Edmonton Lesbian+ Book Club

Hey everyone, Please, please, please make a special effort to come out to book club next Tuesday for a special get-together with Winnipeg author Chandra Mayor , whose "All the Pretty Girls" was one of our selections last fall. Chandra's going to read, and chat with us and commiserate about life, I think. Can't wait. Please come to the event at Audrey's bookstore, at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, April 6, 2010. This is a public event, so please invite your friends - doesn't have to be book clubbers only! 7:00!!! (not 7:30 as previously advertised..) (side note : yes we're postponing Shani Mootoo's Valmiki's Daughter until next month to accommodate Chandra's sudden availability)

poetry and music with some feisty ladies... including Laurie McFayden, poet, artist, friend and visitor of book club! Saturday, April 3, 2010 8:00pm - 11:00pm Axis Cafe 10349 Jasper Avenue

Lambda Literary Foundation from Word Is Up on Vimeo . The Lambda Lit Award Finalists are up: Lesbian Fiction Dismantled , by Jennifer McMahon (HarperCollins) A Field Guide to Deception , by Jill Malone (Bywater Books) Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory, by Emma Pérez (University of Texas Press) Risk , by Elena Dykewomon (Bywater Books) This One's Going to Last Forever , by Nairne Holtz (Insomniac Press) Lesbian Debut Fiction The Creamsickle , by Rhiannon Argo (Spinsters Ink) The Bigness of the World , by Lori Ostlund (University of Georgia Press) Land Beyond Maps, by Maida Tilchen (Savvy Press) More of This World or Maybe Another , by Barb Johnson (HarperCollins) Verge , by Z Egloff (Bywater Books)

Hi all, I forgot to blog about The Gilda Stories . For me, something of a "vampire stories are hokey" kind of person, it was impressive. It was well-written. The transitions were great. The vampire stuff wasn't hokey. It was kind of interesting. To me!!! To others in the book club, who actually appreciate vampire stories, it was better than that! Consensus seemed to be all thumbs up except for some lack of love for the ending. Wrapped up too quickly, too much of a twist in character, and just yech on the future stuff that wasn't far enough in the future to be believable... I think it would make a GREAT movie. Especially if the last section with the hunters was left out and she instead went and fell in love with Aurelia's great-granddaughter!