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A blog about books and writing, through rainbow-tinted glasses. Every book gets a gay rating.

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Author: James Whitmore

I am a writer based in Melbourne. I’m interested in nature and the environment, and queer books.

Review: Woo Woo by Ella Baxter

What’s worse for an artist than a looming exhibition opening?

Art, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Melbourne, Novel

Review: Querelle Of Roberval by Kevin Lambert (translated by Donald Winkler)

A call to arms.

Canada, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer

Review: Lost Lake by Bella Li

Dreamy strata of words and images.

Australian, Poetry

Review: Take It Outside (edited by Cash Torn and Orlando Silver)

Does what it says on the tin.

Erotica, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Short stories, Trans

Review: Desire Paths by Megan Clement

Defence of movement.

Australian, Contemporary, COVID-19, France, Grief, Journalism, Memoir, Nonfiction

Review: Querelle Of Brest by Jean Genet (translated by Gregory Steatham)

Be gay, do crime.

Classics, Fiction, France, Novel, queer

Review: Astral Season, Beastly Season by Tahi Saihate (translated by Kalau Almony)

The agony of adolescence.

Contemporary, Fiction, Japan, Novel

Review: The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata (translated by Haydn Trowell)

Everything in flux.

Classics, Fiction, Japan, Nobel Laureate, Novel, World War II

Review: Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico (translated by Sophie Hughes)

Millennial ennui.

Contemporary, Europe, Fiction, Millennials, Novel

Review: A Kindness Cup by Thea Astley

Can’t we just forget about all that?

Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Indigenous Australians

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