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

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Review: The Lovers by Yumna Kassab

Is love a neutral force, or inherently exploitative?

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Lebanon, Middle East, Novel

Review: The Years by Annie Ernaux

A generational reckoning.

Classics, France, History, Memoir, Nobel Laureate, Nonfiction

Review: The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin

The rich, complicated conclusion to N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy.

Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Hugo Award, Novel, science fiction

Review: The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

Photojournalist and gambler Maali Almeida is dead. He wakes with no memory in a white waiting room where Helpers try…

Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Journalism, LGBTIQ, Novel, Photography, Sri Lanka, War

Review: Waypoints by Adam Ouston

A soaring novel that conjures awe and wonder.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Melbourne, Novel

Review: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

A compelling depiction of yearning.

Buddhism, Classics, Fiction, Hermann Hesse, Nobel Laureate, Novel

Review: The Right To Sex by Amia Srinivasan

Clear-sighted essays on the most urgent issues in feminism today.

Essays, Feminism, LGBTIQ, Philosophy

Review: Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade (translated by Katrina Dodson)

A shape-shifting romp through Brazil.

Brazil, Classics, Fiction, Novel

Review: Root And Branch by Eda Gunaydin

A compelling search for origins.

Australian, Class, Contemporary, Essays, Multiculturalism, Racism, Sydney, Turkey, Western Sydney, Working class

Review: Hydra by Adriane Howell

A many-headed mystery of a novel.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel

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