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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 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

Review: Mood by Roz Bellamy

A vital memoir of mental illness.

Australian, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Mental illness, Nonfiction, queer

Review: Madukka by Julie Janson

The crime is colonisation.

Australian, Contemporary, Crime, Environment, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Novel

Review: The Wife by Sigrid Undset (translated by Tiina Nunnally)

Biting marital drama.

Classics, Fiction, Historical, Nobel Laureate, Norway, Novel

Review: The Modern by Anna Kate Blair

Love, sex, marriage, work and New York deconstructed.

Art, Australian, Bisexual, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, New York, Novel, queer

Best books I’ve read 2023

2023 reviewed.

Anthology, Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Contemporary, End of year review, Female writers, Fiction, History, India, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Memoir, Nonfiction, Novel, Racism, Short stories, Speculative, speculative fiction, War, Year in review

Review: Porn by Polly Barton

Pornchats for everyone!

Anthropology, Nonfiction, Sex, Sociology

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