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Sapphic Book Reviews

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Jill reviews Carry the One by Carol Anshaw

October 26, 2013 by Danika Ellis

Carry the One by Carol Anshaw received a ton of praise from the queer community last year, and it includes blurbs on its back cover from such heavy hitters as Emma Donoghue and Alison Bechdel, along with Publishers Weekly. And I agreed with everything they said–yet this was also a hard novel for me toRead More

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Jill Guccini reviews Beautiful Wreck: Sex, Lies & Suicide by Stephanie Schroeder

July 15, 2013 by Danika Ellis

Stephanie Schroeder is a triple suicide survivor. Read that sentence again: triple – suicide – survivor. That is three more than anybody should have to deal with. Her memoir, released last year, takes us through the times that led to those attempts, taking place mainly in and around New York City from the late ‘90sRead More

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Jill Guccini reviews If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

June 17, 2013 by Danika Ellis

Sara Farizan’s If You Could Be Mine tells a story that I don’t think has ever been told in Young Adult fiction before, and it’s an important one. Set in contemporary Iran, it’s told from the point of view of 17-year-old Sahar, who has been in love with her best friend Nasrin for almost asRead More

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Jill reviews Empress of the World by Sara Ryan

April 17, 2013 by Danika Ellis

There’s something special about a good teenaged summer story, which is why human beings keep making movies and writing books about them. And Sara Ryan’s Empress of the World is our very own classic summer teen story, with the added bonus of queer sexual awakening. Published in 2001, it came out long before the apparentRead More

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Jill Guccini reviews My Awesome Place by Cheryl Burke

January 21, 2013 by Danika Ellis

Reading My Awesome Place felt like a bittersweet experience from the start, a fact that has nothing to do with the writing itself, and everything to do with the story behind it. It’s a series of autobiographical tales written by New York City performance artist/poet/playwright/overall writer and liver of life Cheryl B, mostly covering timesRead More

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Jill Guccini reviews The Narrows by M. Craig

November 19, 2012 by Danika Ellis

The world of the M. Craig’s The Narrows (http://narrowsthenovel.com/) contains a lot of elements you’ll recognize: full of bicycles and outcasts, skinny jeans and crowded cafes, and of course, a healthy dose of beer, its streets very much resemble a Portland or a Brooklyn of today. Yet then there’s the Other Stuff. There’s dragons andRead More

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Jill Guccini reviews Girl from Mars by Tamara Bach

October 22, 2012 by Danika Ellis

Miriam is a 15-year-old girl living in a small town in Germany, and like a lot of 15-year-old girls in small towns, she spends her life waiting for something to happen. She fights with her mom; passes her schooldays in boredom. She goes to parties and drinks when she has the opportunity yet never reallyRead More

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