Welcome to Litsy!

Stumbled across this 4th volume in Upson‘s series featuring Josephine Tey (!) and her posse as she plays detective in the golden years between world wars. Little catty throwaway lines on Dorothy Sayers and other writers, star studded IRL cameos, and meticulously researched crimes that inspire Tey‘s cases got me started binge reading all 10 books. Can be uneven but what kept me going was the totally #queerlitsy soap that‘s her love life throughout

Absolutely stunning. And a link to more #queerlitsy booklist: https://electricliterature.com/the-most-anticipated-lgbtq-books-of-2022/

So much pent up grief, inarticulate stubbornness, lack of self worth, identity, and inability to see what‘s right and obvious in front of Jess, whose only skill is taxidermy the way her father taught her. I felt like shaking her at times, but that just means the writer is making you care. Always Daddy‘s girl she can‘t forgive his suicide, yet keeps his memory close in desperately trying to keep his business afloat. She‘s a craftswoman who can‘t ..

Anna May Wong was always given exotic roles, and kept up the struggle to play a leading role-close to impossible and the devastation when the lead role in Pearl Buck‘s The Good Earth was given to a white actress. She was rumored to be in a relationship with Dietrich and this book springboards off that#queerlitsy. Sigh. Though Dietrich was a goddess, checkout the pair in Shanghai Express. Wong was the better actress. 🔥🔥🔥Yep, I‘m stanning!

Loved the idea that the US government used Dr. Zhivago as a Cold War weapon (yes, a book can help change the world); story told through three women: Pasternak‘s muse, the two spies, and a Greek chorus of Washington DC secretarial pool. A touch of Carol as well #queerlitsy. The ‘50‘s patriarchy norms, true but infuriating; one particularly loathsome idiot gets his just desserts, though. Morality, patriotism, betrayal, love, sacrifices for art:🌟🌟

#queerlitsy link to a wonderful list of outstanding 2019 queer lit: https://bookmarks.reviews/15-of-the-best-queer-debuts-of-2019/

Trying to sneak one more book in before the end of the #tbrreadathon! #queerlitsy #ownvoices