I have to say: I was a bit concerned when, four paragraphs in, the main love interest was characterized as a “Japanese anime schoolgirl.” (Like, really people. Can we just stop with the racist Asian exotification and extraordinarily sleazy fetishization of teenage girls? That would be great.) Normally I would have stopped reading there, butRead More
Danika reviews The Gifted Ones by Lisa Vaughn
I think I might be a little burnt out on self-published books. The problem is that I always have the same problems with them, and almost all of those problems can be summed up with “not enough editing.” The Gifted Ones (a memoir), unfortunately, fits in that category. The typos are numerous, including two onesRead More
How running the Lesbrary has changed my reading habits.
So, I just saw the BBAW topic for today is how book blogging has changed your reading habits, and even though I’m not going to be blogging all the topics, this one intrigued me. Running the Lesbrary has completely transformed my reading habits. I’m not sure if I started the Lesbrary because I was readingRead More
Link Round Up, Part 3 (all caught up!)
Autostraddle posted Autostraddle Summer Book Club Final Winners Announced! Elisa posted Rainbow Awards: Current Submissions 191-200 and Rainbow Awards: Cover Contest – Round 1 – Finalists. F/F Fan Fiction Reader’s Corner posted What Women Want. Gay League posted Gay Previews 10/11. GLBT Reading posted September Reviews, so go link your queer book review posts there! They also posted Reading challenge update: Most activeRead More
Mfred reviews Valencia by Michelle Tea
What to say about this book? I can’t quite put my finger on Valencia, can’t pin it down or summarize my reaction to it. Perhaps my first mistake was to read the introduction. My copy is a reprint, with Tea adding commentary on her own ambivalent feelings regarding the semi-autobiographical story of being young, queer, drunkRead More
Link Round Up, Part 2
This post catches us up with August! By Wednesday I will be all caught up again. Autostraddle posted The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, With A Side of RADCLYFFE. Good Lesbian Books posted Lesbian Fairytale Fiction. Indie Lit Awards are now accepting nominations for the LGBTQ category! (Oh, and the categories, too.) Go nominate your favourite 2011 LGBTQ books! ThisRead More
Weekly…ish (who am I kidding) Link Round Up!
Well, school has started, and somewhat predictably I’ve fallen behind in link round ups. This will bring us up until Aug 26th (that’s it?!), and I hope to do another week (ideally two) tomorrow. Bold Strokes Books posted Going Evil: Keeping Romance Alive in Series Writing. Elisa posted Rainbow Awards: Current Submissions 171-180 and Del Martin (May 5, 1921 –Read More
Anna reviews The Jewel Box by Alcamia Payne
Clemmie Beaumont is a just-widowed southern belle who prefers the company of women. Pearl, a recently freed slave, is her new maid. She’s described as a sensual, “exotic” creature who has been watching Clemmie from the shadows and jumps on her first opportunity to slide a well-formed and “dextrous” [sic] toe up Clemmie’s skirts. Yes,Read More
Maryam reviews Black Girl Love by Anondra Williams
I started to review another book for this month, but I put that book down and picked up Black Girl Love instead, and I’m glad that I did. Black Girl Love is a series of fictional vignettes punctuated by the occasional poem. The poetry sets the tone for the author’s style, and the short stories are so vibrant inRead More
Kristi reviewed “Better With Age” by Beth Wylde
Olivia just went to pick up a birthday cake for her daughter Felicity, not to revisit the past. Yet when she discovers the shop owner is none other than her first — and last — love, Aleesha, everything comes back. As a kiss has Olivia thinking about her own mother’s actions which resulted in theirRead More
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