{"id":273,"date":"2008-03-01T12:02:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T17:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahsontheshelf.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2020-05-09T13:19:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T17:19:21","slug":"the-lezory-files-by-safari-ann-jones-and-rose-sutra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"The Lezory Files by Safari Ann Jones and Rose Sutra"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Publisher\/Date:\u00a0<\/strong> Lulu, July 2007
\nGenre:\u00a0<\/strong> Lesbian Real Life
\nPages:<\/strong>\u00a0 166
\nWebsite:\u00a0<\/strong> http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/921620<\/a><\/p>\n

Rating:<\/strong> \"★\"\"★\"\"½\"\"☆\"\"☆\" <\/p><\/strong><\/p>\n

Safari Ann Jones and Rose Sutra\u2019s THE LEZORY FILES <\/em><\/strong>speaks volumes that love is surely a killer.<\/p>\n

This memoir recounts the experiences of Safari and Rose\u2019s rocky road to true love, a street littered with unfulfilled dreams and broken hearts. They share their experiences in the life \u2013 some of them happy, most not. The pain and disappointment of lesbian love are detailed from their childhoods to discovering first and finding everlasting love. The real-life stories they describe are relatable to the black lesbian experience in that we all have dealt with coming to terms with ourselves and trying to find our place in the world. Poems from the authors are also included in the book.<\/p>\n

Growing up for Safari was a time full of lost dreams. She discovered the sweetness of women through her innocent crushes on girls but it was years before she would fully admit her preference. Even now, she sums up her lifestyle as being a “choosebian,” meaning she is straight and choses to be with women.<\/p>\n

Rose, on the other hand, always knew she was gay, but it didn’t stop the wreckage she endured in her life. Being abused when she was younger took its toll on her adult life, but it leads her to Safari and their intense relationship, where the pair fell hard after two chance meetings. All of the drama they faced was worth finding love with each other — right?<\/p>\n

In The Lezory Files<\/em>, Safari and Rose gear this book to black lesbians as “a wake up” call to love one another and ourselves, and the authors\u2019 purpose was fulfilled as they bared it all, from happiness to heartbreak. It reads more like novel than a real-life story. Nothing was held back, intricate and sordid, and accounts like these are honest and reflect, in some part, our lives. We love and hurt like everyone else. What made the book a little bitter, though, were the excessive grammatical errors throughout the book. Parts of the book were choppy, as well, and it made for a belabored reading.<\/p>\n

Yet I will say had The Lezory Files<\/em> been edited more, it would have been a great story of two women finding love in all the wrong places – but still hopeful that it will conquer all.<\/p>\n

Reviewed March 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Publisher\/Date:\u00a0 Lulu, July 2007 Genre:\u00a0 Lesbian Real Life Pages:\u00a0 166 Website:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/921620 Safari Ann Jones and Rose Sutra\u2019s THE LEZORY FILES speaks volumes that love is surely a killer. This memoir recounts the experiences of Safari and Rose\u2019s rocky road to true love, a street littered with unfulfilled dreams and broken hearts. They share their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[36,292,403,410],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7438,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/7438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}