As I mentioned in a previous post with regards to the L-thing I had a totally ‘Ewa’ reaction. I started reading. A lot. Ok, I love reading anyway, and, oh, it might have had something to do with the fact that I spent my first year out of my own closet in ex-communist homophobic countries, where I didn’t have any access to fellow lesbians who could take me under their wings and teach me. So, go websites! And blogs! And forums! And… well, you got the idea. I then found a… let’s call it a stash of lesbian-themed eBooks, and with my utmost delight I was able to start a more bookish stage of my education. In the past three years I read a great amount of lesbian-themed books (I also read other stuff, mind you, like some Spanish novels for instance).
Now I want to write a little about these books, and also all the lesbian-related stuff I could find in my records (I’ve been keeping this diary of the books I read every month since 1998, which I copied onto a Numbers file when I got my MacBook, so I have a complete list of all the books I read in the past fourteen years at hand… nerd, I know). I’m gonna write whatever I feel like about each book. No rules. I listed the books in chronological order starting with the one I read first :)
This list is crazy long already, not to mention always growing, so I decided to split it into several parts, to make it more accessible. I will start with...
VARIOUS LESBIAN-RELATED BOOKS I READ BEFORE WAKING UP
My mother gave me this one when I was a teenager. Read it in Italian. It’s about a group of girls in Scotland, who go to a Catholic school and sing in the choir (hence the title) but are actually the exact opposite of a good little Catholic girl. If I remember correctly there is five of them, each with their distinctive story and background. It gets slightly depressing sometimes, considering they all, more or less, come from poor families and live in squalid places, and have a lifestyle (lots of alcohol, clubbing, neglecting school, etc…) that will not improve their lives not in the least. Anyway one of the characters is some sort of alpha female of the pack, and she is lately involved in a lesbian relationship. Very hot scene in which the other girl plays the cello naked before having sex… always fantasized about cellos after that. I mean, it’s such a sensual instrument! I wrote a story in that period, about a busker cellist with a Russian name… but anyway, nice book.
She is one of my favourite detective fiction writers. This book is not lesbian fiction, but there is a lesbian couple in it. That’s it :)
Oh, I luuuuvd this book. And I drooled a lot on all the descriptions of awesome Southern foods! I read that in Italian as well. It’s a very famous lesbian book, and there is also a very famous movie, although the lesbian part was somewhat ‘censored’ in the movie. I mean, it’s there, but it’s not that explicit. It was the first time I read about a ‘normal’ lesbian relationship, between two women who loved each other, worked together and raised a family. Not the usual oversexed wicked lesbian character you would see in movies or the out-of-control girl lezzing up. Also, the lesbian part was not the ONLY interesting thing in the book.
This is often mentioned in LGBT lists, although I wouldn’t know where to put it. It’s the only book by good ol’ Virginia that I managed to finish (I was bored to death by all the others). It’s good. I mean, weird, but good. The movie is great. I’ve had a crush on Tilda Swinton since then. Oh, I love redheads….
Another one that’s often cited in LGBT lists, which also happens to be a classic vampire book. It's actually a novella.
I… ar, don’t remember much. I was probably too young when I read it and I found it rather boring and a bit full of itself (if you can say that of a book). Maybe I should reread it someday.
I… ar, don’t remember much. I was probably too young when I read it and I found it rather boring and a bit full of itself (if you can say that of a book). Maybe I should reread it someday.
Now THAT’S a treat. This guy is absolutely crazy. So politically incorrect, blasphemous and exaggerated! There are many things in this book (and in his work in general) that I loathe, some recurring themes that are, well, a bit too dirty for me ☺, but this book is great. It’s basically, as the title says, a series of short vignettes with lovers engaged in sexual activities. Dialogue only. Many of them are lesbian couples, although they never define themselves as such. This guy manages to make things so unbelievably outrageous that you can’t stop laughing. So comical.
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