Memoir is not a genre I reach for often, but I’ve actually found myself reading a lot of them this summer.
Tag: LGBTQIA+ nonfiction
Book Review: The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Written in 2022 and updated in 2023, it is a book that is very much in dialog with COVID-19 in general, and the US’s response to it in specific.
Book Review: The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf by Kaila Adia Story
The great thing about this book is that it is exactly what it says it’s going to be. It’s concise. It doesn’t wander off.
Book Review: When The Earth Was Green by Riley Black
This is an adult book written at an adult reading level, but it captures the same sense of wonder that you’d feel as a child, learning about a really cool animal or historic period at the same time.
Book Review: Lustful Appetites by Rachel Hope Cleves
What if I told you that a book about food and sex, two of the more enjoyable things in life, was actually kind of boring?
Book Review: What We Lost in the Swamp by Grant Chemidlin
This is a “collection of poems that examines the many manifestations of green.” Well hey, that’s my kind of thing.
Book Review: Liberated by Kaz Rowe
Since I just read and reviewed two non-fiction graphic novels in a row, I guess I really like this combination of genre and format.
Book Review: Bad Dog by Harlan Weaver
Our ideas of what makes a good life for a dog are often based on our ideas of what makes a good life for a human, and those in turn are often based on white supremacist, patriarchal, and capitalist ideas.
Book Review: Non-Binary Lives Essay Collection
If you’re looking for a few dozen snapshots of some of the different ways to be non-binary and the various experiences that can come with it, then check out Non-Binary Lives, edited by Jos Twist, Ben Vincent, Meg-John Barker, and Kat Gupta.