One of my favorite recent sapphic romance series is Bryce Oakley’s Latitude and Longing series. These romances focus on a group of college best friends helping each other navigate life in their 30s. In One Last Run, Pete and Danica rekindle their college romance. In Shift the Tide, it’s Kiera and Izzy’s turn. After All closes out the trilogy by focusingRead More
A Genre-Bending Haunted Bookstore Story: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I kept hearing people rave about this book when it was new. I heard it was a cozy read about someone working in a bookstore haunted by the ghost of a customer. So imagine my surprise when the book begins with the main characterRead More
Alexandria Bellefleur Continues to Make Seattle the Romance Capital with The Fiancée Farce
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link In a year of reading romance novels, I have learned a lot about the genre. First, and most importantly, I enjoy it so much that I usually read an entire novel within a single twenty-four hour period. Another thing that I have noticed—something that threatens to temper that enjoyment from time toRead More
Elinor reviews The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
The Argonauts is an amazing book. It is a memoir but not a neatly narrative one. It’s been called “genre-bending,” which it certainly is. I’d describe it as a meditation of family, queerness, gender, love, bodies, connection, and a whole lot more. Nelson quotes academic theorists as readily as she shares visceral, personal details fromRead More
Elinor reviews Lesbian Marriage: A Sex Survival Kit by Kim Chernin and Renate Stendhal
I love reading about relationships, sex, and queer women. I especially like to read about lesbian marriage, since I’m one of the only women I know who’s married to a woman. I was incredibly excited about Lesbian Marriage: A Sex Survival Kit. Written by a married lesbian couple who have been together for nearly thirtyRead More