Upon my overly pro-lesbian mother, I read “What It’s Like to Live Now” by Meredith Maran. Through 335 pages, she basically comes to realization and understanding in her life and faces the fact that she can’t control and change everything she’d like to in the world. Despite the sometimes scary accounts of breast cancer, aids, shootings, etc, the…[Read more]

I finally picked up the top book on my stack of lesbian books to read and I’m so glad I did. I read the classic lesbian novel Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown (tickled pink that she shares a name with my girlfriend’s bigot of a mother) that runs 246 pages long. The narration flops unexpectedly between past and present tense and there are edi…[Read more]

While looking after a friend’s kids today, I read The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. At 184 pages, I was a little wishy washy about it at first because its told in first person speaking to an unidentified American in Pakistan. It was awkward to read at first because the narrator is so formal in his speech. Because it is first person,…[Read more]