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Kelli: Welcome back to Queer Girl Book Club! This time we read They Never Learn by Layne Fargo, a thriller which follows two women at the same university and their adventures in punishing bad men, namely those accused of sexual assault. So, let this serve as a content warning for the following topics: sexual assault, rape, abuse, suicide, and murder (does murder need a CW?).
Anyway, now that we’ve covered that: Emily, what made you choose this book?
Spoilers to follow!
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Emily: It's round 4 of lesbian books for lesbians. JK lesbian books are for everyone.
Kelli: It's true. Today we are talking about my pick, The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave!
(Spoilers ahead… or should we say spoilers ahoy?)
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We’re back for the 3rd ever QUEER GIRL BOOK CLUB, friends! And this time, we’re reviewing Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth. This book is described as: “A highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls—a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit.” Yes. 1,000 times yes.
Please know that spoilers will follow after the cut, and because we compare the narrator of this book to Gossip Girl (xoxo), we will be using Gossip Girl gifs to help us narrate our review. Please enjoy! Sort of like we know you’re enjoying this image of a little kitten next to a big book.
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Kelli: It is September, and time for our second ever Queer Book Club meeting!
Emily: How fun. It's officially a thing now because we've done it two times.
Kelli: Yay us!
Kelli: So, the point of doing this club is to expose ourselves to more queer lit. I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do in terms of queer literature, and while I am obviously into reading more recent stuff (like we did for our last post), I also wanted to take this opportunity to fill in a very important blind spot for myself: The Color Purple by Alice Walker.
Not only had I never read The Color Purple, but I also had no idea that it was even queer. I knew it was a huge touchstone of Black literature as well as southern literature, but that was the extent of my knowledge of the book. Then Emily told me I should read it, with the caveat that it is epistolary, a word I just had to look up how to spell.
Emily: Haha. Yes, Kelli famously hates epistolary novels.
Spoilers to follow for this book from 1982.
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Emily: Okay hello. Welcome to a new blog series which we have named... what did we name it again?
Kelli: Girl and Girl on Girl on Girl.
Emily: 4G for short.
Kelli: JK I think we’re calling it Queer Girl Book Club.
Emily: We're workshopping this as we go, people.
Kelli: Mostly because I wanted to focus on queer women/NB people, but we'll see what choices we make moving forward!
Emily: Yeah who knows. We might throw some dudes in there. But like... we may never. That's our prerogative. This is our blog.
Kelli: Also, we're girls, so the name still works.
Emily: Anyhow. For our inaugural Queer Girl Book Club blog post, we're talking about Carmen Maria Machado's memoir In The Dream House.
Read moremade with love by emily, kelli, mary, and susan. <3 thanks to Katelyn Elaine Photography for our group photos.