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Friend of Dorothy Wilde: One Solstice Night – Elora Bishop ( aka Sarah Diemer)
New review! This one’s adorable.
M. Craig’s masterful debut novel is a coming of age tale for those who have always known they were a little different. Follow Sim as she discovers the Bikeway Narrows, an abandoned industrial neighborhood populated by questers and magicweavers, bikers and coffee shop denizens who are looking to escape the oppressive city of Terresin. In this magical world plagued by inequality, greed and environmental woes, Sim must hold her own with her fearless and often dominating new friends while coming to terms with her sexuality and accepting her latent magical abilities. The Narrows is an engrossing work of fiction that combines fantasy, philosophy and spirituality in a light exploration of what it means to be yourself.
Go to www.narrowsthenovel.com to read an excerpt and learn more about the book.
Photo by Nim Ben-Reuven.
Friend of Dorothy Wilde: Love Spell by Karen Williams
Here’s another! It’s for a nice little lesbian romance between a veterinarian and a witch, just right for reading in autumn.
If you want to lure the crab from its shell, beware — you’d better be committed to eating its delicate meat. Cancer is a domestic goddess, and she wants somebody to love her mind, body and soul. Otherwise, you’re both just wasting her time. If this is you, proceed. If not, move on to a flightier sign lest you get clawed. Cancers simply don’t do flirtation — or, at least, not without plenty of tears and recriminations when the party is over. Usually, however, the crab will not even give you a second glance unless she’s pretty sure you mean business. Among her many charms and talents, she’s deeply intuitive; and yes, that does work to your advantage in the bedroom.
So if you’re persistent and you know how to press the right buttons, you could wind up being the Lilith to her Eve. If you’re wise, you’ll make yourself available but keep your distance. Out of the corner of your eye, you may see her shuffle from side to side; and just when you think she’s angling away, she’ll rush to your side and cling for dear life. Cancer is ruled by the moon, which may wax and wane, but stays firmly in Earth’s orbit. Even if you have her safely in your net, keep the fire smoking for a while. Keep your hands off and undress her with your eyes. Tell her how sexy she looks in that dress. Take her to a nice restaurant and order the chef’s degustation, complete with wine pairings. Or better yet, stay home and show her what you can do in the kitchen. You’ll be that much closer to showing her what you can do in the bedroom. She’ll melt with anticipation.
When she feels comfortable, she’ll surrender to you completely. Note the word, surrender, as most Cancers would rather be ravished than dominant. This is not to say you’ve found a selfish lover. Far from it — give a Cancer a little direction, and she’ll use her intuition to guide her the rest of the way. Physical love is a deeply emotional experience for women born under this sign — a sensual experience that brings you closer together. Positions that are sexy and intimate, like missionary tribbing, will have her in ecstasy. But that isn’t to say she wouldn’t try something more adventurous if you asked nicely.
What To Expect On A Lesbian Cancer Date:
- Tears. You’re so insensitive!
- Dancing on the tabletops five minutes later.
- Delicious organic food, served homestyle.
- Good chocolate and port for dessert.
- A festival of tear-wrenching chick flicks.
- Subtle flirtation and sidelong glances.
- A tender kiss goodnight.
TRUTH
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Even though I don’t live far from it, I’d somehow managed never to visit Little Sister’s! I managed to fix that recently. If you’ve never heard of Little Sister’s, try googling it. They have a central place in queer literary history.
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Danika visits the Better Than Chocolate bookstore! And there are pictures of books!
Bits and Pieces: A Girlfiend Comics Collection is now available for purchase! This softbound volume collects all 99 episodes of the webcomic series for your offscreen reading enjoyment. 111 pages, 8” x 10.5”, black & white interior.
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Our titular heroine has it all figured out: she’s deferring college a year to write a novel and fall in love. How hard could that be, especially when you’ve got a pretty good head on your shoulders and an apartment in Boston with your best friend? Except the best friend keeps bringing home orphaned pets, including a 6-foot tall college student named Damon, a newly out (and adorable) lesbian has a giant crush on you because you are a girl and have two thoughts to rub together, and your sexy, savvy writing course instructor is playing it hot and cold with your emotions.
Can we talk about how awesome it is to have a heroine that is confident in her abilities and doesn’t apologize for it every other second? Marisol knows that she’s smart and emotionally even-keeled, which makes the story all the more resonant when her her illusion that following the numbers will keep her happy comes crashing down around her. She’s crabby, she’s cocky, she’s sarcastic and somehow frightfully endearing because of this. Wittlinger does a really nice job here of show-not-tell writing; we get a lot of character development through the dialogue and actions. Birdie’s entertaining, Lee is sweet and tragic, and Gio’s a drip like he’s always been but now I don’t mind having read Hard Love because it brought us this novel.
Read more: Friend of Dorothy Wilde: Love & Lies: Marisol’s Story by Ellen Wittlinger
From when I was a child. I value handmade things. I have come to
Believe that there are two kinds of love in this world:
Inherited and handmade. Yes, we inherit love
But my people, my people make love by hand.
I admit, this was totally an impulse purchase—how could I resist this tiny book of poems with rainbow flag skirts on the cover, while ringing up this month’s tribute to my girlfriend, Bluestockings? I’m glad I didn’t resist, because it is a delightful piece of work.
Enszer writes about feminism, relationships, art, drama, in a spare free verse with complex repetitions that drive each theme home. She is frank about sex, about the women she’s known and loved:
With my lips but no words,
I have told them, in this world,
there is room for you. Be as you are.
~ “Swagger”
Friend of Dorothy Wilde: Handmade Love by Julie R. Enszer
New review, on ze blog.
Because Danika is a FORCE OF NATURE.
You know how in 19th/early 20th century novels, how they’d send peaky/prissy girls off to the farm to improve their character and constitution and all that? (See: Understood Betsy, The Secret Garden, Jane of Lantern Hill. See also trope reversal in An Old-Fashioned Girl.)
In Secrets of Truth and Beauty, Dara sends herself to the farm.Friend of Dorothy Wilde: Secrets of Truth and Beauty by Megan Frazer
Twenty years after her mother’s death, Loli Greene is hired by a nearly bankrupt theater to travel across the United States and teach tired, toxic teenagers to tap into their creative unconscious so that they might better understand both their ancestor’s world and their own. During her travails, Loli uncovers secrets about her past that change her troublesome present into what may become a perfect future. While teaching in a town in the Midwest, she meets a mother and daughter whose lives she transforms and whose love, in turn, transforms her. In an occasionally raunchy, always entertaining novel, this uplifting work follows a woman who finally figures out how to navigate and take control of her life.
LP: What ‘s next, girl?
RA: I’m getting ready to go on a writer’s retreat in Mexico with Michelle Tea’s non-profit Radar Productions. See what I mean about opportunities for queer writers? Michelle and Radar make a lot of cool stuff happen. I’m going to work on my next novel there. It’s a traveling book because I don’t want to write about San Francisco anymore. The main character in this one is chasing her first girlfriend, who as been missing for a long time, all over the place and she explores all kinds of bizarre sub-cultures. After the retreat I’m going on tour for two months straight with Sister Spit, to the UK, Europe and then all over US. I will be a true vagabond.
Nature is out of balance in the human world. The sun hasn’t shone in years, and crops are failing. Worse yet, strange and hostile creatures have begun to appear. The people’s survival hangs in the balance.
To solve the crisis, the oracle stones are cast, and Kaede and Taisin, two seventeen-year-old girls, are picked to go on a dangerous and unheard-of journey to Taninli, the city of the Fairy Queen. Taisin is a sage, thrumming with magic, and Kaede is of the earth, without a speck of the otherworldly. And yet the two girls’ destinies are drawn together during the mission. As members of their party succumb to unearthly attacks and fairy tricks, the two come to rely on each other and even begin to fall in love. But the Kingdom needs only one huntress to save it, and what it takes could tear Kaede and Taisin apart forever.
The exciting adventure prequel to Malinda Lo’s highly acclaimed novel Ash is overflowing with lush Chinese influences and details inspired by the I Ching, and is filled with action and romance.
When Dara Cohen was little, she was a bright, shiny star. She was the cutest seven-year-old who ever sang Ella Fitzgerald, and it was no wonder she was crowned Little Miss Maine.
That was then. Now Dara’s seventeen and she’s not so little anymore. So not little, that when her classmates find out about her illustrious resume, their jaws drop. That’s just one of her many problems. Another is that her control-freak mom won’t get off her case about anything. Yet the one that hurts the most is the family secret: Dara has an older sister her parents tried to erase from their lives.
When a disastrously misinterpreted English project lands her in the counselor’s office–and her parents pull her out of school to save face–Dara realizes she has a decision to make. She can keep following the rules and being misunderstood, or she can finally reach out to the sister she’s never met–a sister who lives on a collective goat farm in Massachusetts. Dara chooses B. What follows is a summer of revelations, some heartbreaking, some joyous; of friendship, romance, a local beauty pageant; and choices. And as autumn approaches, Dara finds she may have to let go of everything she’s taken for granted in order to figure out who she really is, and what family really means.
I fell in love with About a Girl like Anna—red hair, red polka-dotted dress, living in a stark but beautiful suburb of “purple eucalyptus smelling stairs…blue-tongued lizards…straggly pawpaw trees” falls in love with Flynn—quickly, enormously, with a fear of betrayal but ultimate pleasure in the experience. Flynn, who names her teapot and her guitar, who only steals flowers, with long dark hair and secrets in her past. Anna, on leave from university, working in a bookstore and barely hiding her disdan for the bestselling authors whose wares they peddle, is no stranger to heartbreak; she once loved the bohemian woman who loves her father, who became her stepmother. Their romance is gently tumultuous, quietly passionate—but will it last as Anna becomes ready to face her old life once more?
Friend of Dorothy Wilde: About a Girl by Joanne Horniman
New review up on ze blog.
