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Ask Your Friendly Neighbourhood Lesbrarian # 8: LGBTQ Magic Realism
My friend L writes: Any (well written!) magic realism books with LGTBQ characters? Preferably not YA or NA. Any books where a queer woman protagonist is a scientist of some kind and that’s not used as a shorthand for her … Continue reading
Posted in Amber Dawn, ask your friendly neighbourhood lesbrarian, Black, Canadian, Caribbean, Fiction, latina, magic realism, Non-Canadian, paranormal
Tagged ann-marie macdonald, ask your friendly neighbourhood lesbrarian, Black Fiction, fantasy, magic realism, Myriam Gurba, Nalo Hopkinson, suzette mayr, virginia woolf
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A Review of Daniel Heath Justice’s Wyrwood, Book 2 in This Queer Native Fantasy Trilogy
The second book in Cherokee author Daniel Heath Justice’s fantasy trilogy The Way of Thorn and Thunder was possibly even better than its predecessor. If you want to know what this series is all about, check out my review of … Continue reading
Posted in Bisexual, Fantasy, Fiction, Indigenous, Trans Feminine
Tagged fantasy, two-spirit
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A.M. Dellamonica’s Indigo Springs: The Bisexual Magic Novel You’ve Been Waiting For
You don’t hear much about Toronto-based author A.M. Dellamonica’s novel Indigo Springs, which is surprising because it is just a gem of a book. It has so many of the literary things that I am constantly looking for, and I … Continue reading