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Ran and the Gray World by Aki Irie

Ran and the Gray World, Vol. 1

Ran and the Gray World is a delightful manga series about Ran, a young girl with immense magical powers and the hijinks she gets up to. She, like many her age, is enamoured with the idea of being an adult, and with being just as beautiful and amazing as her mom. The difference is, she can magically age her body, which also increases the magnitude of her magical powers. So basically, every parent’s worst nightmare. … Continue reading Ran and the Gray World by Aki Irie

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HaBO: Wagon Train Prairie Masturbation

This HaBO request comes from Jennifer, who wants to find this very formative romance novel: I feel like I may have asked this years and years ago, either here or on the now defunct amazon romance message board, and I feel like it was found but I’ve since lost it again. This book has stuck in my memory very strongly for decades, it was my neighborhood best friends book, and she had torn the cover … Continue reading HaBO: Wagon Train Prairie Masturbation

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Thornhedge

Thornhedge

From USA Today bestselling author T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways. There’s a princess trapped in a tower. This isn’t her story. Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor … Continue reading Thornhedge

Stuff You Should be Watching: The Traitors

When Sarah first told The Bitchery about the new US version of the British reality show The Traitors, I immediately thought it sounded too stressful for my taste. The Traitors has twenty contestants competing in a murder mystery game where a few of them are secretly Traitors, trying to eliminate the rest of the contestants and keep the prize money for themselves. They’re all trapped in a sprawling Scottish estate where they spend their days … Continue reading Stuff You Should be Watching: The Traitors

Stuff We Like: Eurovision Australia Decides

Eurovision - Australia Decides

Dedicated to Catherine, She of the Billion Cakes, Ever Brilliant in Gold Lame, Mermaid Songstress, etc etc, all 17 of her. And Psycho Kitten. As with all our Eurovision coverage here at SBTB, this post is long, with video embeds that we have carefully triple-checked for global accessibility. Grab some snacks and a drink and prepare to open many tabs, to sample much variety of music, and, if you’re like Sarah, to add a whole … Continue reading Stuff We Like: Eurovision Australia Decides

Cover Snark: A Plan B for Pirates

Alien Abduction for Pirates by Skye MacKinnon. A man with a bright red skin tone stands before a swirling blue hole. He has weird space bun meets ram's horns thing going on, plus a brown leather eyepatch. A metal steampunk parrot is on his shoulder and the man also has a gray beard.

Hey all! It’s time for some Cover Snark! From Sarah: Neither road rash nor fatal head injuries are sexy. Sarah: They need helmets and I need to know how big the bike is if the bear can ride, too. Tara: I think this one might be so bonkers that I actually love it. Sarah: Where does one get a bear-sized helmet? Amanda: Okay but which one is actually the daddy biker bear? From Carole: Is … Continue reading Cover Snark: A Plan B for Pirates

Reading and Recovery

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CW: discussion of depression I’ve recently been through a lot, medically-speaking. I have a very rare disease called idiopathic subglottic stenosis. Basically, my airway grows closed with scar tissue for no known reason. I have had multiple surgeries to open up my airway again. The impact of the diagnosis and the surgeries has been emotional as much as it has been physical, so much so that I found myself in a very depressed, very hopeless … Continue reading Reading and Recovery

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A Wicked Conceit

A Wicked Conceit

Soon-to-be new parents Kiera and her husband, Sebastian Gage, have been hoping for a respite from their inquiries, but murder and mayhem have a startling way of dropping into their laps in the all-new historical mystery in this national bestselling series. Edinburgh, Scotland. March 1832. Kiera and Gage have been eagerly awaiting their bundle of joy, but trouble has been brewing in the form of the roguish criminal, Bonnie Brock Kincaid. A new book and subsequent … Continue reading A Wicked Conceit

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HaBO: Heroine Watches Hero Bathe in a River

This HaBO is from Ellie, who was inspired by a previous request to submit theirs: I’ve been thinking about submitting this book as an HABO forever, but was a little hesitant until seeing Jennifer’s Little Jizz on the Prairie request. But now that I know I’m not the only freakish person with little memory of a book other than a masturbation scene that nearly made my thirteen-year-old head explode, here goes. I would have read … Continue reading HaBO: Heroine Watches Hero Bathe in a River

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Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

The letter was short. A name, a time, a place. Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder plunges readers into the heart of London, to the secret tunnels that exist far beneath the city streets. There, a mysterious group of detectives recruited for Miss Brickett’s Investigations & Inquiries use their cunning and gadgets to solve crimes that have stumped Scotland Yard. Late one night in April 1958, a filing assistant for Miss Brickett’s named Michelle White receives … Continue reading Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

Whatcha Reading? November 2020 Edition, Part Two

The woman in yellow coat jeans and boots sitting under the maple tree with a red book and cup of coffee or tea in fall city park on a warm day. Autumn golden leaves. Reading concept. Close up.

Let’s close out November with another edition of Whatcha Reading! The holiday season usually goes either way in terms of reading: either you’re too busy to get any reading done or you’re making a large dent in your TBR. Carrie: Lots and lots of Victorian Ghost Stories. Meanwhile, in War and Peace, Napoleon is making a very large mistake and Pierre has discovered Inner Peace. EllenM: Still chugging along with my month of novellas! 2 … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? November 2020 Edition, Part Two