3/14/18 review of novel Maxie Mainwaring, Lesbian Dilettante

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the novel Maxie Mainwaring, Lesbian Dilettante, by Monica Nolan.

The thread gives a summary of the novel and some context on Nolan's Lesbian Career-Girl series. The thread discusses how the novel explores individual queerness versus queer normativity, the book's themes regarding self-expectations and society's expectations, some characters and character dynamics in the novel, an indication of youth/adult lesbian desire in the novel, the way the novel plays with pulp novel conventions, and the novel's themes on story-telling in society overall. It also gives some criticisms of the novel, including criticizing the number of characters and the stiffness of the love scenes.

The tweets in some of my threads have been twisted out of chronological order on Twitter's platform. This thread's coherency is slightly affected. My apologies.