Dec 19, 2021
It's an accidental holiday episode! The Raven and the Reindeer is a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen by T Kingfisher, AKA Ursula Vernon, furry webcomic artist of the old school. And it's great - keeps all the weirdness of the original and adds a whole shovelful of gay.
Dec 5, 2021
The rare modern contemporary wizards vs lesbians novel, set here and now. It's about a young woman of Malaysian Chinese descent who returns to Penang under difficult circumstances and has to deal, among other things, with the ghost of her grandmother. An extremely solid piece of work: If you have any litfic snobs in...
Nov 21, 2021
It's Foundryside! This is a book that we think might have been better as an anime, or an action movie, or a miniseries, or a comic - pretty much anything but a very long novel that seems to care mostly about setting up the pieces for the very long series of sequels to come. But we might think that because it has...
Nov 7, 2021
In a slight departure for us we are discussing a romance novel - a romance novella, in fact - a romance novella starring a werebear who works at Vogue. It's self-identified "chick lit" but it's also Wizards vs Lesbians, or at least close enough, so we discuss it (and also spend quite a long time talking about the...
Oct 24, 2021
So, what if the founder of the Ming Dynasty was a lesbian? That is the question this book dares to ask, and it does a really good job answering it. A rollicking, morally complex historical fantasy which is one of my favorite contemporary books we've read for this project.