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

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The Art and Ethics of Jeffrey Smart

A life of art.

19, Art, Australian, History, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, Painting, queer, Queer history

Review: The House Of The Spirits by Isabel Allende (translated by Magda Bogin)

A haunted house of a country.

Chile, Classics, Fiction, Magic realism, Novel, South America, Translation

Review: The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel

The costs and compromises of desire.

Australian, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, queer, Stella Prize

Review: Beloved by Toni Morrison

The power of words.

Black writers, Fiction, Historical, Nobel Laureate, Novel, Slavery, US

Review: Feast by Emily O’Grady

Grotesque and decadent.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Scotland, Stella Prize

Review: Iris by Fiona Kelly McGregor

The lesbian answer to Ned Kelly.

1930s, Australian, Fiction, Historical, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer, Sydney

Review: Abandon Every Hope by Hayley Singer

Why don’t we speak or think of what happens in abattoirs and slaughterhouses?

Animals, Australian, Essays, Ethics, Nonfiction, Stella Prize

Review: Body Friend by Katherine Brabon

A meticulous study of pain.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Stella Prize

Review: North And South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

All is flux.

19th Century, Classics, England, Fiction

Review: Always Will Be by Mikaela Saunders

Radical visions of the future.

Australian, Clim change, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Short stories, Speculative

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