“Let the sea take it.” The Gloaming begins with jellyfish washing up near a cliff by the sea, on an island where the residents die slow deaths by turning to stone. It’s a sad, strange and beautiful scene, just one of many sprinkled throughout this novel. Our protagonist is Mara, who falls in love with Pearl,Read More
Anna Marie reviews Stone Butch Blues
Ever since I learnt about Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg I’ve wanted to read it, but I knew it would be an intense book to read with quite a lot of violence in it, so I waited till I thought I might be slightly more ready for it. The time to read it arrived since, lastRead More
Link Round Up: June 1 – 10
This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet! Autostraddle posted 8 Funny Books Featuring Queer Adult Women and The Perfect Queer Poem: When You Need to Find Your Body. Book RiotRead More
Link Round Up: May 18 – 31
This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet! Autostraddle posted The Perfect Queer Poem: For Defining Your Boundaries. Book Riot posted Out First LGBTQ+ Books. Bustle posted 26 NewRead More
Link Round Up: April 21 – May 5
This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet! Autostraddle posted 8 Crime Books Featuring Women Loving Women & Other Queer People. LGBTQ Reads posted New Releases: May 1-7, 2019.Read More
Link Round Up: December 13 – January 1
This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet! Advocate posted The Best Books We Read in 2018: Coffee Table The Best Books We Read in 2018: Queer History & Bios The Best Books We ReadRead More
Link Round Up: November 12 – December 12
This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet! Autostraddle posted Five Steamy Lesbian Reads for the Holidays and 50 of the Best LGBT Books of 2018. Lambda Literary posted New in December: Kevin Killian, MarkRead More
Link Round Up: October 10 – November 11
Autostraddle posted 8 Middle Grade Books with LGBTQ Characters The Ultimate Maggie Nelson Reading List. Normal Blood Feelings: 5 Dark (and Sometimes Sexy) Queer Vampire Stories Drawn To Comics: America Chavez Will Finally Grace the Pages of Her Own Comic; Here’s What You Should Know 38 Lesbian Magazines That BurnedRead More
Lauren reviews The Island and the Kite by Aurora Zahni
In The Island and the Kite, Mary Susan Bennett ventures to New York City for a day of movie-watching and dilly-dally. Mary Susan’s likeable personality is instantly welcoming to readers. She is the type of 19-year-old that never meets a stranger. She has an amazing ability to strike genuine rapport with whoever crosses her path.Read More
Link Round Up: March 26 – April 10
Autostraddle posted Lez Liberty Lit #94: How To Find Queer Books 30 Book Titles as Gay as Sarah Waters’s ‘Tipping the Velvet’ Read a F*cking Book: “The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (With Cats!)” Is Everything You Care About BCLA LGBTQ Interest Group posted YA Fiction Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters that I EitherRead More