I finished my fourth reading of Lady of the Forest <3 I love it. The thing I noticed the most this time was that in my memories, it never had such a coherent story. I remembered the first series of events very clearly, and then the rest of the novel was sort of a blur of dim castles and political machinations and a rather brief sword fight. I'd ( Read more... )

The other day when I was feeling sick, Rachel insisted that we watch Robin Hood - the Disney one with the foxes <3 <3 <3 It's really the first Disney movie I can remember watching, and it's always been one of my favorites. It kicked off a bit of a resurgence in my Robin Hood obsession, which is nearly as old as my Lord of the Rings obsession ( Read more... )

My friend YA author Sarah Diemer has made her latest novel, Twixt, available for free on KDP Select. Read her blog post for more details and the link.

This is an AMAZING deal, you guys - I devoured Twixt the moment it arrived in the mail, and it's an incredible story. The characters are heart-capturing and complicated, the world is chillingly ( Read more... )

I just found out that my friends Jennifer & Sarah Diemer's Project Unicorn has, at its halfway point in the year-long project, reached 125,000 words. That is a HUGE AMOUNT of free YA fiction featuring lesbian heroines (2.5 Nano novels!) posted on the authors' website in order to provide self-representations in fiction for queer youth. From their ( Read more... )

Two of my very favorite authors (and favorite people), Sarah and Jenn Diemer, released the first of their lesbian YA stories for their incredibly awesome Project Unicorn today. Does Project Unicorn sound awesome to you? I thought so!

From their site:

Project Unicorn: A Queer-Girl, YA Extravaganza! is a fiction project created by lesbian YA ( Read more... )

On one of the various lesbian literature tumblrs I follow, I found out about The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister. Anne Lister was a woman living in Yorkshire, England in the early 1800's, who chronicled her daily life, including her self-driven education and the management of her estate. One remarkable thing about her diaries is that many of the ( Read more... )

At our local library, I discovered a series of YA books by Catherine Jinks about the squire of a Templar during the Crusades (specifically, right before the Third Crusade - the first book takes place in 1186, I think, and includes the Battle of Hattin). They are marvelous. The first book, Pagan's Crusade, was wonderful (the main character's name ( Read more... )

One of the most amazing women I know, Sarah Diemer, published her first novel today. The Dark Wife, a lesbian revisionist retelling of the Persephone myth, promises to be a breathtakingly beautiful story. Here is the author's description:

Three thousand years ago, a god told a lie. Now, only a goddess can tell the truth ( Read more... )

caitirin and I are off tomorrow on our very first cruise! Her lovely wonderful parents are taking us. I still can't really believe it XD ( Read more... )

I don't usually feel moved to review books here, even when I really super love them (I just sort of post incoherent squee about them instead most of the time) but I just finished In The Woods by Tana French, and I'm compelled to write about it. At first, I thought "I have no idea what to say about this book" - reading it left me in kind of a daze ( Read more... )