(Bantam Spectra, 2009) Reviewed by Debbie Block-Schwenk “From every terrace and corner grin gargoyles through which old rainwater spurts in sprays and splashes, only to be caught in long pools at the base of each tower. The little faces are mice and hedgehogs and opossums, foxes and rats and blind, nosing moles. Their faces contort…
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REVIEW: Map by Audrey Beth Stein
Reviewed by Lara Zielinsky Regardless of the age at which a person comes out, the search for identity brings out traits often associated with youth— awkwardness, uncertainty, and end-all, be-all feelings. This “everyone goes through something like this” message permeates each event of Audrey Beth Stein’s very relevant memoir Map. In 1996, through an online…
Ghost Girls: A Review of Tonya Cherie Hegamin’s M+O4EVR
Reviewed by Sarah E. Rowley For decades, the American publishing industry has been notoriously hostile to lesbian and bisexual women writing fiction about lesbian and bisexual characters, in a striking contrast to its treatment of gay male authors. Despite more than a decade of public conversation, most high-profile novels by and about queer women published…
BOOK REVIEW: Love You Two by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli (Random House Australia, 2008)
Reviewed by Lara Zielinsky Love You Two is the story of teenage Pina’s discovery that her parents’ loving marriage—and the relationships all around her—are far from “normal” or “idyllic.” Her assumptions shattered, her journey through Love You Two is her process of coming to terms with how the many sexual and relationship permutations she encounters…
Words Matter: An Interview with Author Beth Wylde
Interview by Lara Zielinsky Words matter. Writing our stories and putting them out there for others to read builds bridges of understanding. Exceptional authors open doors and windows, inviting in the wider community to see our lives. Beth Wylde is such a writer. She lives in the “Wylde’s” of Virginia with her husband and three…
B-Girls Reading List
At the most recent BBWN brunch, everyone was asked to recommend a book to the group. Below is an amazing genre-hopping list of some very interesting fiction and nonfiction books. Happy summer reading! Life is Friends: A Complete Guide to the Lost Art of Connecting in Person, by Jeanne Martinet Unaccustomed Earth: Stories, by Jhumpa…
REVIEW: Two Sexy, Soulful Books by Gina Ogden
By Julie Ebin Many books on sexuality and desire seem to zoom in on the physical how-to or on specific worlds – sex tips, aspects of kink, tantra, and reproductive health, to name some specifics. Few, if any, focus on how women specifically make meaning of sexuality and desire, and how they are intertwined with…