Tori Joshi’s Reviews > Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America > Status Update

This looks really cool so I'll be interested to see your thoughts!

I’m enjoying it a lot - it’s like 1/2 travelogue, 1/2 memoir, 1/2 logistics. It’s a very personal account of a particular woman’s journey as she visits the last 20 lesbian bars, and I enjoy her witty observations about queer culture. Just go in knowing that this isn’t an objective textbook about the lesbian bars; it’s very much colored by this particular woman and her particular journey. Honestly, it can be compared to Eddy & Ted’s road trip to every single Rainforest Cafe - they’re the only ones to have done it and live to tell the tale, but it’s not objective by any means.

I say all this so you know what it is going in. I think some members of our book club were wondering if she was the best person to write this book. But that’s just gatekeeping - she’s the best one to write this particular book! But someone else writing a book about the same topic would be very different and that book should ALSO exist in addition to this one

Tori wrote: "I say all this so you know what it is going in. I think some members of our book club were wondering if she was the best person to write this book. But that’s just gatekeeping - she’s the best one ..."

I see what you mean! Go in expecting an interesting memoir, not a catalogue or historical text. Still seems interesting, thank you for the info!

Yes I hope you enjoy! I’ve been having a lot of fun with this book :)