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A Messy Homage to Lesbian Pulp: Perfume and Pain by Anna Dorn

July 2, 2024 by Danika Ellis

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! If you like to read about messy lesbians making terrible decisions, this is the book for you. It’s also the perfect set piece for reading in public while sipping an iced lavender latte, though I must admit I was not then approached by aRead More

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Rachel reviews Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

April 20, 2021 by Danika Ellis

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link I read Malinda Lo’s newest book, Last Night at the Telegraph Club (2021) about a month ago, and I’m still thinking about it. If you’re looking for a slice of mid-twentieth-century lesbian culture with some wonderful Chinese American representation and rich social history, Last Night at the Telegraph Club is forRead More

Women in the Shadows by Ann Bannon
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Emily Joy reviews Women in the Shadows by Ann Bannon

December 5, 2019 by Danika Ellis

I’ve steadily been making way through the Beebo Brinker Chronicles, a classic lesbian pulp series by Ann Bannon, for quite some time. Women in the Shadows is the third book in that series and by far the most difficult to read so far. This review, by nature of being for the third book in aRead More

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Danika reviews Pulp by Robin Talley

February 16, 2019 by Danika Ellis

I have been anticipating this book for a long time. I collect lesbian pulp, and I’m fascinated by the history of this period of lesbian literature. Pulp is a YA novel from two perspectives: Abby, a modern day out and proud lesbian, and Janet, a 1950s teenager just discovering that she’s a lesbian, and what thatRead More

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Kalyanii reviews Don’t Bang the Barista by Leigh Matthews

January 6, 2015 by Danika Ellis

If truth be told, my initial interest in Don’t Bang the Barista probably had something to do with my long-held crush on the red-headed, fresh-faced beauty who works the morning shift at the coffee shop a couple of blocks from my office. However, with the turn of the first few pages, it became clear thatRead More

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Danika reviews Don’t Bang the Barista! by Leigh Matthews

November 26, 2014 by Danika Ellis

Kate is a twenty-something lesbian in Vancouver, still recovering from her last break up (which happened a year ago), and hopelessly crushing on her barista. The title is her friend Cass’s number one rule of coffee shop dating, but Kate thinks it might be worth breaking. Don’t Bang the Barista! follows Kate as she tries toRead More

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Erica reviews Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher by Monica Nolan

December 20, 2012 by Danika Ellis

In Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher, Monica Nolan playfully revives the genre of the 1950s lesbian pulp fiction novel. The protagonist is Bobby Blanchard, former field hockey star turned Games Mistress at a private all-girls school in rural Michigan. While her teaching skills are next to none, Bobby has no problem with instructing girls andRead More

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Danika reviews Lesbian Pulp Fiction edited by Katherine V. Forrest

May 19, 2012 by Danika Ellis

I didn’t know what to expect from this book. I requested it from Cleis press after being blown away by their title Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue, and I hoped this one would be similar, but focused on lesbian pulp. Actually, it’s a collection of excerpts from lesbian pulp books from 1950-1965,Read More

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Mfred Reviews Odd Girl Out by Ann Bannon

November 8, 2011 by Danika Ellis

Laura goes off to college and meets Beth.  Beth inspires in her a frenzied, frightening passion, which she can barely contain.  Beth, in her loneliness, is drawn to Laura’s worship of her.  They start an affair.  Until Beth meets Charlie, and finally falls in love. This is basically the plot of Ann Bannon’s Odd Girl Out andRead More

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Allysse reviews Women’s Barrack by Tereska Torres

October 26, 2011 by Danika Ellis

Women’s Barracks is a novel by Tereska Torrès. It depicts the lives of a few women and girls who worked for the Free French Forces that existed in London during World War 2. The novel is a sort of collection of snapshots of their lives. It is based upon the journals the author wrote duringRead More

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