Half a lifetime ago I lived in a fabulous apartment with my then-girlfriend and another couple. He…well, he could be an ass, but she was an artist. I was going through some things and came across this piece of hers. Me, doing what I’ve always done: getting lost, or perhaps found, in a book. 🌈📚

Happy release day to Alexandra Ammon Parthun! It’s always fun to go to an event, support a local author, pick up a new sapphic story, and get a cool cookie to boot. Looking forward to reading this one! 🌈📚

Look familiar? Yup, I have the same versions of When Death Blooms, and the audiobook is out today! I love G.E. Masters, and Ellie Gossage did an even better job narrating this one, if that’s even possible. Check this one out, but it’s not a standalone: you MUST finish When Flowers Wilt first! 🌈📚

When you love a book so much you have it in almost every format, including a special edition and a tiny decorative one. The audiobook of When Flowers Wilt by G.E. Masters released this week, and Ellie Gossage did a fabulous job narrating. The audio for book 2 in the duology releases next week! 🌈📚

This has been a crap week. I’m recovering from gum graft surgery, broke my Kindle streak of 700+ days, and thought the manuscript I was proofreading was autosaving to the cloud, so when my app crashed I lost hours of work. But today I had dinner with my book club friends and saw a rainbow, so…win?

Spent all day at the Columbus Book Festival and the evening with my teenager, now I’m chilling with this guy. He loves to keep me company while I’m proofreading. ❤️🐈‍⬛🌈📚

It’s Columbus Book Festival time! I went through my shelves and I think I’m ready for tomorrow. These are all sapphic books by featured authors (and one moderator), and I’ll be bringing almost all of them with me (two are already signed, so those will be staying home). Who else will be there? 🌈📚

Book mail two days in a row?! Yes please and thank you very much. Today it was the special editions of the Bloom Town duology by Ally North. They’re so pretty! 🌈📚

All the cool mail came today! Apparently I was SO EXCITED to read about sentient moss I accidentally preordered not one but two copies of Rebecca’s new book. Oops! (Giving the dupe to my sib, also a big fan.) I also got some fun stuff from G (with strategically placed sticker—IYKYK), and Wren. 🌈📚

It’s Pride weekend here in Central Ohio! I know a lot of people roll their eyes at Ohio, but listen: Columbus has the second-largest Pride in the Midwest, and it’s a three-day party. To celebrate, here are some LGBTQIA+ books from Ohio authors—and I may have more I’m not aware of. Happy reading!

It’s release day for Run to You by @alysonrootauthor.bsky.social, so I thought I’d see what I have of hers on my shelf. I’m actually a bit shocked that I only own hardcopies of 5. She’s up to 20 books if my count is right, and I think there are only two I haven’t had my hands on in some way! 🌈📚

Forgive me, I’ve know been MIA, but I can’t let the start of pride month go by without a little celebration! I don’t have the bandwidth to share a book a day like I did last June, but I thought it might be fun to share some of the books on my shelves. Here are some new ones I got on Saturday! 🌈📚

I was pretty MIA in February, but I was still here and still reading. Here are some stats, and now I’m going to bed. 🌈📚

Another month, another round up. A damn good start to the year if I do say so myself. 95% of what I read was #sapphfic fiction, and everything was queer despite the bar graph; two were missing the tag but are most definitely in the genre. 🌈📚

Okay look. I’ve never been on a cruise, but I’ve always wanted to go on an Alaskan one. An Olivia Travel Alaskan cruise with sapphic authors? Including VIRGINA BLACK?! Ugh, money…but…I’m seriously considering it. I just need to convince my sister to come along and be my bunkmate. Anyone going?

It’s a snow day here in Ohio so I’m working from home. KitKat is giving me the cold shoulder, wondering why I have this contraption on my lap preventing him from snuggling instead of my Kindle in my hand. Me too, dude. Me too.

I met up with a couple of friends at Prologue Bookshop last night. I had my hands on at least half a dozen books at various points, but walked out with poetry from @emilyraustin.bsky.social (whom I can never get enough of), and #sapphfic GN Motherlover, which I read when it was serialized online. 🌈📚

I regret nothing. 🌈📚

Day 31: favorite #sapphfic starting over. Ranita, paroled after 4 years for possession, leaves a lover behind, but her kids are waiting; she's determined to stay sober and get them back. Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee is a fierce, complex story of addiction, marginalization and incarceration. 🌈📚

It's almost the new year, and that means it's almost time for new reading challenges! @iheartsapphfic.bsky.social announced their 2026 challenge today, and they're changing it up. This year, instead of focusing on tropes, it's all about showing that we sapphics are everywhere. 🌈📚

Day 30: favorite #sapphfic ARC. I went back and forth on this. I had a lot of ARCs this year, and there were quite a few I loved. Some were out because they (or the author) won another category, but it was stiff competition. Ultimately I settled on The Lone Wolf Cafe by Sydney Wilder as my fave. 🌈📚

Day 29: favorite genre-defying #sapphfic novel. I’ve seen Metal from Heaven by August Clarke described many different ways. Eco-fantasy, political fantasy, speculative, feral industrial punk rock. It's all of those, and yet none. The closest thing to how it made me feel is Chain-Gang All-Stars. 🌈📚

Day 28: favorite #sapphfic fantasy. The Timeless Legion, book 2 in the Everlands Cycle by @jcrycroft.bsky.social, has dragons, intrigue, betrayal and spice (yes there's a variety of spice; the MC is bi, that doesn't mean it's not sapphic). Go check it out while I not-so-patiently wait for book 3. 🌈📚

Day 27: favorite #sapphfic friends to lovers. Might as Well Be an Ocean by Kellan McKnight is a messy single-POV story exploring childhood trauma, neurodivergence, the struggle with self worth and the importance of found family. It is quite spicy, but delivers on emotional intimacy as well. 🌈📚

Day 26: favorite #sapphfic gothic fiction. Natasha Siegel delivers a powerfully dark and toxic Faustian bargain between demon and witch in As Many Souls as Stars. It's infused with obsessive love and longing, and oh, the loneliness and hunger that drove both was exquisitely and beautifully raw. 🌈📚

Day 25: favorite #sapphfic holiday romance. Real-life spouses @margueritegrimaud.bsky.social and @judeinthestars.bsky.social wrote a beautiful love story in The Milkyway Hotel. It's dual-POV, with each author writing one, then Jude translated both into the other. Be warned: you might get hungry. 🌈📚

Day 24: favorite #sapphfic audiobook. There were some tough competitors here, but in the end @natalienaudus.bsky.social and her narration of The Keeper of Magical Things by @julieleong.bsky.social won out. I loved the story and the characters, and the narration brought it to life. 🌈📚

Day 23: favorite #sapphfic vampires. Spanning three very different time periods and following three very different women, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab is visceral and compelling, full of hunger and rage, and it's absolutely gorgeous. The audiobook is equally delicious. 🌈📚

Day 22: favorite #sapphfic ice queen. I love @leewinteroz.bsky.social and her ice queens, so it's no surprise that Hotel Queens was this year's favorite overall. I loved both Amelia (Lia for short) and her fiery counterpart Kai, but Kai's assistant Milly might have been my favorite character. 🌈📚

Day 21: favorite #sapphfic literary fiction. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden intertwines mystery, intrigue, desire, obsession, and psychological suspense in a sensual, captivating story. It explores some of the darker sides of humanity and our legacies, and I couldn't look away. 🌈📚