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• Rachel Reviews Her Maiden Voyage by Rachel Maldonado

  

  A wonderful lesbian romance that takes place on the Titanic, Her Maiden Voyage by Rachel Maldonado, was just released earlier this year. The protagonist of the... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Link Round Up: July 20 – 26

  

  I love lesbian books because they unapologetically centre women in their narratives, and we need more stories like that. Unfortunately, while gay men's... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Danika Reviews The World Unseen by Shamim Sarif

  

  I had high expectations for this book. I've heard really good things about Shamim Sarif, and one of my favourite lesbian movies is I Can't Think Straight,... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Marthese Reviews Dare Seize the Fire by Cody L. Stanford

  

  "gifts sometimes come with sharp edges" Dare Seize the Fire is a young adult adventure book with a hint of fantasy. The story is set in Philadelphia and... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Link Round Up: July 13 – 19

  

  Autostraddle posted Drawn to Comics: Lumberjanes, Other DtC Favs, Women and Queer Women Win Big at the Eisners! and Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Irena... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Megan Casey Reviews Death Wore a Diadem by Iona McGregor

  

  Christabel MacKenzie is a 17-year-old student attending the Scottish Institute for the Education of the Daughters of Gentlefolk in Edinburgh. Like most of the... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Link Round Up: July 6 -12

  

  I'm excited about this question, because magic realism is so fun to read. Also, this is a challenging question for a few reasons: a) there seems to be more... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Audrey Reviews Femme by Mette Bach

  

  Femme is a nice little YA coming-out novel. It's told by Sofie, who eventually identifies as a femme (I'm not giving anything away by saying this, seriously),... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Amanda Clay Reviews About a Girl by Sarah McCarry

  

  There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. Tally is a girl who knows a lot about heaven. She knows a lot about a lot of... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Elinor Reviews Best Lesbian Romance of the Year: Volume One Edited by Radclyffe

  

  I am so happy I read this anthology. The introduction starts with an Audre Lorde quote, which is the right way to kick off a book. The stories ran the gamut fro... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Kalyanii Reviews Slow Burn by Marlene Leach

  

  If truth be told, very little offends me. After all, I spent several years reviewing erotica back in the 1990's, before the genre assumed any sense of... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Link Round Up: June 29 – July 5

  

  As in previous years, this list was the most difficult to compile and is unfortunately much shorter than the other two lists. Many books that feature queer... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Danika Reviews Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian...

  

  Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid is an examination of the history of the gay and lesbian right/liberation... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Link Round Up: June 22 – 28

  

  Fingersmith by Sarah Waters is one of my favourite books of all time (tied only with Waters's Tipping the Velvet), so I'm feeling pretty spoiled by the news thi... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Rachel Reviews The Sea Hawk by Brenda Adcock

  

  If you want to read a book about lesbians, time travel, and seafaring, The Sea Hawk by Brenda Adcock has all three. And the story she tells is a gripping,... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Marthese Reviews Pegasi and Prefects (Scholars and Sorcery #1) by Eleanor...

  

  "I take my questions and shining little badges with me" Keeping in line with my recent reviews, I read another short fantasy book. This time, I read Pegasi and... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Megan Casey Reviews Tell Me What You Like by Kate Allen

  

  From a few things I had read about her books, I expected Kate Allen to write about "big tough butches in leather jackets they never took off." In fact, that's... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Link Round Up: June 8 – 15

  

  AfterEllen posted The queer female characters of DC Comics and Lesbian/Bi Stories Can Absolutely Be Universal. Autostraddle posted Drawn to Comics: A... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Amanda Clay Reviews Femme by Mette Bach

  

  Knowledge is power. Sofie, however, has always felt pretty powerless, at least when it comes to academics. She enjoys school-playing soccer and hanging out... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Audrey Reviews Maplecroft: the Borden Dispatches by Cherie Priest

  

  Lizzie Borden took an axe, and then she killed her father and stepmother, and then she used her inheritance to buy a big house called Maplecroft. Parts one and... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ