RECOMMENDED: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett is $1.99! Apologies if this is a leftover KDD from the weekend. We had a guest squee review of this one:
Chilling, packed with lore, and a slow burn, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett is the type of book I’ve been looking for. Their adventure from faerie field research to two professors running like hell from a faerie nightmare kept me on the edge of my seat.
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Welcome back to Cover Snack! Sarah: I know we don’t need to anthropomorphize bears any more than they already are, but in my mind, this bear is yelling ENOUUUUUUGH! Amanda: There’s something so comforting about the consistency of yelling bears and wolves on shifter covers. Sarah: I want to make a compilation video of some song with a lot of hollering and just show yelling bears and wolves from shifter covers. From Pam G: I … Continue reading Cover Snark: Moisturizing Is Important →
Welcome back to Get Rec’d! If you’re reading this, I’m currently in South Korea for the weekend to attend my brother’s wedding! It’s a whirlwind trip, but I wouldn’t miss this for the world. This time, we have a cozy fantasy novella, a couple non-fiction options, and a new romance anthology coming out in just a few days. Do you have any recommendations to pass along? Leave them in the comments!
Welcome back to Whatcha Reading! Here’s how we’re capping off the end of May 2024: Sarah: I am reading Love of my Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood , which is about a woman who does, meets her soul mate in the waiting room for the afterlife, and gets sent back to find him, with not a lot of clues and a time limit. It’s got a lot of pop culture (especially romance) references and is so … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? May 2024, Part Two →
Sweethand by N.G. Peltier is $2.99! This is book one in the Island Bites series. It was also recommended in the comments by Cleo for The Rec League: Chaotic, Wholesome Energy.
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In a review for Never Cross a Highlander, Shana came up with the ACAB scale, or the Alyssa Cole Anti-Slavery Book Scale, which ranks how central the horror of slavery is to the storyline. I asked her to tell me all about it, and Shana, kindly, said yes. Our conversation grows (of course) to include the field of narrative therapy and bibliotherapy, other evaluative rubrics for reading, and the subgenres, professions, settings we can, and … Continue reading 616. Reading Rubrics with Shana →
The Secret Service of Tea and Treason by India Holton is $1.99! This is book three in the Dangerous Damsels series. I reviewed the first book and found it a little too silly for my tastes, but it’s a good book for turning your brain off.
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If you like audiobooks and have some long summer travel ahead of you, we’ve put together a recommendation list with the help of the folks at Libro.fm: SBTB’s Summer Travel Audiobook Recs! We’ve got nonfiction, romance (of course) of many subgenres, plus science fiction, fantasy, YA, and mysteries. I particularly liked Marple, the anthology of twelve new mysteries about Miss Marple, all narrated by different experts like Adjoa Andoh, Alex Kingston, and Alison Steadman. But whatever you’re … Continue reading Summer Travel Audiobook Recs at Libro.fm! →
Hey, everyone! Welcome back to Wednesday Links! I joined the office softball league and our first game was up against a team who takes the game way too seriously, especially playing up against a group of people with a team where 80% of us have never played softball before. Oh well, we still had a fun time amongst our group! My partner was also recently diagnosed with Celiac Disease and we just found this great … Continue reading Links: Sailor Moon, Events & More →
RECOMMENDED: A Most Unusual Duke by Susanna Allen is $1.99! This is the second book in a series and it earned a Squee grade from Catherine:
You know how sometimes you pick up a book because it looks like fun, and then it turns out to be clever and funny and tender and tropey and still somehow unique, and you read it all in one sitting and hop straight onto the Kobo site after midnight to order the previous book in the series?
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