Happy Saturday! Here’s what we’re reading right now:
Lara: While I’m still reading Jane Austen’s Bookshelf, ( A | BN | K | AB ) I’m starting to see it more as a guide than a book to read for leisure. I’ve disappeared down internet rabbit holes and stared into space thinking about women and literature and, based on my recent rec league request, I’m plotting my summer reading. It’s exhilarating!
Shana: I just picked back up a Jan Clausen’s 1999 memoir, Apples & Oranges. ( A | BN | K | AB ) Clausen was a Brooklyn lesbian who fell in love with a man in Nicaragua. Memoirs are my least favorite genre, but I like this book anyway. It’s really half memoir and half feminist reflections on gender and sexuality.
Elyse: I started a horror/romance called Camera Stays On ( A | BN | K | AB ) but one of the characters (not the hero) abuses his dogs so I’m not reading that now.
Sarah: hell no nope nope nope nopity nope
I am reading this omegaverse why choose set in a hair salon called Shear Instinct.
The story is clicking along while my brain is analyzing the power dynamics, the rules of the O-verse, how it affirms and subverts gender roles inside very typical sounding character types. Like there’s a whole passel of horny giant alphas but they’re also equally focused on emotional caretaking in all directions of their relationships, both giving and receiving care and acceptance.
“What is happening? It can keep happening, this is fun, but why is this happening?”
Carrie: I just finished The League of Lost Souls by KJ Charles (not a romance). ( A | BN | K | AB ) I loved it but even for a book stated to be the first in a duology, the ending felt abrupt. I’m a few chapters in to Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson. ( A | BN | K | AB )
Whatcha reading? Tell us in the comments!