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Nat reviews How To Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow

January 1, 2023 by Lesbrarians

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Sweet yet angsty. Coming of age and coming out stories. A meet cute that’s…not so cute. Jewish holiday rom com. All the big, tender feels of young love. Non-stop cackling, except when you take a break to have a good cry. A prominently featured corgi. These are aRead More

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Maggie reviews A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo

December 19, 2022 by Lesbrarians

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link I was ecstatic when I heard that Malinda Lo was writing a loosely connected follow up to Last Night at the Telegraph Cub because Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a hugely important lesbian coming of age novel set in 1950s San Francisco Chinatown that A) I wish I had hadRead More

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Danika reviews How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

December 10, 2022 by Danika Ellis

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link This may be my favourite book I’ve read this year, and there’s been some stiff competition. How Far the Light Reaches is exactly what the subtitle promises: a life in ten sea creatures. It weaves together facts about aquatic animals with related stories from the author’s own life.Read More

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Danika reviews Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller

May 25, 2021 by Danika Ellis

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link I couldn’t tell you why I started listening to Why Fish Don’t Exist. I must have heard it recommended somewhere, because it was on my audiobook app favorites list, so I gave it a try as something that looked entertaining, but didn’t seem like it would requite myRead More

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Susan reviews The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

July 8, 2020 by Danika Ellis

Olivia Waite’s The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics is a historical romance that revolves around two queer women creating a space for themselves in art and science. Lucy Muchelney’s lover has just married someone else, and her brother is trying to get her to give up on astronomy; her only recourse is to fling herselfRead More

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Allysse reviewed “Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese” by Nicola Griffith

December 28, 2011 by Danika Ellis

“Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese” is a science-fiction short story set in a world in which a disease – or symptoms as it is named – is weakening the human race, slowly making it die. The story particularly focus on one immunologist, Molly. She lives on her own, recluse, near Atlanta. She is givenRead More

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