Author: Kate Clinton Title: Don’t Get Me Started Call no: CLI The product of an upstate New York Catholic girlhood, Clinton spent eight years teaching English before she took a leave, developed her feminist and lesbian consciousness and began writing. That writing turned into stand-up comedy. Since 1981, Clinton has been performing at festivals, universities […]
Category: Book Reviews
Book Review: Fledgling
Author: Octavia E. Butler Title: Fledgling Call no: BUT While I’ve studiously avoided the current Twilight craze, I’ll admit that I’m not averse to reading novels about vampires. I loved Anne Rice’s early work (which I read in my 20s), very much enjoyed Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian and thought John Ajvide […]
Book Review: Stone Butch Blues
Author: Leslie Feinberg Title: Stone Butch Blues Call no: FEI This novel tells the story of Jess Goldberg, a transgendered “butch” growing up in Buffalo, New York. Jess first learns to admit and negotiate her attraction to women and her butch identity. Immediately, she is faced with violence. The police raid the lesbian bars, arrest […]
Book Review: The Funny Thing is…
Author: Ellen DeGeneres Title: The Funny Thing is… Call no: DEG Genre: Humor The funny thing is… whatever Ellen mentioned in this book about all the small and not so small things in life are definitely something you would have thought about at one point or another. Her second comedy book offers more insight on […]
Book Review: Fully Involved
Author: Erin Dutton Title: Fully Involved Call no: DUT Genre: Fiction When firefighter Jimmy Grant dies in a hotel fire, his partner Reid Webb feels guilty for his death and wishes to care for his young son Chase whom he left behind. But Reid is forced to face her past when Jimmy’s younger sister Isabel […]