here would be like sprinting through the Taj Mahal, blindfolded, and calling it sightseeing. Such a waste! No, readers will do best to advance slowly. Pause. Ponder.Read More
Mfred reviews Passion’s Bright Fury by Radclyffe
Trauma surgeon Saxon Sinclair does not want Jude Castle filming a documentary in her top-rated NYC trauma center. Jude Castle does not want Bossy McBossersons Sinclair telling her a damn thing, ever. Both have emotional baggage and dark secrets to hide. Radclyffe gets so many things right, I find her romance books a joy to read.Read More
Anna reviews Roller Coaster by Karin Kallmaker
As I’ve mentioned before on this site, I’ve read pretty much everything written by Karin Kallmaker, and I am pleased to report that Roller Coaster is her best effort in years. The novel is almost twice as long as her usual work (according to her blog it’s the longest book of her career), and her deliberate approach pays off asRead More
Link Round Up
AfterEllen posted Your New School Library: “Parrotfish,” “Down to the Bone” and “How Beautiful the Ordinary”. Autostraddle posted End Times Approach For LGBT Newsweekly, Gay Bookstore and Feminist Bookstore and Reading Rainbow 2012: The Things We’re Finally Actually Going To Read This Year (mostly not queer books). Babbling About Books posted The 2012 Lesbian Fiction Appreciation Event Starts Now! Elles BooksRead More
Danika reviews Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme edited by Ivan Coyote and Zena Sharman
I’ve been a fan of Ivan Coyote for years, so I had high expectations for this collection. It absolutely delivered. It’s hard to sum up Persistence other than using its own subtitle. It contains a huge array of different kind of butches and femmes (and a futch, and some switches, and…), embodied by many different gendersRead More
Danika reviews Hellebore & Rue edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoff
I’m going to be honest: the only thing I was really looking for in Hellebore & Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic was for it to live up to its cover. I mean, look at that cover! It’s definitely one of my favourites. The good news is, it does! It seems like every review ofRead More
Link Round Up
AfterEllen posted Across the Page: Patricia Cornwell’s “Red Mist,” plus reviews of books by Bett Norris and Marilyn Hacker 10 years in “Jane’s World”: An interview with Paige Braddock 2011 in Review: Books Babbling About Books, and More! posted Announcing The 2012 Lesbian Fiction Appreciation Event! (1/7/12-1/21/12 (I’ll be doing a guest post, along with lots of otherRead More
Independent Literary Awards 2011
There is only until the 31st to get your nominations in for the Indie Lit Awards! I will be helping to judge the GLBTQ category, but there is also Biography/Memoir, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Poetry, and Speculative Fiction. Nominate up to five books per category! Please submit your favourite queer books published in 2011, so IRead More
Allysse reviewed “Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese” by Nicola Griffith
“Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese” is a science-fiction short story set in a world in which a disease – or symptoms as it is named – is weakening the human race, slowly making it die. The story particularly focus on one immunologist, Molly. She lives on her own, recluse, near Atlanta. She is givenRead More
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