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Flowers
Joined: 22 Mar 2006
Posts: 11
Location: Key West
quote:Originally posted by Xina:
I just ordered Fingersmith from Barnes and Noble. I can't wait to get it. I heard good things.
Enjoy!!!!!!!
Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:49 am
Flowers
Joined: 22 Mar 2006
Posts: 11
Location: Key West
Fingersmith is A CLASSIC NOVEL. enjoy
Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:05 am
Pride
Joined: 07 Jul 2006
Posts: 2
Anything by Saxon Bennett is good (i.e. Talk of the Town, Talk of the Town Too, Both Sides)
I thoroughly enjoyed Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle.
Ummm I absolutely LOVE Peggy J. Herring. (i.e. Hot Check)
That's pretty much all I can name off the top of my head.
For anyone interested, www.bellabooks.com is a great website to refer to for lesbian novels.
Hope I've helped.
Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:59 pm
kaJo
Joined: 19 Jun 2006
Posts: 96
Location: I'm right over here!
Sorely dissapointed!!
I honestly have to say I
was
dissapointed but humored as I often am by my disability. I am dyslexic and I swore I read this forum topic as
"Licking it off..." not kicking it off. OH WELL.
I have found a reletively new author I like by the name of Kim Baldwin`she does Lesbian fiction. _________________ We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors ... but they all have to learn to live in the same box.
Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:57 am
indy
Joined: 30 Jul 2006
Posts: 2
Location: Indiana
Hello EVERYONE!!
I am SO excited to find you!
I really have enjoyed reading Elizabeth Sims.
She had a series of 4 books (so far) of the Lillian Bryd series.
She has a nice wit about her.
And if any of you are from the Detroit area you will enjoy most of the settings. Just sent my E. Sims books to a dear friend in CT.
So far she loves them!!
Thank you for all of your suggestions.
Now I am off to explore the rest of the site!!
indy
Sun Jul 30, 2006 12:23 am
Sadie Sin
Joined: 17 Feb 2006
Posts: 42
Location: New Orleans
I LOVE Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden One of the best books
I've ever read.
I'm read It's in Her Kiss by Elizabeth Dean right now. I like it so far. _________________
Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:51 pm
ae
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
Posts: 1025
Location: that tragic backwater, the gulf coast of florida
No such list is complete without the original
I read the Well of Loneliness before I went off to college and got free and politicized. I could barely stand the pain of that book. I mean, I literally had to close the book and just sob it off for a while. I decided I couldn't even stomach finishing the thing, it was so heartbreaking. Of course I did eventually, but I've never, ever had a book make me wail like that (and I cried at nearly every book from Narnia!). The ending is almost intolerable. It made the emerging femmey lesbian in me want to rush to heal the wounds of the handsome gentleman dyke protagonist. Pitiful. Tragic.
It's an interesting historical look at the difficulty of being queer and female in the early 20th century--at least in upper-class British society-- but I think there's still enough homophobia in western culture that the story, written in 1928, rings true even now. And Radclyffe Hall's prose is better than a lot of drek that makes it to market today, though it is also consistent with the wordier style of the era.
It's also a fabulous look at family dynamics and the sensitivity of relationships with the critters we love as if they were our family. And then, there's the pleasure of reading anything that was once banned for obscenity!
Go, sisters, go... immerse yourselves in the lesbo-lit of yore! _________________ -
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"...a soul that wakes up to find itself wandering, unwanted, between the spheres."
Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:20 am
smart_cookie
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Posts: 2310
Location: USA
quote:Originally posted by Pride:
Anything by Saxon Bennett is good (i.e. Talk of the Town, Talk of the Town Too, Both Sides)
I thoroughly enjoyed Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle.
Ummm I absolutely LOVE Peggy J. Herring. (i.e. Hot Check)
That's pretty much all I can name off the top of my head.
For anyone interested, www.bellabooks.com is a great website to refer to for lesbian novels.
Hope I've helped.
Yes, Peggy J. Herring rocks, doesn't she? I have read "Beyond All Reason" and "Once More With Feeling" and loved them both. The fact that I lived in San Antonio for 6 years doesnt hurt either!
--Cookie
Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:45 am
BdeCaunteton
Joined: 07 Jan 2007
Posts: 955
Location: Iowa City, IA
My interests of lesbian fiction would have to come from the origins.
Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" or "Mrs. Dalloway"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Christabel" (planning on reading it this week, but really the lesbian stuff is more debateable)
J.S. le Fanu's "Carmilla"
Michael Cunningham's "The Hours"
I personally think that the lesbian genre is truly shit nowadays, but I think Sarah Waters is the savior of the lesbian genre. Of course she's more of my personal preference anyway, some critics have described her writing as "Dickensian" and that makes me a bit tentative 'cos Dickens, for me, is really hard to read! _________________ “It would be a pity of lesbians and gay men retreated into the same kind of cultural separatism. " - Jeanette Winterson
www[dot]bdecauntetonspoetry[dot]webs[dot]com
Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:18 pm
slacko
Joined: 13 Jan 2006
Posts: 71
I think I posted something like this somewhere else once ...... but ........... I agree that Sarah Waters is very hard to beat. Fabulous writing style!! The televised versions of 2 of her books hve been good - but I enjoyed the books more.
I have also enjoyed a couple of mystery fiction series where the PI is a lesbian - and her story, along with the crime she is solving run nicely alongside each other. I found them great entertaining light reads. Best to read them in the sequence they were written!!
Author - Sandra Scoppettone - the PI is Lauren Laurano - a 5 book series.
Author - Mary Wings - the PI is Emma Victor - a 4 book series.
I found them and loads of other lesbian love books in the romance section of my local library - simply by keying in the word "lesbian" to the catalogue.
Good reading ................ Slacko _________________ If you don't have a dream, how are you going to have a dream come true??
Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:00 am
angelsmoki
Joined: 16 Mar 2006
Posts: 52
Location: SW MO
It is only in the last year I have started to read lesbian oriented books. Here a are few of my favorites so far:
Packing Mrs. Phipps by Anne Seale
Honor series by Radclyffe though I have only read 2 so far
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg- a friend lent me this book not long after I came out and it helped me understand a few things
One Degree of Seperation and Maybe Next Time by Karin Kallmaker
Fried Green Tomatoes and the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg - this book had me laughing out loud
Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:09 am
shanelvr
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
Posts: 1078
Location: pennsylvania
I just got Girl Walking Backwards by Bett Williams today. Will let you know how it is.
Shanelvr
Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:53 am
kch
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Posts: 32
Location: VT
ZAMI by Audre Lorde
I couldn't put this one down. It haunts me. _________________ "The fear of our desires keeps them suspect and indiscriminately powerful, for to suppress any truth is to give it strength beyond endurance." - Audre Lorde "Uses of the Erotic"
Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:38 pm
Kinipela
Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 32
Location: US
So many books... hmmm....
Well, of course, there is Katherine Forrest with the classic Curious Wine and the Kate Delafield series.
And Melissa Good, with a series where the 2 main charachters are based on Xena and Gabriel.
Several mysteries written by Karin Kallmaker, aren't too bad.
And several erotica books written by Tristan Taormino.
...not to mention the incredible authors that have already been mentioned. Hope that helps!
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