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• Link Round Up: January 11 – 31

  Sorry about the delay! January was a big month for me, including moving, but I'm ready to catch up, so let's dive right in! AfterEllen posted Why I Wanted More... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Marthese Reviews Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

  

  Emma Donoghue is a phenomenal writer take is able to make you related to her narrative. So when I heard about a new book, I knew that I will someday buy it and... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Megan Casey Reviews The Dead by Ingrid Black

  

  In a 2013 interview, Anne Laughlin lists Ingrid Black as one of her favorite lesbian mystery writers. It isn't clear from the interview whether she was aware... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Danika Reviews (You) Set Me On Fire by Mariko Tamaki

  

  This is a story about college, about fire, and also about love. Before going to college at the age of seventeen, I'd been in love once (total catastrophe) and o... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Elinor Reviews Same Time, Next Week by Emily Smith

  

  Same Time, Next Week is an incredibly fun novel to read, though not at all what I had in mind. I picked it up because it's billed as a butch-femme romance. I... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Julie Thompson Reviews Trusting Tomorrow by PJ Trebelhorn

  

  This review contains spoilers. Trusting Tomorrow opens with Logan hunkered down in her car, not quite ready to face her father's empty house. Having never... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Danika Reviews 100 Crushes by Elisha Lim

  

  100 Crushes is a collection of excerpts from different pieces that Elisha Lim has done over the years, including Sissy, The Illustrated Gentleman, Queer Child i... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Link Round Up: December 21 – January 10

  

  AfterEllen posted 2015: The Year in Lesbian/Bi Books. Autostraddle posted Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian posted Lambda Literary posted Is... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Audrey Reviews Gay & Lesbian History for Kids by Jerome Pohlen

  

  The full title is,Gay Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights, With 21 Activities. We'll get to the activities part. First, as thi... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2016 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Danika Reviews The Family Tooth by Ellis Avery

  

  As soon as I finished The Last Nude by Ellis Avery, I immediately added her to my mental list of favourite authors, despite the fact that it was the only thing... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Rachel Reviews Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller

  

  First published in 1969 under the title A Place for Us, Patience Sarah is a lovely classic lesbian novel by Isabel Miller. Like Nancy Garden's Annie on my... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Marthese Reviews Their Story (Tamen De Gushi) by Tan Jiu

  

  "What's up with her today?" "Youth" Their Story is a full colour Manhua (Chinese Comic) that is still ongoing, about Sun Jing and Qiu Tong, two girls from... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Link Round Up: November 30 – December 20

  Sorry for the delay in posting round ups! December has been really hectic around here. But there's been lots of fantastic stuff posted lately, so let's just div... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• SPONSORED REVIEW: Danika Reviews The Apprentice Queen by Nel Havas

  

  The Apprentice Queen is a story about how an ordinary person becomes a monster. Mitti grew up in a happy, not particularly well-off family in ancient Egypt. Whe... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Megan Casey Reviews Torrid Zone by ReBecca Béguin

  

  In the early days of modern feminism, when women were wimmin (or womyn), girls were grrrls, and men were the enemy, Ida Muret joined seven other communal... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Audrey Reviews Warm and Willing by Lawrence Block Writing as Jill Emerson

  

  Lawrence Block isn't known for his lesbian romances, but the novelty factor of the mystery author's name showing up on an LGBT-tagged book in my Oyster... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Hunger Makes Me a Elinor Reviews Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

  

  As a long-time Sleater-Kinney fan and a Pacific Northwest transplant, I was thrilled that Carrie Brownstein had written a memoir. I picked up a copy of Hunger... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Link Round Up: November 23 – 29

  

  AfterEllen posted AfterEllen's Gift Guide for the Gay Girl 2015, including "Comic Book Craver" and "Lez/Bi Bibiliophile". Autostraddle posted 14 Lesbian Sexua... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Link Round Up: November 16 – 22

  

  "I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial, for neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not," [Patricia Highsmith]... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Megan Casey Reviews The Wombat Strategy by Claire McNab

  

  Kylie Kendall, newly arrived in L.A. from a small-town in Australia, is a fresh catch compared to cold-fish, Sydney-based Carol Ashton, the protagonist of... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ