Karaoke Iko!: Wayama Yama

After I read (and loved) Onna no Sono no Hoshi, more than one of you lovely readers came forward to…

The Transgender Issue: Shon Faye

I really wish this book didn’t need to be written, and I didn’t need to be writing about it. But…

TCAF was last month, and it was my first time not working the festival since…2008? Usually, I’m glued to the…

Have you been to Okinawa? If not, I recommend it. But not in the summer. You will melt. The winter,…

Fire is a legend. If you start getting into the history of shojo or just reading older shojo, you will…

There’s this D.H. Lawrence quote that’s been hanging around in my head for decades now, but in the vague way…

Since I got back to Canada, I’ve been feeling oddly disconnected in a way that I felt back when I…

I keep saying “a couple of years ago,” and then catch myself and have to clarify, “a couple of years…

I’m sure I’m not the only book nerd out there who falls in love with a new author and then…

This is one of those books that chased me around the city until I finally gave in and bought it,…