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• Link Round Up: June 1 – 7

  

  Ah, the Lambda Literary awards. Every year I feel a mixture of excitement and trepidation looking for the winners and the recap of the ceremony, which was Monda... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Danika Reviews Kynship (The Way of Thorn and Thunder #1) by Daniel Heath Justice

  

  This was a book that I wanted to like much more than I did. I picked it up solely because of Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian's rave review. Casey did warn that... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Casey Reviews Red Azalea by Anchee Min

  

  This year I've been doing a reading project of only authors of colour, pretty much all LGBTQ. I've read a ton of great stuff, and one of the best things this... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Kalyanii Reviews One Hundred Days of Rain by Carellin Brooks

  

  In honor of Carellin Brooks's latest release, One Hundred Days of Rain, I chose an overcast weekend for which drizzle as well as thunderstorms were predicted... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Link Round Up: May 25 – 31

  

  Realistically, there just aren't enough LGBTQ+ YA books being published for any of these numbers to be more than vaguely suggestive of questions or trends. How... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Al Rosenberg Reviews Shoulders by Georgia Cotrell

  

  Shoulders seems like a fictionalized memoir, but reads like a conversation with an old friend. Georgia Cotrell tells the tale of Bobbie Craword, innocent,... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Rachel Reviews Tell Me Again How A Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan

  

  For fans of lesbian chick-lit, Tell Me Again How A Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan is a funny, entertaining read, and delves into what it is like to be a... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Link Round Up: May 18 – 24

  

  "I would love to see the normalization of LGBTQ identities and authors within publishing, so that these creators and their creations are not limited to a... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Megan Casey Reviews All the Muscle You Need by Diana McRae

  

  This, the only novel featuring Eliza Pirex, is surprisingly good. And for a surprising number of reasons. The writing is good, the mystery engaging, and the... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Link Round Up: May 11 – 17

  

  Gay YA posted How To Make Your Library a Safe Place for Queer Teens and M.E. Kerr and Deliver Us from Evie. GLBT Reviews posted Lesbian Paranormal Romance... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Danika Reviews Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey

  

  I don't even know where to start in describing how much I loved this. I am tempted to just tell you "This is a queer punk retelling of Peter Pan." If that... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Rachel Reviews The Year They Burned the Books by Nancy Garden

  

  Nancy Garden, author of the classic Annie on my Mind, wrote another poignant novel about lesbians. This time, she touched on controversy about homosexuality,... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Elinor Reviews How Sweet It Is by Melissa Brayden

  Molly O'Brien runs a bakeshop, Flour Child, in her impossibly charming hometown of Applewood. She's never left Applewood, and why would she? Applewood is the... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Link Round Up: May 4 – 10

  

  There's so much to like about this book. It's just phenomenal fantasy from a queer and Indigenous (Cherokee) perspective. If you like fantasy, you really... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Audrey Reviews My Real Children by Jo Walton

  

  My Real Children is terrifically problematic in the best possible way. Patricia in 2015 is at the end of her life, relegated to a nursing home, left mostly alon... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Amanda Clay Reviews The Summer I Wasn’t Me by Jessica Verdi

  

  Here’s a confession: I don’t do Jesus.  I don’t like queer books with religious themes, I don’t like books about conversion camps, I don’t like gay Christian... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Kalyanii Reviews Pissing in a River by Lorrie Sprecher

  

  Throughout my reading of Lorrie Sprecher’s latest release, there was no denying the frustration — in fact, near torment — I endured in witnessing the chasm... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Link Round Up: April 27 – May 3

  

  Autostraddle posted Read a F*cking Book Review: “She Speaks Poetry” Is a Book for the Revolution Drawn to Comics: Jillian Tamaki’s “SuperMutant Magic Academy”... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Danika Reviews My Education by Susan Choi

  

  I have a weakness for media about a certain kind of relationship. The passionate, destructive, almost-certainly-doomed kind. (This probably doesn’t say... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ

• Danika Reviews Babyji by Abha Dawesar

  

  I don’t know what to think about Babyji. This is going be less of a review and more of an unpacking of my emotions. It’s one of the most uncomfortable reading... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2015 BOOKS, LGBTQ