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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: 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

Review: Ghost Cities by Siang Lu

A game of truth and fiction.

Australian, China, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Novel, Speculative

Review: Our New Gods by Thomas Vowles

Queasy, deranged fun.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Novel, queer

Review: Past & Parallel Lives by Kaya Ortiz

Poems that slip and jump through time.

Australian, Colonialism, LGBTIQ, Migration, Philippines, Poetry, queer

Review: Nicolas Pages by Guillaume Dustan (translated by Peter Valente and James Horton)

Pure creative force.

1990s, Classics, Fiction, France, HIV, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer

Review: Black Convicts by Santilla Chingaipe

Australia’s convict history has been whitewashed.

Australian, Colonialism, History, Nonfiction, Slavery

Review: King Of Dirt by Holden Sheppard

Greasy, dusty, hot, sweaty fun.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer, Western Australia

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