I just barely made my connecting flight, by the way, but I made it, and then when I got to Ohio I stayed up ’til 5 AM reading this book. Then it was the part where I was invited to whip out my kindle or laptop, and instead I kept reading this book. Then it was the part of the flight where I was supposed to be getting really upset that we were still sitting on the tarmac and I was gonna miss my connection in Atlanta, but instead I was reading this book. I mean Nancy Garden - Annie On My Mind Nancy Garden - said it was “one of the best and most honest portraits of a young lesbian I’ve read in years” and asserted that “this is a story that keeps you reading way into the night - an absorbing, suspenseful and important book.” Nancy Garden, you guys!

Nothing specific, just good things in general. It was that part of a flight where you can’t use any electronic devices and I had The Miseducation of Cameron Post because it’s this new incredible lesbian YA novel I’ve heard good things about. I didn’t read the back of the book or the book flap or anything, I just opened the book and started reading it. Yup: it’s coming of age, it’s coming of GAYge, it’s a Bildungsroman, a novel of development, it’s all of these things, none of these things, and it would be kick-ass if you gave it a whirl.” The way a mountain-toppling earthquake that happened some thirty years before keeps aftershocking our hero: Cameron Post. A girl named Jane Fonda and the hollowed compartment in her prosthetic leg.

The compulsive renting and watching of 99cent videos. A Victorian dollhouse with all kinds of weird shit glued to it. Girls kissing girls in barns, in twisty slides on playgrounds, in abandoned hospitals. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.

LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.

The miseducation of emily post