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Duygu ölmez duyguolmez — A well crafted debut novel Where the River Splits from Jeffrey Penn May, the reader is taken on a rollercoaster ride as May skilfully describes the paths of the principal players in the story. You can cut the tension with a knife. Just one question: when is Where the River Splits going to win a justly deserved award? It can only be a matter of time.

Chathuranga Vithanage cmvithanage — There are different strains of writing within what might be called "lesbian literature." We have writers producing works that range all the way from extremely professional to unpolished or under-edited or clumsily executed. At the less-slick end of the lesbian fiction continuum I make a distinction between those authors who just don't seem to know how to write a gripping story and those who are more analogous to painters whose works are classified as folk art. While I suppose a few people might accuse Grandma Moses of not knowing how to paint, most would judge her work against that of others artists working in similar styles. And the more familiar I've become with work these "folks art" writers, the more I've come to appreciate their contribution to our community's literature. All this is offered as a preface to my review of Diana K. Perkin's first published novel, "Singing Her Alive." I bought the book because it is both a historical and a romantic lesbian novel that is set in a geographic area not far from where I grew up and now live. I didn't have very high expectations for the book. If you asked me why, I'd have to admit that I'm usually less impressed by novels that have words like "singing" in the title. Is this a bald-faced prejudice? Yes, but in this case, I need not have been afraid. Perkins has a good reason to have titled her novel as she did. The title makes reference to a key bit of imagery that is used to express the depth of love and commitment between the book's pair of long-ago lesbian lovers. Like many "story within a story" books, the historical story very much overshadows the less intriguing "current" era romance. The modern women seem to get together without all that much passion -- their story seems flat and lifeless when compared to the turn-of-the-last century story. I have one nit to pick with the author. The grandmother's story takes place at the beginning of the 20th century. The modern-day part of the book could not be occurring now, in 2011. If so, the protagonist's mother would have had to be over a 100 years old. And yet the author never notes the time frame for the contemporary portion of the book. This is not a trivial matter since the "contemporary" protagonists' courting would not have been carried out in as cavalier a fashion back in, say, the 50s. So the timeline utterly befuddled me. However, this is a book that, for the most part, grabbed me and held my interest. The author made me care about the characters, and she handled some delicate family issues with sensitivity. I didn't learn as much as I'd hoped to about the women working in the mills in the early 1900s. It's an interesting time and setting, but the book doesn't really provide a very high level of detail about that lifestyle. I think I may have learned more from 2nd-hand stories about people who worked in the mills in the area in which I live. Still, the book was a noble endeavor, fairly well executed, and both written and edited with care and commitment. I would recommend this book to those interested women's romantic relationships in a historical setting. I have one other tiny complaint about the ebook format. It's available in .PDF format. This is easy for the publisher to produce, but the more standard EPUB format lends itself better to changes in type size and font, which is an important issue for some of us who choose ebooks to deal with our visual limitations.

张 菁 _orothy_ — # 8 In the Series: Drina travels to Africa with her grandparents so that her grandfather can recover from a nasty bout of pneumonia. On the ship is a local ballet company and they ask her to perform with them. A male member of the ballet company falls in love with her (she has the men dropping like flies).