Jacinta has comeback from her first Eurosummer and read her way through the whole trip (aside from a lapse in taste and binging Off Campus on her way to Paris).
Alas, despite her faults she did pick some great books along her way.
Shock horror. It’s a whole lot of lesbians and literary fiction. What did you expect? 😉
Pleasure Beach by Helen Palmer
Pleasure Beach is a queer love story from the North West’s saucy seaside paradise, Blackpool, on one day: 16 June 1999. Written in multiple voices and styles, Pleasure Beach follows the interconnecting journeys and thoughts of three young women over the course of 24 hours and over 18 chapters which are structured and themed in the same way as James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Valencia by Michelle Tea
Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl’s search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco’s Mission District. Through a string of narrative moments, Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there’s knife-wielding Marta, who introduces Michelle to a new world of radical sex; Willa, Michelle’s tormented poet-girlfriend; Iris, the beautiful boy-dyke who ran away from the South in a dust cloud of drama; and Iris’s ex, Magdalena Squalor, to whom Michelle turns when Iris breaks her heart.
Love, Sex and Frankenstein by Caroline Lea
A Gothic historical novel set at Villa Diodati in Lake Geneva during the stormy summer of 1816. It reimagines 18-year-old Mary Shelley grappling with personal loss, betrayal by Percy Shelley, and a complex attraction to Lord Byron that ignites the creation of her masterpiece.
On the Calculation of Volume – Vol. 1 by Solvej Balle
Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes of days, weeks, months, or seasons. She finds herself in a lonely new reality without being able to explain why: how is it that she wakes every morning into the same day, knowing to the exact second when the blackbird will burst into song and when the rain will begin?
Let us know how you enjoy them 😉