What do you like to read Friday? MKF 12-06-02

[Repost Moderator]

Originally posted by Ben Varkentine

I found an article on Alternet (a smart site) I thought some Kittens might be interested in reading; it's not about W/T or G&L, but I think you'll see certain, shall we say, applications.

Here's their blurb to what it's about, followed by a link.

"A satrical Web site sparks renewed dialogue about the ever-sensitive subjects of racism, white privilege and race relations."

www.alternet.org/story.ht...ryID=14698

Hope you enjoy...

[Still Waters Run Deep]

Hmm, sitting here at the computer I can look up and see: loads of Buffy novels [not a patch on many of the fan-fics in Pens IMO], Sci Fi / Fantasy,[Holdstock,Ballard,Bear Asimov,Tolkien etc], books on Celtic myths, Prehistory, loads of travel books [Bill Bryson, Tim Cahill, Eric Newby, J Raban] lots of factual books on Trees, environment,Antarctica [my pet interest], whales and dolphins [my other pet interest] navigation, surfing, sailing etc etc.

As you can see a real mixed bag.

At the mo, I'm reading several things: an A4 printout of Camp Flutie [part 2], Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban, LoTR [for about the 30th time!] a book on Polynesian Navigators, and the Darwin Awards [A really fun book that I just dip into now and again].

When something grabs me I find it impossible to put down, and tend to read it in haste, almost in one go, then I pick it up again some weeks later and savour it anew. Some of the Fics in Pens are like that, they really do reward you again on a rea read [Doppleganger redux, Touchstone, to name but two, and they're unfinished as yet]


SWRD

[KittenPokerPlayer]

I don't really have a specific genre. Those Harlequinn (sp?) romance novels can be fun at times. I love all of V.C Andrews books, especially Flowers in the Attic. I'm reading the Harry Potter books now and I like those. I also read alot of those Chicken Soup books and the books about teen girl behavior like the Surviving Ophelia books. Sex in books is good. as long as there is a plot. I don't really read non fiction much. Except lately I've been reading biographys of mobsters and hitmen. think i've been watching too much Sopranos.

~Erica

[Pudds]

Okay let me see...I've got quite a varied assortment of novels lining my bookshelves. For Horror I like James Herbert, Dean Koontz, Clive Barker & Stephen King. SciFi is pretty exclusively Ben Bova (Love his vision of the future). The Humour category is filled by Terry Pratchett & Tom Holt, while Fantasy is Tolkien(obviously), David Eddings and Stephen Donaldson(Thomas Covenant Chronicles). I favour the Classics of Thomas Hardy(Gotta love that Fate), E.M. Forster and Jane Austen. My Gay/Lesbian quota is filled by Armistead Maupin and a HUGE variety of lesbian authors along with the superb Jeanette Winterson. I also like Tom Clancy, John Irving and Thomas Harris. As for my Childhood favourites; there's no contest for me, the winners are The Chronicles Of Narnia and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.
Okay....I'm off for a read!!

[seurat]

Ah, books. Don't get me started.

My parents both read constantly and I picked up the habit. The first books I remember taking out of the library on my own would be things like Starman Jones by Heinlein, then I moved onto the Narnia books, Dune, all of Tolkien and then took a sharp veer off into Van Vogt and Colin Wilson. I also love many of the writers mentioned by others, including Neal Stephenson, William Gibson and LeGuin. I need to mention the man who wrote Little, Big but I'm blanking on his name, maybe someone can help me out. And my most favorite is probably Lewis Shiner. When I need cheering up I'll pull out some Bloom County or Calvin and Hobbes.

[darkmagicwillow]

Ruth, Terry Pratchett is great and you're lucky enough to be in the UK so you don't have to wait an extra year for the books. [i:7148a7e6b7]Witches Abroad[/i:7148a7e6b7] is my favorite. Sometime after reading it, I seem to have acquired a tomcat with a remarkable coincidence of temperament to Greebo. I, of course, see him as my cuddly little kitten.

Jixer, I shouldn't have forgotten CJ Cherryh though I haven't read the books you mention. Her [i:7148a7e6b7]Cyteen[/i:7148a7e6b7] is one of my all time favorite novels; there's no better place to get insight on character. Her [i:7148a7e6b7]Chanur[/i:7148a7e6b7] books have the best take on aliens I've ever seen, and better yet, humans are one of the scary incomprehensible aliens the characters discover.

No one mentioned their favorite history books so I thought I'd recommend Barbara Tuchman's [i:7148a7e6b7]A Distant Mirror: A History of the Calamitious 14th Century[/i:7148a7e6b7]. If you haven't been into history, it's a great place to start; if you are, why haven't you read it already?

[WonderAnt]

yay! books! insomnia gives me big mounds of time to read. currently im reading lots of poetry, fiction esp historical fiction.. but im always a scifi fan too
todays books/authors essential for survival:
The Bell Jar ~ or anything else by Sylvia Plath
Twelth Night ~ Shakespeare
L.E. Modesitt, Jr. .. love the Recluse and the Spellsong series..
The City and the Pillar ~ Gore Vidal

also gotta give props to writers of trashy romance novels, and i mean the really trashy ones. ya know what i mean, horrible dialogue, details that make your ears turn red and glance around to make sure nobody seen what youre reading.. those are like mindcandy.. very fun to read. yay for trash!

i have read tuchman's a distant mirror.. wow, now i feel all special.. it like a secret club of people in the know... lol, i need to stop watching cruel intentions right now...

[DawnsMan]

I strongly recommend reading "Skipping Christmas" by John Grisham. It is hyterical and now that its December, its the perfect time for it. You will laugh alot, its a really good book!

[LadyBrymstone]

I used to be a huge reader...until I got burned out due to the massive amount of textbook reading in college/grad school.

As far as classic literature:
I'm a big George Orwell fan...his books, his essays. L'Hopital is a favourite.

Crime & Punishment I've read a couple times, as well as Albert Camus' The Plague and The Stranger.

Ralph Ellison's "The Invisible Man" is such a powerful book. I love it.

I do like to read Shakespeare occasionally, but I have to read it slowly, so I can absorb and understand it.

To Kill A Mockingbird is another true great. Wonderful.

As far as popular fiction:
Grisham's "A Time to Kill" is one of my favourites. I did my senior research project on the racial tones of the book.

Fannie Flagg (Fried Green Tomatoes, etc) is another favourite. Her combination of humour and local colour is wonderful.

I've read a few Patricia Cornwell books...she's very good as well.

[taralicious]

Rereading the works of my late literary hero, Douglas Adams.
P.G. Wodehouse, Ben Elton, Robert Llewellyn, Stephen Fry, Paul Cornell, John Irving, Alan Moore, Garth Ennis, Grant Morrison, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers.
The list is endless and runs from historical drama to science fiction/fantasy to mystery.

[Shadow ALH]

I will read just about anything I can get my hands on. I love all sorts of books from magical realism (for instance
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez), to John Grisham's A Time to Kill, Shakespeare, or Hesse's Siddhartha.

I've also been taking both French and German classes in school, so I enjoy reading books in those languages. It is slow, but so much more rewarding to read something in its orignial language as compared to a translation. Today was my last day of class, so after finals I thin I might read Fischer's Aimee und Jaguar, which the movie was based on. Very sad, but interessting.

[Zippy]

I've hardly had that much time to read of late but when I do get the chance I enjoy books by Val McDermid. Her book Blue Genes is one of my favourite books of all time.

Others include: Popcorn by Ben Elton, Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters, Onwards & Upwards by Arabella Weir & Madcows by Kathy Lette.

[ninjitsugrrl]

Oooh, good question so I'm going to answer even though it's Saturday now. I like a little bit of everything. That's why I'm an English major! When I'm reading for fun, though, I love mystery and science fiction. Usually I like the humorous science fiction stuff like Douglas Adams and James Morrow. As far as mysteries, I love the Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta books although she hasn't written one in a while. Right now I'm finally reading all of the Harry Potter books which I absolutely love. I was very resistant to reading them at first and I have no idea why. Now I'm on the third one and I'm positively addicted.

[Pipsqueak]

yay, great thread! I LOVE to read. I'm mostly into fantasy (Robert Jordan, George R.R. Martin, T.H. White), horror (Stephen King, Dean Koontz), classic lit (Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy), science/astronomy stuff (books about black holes and relativity and superstring theory - hey, I majored in physics in college!), and religious/Christian stuff (C.S. Lewis, Elisabeth Elliot).

When I was younger, I read Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series, and that got me into fantasy. Christopher Pike's books turned me onto horror, and of course what little girl didn't read -- and love -- the Anne of Green Gables collection?

Les Miserables is a wonderful book, I could read it again and again. The Stand is my favorite King book, with The Long Walk (a novelette) coming in a close second. I couldn't live without Jordan's Wheel of Time books. And don't laugh, but a couple years ago I was totally into The Rules -- yeah, those books about finding Mr. Right. No, seriously, I was. ...... What? Why are you looking at me like that? Stop it!

[Twisted Minstrel]

This isn't Friday, but I thought I'd add anyway...this is an excellent topic.

I currently love the A Series of Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snicket, featuring the unlucky Baudelaire orphans...wicked funny. I enjoy the morbid humor of it, akin to the original Addams Family comics, which I collect.

I collect children books, favorites being Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, I'm the proud owner of some very early editions of those, as well as the Narnia chronicles, LOTR and Where the Wild Things Are. Fairytales are a special favorite which brings me to the work of Emma Donahoe - Irish writer of Kissing the Witch, an amazing collection of classic fairytales retold from a decidely feminine POV (the version of Snow White has the evil stepmother obsessively in love with the girl, chasing her about, rather than wanting to kill her)...

I'm also a fan of Jeannette Winterson's book, Written on the Body, and almost anything by Tom Robbins, including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Jitterbug Perfume. He is an incredibly wild, naughty, intelligent and deeply funny writer. Highly recommend.

I miss the old Bloom County comics, for those who remember old Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin *sniff*, but that's not very literary. I enjoy most anything so long as its wild, naughty, intelligent and deeply funny...heh heh. Romance is rarely done well...except on the Kitten board, I must say, and I spend quite a bit of time here! A little smut never hurt anyone, either.

Aside from that, I do enjoy reading biographies and one I haven't seen mentioned here, but I highly recommend as an amazing read is Diana Souhami's Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter - this is about the mistress of Edward VIII, and her daughter, Violet - who was the lover of the English writer, Vita Sackville West (well know for her affair with Virginia Wolf). The story is full of irony, humor, vivid detail and heartbreak. Amazing book.

I won't bore anyone on the mathematical side of things, but I read books on Chaos theory and probability and fractals because they're so fascinating, but no one else seems to think so..so..humph.

Best to all!

Piper

[LadyBrymstone]

Twisted Minstrel...omg...someone else is a Bloom County fan! Yay!

I absolutely adore Berkeley Brethed's (sp?) work...Bloom County and the post-BC Outland. I have many of the Mega-Collections and have probably read them a dozen times!

I'm also a huge fan of Bill Amend's Fox Trot. It's no longer in my newspaper (hasn't been for a decade), but I buy the Mega Collections every time one is released.

[taralicious]

Yeah for the "Bloom County" fans out there.
I have lived in Iowa City my whole life and remember with wistful fondness the joy of seeing Berke Breathed place Iowa City landmarks within the strip.
It was a sad day when he moved from Iowa City to Texas.
Where is Senator Bedfellow when you need him?

[mscheckmate]

I love Florence King's earlier books, like "Southern Ladies and Gentlemen," "WASP, Where is thy Sting?" and her autobiographical, "Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady." King writes beautifully, and she's flat-out hilarious. But, King's later books have been collections of essays with a decidedly right-wing slant. Some of them are funny, but some are distinctly mean-spirited. One reviewer described her feelings while reading King's later writings as "like finding out that your favorite eccentric teacher has become a mean drunk."

I love Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone mysteries, Raymond Chandler's books, and Katherine V. Forrest's Kate Delafield mysteries. Delafield is a lesbian LAPD detective involved with a much younger woman. Since I'm the May half of a May-December couple, it kind of resonates. Especially the passage in "The Beverly Malibu," where Kate bemoans the fact that her lover was a mere infant when JFK was shot. Yep. Been there.
Also, Mercedes Lambert has a great mystery series going starring Whitney Logan, the "is-she-or-isn't-she-gay" attorney. It's fun to follow Whitney around as she gets caught up in the underbelly of Los Angeles.

For cartoons, it's Alison Bechdel's "Dykes to Watch Out For," series. I love looking at all of the little jokes she sneaks into each frame, along with the big payoffs. Alison's a genius.

[pagnmickie]

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I love those mysteries too. I also love Ellen Hart's books. She's a local lesbian mystery writer in Minneapolis. And it's always great to read books that have places you know in them! Especially the Jane Lawless character! www.ellenhart.com/jane.html

-Michelle

[Patches]

MaClayMagic, published , that's wonderful news! What should we be looking for on bookstore shelves? Lesbian novel - Yabba girl, I've some $$ to spare for books. There's always money for books!

As you and DrG have pointed out, there isnt a lot of lesbian fiction available. Like most of the posters here, I have an eclectic collection of books. I started off with classics, Sci-Fi, classic Asamov, Bova, Ellison, and historical fictions (history buff), Shakespeare and Middle English writing, moved into the thrillers and spy novels in university and then started reading Fantasy, where my other fav authors wrote. Topping this list is Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon series (Mists was the best) and Guy Gavriel Kay's writing - I think my all time favourite fantasy series is Fionavar Tapestry; it is a wonderful Tolkinesque world - Kay was on the editorial board for the Silmerillian, hard not the see the influence there. Another series I loved was John Varley's Gaen Trilogy: Titan. Wizard, Demon - though one of the lesbian characters does die (sigh) at least she still plays a strong part in the series, even as a ghost. Alas, they are out of print and my loaned copy was never returned .

Back to my point, I too am disappointed with the availability of lesbian centred literature. I love books - they are my passion. Not to show disrespect, but I'm tired of novels (and movies) where everyone is straight. I like to 'crawl inside the skin' of character and become part of the story, play the scenes out in my mind like a movie I guess. I'd rather use my imagination and read than watch TV. That's a hard thing to do when the heroin falls in love with a guy - as I said, no disrespect intended - but it's just not my personal cup 'o tea; escaping into the arms of a guy at the end of a long hard day/journey/ordeal is not my favourite way to relax and forget about the world. Unfortunately, finding engaging stories with strong lesbian characters is difficult - they are rare and when good stuff is written, it's impossible to find after a year.

I found JM Redmann's first two Micky Knight stories at the end of the summer, they'd been re-published by Bella Books and they just blew me out of the water, they were so good. I've spent the last two months scouring the internet to find her next two books - I've had to order them from used book resellers the UK, and Boston. Although published first by Avon (five years ago) and Norton Books (three years ago), neither publisher has her books; they don't even her listed as one of their authors on their web sites! It's a frustrating search for quality lesbian relaxation material.

MaClayMagic, I hope your book finds its way to my local g/l store. If you wouldn't mind, e-mail me the title and publication details (or post here in this thread if we're allowed that kind of thing), I'll ask the storeowner to order it in for me (if he hasn't already). Since my hotmail account is set to exclusive (anything from someone not in my address book automatically goes to the Junk Mail folder), if you do e-mail please put "MaClayMagic - Kitten Book" in the subject, so I can find it amidst the plethora of spam I normally find there.

Congrats again on getting published - that is awesome!

[MaClayMagic]

Hey Patches (and anyone else interested)
Here's the titles for you, thanks for the interest! I got so tired of trying to find books I wanted to read that in the end decided that I would just do them myself! And I didn't want endless unhappy story lines either! Mine are lesbians who are always the heroines and they get happy ever after endings!!!!!
They are firstly "Keeper Of The Piece" and the latest is "Constellations Of The Heart" by me, Lesley Davis. They're listed as fantasy romances, the first is kind of set in our future, the second a knights in armour story! You gotta love a girl in a breastplate!! Amazon have them but they are published by Windstorm Creative so if you want to get a local book place to grab a copy then that's the publisher to mention. If you get one, email me with what you reckon! You'll find it in my details on the board.
It took a while to get stuff done, but I have just sent the third off to the publishers and am working on the fourth. We need more books out there that we can say "See? Happy lesbians!" I want younger ones coming out to have material they can read and identify with, and older ones something to recognise. I too am so fed up being fed the constant stream of straight stories, I need someone to watch and think, hey that's like me. Willow and Tara did that for me on tv, albeit for a brief, shining moment!
Hope to hear from you about these! It would be cool to get your feedback.

[Patches]

MaClayMagic - the order's in! Had to use Amazon.com, as Amazon.Ca (the supposedly 'great' new Canadian Amazon Book site) doesn't carry them. Actually, Amazon.ca and even the Canadian Chapter/Indigo sites don't carry much lesbian literature at all - grrr! Spending a small fortune on shipping, exchange and customs's charges - usually doubles the cost of the books, sigh. Unfortunately, my local bookstore is out of stock, so I'll have to wait a couple of weeks before I can dive into your prose. Looking forward to it. This presumes, of course, that Canada Custom's doesn't deem the books "dangerous to the public good" and hold them at the border for 100 years as they do with most gay/lesbian literature. But, I know, that's a topic for the glbt issues thread, and I rant about this there also!

Can't wait - (with genuine enthusiasm).

[MaClayMagic]

Thanks Patches! You were VERY fast!!! Hope you enjoy them! "Dangerous to the public good"? Yike! Nope, just a little lesbian lovin'!! British style so you just know it's going to be very 'proper'!!! Yeah right! My publishers startled my British stiff upper lip by putting on the back of "Constellations": "With a great adventure story, two engaging characters, a sense of humour and hot sex, Davis has a real winner here!" (The Briliant Review). I was shocked! Hot sex?!!! My mom is going to read the back cover!!!! She'll go even greyer!!! Anyhow, hope you enjoy them when you get them!! Thanks again! My books are going to Canada! How cool!

[Triscuit7]

Hey - Nothing like jumping into something late. I read mostly SF/F and Mystery with an occasional kid's book (Stellaluna) or general fiction novel (Tipping the Velvet). I also read science (The Dinosaur Heresies) , history (Guns, Germs, and Steel), and language (bks by Stephen Pinker).

Most of my favorite authors have been listed, but just for the record here goes:

1) C. J. Cherryh - the woman is simply awesome. I especially love the Chanur novels (Pyanfar and Hilfy) and the atevi universe trilogies. Pity I can't vote for Ilsidi for President. I also am very fond of Downbelow Station and the character Signy Mallory (Norway Rules!).

2) Lois McMasters Bujold - for space opera her Miles Vorkosigan novels are hard to beat and I am besotted with her 2nd fantasy novel "The Curse of Chalion" (should have taken the Hugo!).

3) David Weber - the Honor Harrington novels, definitely great space opera.

4) S. M. Stirling - The Draka novels: take a trip to the dark side where evil can be oh-so honorable and for a lighter flit through alternate history, his Nantucket trilogy and Peshawar Lancers. He also co-wrote some great sword and sorcery novels with Shirley Meier.

5) Nevada Barr - Anna Pigeon mystery series, esp. "Firestorm" and "Blind Descent".

6) Dana Stabenow - her two Alaskan mystery series (Kate Shugak and Liam Campbell) with "Breakup" being one of the funniest books I've ever read.

7) Owen Parry - his civil war mystery series with its recently immigrated Welsh hero is just superb. Start with a "Faded Coat of Blue".

These seven authors are automatics with me. I buy them in HC without hesitation, I buy them in duplicate in paperback so that I can wear them out re-reading.

Ciao, Melissa

[Boomstick79]

Hey everyone, I too am jumping in a bit late but what the hell....
I used to be a big reader but a new job kinda put the kibosh on that for a while but I'm gradually getting back in to the swing of things
Last good book I read was a collection of stories from Movieline writer Joe Queenan entitled "Confessions of a cineplex heckler" - had me in absolute stitches in some parts, maybe it's because I work in a cinema I don't know, but it's bloody funny and well worth a read should any of you feel that way inclined. His description of his MerchantIvory assignment is a classic
Added to that I read a lot of screenplays, film critiques etc.
Favourite authors include Martina Cole, Patricia Cornwell (before she kinda lost the plot with Scarpetta), Douglas Coupland and Howard Marks.
Oh yeah, and I like comics too. Terry Moore's Strangers In Paradise comes highly recommended - plus he works with Amber so bonus!

Regards,

Lou x

[pagnmickie]

Love the Anna Pigeon mysteries! How could I forget those... not to mention Barr's novel Bittersweet.

-Michelle

[darkmagicwillow]

Triscuit, I love Pinker's [i:160d8ed838]The Language Instinct[/i:160d8ed838]. I learned so much from that one. The other linguistics book I always recommend is Mario Pei's [i:160d8ed838]The Story of Language[/i:160d8ed838], a very interesting history/overview of human languages and their origins.

I just got [i:160d8ed838]The Curse of Chalcion[/i:160d8ed838]; I'll have to read it soon with your recommendation.

[caged heart]

Ok, I'm a bit slow, but this is a good topic.

MaClayMagic, I put your books on my Amazon WishList. Both of them have great reader reviews! Congratulations

And speaking of lesbian fiction - any good authors and/or books you all can recommend? I have read most books by Rita Mae Brown & Jeanette Winterson already. Unfortunately the library in my little town doesn't have the widest selection. If I have to spend money, I want to make sure I'm spending it on something good. I'm very much looking forward to being in NYC for a month after Christmas - New York Public Library, here I come!

Other things I like to read:
~historical fiction - I like Civil War-era and WWII-era the best
~travel guides - I'm a travel guide freak. I love reading about different places. I'm going to Europe for a month next summer, and I've already bought two different travel guides. I can't decide which one I like better.
~Harry Potter
~I recently read "The Clock Winder" by Anne Tyler and really liked it. Her writing is very character-driven, you really get inside their heads. I just started another one of hers, "Earthly Possessions," about a woman who is taken hostage in a bank robbery.

[Cicca]

Depends on the day!
On Friday I think I was finishing up Affinity. Sarah Waters sure can write, but oh was that a strange book! Tipping the Velvet (up til 2) and Fingersmith were quite a bit more enjoyable.

Right now I'm trying to finish A Recipe For Bees. It hasn't really grabbed me, but I don't want to quit. Then I've got a huge ol' stack of Buffy books to get through. Then it's back to Harry Potter!
Narnia's starting to call to me again... Always a pleasure

As for trashy romance, Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series will likely make you blush if you read it in a public place, and it's a fun read anyway.

A gift certificate to a book store really is a wonderful Christmas present!

[technopagan78]

Caged Heart and others, here are some recommendations.

I've noticed that no one besides me (I think) has mentioned Nichola Griffith, and I've also realized that in my previous post I failed to mention that Griffith writes "lesbian" fiction. Slow River and Ammonite are both science fiction novels, Stay and The Blue Place are conventional novels featuring a detective named Aud Torvingen. The Blue Place and Stay are also beautifully written studies of terrible, terrible grief (and anger). Information about Griffith can be found at www.sff.net/people/Nicola Griffith is a terrific literary stylist, and her books can usually be found in chain bookstores like Barnes and Noble and Chapters.

I think that Melissa Scott may have been overlooked as well. While Trouble and her Friends is interesting and won a 1998? Lambda Award, I liked The Jazz much better. Both are cyberpunk novels--emphasis on cyber. Unless you are super into computers and the Internet, you will probably hate them. But if you like William Gibson, you might want to check out Scott.

If you are interested in fantasy, you might want to check out Rachel Pollack. I rarely see her work in bookstores, so online is probably the best bet for finding her books. Unquenchable Fire won the Arthur C. Clark fantasy award several years' back. In it, Pollack (who also writes on tarot) extrapolates a world in which, for lack of a better term, the goddess has returned. I've read it probably a half dozen times, and each time I am completely swept away by a "post-Revolution" America. The sequel, Temporary Agency has a lesbian protagonist. A third novel, Godmother Night tells the tale of two lovers, Laurie and Jaque. Pollack's ability to imagine a logical fantasy is simply breathtaking. If you are interested in Wicca, Native American religions, pre-Christian European traditions, this might be for you.

Finally, I collect pre-Stonewall fiction. My best find is Diana, A Strange Autobiography, which ends with Leslie explaining to Diana, "Don't you think," she whispered tremulously, there's such a thing as vows meaning more just because they are secret?" Yep! It's a 1939 lesbian "novel" with a happy ending, and I think a reprint edition is available.

Happy reading