Last weekend was Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon, which I’ve done every year for the past ten years. For the October readathon, I save up horror and other Halloween-themed books all year to marathon that day. Green Fuse Burning seemed like a perfect choice: it’s a 99-page horror novella with an Indigenous and sapphic main character.Read More
A Sapphic K-Pop Horrormance: Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Content warnings for self-harm, homophobia, racism, sexism, suicide, violence, and gore. Sunny, Candie, and Mina were a young K-pop group on the rise, starring in a popular TV show that launched their career. That was before everything fell apart. Before Sunny and Candie turnedRead More
Susan reviews Alone in Space by Tillie Walden
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Alone in Space is a collection of short comics and standalone pieces by Tillie Walden. Some of the pieces have already been released as graphic novels, so they might be familiar to you already. “The End of Summer” A royal family and their servants lock themselves away toRead More
Susan reviews White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi is a surreal, lyrical horror novel that follows generations of women haunted by their racist, xenophobic house, which wants to keep them all inside its walls forever. The story loops forwards and backwards through time to tell their stories and the house’s. The language and imagery are beautiful,Read More
Susan reviews A City Inside by Tillie Walden
Tillie Walden’s A City Inside is a short surreal book about a young woman growing into herself again and again. As you’d expect from me reviewing Tillie Walden’s work, the art is beautiful; the protagonist’s various homes are especially well done, and the way that the art manages to tinge even the protagonist’s happier momentsRead More
Danika reviews Girl Town by Carolyn Nowak
What a weird and wonderful book. This a collection of comic short stories, which differ in characters and style, but have a similar vibe of women’s complicated relationships with each other, and a general sense of unease and yearning. With beginning lines like “I have lived with Ashley and Jolene since we all got kickedRead More