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Average rating: 3.81 · 73 ratings · 15 reviews · 4 distinct works

	A Family by Any Other Name: Exploring Queer Relationships by Bruce Gillespie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paul Aguirre-Livingston (Contributor), Danny Glenwright (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ink Stains, Volume 7: A Dark Fiction Literary Anthology by Kristi Petersen Schoonover (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert Mayette, Taro Turner 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zhush Redux: an OUTwrites Anthology 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Bird Stories Volume II by Nikki Vogel (Goodreads Author), Lana Starchuck (Goodreads Author), Frances Phillips 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dorianne Emmerton rated a book it was amazing Chrysalide (NON CLASSE) (French Edition) by Anuja Varghese	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Dorianne Emmerton wants to read A Kiss of Crimson Ash (Games of the Goddess, #1) by Anuja Varghese	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Dorianne Emmerton rated a book it was amazing Nine-Tenths by J.M. Frey (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I usually don't read romance, but when it's a fantasy set in Ontario with social justice values, I'll give it a shot. And I was glad I did! Despite an excess of italics, this book is a sweet and fun story about access intimacy, colonialism, and compl ...more
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Dorianne Emmerton rated a book it was amazing Indigo Springs (Astrid Lethewood, #1) by A.M. Dellamonica (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Dorianne Emmerton rated a book it was amazing Play by Jess Taylor (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Play is the most comforting book about severe complex trauma that I've ever read. In part, that's because it begins in the "now" when the protagonist is undergoing therapeutic treatment, so you know she lives through it, you don't have that fear that ...more
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Dorianne Emmerton wants to read The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Horror	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Dorianne Emmerton wants to read Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Dorianne Emmerton wants to read The Sovereign (Magic of the Lost, #3) by C.L. Clark (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Dorianne Emmerton rated a book it was amazing Cascade (The Sleep of Reason, #1) by Rachel A. Rosen (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Dorianne Emmerton rated a book it was amazing Disobedience by Daniel Sarah Karasik	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Disobedience by Daniel Sarah Karasik is wonderful. I read a lot of social justicey dystopias and sometimes it gets a little same-same, lacking in nuance, particularly in how wholly good and righteous the oppressed people are. But this is nuanced as a ...more
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