The Extraordinary in the Everyday: A Review of Anne Fleming’s Short-Story...
Anne Fleming’s short story collection Pool-Hopping and Other Stories (1998), above all else, reminded me how much I love reading short stories. I’ve never really understood why so many readers who are...
View ArticleMy Fall Reading List: New Books by Mariko Tamaki, Rae Spoon, and Emma Donoghue
Fall: that wonderfully crisp, clean time of year where the nights get cool and the leaves turn brilliant sunset colours. It’s also the time for new book releases. If you’re looking for some brand new...
View ArticleAn Empty Ache in Your Chest: A Review of Anne Fleming’s Anomaly
Anne Fleming’s Anomaly (2005) is one of those novels, which, despite being nearly five hundred pages long, makes you want to return right to the first page and begin again once you’ve finished reading...
View ArticleA Collection at Once Moving, Inventive, and Funny: A Review of Gay Dwarves of...
Have I mentioned lately that I love Anne Fleming’s writing? (I would say I love her, but we’ve never met and are facebook friends, and that feels a bit awkward). Reading her recently released short...
View ArticleMy Top Ten Favourite Authors: All Women, Mostly Queer, Some Canadian
Feeling inspired by a recent post on Autostraddle about favourite authors and the influences they’ve had in your life, I decided to do a top ten list of my own. (Speaking of Autostraddle, the latest...
View ArticleBest Lesbian Books of 2012
It’s quite late in the new year to be writing a favourites of 2012 list, but here it is. I’d been waiting to publish this post until I could get my hands on a copy of Emma Donoghue’s short story...
View ArticleSpringtime Book Tours and Prizes, Prizes, Prizes: Rae Spoon, Alex Leslie,...
It’s been a while since I’ve written a news-focused post and there are a few exciting things happening in queer bookland! First of all, the Lambda literary and Triangle awards have been announced and...
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