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Salt & Silver
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Anna Katherine
K Benson
, May 09, 2009
I've only read a handful of paranormal romances (or books that explicitly could be catagorized that way) and they are too often falling into the Anita Blake trap - the authors use romance and sex in a fantasy setting as a thinly veiled way of dealing with their own sexual issues. This book? Not so much. Allie is a glib, fast-talking, defensive New Yorker who accidentally opens a door to hell with her best friends. Unlike her best friends, however, she takes responsibility for it. Her whole world changes. We see the fallout from that, the reactions that she's used to having, the space between who she used to be and who she is now. This is a great story about growing up, about changing, and about finding your place. It's also tangentially about love and demons and doors to Hell. So. It's entertaining, as well.
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Butch Is A Noun
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S Bear Bergman
K Benson
, March 04, 2007
I am a queer woman who feels little personal connection with a personal experience of either butch or femme who also has a great deal of personal connection to butches and femmes. This book gave me a framework for the kind of butchness that can be gentle and loving, a butch love that is fierce. Butch is a Noun is a collection of essays that comprise that framework. At times, I felt that the essays were too short, that a certain amount of narrative depth was lost by the almost journal-style of the essays and that a couple of them could have been combined to provide more variance in style and form. However, I think Butch is a Noun found it's best footing as a gender critique. It is an often loving experience of genderqueerness and transgressiveness, but Bear never stops asking questions like "How can we do better?" I was particularly appreciative of the essay addressing misogyny in butches and of the essays shining a loving light on butch-butch love. Bear doesn't simply tell hir stories, zie provides a range of experiences as a framework to start to ask questions and start to explore some answers.
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