Every four years, the Winter Olympics rolls around and, like clockwork, I become temporarily obsessed with figure skating. This time, however, I’ve found my obsession sticking around a little longer, so I decided to reread Tillie Walden’s graphic novel Spinning, a memoir that explores the author’s years as a competitive figure skater and her decisionRead More
A Disappointing Folk Horror Story: Hollow by Taylor Grothe Review
Hollow by Taylor Grothe is a book with a lot of potential. The main character, Cassie, has recently moved back to her home town and reconnected with her childhood best friends—but the past few years have been tough for all of them, and they just don’t fit the way they used to. When they go onRead More
An Engaging and Realistic Queer Coming of Age: Middletown by Sarah Moon
Content warnings: alcohol abuse/alcoholism, sexual harassment by an authority figure, parental neglect, bullying Middletown by Sarah Moon is a middle-grade/on-the-cusp-of-YA novel about 13-year-old Eli, whose mom’s stint in court-ordered rehab leaves her and her 17-year-old sister alone. Eli and her sister Anna are desperate not to be split up, so they lie. They claim their auntRead More
Stuck Between Too Much and Not Enough: Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Etta Sinclair is a bisexual teenager living with an eating disorder in the middle of Nebraska. She is also Black, comes from a high-income family, attends a private school and is a former ballerina. Everything about her makes her exist outside the boundaries setRead More
Danika reviews Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
When I finished Fat Angie, I felt a bit conflicted about it. I liked the character and thought the language use was interesting, but it was so dark that I felt like I couldn’t find even a glimmer of hope. Despite the many strong elements of the novel–who can resist queer girls kissing to the theme songRead More
Quinn Jean reviews The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson
[Please note: this novel contains occasional depictions of violence and this review mentions these in the first and final paragraphs] Like its eponymous heroine, The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza defies categorisation. Hutchinson’s novel never doubts the reader’s intelligence and jumps right into the centre of events at the start. Elena Mendoza is introduced as aRead More