Edmonton Lesbian+ Book Club

LAST MINUTE CHANGES!! May's title is the classic Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden. Audrey's bookstore says they might be able to get a few in by mid-month so check it out. It should be readily available in lots of places, it's a pretty mainstream title. This is a young adult title, considered a classic. According to wikipedia , Annie was a step forward for LGBT young adult literature because being gay is treated as something permanent and to be explored, not something that needs to be fixed. The School Library Journal included the book in its list of the 100 most influential books of the 20th century. June's title is Six Metres of Pavement by Farzana Doctor. Farzana has offered to join us via the phone for that meeting! July we'll go with Monique Truong's The Book of Salt . Thanks to everyone for the discussion of Seven Moves at our last get-together. It was great... Very thought-provoking discussion. Some more reading list ideas - Malinda Lo's Ash ...

Thanks Kay! for the discussion questions from the publisher... What are some of the ways in which Chris and we question—as a result of her misperception of her and Taylor’s relationship—her competence as a therapist and lover? What different views of female sexuality emerge from the relationships and actions of Chris, Renny, Taylor, Leigh, and Stéphane Michaud? Does Chris’s challenge ultimately become one of recreating her very identity, beyond merely reconstructing her life without Taylor? What is the relationship between identity and love, desire, and self-deception? To what extent do we create our own identities or have them imposed upon us by society? How central to Chris’s life is her need for control? Does she come to realize that loss of control is a defining element in her disintegration? How is the need for control related to a person’s self-esteem? In what ways do Chris’s neglect and manipulation by her parents, in her early years, contribute to the vulnerability that surface...

Last meeting everyone agreed we need to meet one week early this go around. It's all my fault because I'm going to be out of town the first Tuesday of the month. I suggested you guys go ahead without me but for some reason you guys want me to come! Aw, thanks! So. Meeting to chat about Seven Moves is next Tuesday March 29th (instead of April 5th)!!! Mark your calendars!

Hi all. Thanks for a wonderful discussion of the classic The Well of Loneliness . I enjoyed your thoughts immensely. Especially interesting was the discussion of Jenn's question in my last post - whether the book is still "the lesbian bible" and whether the challenges faced by the characters are still relevant today. Amazingly, almost 100 years later, most of it rings true to us; many of us could identify with the struggles of that era. What does this mean? No progress? But we live in Canada, where same sex marriage is legal! Where LGBT rights are more entrenched than most other parts of the world! I'd love to hear your thoughts as well! Some changes to the reading list had to be made. It seems that The Au Pair is not as readily available as we'd hope so we're moving it back by a couple of months to see if we can get hold of it. So this month, we're reading Carol Anshaw's Seven Moves . Grab a copy right away! We will have some discussion questions asa...