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• Link Round Up: August 22 – September 3

  

  posted Land of Many Faces: Telling The Tales of LGBT India . Daily Xtra posted After 25 years at Little Sister's, Janine Fuller now faces her... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Holly Reviews Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

  

  When I was just 30 pages in, this is the review I was considering writing for : This book is so sweet I can barely stand it. The end. At this point I had... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• SPONSORED REVIEW: Danika Reviews Sekma by Nel Havas

  

  Back in December, I reviewed The Apprentice Queen by Nel Havas. Recently, the author contacted me about her new companion book to that novel: . (I say... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Tierney Reviews Vera’s Will by Shelley Ettinger

  

  Vera's Will is a beautifully-told queer family saga, one that is by turns heart-wrenching and heartwarming, and at every moment an entrancing read. Ettinger... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Shira Glassman Reviews Marian by Ella Lyons

  

  One way to describe Marian by Ella Lyons is that it's a kiddie version of Heather Rose Jones's Daughter of Mystery - both are costume dramas featuring a... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Bessie Reviews After Delores by Sarah Schulman

  

  Sarah Schulman is a writer and ACTUP activist. Her novel After Delores was published in 1988. It's a mystery set in the aftermath of a breakup, with the narrato... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Danika Reviews You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan

  

  This book is a romp. Ever since I read Boy Meets Boy, I've been looking for a queer women's equivalent: a cotton candy book that, despite any issues it... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Katelyn Reviews Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia De Rossi

  

  When Portia de Rossi first released her memoir, I was just testing the waters of an eating disorder and six years past admitting to myself that I wasn't... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Marthese Reviews The Second Mango by Shira Glassman

  

  She also picked up a mango, and then, after thinking about it for a moment, bought a second as well. The Second Mango is the first in the Mangoverse high-fantas... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Kalyanii Reviews The Housing Crisis by Kate McLay

  

  Some literary journeys reveal their destination long before their narrative engine has found its hum, while others keep the reader wide-eyed and white-knuckled... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Link Round Up: August 10 – 21

  Autostraddle posted Lez Liberty Lit #104: Books On A Bicycle . posted New in August : Sjón, Tim Murphy, Erin Judge, Steven Gaines, and Jacqueline Woodson . ... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• JJ Taylor Reviews Just Enough Light by AJ Quinn

  

  Just Enough Light by AJ Quinn (Bold Stroke Books) is a romantic thriller between two women working at an isolated Search and Rescue center in the Rockies. The... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Shira Glassman Reviews Sideshow by Amy Stilgenbauer

  

  If you've been craving midcentury f/f, if you want that old-timey vintage movie aesthetic- I mean the sweet, wholesome type rather than noir - Sideshow by Amy... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Korri Reviews Sister Mischief by Laura Goode

  

  Sister Mischief is a coming of age young adult novel about a group of friends who form the titular hip hop group in the predominantly white suburb of Holyhill,... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Megan Casey Reviews Femme Noir by Clara Nipper

  

  I read Nipper's latest book, Murder on the Rocks, before I read this one. That was a mistake, because the two books are so different in quality. In fact, I bega... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Rachel Reviews The Witch of Stalingrad by Justine Saracen

  

  Justine Saracen has written many historical novels featuring homosexual and transsexual protagonists. The Witch of Stalingrad is a lesbian adventure/romance... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Lauren Reviews The Island and the Kite by Aurora Zahni

  

  In The Island and the Kite, Mary Susan Bennett ventures to New York City for a day of moving-watching and dilly-dally. Mary Susan's likeable personality is... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Aoife Reviews Of White Snakes and Misshapen Owls by Debra Hyde

  

  Miss Charlotte Olmes is the classic turn of the century 'woman detective' - clever, enlightened, and progressive, with a penchant for cross-dressing. She lives... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Stephanie Recommends Five Classic Black Lesbian Books You’ve Probably Never Hear...

  

  I recently attended a literary conference focused on lesbian literature and was shocked at how many attendees didn't know anything about Black lesbian literatur... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• 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... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ