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bellamejos's review
fast-paced
2.25
I really did not like this book and all of this rating is for how gay it was
sleepingnerd's review
5.0
Well, this sure is a whirlwind of a book.
I picked it up because of Book Riot's read harder challenge, on the prompt "read an award-winning book from the year you were born". I probably wouldn't even know it existed otherwise, but it did win the 2000 Lambda Award in lesbian fiction.
The author takes you along for the ride as she tells you of a year in her life in the dyke world of 90’s San Francisco, US. There's falling in love and falling out of it, passions that burn bright and intense before consuming themselves, heartbreak and heartbreaking. Oh, also drugs and sex. Lots of it.
Her life seems like a hurricane, one thing after another, all of them intense and exciting. She acted like a asshole and had others act like assholes to her, one questionable decision after the other. The final was abrupt, but then the whole book was. Her writing is passionate and beautiful but also intimate, like a friend telling you her wild stories among beer and laughs.
I can only say this made me want to go out and be loudly queer, which seems to be the point, really.
I picked it up because of Book Riot's read harder challenge, on the prompt "read an award-winning book from the year you were born". I probably wouldn't even know it existed otherwise, but it did win the 2000 Lambda Award in lesbian fiction.
The author takes you along for the ride as she tells you of a year in her life in the dyke world of 90’s San Francisco, US. There's falling in love and falling out of it, passions that burn bright and intense before consuming themselves, heartbreak and heartbreaking. Oh, also drugs and sex. Lots of it.
Her life seems like a hurricane, one thing after another, all of them intense and exciting. She acted like a asshole and had others act like assholes to her, one questionable decision after the other. The final was abrupt, but then the whole book was. Her writing is passionate and beautiful but also intimate, like a friend telling you her wild stories among beer and laughs.
I can only say this made me want to go out and be loudly queer, which seems to be the point, really.
j_picsacat's review
funny
fast-paced
5.0
Bolleras, DIY, amoríos y BDSM en San Francisco. Un sueño de literatura queer. El L word que nos merecemos ⛓️
Le doy: corazones y arcoíris a tutiplenin 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈⛓️⛓️⛓️⛓️⛓️⛓️⛓️ unas cuantas cadenas también
Le doy: corazones y arcoíris a tutiplenin 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈⛓️⛓️⛓️⛓️⛓️⛓️⛓️ unas cuantas cadenas también
gnarltooth's review
5.0
i've loved michelle tea since i was 17 and living in a "treatment center". i had her book of poems there with me and read them over and over again. she told me that it's okay to be dirty. to be ugly. to feel it all. to fall in love with a girl.
i'm 24 now, almost 25. my 5 year old son just died from brain cancer about a month and a half ago. and here is michelle tea, holding me in her arms again. allowing and encouraging me to keep going.
i'm 24 now, almost 25. my 5 year old son just died from brain cancer about a month and a half ago. and here is michelle tea, holding me in her arms again. allowing and encouraging me to keep going.
cayl__a's review
fast-paced
2.5
Overhyped, did not appreciate the anti-femme last few chapters (i am a femme lesbian so 🤷♀️), writing is Unpolished, cool encapsulation of this moment in the culture, but I started loving this & ended up finishing it as a chore. Wouldn’t recommend 😕 also ik it’s decades-old but the r slur was unnecessary.