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Laura reviews Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay & Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid

April 16, 2013 by Danika Ellis

Have you been on the internet at all in the past two weeks? Yes? I’m guessing the cover of this book probably looks familiar to you. If not, try it in red: That’s right: we’re talking about gay marriage! Marriage equality! A hot topic for around the world right now. While we won’t hear theRead More

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Laura reviews “Wine For A Shotgun” by Marty McConnell

March 19, 2013 by Danika Ellis

Wine For A Shotgun by Marty McConnell is the most beautiful collection of poetry I’ve ever read. Now, a caveat: I say this as a reader of fiction who is generally interested in — but hasn’t read read an awful lot of — poetry. Like Danika, I often don’t feel feel qualified to write aboutRead More

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Laura reviews Sister Spit edited by Michelle Tea

February 22, 2013 by Danika Ellis

In the introduction to Sister Spit: Writing, Rants & Reminiscence from the Road, editor Michelle Tea proudly writes that Sister Spit is what she did instead of college. Reading this collection is like digging through a pile of her study group’s crumpled looseleaf notes at the end of the semester. It’s enough to get theRead More

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Laura reviews Adaptation by Malinda Lo

January 22, 2013 by Danika Ellis

Publisher’s Blurb: Reese can’t remember anything from the time between the accident and the day she woke up almost a month later. She only knows one thing: She’s different now. Across North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. Thousands of people die. Fearing terrorism, the UnitedRead More

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Laura reviews Red Falcon’s District by Leilani Beck

November 20, 2012 by Danika Ellis

Red Falcon’s District is a historical fantasy novel by Leilani Beck. The story follows Bridget Caswell — a plucky young woman who has been on the run her entire life — as she takes sanctuary in an unusual, little known London district. A capable work by an emerging author, this book is an excellent choiceRead More

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Laura reviews “Thicker Than Blood” by Avery Vanderlyle

October 16, 2012 by Danika Ellis

Publisher’s Blurb: When the Nanotech Plague began killing off the large population of America using the tiny, implanted robots, the so-called “normals” took it upon themselves to wipe out the rest to prevent the spread. Now, fourteen years later, performer Ayana is in a dangerous position. Her nanotechnology implants are impossible to hide, having beenRead More

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Laura reviews All We Know: Three Lives by Lisa Cohen

October 5, 2012 by Danika Ellis

Much as I despise cold weather, there’s something really wonderful about the rituals of early autumn. You pack up your shorts and sundresses. You begin wearing scarves and boots. You convince yourself that flannel is fashionable outside the lesbian bar. You slurp Oktoberfest ales every evening, and pumpkin spiced lattes every morning. You reach forRead More

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Laura reviews Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

September 18, 2012 by Danika Ellis

So, I know that Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters is, like, the lesbian book. But I’ve got to be honest with you: I really wasn’t all that into it. Terrible, I know! But hear me out.   Background:  Tipping the Velvet is set in Victorian England in the 1890s. It’s a coming of ageRead More

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Laura Mandanas Reviews A Fucking Brief History of Fucking by Janet Mason

September 16, 2012 by Danika Ellis

Dedicated to the author’s “wide ranging tribe of friends, accomplices, and cuntpatriots,” A Fucking Brief History of Fucking is a chapbook of poetry by Philadelphia-based writer Janet Mason. And it is so, so lesbian. In one poem, a former dancer gives another woman a musculo-skeletal overview of how pasties are twirled; in another, two womenRead More

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Laura Mandanas reviews Drift by Rachel Maddow

April 17, 2012 by Danika Ellis

As the first out lesbian primetime anchor, Rachel Maddow has always been a pleasure to watch. She’s also a pleasure to read. Engaging and full of personality, the voice and tone of her recent release, Drift, will sound very familiar to fans of The Rachel Maddow Show. (Literally. As in, I could hear the author’sRead More

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