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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

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Bringing the Lesbian Vampire Home: Carmen Maria Machado’s Reclamation of CARMILLA

September 12, 2020 by Danika Ellis

Carmilla is a lesbian vampire story that predates Dracula by decades. It’s a story I’ve come back to over and over, in the same conflicted way that I am drawn to lesbian pulp. In fact, I wrote a post about queer culture’s tendency to reclaim toxic representation, and how Carmilla and lesbian pulp fits into that. On the one hand, it’sRead More

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Susan reviews Stranger on Lesbos by Valerie Taylor

October 12, 2016 by Danika Ellis

Valerie Taylor’s Stranger on Lesbos is an example of classic pulp lesbian fiction. It was published in 1960, at the midpoint of the genre, and it seems like a really tropey example of it! Frances Ollenfield escaped a childhood of abuse and poverty into a marriage that is slowly becoming more and more loveless asRead 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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Guest Lesbrarian: Shanna

January 23, 2011 by Danika Ellis

Another guest lesbrarian post! I love these. Please, please feel free to submit your own! Thank you, Shanna! “‘And those awful rumors the students are spreading,’ Laura continued in a whisper. ‘Half the student body should be in the care of a psychiatrist, in my opinion.’” So, at one point in my not-too-distant history, IRead More

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The Lesbrary is a sapphic book blog that started in 2010. It's run by Danika Ellis, and we have about a dozen reviewers from around the world recommending sapphic books in every genre. Check out the top navigation bar for more about the Lesbrary as well as options to browse by genre, age category, rating, and more.

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