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| Exhibitionism for the Shy by Carol Queen nonfiction. Recommended for anybody who likes to dress up sexy, who'd like to spice up their sex life, or who'd just like to be less shy. |
Real Live Nude Girl by Carol Queen Autobiographical, and more hot prose from this pro-sex activist. |
| Switch Hitters by Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimel Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica and Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica
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Femme by Carol Queen glimpsed in Doing it For Daddy. Very hot stuff. I impatiently awaited this book for months and months, and I was gratified to find that it was filled with even more hot genderfucking leathersex than I expected. |
| Diesel Fuel by Pat Califia Hot, sexy poetry by a longtime SM community activist, leatherdyke, and a prominent anti-censorship feminist, who has written and edited all sorts of wonderful books |
Macho Sluts by Pat Califia Apparently the first printing of the first edition of this book had a "Macho Sluts" button attached to it -- mine didn't. The new cover isn't as pretty, IMO, but I'm glad it's being reprinted. |
| Melting Point by Pat Califia Packed with luscious characters that I wouldn't kick out of bed for eating crackers. Califia is well on her way to becoming a John Preston for the leatherdyke world.
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Real Gorgeous by Kaz Cooke, Kazcooke Highly recommended for any woman, anyone who's body conscious or has a self-image that sometimes flounders, or anyone who loves someone with these issues. |
| Bitch by Elizabeth Wurtzel Of Prozac Nation fame. I keep putting this one down and picking it back up again. There's significantly less "praise" than I was expecting; it seems more of "a discussion of difficult women," instead. However, it's funny, insightful, and has a rockin' cover. |
Magic Casement by David Duncan I love coming-of-age stories, especially ones as unusual and far-reaching as the A Man of His Word series. This series also includes Perilous Seas, Faery Lands Forlorn, and Emperor and Clown. Duncan's done serveral trilogies and series, and they're definitely superior to his single-volume works |
| Fool's War by Sarah Zettel One of my coworkers handed me this book out of the blue one day. An extremely likeable main character stole my heart and the plot kept me fascinated and on my feet until the very last page -- and after it was all over, I nearly cried.
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An Exchange of Hostages by Susan R. Matthews While I was sitting at a coffee shop on Broadway reading Fool's War, a woman walked past me a tucked her business card into the book. "People who like Sarah's books often like mine," she said. And she was right. She was Susan R. Matthews, and her books, while much darker than anything Zettel has written, haunt me to this day. She saw me mention her books online and dropped me some email -- which is good, because the business card she gave me got caught in the rain and the ink ran, and I wanted to write her and tell her how right she was. |
| Prisoner of Conscience by Susan R. Matthews |
Hour of Judgement by Susan R. Matthews |
| The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks Mez turned me on to Ian M. Banks. Player of Games had me spellbound. Every aspect of the setting -- the pampered Culture, the decadent Empire of Azad, the Player himself, and so on -- seems to be an insightful enlargement of various aspects of the reality I inhabit. I love books that make me turn around and look hard and long at myself. |
Infectress by Tom Cool Tom Cool feeds my need for action-based sci-fi novels when I need to turn down the volume on my brain. I picked up Infectress at random because I was bored and wanted something to read. Glad I did -- it was rolllicking, believable, and a lot of fun. |
| Secret Realms by Tom Cool Secret Realms is more thought-provoking than Infectress, but still is a relaxing read. Cool is a military man, and it's very satisfying to see him take a hard look at his own culture from a rather unusual perspective.
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Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop I can't say enough good things about Anne Bishop. Daughter of the Blood captures the essense of fealty and the joy of submission to a worthy Lady. Even when that Lady is a child. It's an even better read the second time around. The second bo ok in the trilogy, Heir to the Shadows, is finally out, and promises to be as riveting as the first. |
