Laura goes off to college and meets Beth. Beth inspires in her a frenzied, frightening passion, which she can barely contain. Beth, in her loneliness, is drawn to Laura’s worship of her. They start an affair. Until Beth meets Charlie, and finally falls in love. This is basically the plot of Ann Bannon’s Odd Girl Out andRead More
Lesbrary Sneak Peek
Some more of the les/etc books I’ve gotten lately and why I’m looking forward to reading them. How could I resist the cover of Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds by Judy Grahn? Answer: I could not. It is amazing. It also seems to about gay and lesbian culture, history, language, and symbols, whichRead More
Lesbrary Link Round Up
Bonjour Cass! posted about her favourite [queer] nonfiction anthologies. Elisa posted Persistent Voices: Merle Woo Rainbow Awards: Cover Contest – Round 2 – Finalists LGBT Ebook and Print Releases October, 2011 Gay League posted Erika Moen Speaks! and Gay Previews 12/2011. Good Lesbian Books posted Lesbian Knights In Fiction. Kissed By Venus posted the newest VenusRead More
Danika reviews Love Spell by Karen Williams
Okay, so it may be a little late to pick this up for Halloween, but still! I’ll admit, I picked up this book entirely because of Rie (Friend of Dorothy Wilde)’s review, so you should probably check that out. I’m going to go with the negatives first, in a convenient bulleted list There definitely isRead More
Allysse reviews Women’s Barrack by Tereska Torres
Women’s Barracks is a novel by Tereska Torrès. It depicts the lives of a few women and girls who worked for the Free French Forces that existed in London during World War 2. The novel is a sort of collection of snapshots of their lives. It is based upon the journals the author wrote duringRead More
Maryam reviewed Reclaiming the L-Word: Sappho’s Daughters Out in Africa edited by Allyn Diesel
I just finished Reclaiming the L-Word: Sappho’s Daughters Out in Africa, edited by Allyn Diesel. It is a wonderful anthology of personal essays, poetry, and photographs, each African woman telling the tale of what it is to be queer in South Africa. They range from the heartwarming – Yulinda Noortman’s description of shopping for wedding fabricRead More
Casey reviews Ana Historic by Daphne Marlatt
For a viscerally experimental and gorgeously postmodern glimpse at queer Canadian women’s herstory, there is no better place to look than Daphne Marlatt’s 1988 novel Ana Historic. I say postmodern and experimental because the novel undoubtedly is, but this is not so much a warning as an invitation to watch Marlatt deftly and beautifully useRead More
Danika reviews 18th & Castro by Karin Kallmaker
18th & Castro by Karin Kallmaker is a collection of stories set on Halloween in the Castro. It’s part of the “Bella After Dark” (erotica) collection of Bella Books, which I wasn’t aware of when I picked it up. It’s still not entirely erotica, though. The emphasis is more on the characters and relationships thanRead More
Link Round Up
AfterEllen posted DC plans “Millennium Trilogy” graphic novel series Pam Harrison closes “House of the Muses” Life’s Little Lesbian Mysteries: Fall Autostraddle posted Effort to Repeal California Gay History in Schools Officially Fails and “Lavender Scare” [the documentary based on the book] Exposes The US Government’s Cold War Era Gay Witch Hunt. Lambda Literary posted National Book AwardsRead More
Laura reviews Fist of the Spider Woman edited by Amber Dawn
Fist of the Spider Woman, edited by Amber Dawn, is an anthology of 16 poems and short stories written in the queer space where fear meets desire. With subject matter ranging from vampires to pubic lice, this coolly creepy collection is the perfect paperback to pick up as Halloween draws near. As Dawn notes in the introduction,Read More
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