Malinda Lo

I’ve been meaning to write a post about my resolutions for 2012, but I keep coming back to the idea of expectations. What do I (and you) expect for the coming year? A year of virtuous healthful living? The opposite? Or perhaps you expect the apocalypse? (I know, it’s the wrong apocalypse, but isn’t that ... More→

The third of the four novels I resolved to read this year is The IHOP Papers by Ali Liebegott. I admit I chose it for the cover, which I love, but as soon as I read the first paragraph, I was hooked: “First of all, I’m twenty and I’ve never slept with anyone. I’ve been ... More→

Nancy Garden’s classic lesbian coming-of-age novel, Annie on My Mind, is one of the four books I resolved to read this year. Annie was first published in 1982, and is about two 17-year-old girls in New York, Liza and Annie, who fall in love with each other. NOTE: There will be SPOILERS in this post! ... More→

One of the four novels I resolved to read this year is Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt. I read it while traveling for the Diversity Tour, and I’ve been meaning to blog about it ever since I finished. Overall, I really enjoyed it. It surprised me constantly, for many reasons. First and foremost, I ... More→

About this time last year, I made some reading resolutions for 2010. I enjoyed the experiment so much that I thought I’d do it again! So here are my reading resolutions for 2011: I will read the following four novels, and when I have read them, I will blog about them. Obviously I will read ... More→

The fourth and final novel I resolved to read in 2010 was Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2009. Well, after making it through the first hundred pages, I decided to stop trying to read this book. For a while I felt like I should just keep going because I ... More→