Danika Ellis
Danika spends most of her time talking about queer women books at the Lesbrary. Blog: The Lesbrary Twitter: @DanikaEllis
I Hate Book Reviews (So Why Do I Keep Writing Them?)
February 22, 2016Unsurprisingly, I was a book-loving kid. And although I didn’t always love the books assigned to me in school, I ...
An Apology To the Books I’ve Cheated
February 4, 2016I don’t feel guilty about my TBR. I can put off reading books for years (decades, probably) and feel no ...
The Dream of a Rolling Bookshelf Ladder
January 12, 2016Many a book lover remembers watching Beauty and the Beast and wondering at the library that the Beast gifts Belle ...
An Introduction to Bookish ASMR Videos
January 7, 2016While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...
Dark Mark Tattoos and Other Lessons the Harry Potter Fandom Missed
December 1, 2015I’m a big Harry Potter fan, and one of my favourite things is meeting other fans. There are so many ...
Every Book Should Have Queer Characters
November 24, 2015Recently I was reading Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older–which is fantastic, as everyone told me it would be. I knew that ...
I’m a Rainbow Sprinkle (Queer People Are Not Optional)
October 30, 2015Why would a kid ask an author why their book doesn’t include gay characters? Apparently, this is such a baffling ...
Lesbian & Queer Women Halloween Reads
October 21, 2015Did you know there are more than a hundred lesbian vampire books? We basically invented the genre. But that’s not ...
5 Reasons To Participate In The 24 Hour Readathon
October 13, 2015Every April and October, I start counting down the days until Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon. It’s one of my bookish ...
An Introduction to Bookish ASMR Videos
September 30, 2015ASMR, if you’re unfamiliar with the term, is “autonomous sensory meridian response,” which sounds scientific but actually just means the ...