They: A Biblical Tale of Secret Genders by Janet Mason, Published by Adelaide Books 2017, 300 pages. IBSN 0-9995164-3-4 Reviewed by: Vanda, author of the Juliana Series All the Bible stories from your childhood suddenly jump to life in Janet Mason’s new novel, They. The manner in which they are presented I found to Read More …
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Sermons for a Hot Kitchen by Carolyn Gage [review by Sandra de Helen]
Sermons for a Hot Kitchen by Carolyn Gage 2018 Self-Published Lulu/Amazon 251 pp. This is a collection of sixteen sermons” delivered by the playwright Carolyn Gage. They are essays on topics ranging from prostitution to Stockholm Syndrome to dying well. These are firmly held opinions from a lesbian activist playwright to be delivered to a Read More …
Till Darkness Comes by Sandra de Helen [Review by Vanda]
Till Darkness Comes by Sandra de Helen McCorkle Ink 2016 202 pp In Sandra de Helen’s Till Darkness Comes, Beth Vogelsang—don’t you just love that name?—has a strange way of sticking to you. As you go along reading Beth, a bi-racial woman, becomes more complex, more layered and harder, in some ways, to like. Read More …
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado [review by Sandra de Helen]
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado 2017 Graywolf Press 241 pp. I read this book because it won this year’s Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. It won numerous other awards as well. The author has been published in Granta and other prestigous journals. The opening story, The Husband Stitch, Read More …
Review: Broken Faith by Lois Cloarec Hart [review by Lori L. Lake]
Broken Faith Lois Cloarec Hart Renaissance Alliance Publishing, www.rapbooks.biz [reissued by Ylva Publishing] PMB 238, 8691-9th Ave, Port Arthur, TX. 77642 June 2002, $22.99, 437 pps, ISBN: 1930928408, www.georgiabeers.com In a spin-off book from her debut novel, Coming Home, this author pens the story of Marika Havers, a cynical immigration attorney living in Calgary, Canada. Read More …
Review: Emerald City Blues by Jean Stewart [review by Lori L. Lake]
Emerald City Blues Jean Stewart Rising Tide Press 1996, 228 pp, $11.99, ISBN 1883061091 In the autumn of her seventeenth year, Morgan Flynn is studying up a storm with hopes of getting into a good college. She’s from a small town in Washington state and longs to escape the increasingly brutal beatings her father inflicts Read More …
Review: Substitute for Love by Karin Kallmaker [review by Lori L. Lake]
Substitute For Love Karin Kallmaker Naiad Press – www.naiadpress.com [reissued by Bella Books] October 2001, 288 pp, $12.95, ISBN: 1562802658 Substitute For Love is a well-plotted, intelligent, and nuanced book made all the more excellent by the way the author has woven thematic threads throughout. Holly thinks she is a regular, run-of-the-mill, straight woman. She Read More …
Review: Affinity by Sarah Waters [review by Lori L. Lake]
AFFINITY By Sarah Waters Riverhead Books of Penguin Putnam, Inc. 375 Hudson St., New York, N.Y. 10014 2000/$14.00/351 Pages/ISBN: 1573228737 A story with gothic atmosphere, AFFINITY is set in 1875 London. The narrator, Miss Margaret Prior, is an upper class woman on the verge of turning 30, and when we become acquainted with her, she Read More …
Review: Beyond the Breakwater by Radclyffe [review by Lori L. Lake]
Beyond the Breakwater By Radclyffe Bookends Press, PO Box 14513, Gainesville, FL 32604, http://www.bookendspress.com 2003/326 pgs/$18.50/ISBN: 0972492658 The sequel to the bestselling Safe Harbor is an even more complex and hefty novel than its predecessor. After two years, Reese Conlon and Tory King have cemented their relationship, and they’re ready to start a family. Meanwhile, Read More …
Review: Lorimal’s Chalice by Jane Fletcher [review by Lori L. Lake]
LORIMAL’S CHALICE By Jane Fletcher Fortitude Press/P.O. Box 41, Melbourne, FL. 32902/www.fortitudepress.com December 2002/$18.99/388 Pages/ISBN:0971815062 Tevi is the oldest daughter of Red, who in turn is the daughter of the Queen of Storenseg. In this matrilineal society, the women are the warriors and the men are small, weak, and serve in roles as housekeepers, babysitters, Read More …