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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 Other Half Of You by Michael Mohammad Ahmad

A bracing read about modern masculinity.

Arabic writing, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel

Review: The Mermaid Of Black Conch by Monique Roffey

A fish-out-of-water tale that becomes something stranger.

British, Caribbean, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Novel

Review: Moby Dick by Herman Melville

It’s about whales.

America, Animals, Classics, Fiction, Novel, US

Review: The Wild Iris by Louise Glück

Poetry that forces clarity upon you about the cruelty and wonder of being alive.

Nobel Laureate, Poetry, USA

Review: The Sweetness Of Water by Nathan Harris

A heartfelt story of rebuilding a ruined society.

Contemporary, Fiction, Man Booker prize, Novel, Slavery, US

Review: Lucky’s by Andrew Pippos

A fable of the fickle nature of fortune.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Greece, Greek-Australian, Novel, Sydney

Review: Auē by Becky Manawatu

Auē tears down the walls around New Zealand’s epidemic of domestic violence.

Contemporary, Fiction, Māori, New Zealand

Review: Fourteen by Shannon Malloy

A harrowing memoir of growing up gay in regional Australia.

Australian, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, queer

Review: Light by Eva Figes

A masterful, stroll-around-a-garden novella.

Art, British, Classics, Female writers, Fiction, France, Novella, Painting

Review: Under A White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert

A gripping, frightening and weirdly hopeful look at the lengths we’ll have to go to to fix global problems.

Climate change, Environment, Extinction, nature, Nonfiction

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