recent reads

I finished Wench a few days ago, and have been thinking about the best way to discuss it; Andrea Levy's The Long Song is waiting for me at the library, and if I include The Book of Night Women, I'll have read three neo-slave narratives in one month.  I'm still thinking about how to write about The Mariposa Club—write a review? set up an author interview? both?  It's harder for me to review LGBT novels because I've only read a few, and that means I can't really situate the book in relation to ...