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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 Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

The big climate book.

Climate change, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, Speculative

Review: How Far The Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler

Science meets memoir.

Essays, Marine biology, nature, Nonfiction, science, Science writing

Review: The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright

The limits and possibilities of empathy.

Contemporary, Fiction, Ireland, Novel

Review: Banzeiro Òkòtó by Eliane Brum (translated by Diane Whitty)

Where the river goes savage.

Brazil, Climate change, Environment, nature, Nonfiction

Review: Eventually, Everything Connects by Sarah Firth

Sly, whimsical, existential essays.

Australian, Contemporary, Essays, Graphic novel, Memoir

Review: God Forgets About The Poor by Peter Polites

“People will love my suffering”.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Greece, Migrant, Novel

Review: The Iliad by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)

Sing, Goddess, sing of the wrath of Achilles.

Ancient Greece, Classics, Poetry

Review: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Survival in authoritarian Ireland.

Contemporary, Fiction, Ireland, Novel, Speculative, War

Review: Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (translated by Tiffany Tsao)

Lithe, spectral stories.

Colonialism, Fiction, Indonesia, LGBTIQ, Short stories, Translation

Review: The Selected Poems Of Frank O’Hara (edited by Donald Allen)

“Everything is in the poems,” Frank O’Hara writes in the manifesto that introduces this selection, in which he describes and…

LGBTIQ, New York, Poetry, queer, US

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