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Monthly Archives: March 2016
MY YEAR ZERO: all-girl love triangle with a Jewish lesbian MC, young adult lit
My Year Zero by Rachel Gold, in a sentence, is a YA all-girl love triangle with a Jewish lesbian MC, a bi-girl love interest, and a very satisfyingly happy ending full of love and tenderness. Okay, now that my entire Mangoverse … Continue reading
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Tagged bella books, bipolar, bisexual, book review, books, femslash, fiction, glbt, jewish, jewish lesbian, jewish lesbians, jewish young adult fiction, lesbian, lesbian love triangles, lesbian young adult, lgbt, lgbtq, my year zero, queer, rachel gold, romance, young adult
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The Space Between: “Popular Girl/Uncool Girl” lesbian contemporary YA
Welcome to Ylva Publishing’s newest lesbian YA contemporary. The Space Between (Goodreads link) is basically your quintessential “high school is hell” YA novel, with a cruel Popular Crowd, the Uncool Girl who the Super Popular One finds themselves strangely drawn to … Continue reading
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Tagged books, canadian, canadian ya, closeted, contemporary ya, femslash, high school, lesbian, lesbian young adult, lesbian young adult books, lesfic, lgbt, lgbt christians, lgbtq, queer, young adult
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Happy Purim/Chag Purim Sameach/A Freyliche Purim!
This week Rivka carries her special hamantasch shield in honor of Purim! I hope each and every one of you have a happy. Here’s the art credit. (Yes, the dragon’s probably going to eat the shield. Y’all know he has … Continue reading
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Tagged Dragon, dragons, fantasy, fantasy art, fantasy books, fantasy fiction, hamantasch, hamantaschen, jewish, jewish art, jewish fiction, jewish holidays, judaism, purim, rivka, tropical, warrior woman, warrior women
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FOR SIZAKELE, all-female love triangle about Nigerian-American who bonds with new friend over shared Africanness
The prose in For Sizakele by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene is luscious yet easy to follow, and I read the entire book in one day because the characters captivated me so much. This is a book that glows with not only … Continue reading
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Tagged African, bisexual, Bisexuality, black fiction, Black lesbians, black literature, book review, books, femslash, glbt, lesbian, lesbian love triangles, lesbian romance, lesfic, lgbt, Nigerian, queer, qwoc
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Sorcerer to the Crown: fantasy set in 1800’s England with Leads of Color
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho imagines a similar type of magical Britain as Harry Potter, with the competing factions, magician guild meetings where nobody believes the hero, and political intrigue, except this book focuses on adults of color in … Continue reading
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Tagged biracial, black characters, books, england, fantasy, fantasy books, fantasy fiction, sorcerer to the crown, witches, wizard, wizards, zen cho
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Lioness in Blue: my new age-difference romance novelette
“Shira Glassman packs so much detail to these characters in so few words and paints an intimate picture of two Jewish oboists who have both lost someone they love to cancer.” – Chasia Lloyd‘s review Presenting Lioness in Blue, my new Jewish … Continue reading
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Tagged age difference, age gap, age gap romance, bisexual, Bisexuality, books, erotic romance, female musicians, femdom, florida, jewish, jewish representation, jewish romance, may december romance, music romance, musician, musician romance, musicians, oboe, oboe romance, oboist, older man younger woman, older men, romance, symphony
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“Gone, Gone, Gone”: Teenage boys fall in love while coping with 2002 Beltway sniper
One of my favorite genres is “queer characters earning their happy endings by clawing their way through non-queer-specific trauma.” In other words, reducing homophobia to background microaggressions while pinning the Antagonist badge on something straight characters could have dealt with, … Continue reading
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Tagged books, gay ya, lgbt, m/m, post-9/11 fiction, queer, ya, ya books, young adult, young adult books, young adult fiction
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Review: ASCENSION, queer sci-fi starring Black lesbian mechanic who stows away on starship
Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi is an incredible book full of facets I never imagined from just the blurb. I’m growing increasingly dissatisfied with blurbs lately; this marks the third book that took me forever to read because the back jacket made … Continue reading
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Tagged chronic illness, lesbian, lesbian books, lesbian sci-fi, lesbian science fiction, lgbt, poly, polyamory, queer, qwoc, sci-fi, science fiction, sisterhood, spaceships, starships
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Super cute paranormal lesbian rom-com: “Good Enough to Eat”
STINKING CUTE. Okay, what’s cuter than kittens? A paranormal lesbian rom-com about two different kinds of supernatural women totally crushing on each other and flirting but afraid to tell each other they’re not human because they assume–naturally–that the other one’s … Continue reading
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