B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1870s / Artist / bisexual characters / Civil-War / friends-to-lovers / historical romance / m/m/f / marriage / newspaper editor / polyamory7 Comments
Dear Aster Glenn Gray, I think I have fallen in love with your voice. Your writing is, as our sometime commenter Cleo has said, deceptively simple. I start out each of your works thinking it will be uncomplicated, but as I keep reading I realize that there are layers there, ... more >
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Marley Dias, the 12-Year-Old Founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks, Is Writing a Book of Her Own – In a world where it sometimes seems like everyone is writing a book, I’m glad one of those people is Marley Dias, whose #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign was both brilliant and ballsy, and clearly this girl has some things ... more >
Publishing Newsgender / gender fluidity / gifts / identity / marriage / polyamory / reading / Sphinx / The Argonauts8 Comments
2015: The Year an “Orgy of Specificity” Revitalized Romance – Judy Berman’s contemplation of her favorite romance of the year: Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, becomes a launching pad from which she discusses the construct of identity, as books like Nelsons, and Ann Garétta’s Sphinx defy gender constructions and conventions to deliver what ... more >