NB: Have we mentioned that we love a good squee? Because we do. We love hearing about which books made you feel absolutely over the moon, or ones that you’ve connected with on deep, emotional levels. This particular squee comes from Poppy. Poppy is a long-time fan of SBTB and loves cats, books and coffee, in that order. There is also a trigger warning at the beginning of the review, but in case you miss it … Continue reading Guest Squee: Trial by Desire by Courtney Milan →
NB: Welcome to Flashback Friday! We’re re-running this awesome guest squee of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir as a palate cleanser for those who aren’t fans psychological thriller movies like The Girl on the Train. It’s also a pretty fitting movie to watch in October. This post was originally published August 17, 2015. SB Sarah: Kay Layton Sisk emailed me about her love of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and since I didn’t know much about it at all, I asked … Continue reading Guest Squee: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir – The Movie, the Book, and Me →
NB: We’re back with another guest squee! Guest reviewer Diana recently started watching Fleabag on Amazon Prime. It’s currently a six-episode series available for streaming! Diana Kirk is a writer living on the coast of Oregon with her hot as fuck husband and three blonde boys. Her book Licking Flames: Tales of a Half-Assed Hussy comes out in December 1. You can read her essays and fiction pieces in Thought Catalog, Literary Kitchen, Yellow Mama, … Continue reading Guest Squee: Fleabag →
NB: We always like hearing about good, squee-worthy books! This recommendation comes from Ren. Ren loves books, especially historicals, though she’s happy to live in the era of jeans and nerd t-shirts. She also likes fantasy and black tea. The back cover copy of The Tigers of Mompracem: Would you be the greatest pirate in the South China Sea or would you hang up your sword to be with the woman you love? Malaysia, 1849. The Tigers … Continue reading Guest Squee: The Tigers of Mompracem by Emilio Salgari →
I was going to ease you guys into this review, but then I remembered that the Bitchery are not an audience that needs to be eased into these sorts of things. So here’s the tl;dr right at the beginning: “My Dad Wrote a Porno” is a podcast where a British man, Jamie, and his friends James and Alice read aloud an erotic novella written by Jamie’s father. It goes about as well as you’d expect. … Continue reading Guest Squee: “My Dad Wrote a Porno” Podcast →
This Guest Review is by Catherine Heloise, author of a recent Book Rant about Shakespearean retellings with rock stars. This time, she’s gleefully squeeing about Laura Florand’s new book. … Let me start by saying that I adore Laura Florand’s work. She’s basically my perfect author for when I need utterly joyful, light, sensual escapism. Her novels are all set in Paris or Provence, and centre around food and cooking and chocolate, or else around … Continue reading Guest Review: Chase Me by Laura Florand →
Lara emailed me about a romantic suspense that was, for her, the perfect blend of both the romance and the suspense, and she wanted to make sure more people knew about. So, behold: guest squee! A few weeks ago I did a “Library Lucky Dip:” I grab books, usually about seven, at random off the shelves. I don’t look at the covers or read the blurbs. I’m in and out of that library in minutes. … Continue reading Girl Missing by Tess Gerritsen →
“Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.” It all began three years ago. Futzing around on Tumblr (as one does), I happened across a teaser/conceptual trailer from the Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon. Familiar as I was with their work from their very enjoyable first film The Secret of Kells, I gave it a … Continue reading Guest Squee: Song of the Sea →
I am a woman of eclectic genre reading habits, and wander far afield in the fertile lands of literary licentiousness. I am especially a fantasy and sci/fi junkie. However, I love it with all my heart when the sci/fi or fantasy novel I am reading adds at least a dollop of romance in its pages. Not some two-dimensional rumpy-pumpy between a fuck puppet and the hero or some bullshit like that, either. Make it good … Continue reading Guest Squee: Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey, reviewed by Betty Fokker →
When Sarah mentioned k-dramas and the guest squee on Healer, my heart seized up for a brief moment. Ya’ll, there was a period of time where I lived for k-dramas, and just Asian dramas in general. This was pre-Netflix boom, so binge watching them was hard, though there were a few helpful sites for those wanting to watch and who didn’t speak the language. Some series I loved so much that I actually bought them. … Continue reading So You Wanna Watch Some K-Dramas? →
Tara contacted me because she had Many Wonderful Things to say about Healer, a Korean drama she fell in absolute squee-love with. Read on to learn more! Hi, this is TaraR, and I’m a pretty regular lurker at the website. I also absolutely love the podcast. I don’t usually do this, but having finished watching my very first Korean drama series, I just had to rave about it to a romance fan, because I know … Continue reading Guest Squee: Healer, a Korean TV Drama →
