Heya M!
Thanks for keeping this great thread going with these recommendations! I'm busily compiling book shopping lists with the help of this thread.
I'm still in the midst of reading
Lonesome Dove... I'm at about page 500 at the moment. So, it's going pretty fast actually. Hopefully I'll be done with it in a week or so (my copy has 945 pages). When I'm done, I really do think I'll probably read an anthology of lesbian short stories. That sounds really appealing to me at the moment.
But, just to keep my contributions to this thread going I thought I'd post about a book and movie that I think are really wonderful, and definitely deserve a place on this thread. I think we've talked about this before somewhere on BetterMost... but, again, it really needs to be on this thread.
The non-fiction book is
Aimee and Jaguar by Erica Fischer (1994) and is the true story of a Jewish woman (Felice Schragenheim) and the wife of a Nazi officer (Lilly Wust) who fall in love in Germany during WWII. It's an absolutely incredible story.
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This is a picture of Felice and Lilly from the cover of the book that I have. There are many fascinating photos included in the book.
And, there was a truly wonderful movie made of this, also called
Aimee and Jaguar (1998). It documents all sorts of tragedy that occured during the Holocaust era, but it also provides a really fascinating glimpse or representation of lesbian culture in mid-20th century Berlin. And, while tragic, it's also really romantic. The movie is in German (with subtitles).
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