On Desert of The Heart: The happy ending was appreciated by all and a few people commented on how different the movie is from the book - but most of us had never seen the movie. We'll be having a movie night soon to watch the movie! (on facebook or contact Kim for details) It was fun picking apart characters and lamenting the lack of a substantial sex scene. Especially interesting was that club members seemed to make many different personal connections to this book - almost everyone told a story or two after relating to a line or happening in the story.
Please note the changes to the reading list (top left corner on blog page)! Poor Pink, just keeps getting shoved back. We're hopeful it'll be in stock and you know, out there, by the end of June so that we can read it for July.
New additions to the reading list: For September, No Margins. It's a collection of lesbian short fiction edited by Nairne Holtz and published by Insomniac Press.
Some other suggestions for future reading include:
Skim by Mariko Tamaki (Canadian graphic novel coming-of-age about a teen with a Japanese mother and Scottish father, divorced. Kim, called Skim, falls for a female teacher at her high school and copes with the emotions that ensue.)
Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney (Another coming-of-age story. Has similarities to Fun Home but it isn't a graphic novel. A gay father raises his daughter on a remote island in New England. She goes to New York City after she graduates and falls in love with a woman.) -- This just won the Lambda Lit award for lesbian debut fiction!
Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man by Norah Vincent (Non-fiction. One of our members is discussing this in another book group next month, so she'll tell us how that goes.)
Please note the changes to the reading list (top left corner on blog page)! Poor Pink, just keeps getting shoved back. We're hopeful it'll be in stock and you know, out there, by the end of June so that we can read it for July.
New additions to the reading list: For September, No Margins. It's a collection of lesbian short fiction edited by Nairne Holtz and published by Insomniac Press.
Some other suggestions for future reading include:
Skim by Mariko Tamaki (Canadian graphic novel coming-of-age about a teen with a Japanese mother and Scottish father, divorced. Kim, called Skim, falls for a female teacher at her high school and copes with the emotions that ensue.)
Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney (Another coming-of-age story. Has similarities to Fun Home but it isn't a graphic novel. A gay father raises his daughter on a remote island in New England. She goes to New York City after she graduates and falls in love with a woman.) -- This just won the Lambda Lit award for lesbian debut fiction!
Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man by Norah Vincent (Non-fiction. One of our members is discussing this in another book group next month, so she'll tell us how that goes.)
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