We have a book for our first quarter Smart Podcast Book Club! As I said back in January, I asked the Patreon community to suggest titles, and this one smacked me right between the eyes. This recommendation is pretty tough to resist. I mean, read this: “Sci-fi romance recommendations are often being requested across the Bitchery and this is my absolute favourite series in that genre by one of my all time favourite authors (Lindsay Buroker … Continue reading Smart Podcast Book Club Pick: Mercenary Instinct by Ruby Lionsdrake→
We’re starting a new quarterly feature for the podcast and I’m very excited about it! We are going to do a quarterly book club – the Smart Podcast Trashy BookClub – wherein we here at Bitchery HQ will read the same book, and then record an episode discussing it. Woo hoo! As with every podcast episode, there will be a transcript so you can read along if you like. (Thanks, Garlic Knitter!) And here’s the funner … Continue reading Smart Podcast Trashy BookClub – Wanna Tell Us What to Read?→
Happy Wednesday! I have a healing tattoo of my cat in space and supposedly Boston is getting its first snow this week. I’m not ready and sincerely hope that doesn’t happen. If you’re in the Midwest, I know you already have snow and I’m deeply sorry. … The so-bad-it’s-good movie, Jupiter Ascending, is being remade as a ballet! You have my attention. And if you missed it, check out RHG and Carrie’s joint review of the … Continue reading Links: A Book Club, a Ballet, & an Excerpt→
It’s our first book club selection of the new year and we’ve picked Death Below Stairs by Jennifer Ashley! If you like historical fiction, historical romances, or historical mysteries, I think you’ll find a lot to enjoy in this book. Here’s the description: Victorian class lines are crossed when cook Kat Holloway is drawn into a murder that reaches all the way to the throne. Highly sought-after young cook Kat Holloway takes a position in a Mayfair … Continue reading Book Club January Selection: Death Below Stairs by Jennifer Ashley→
by SB Sarah · Oct 25, 2017 at 11:45 am · Comments Off on Book Club Chat: With This Curse by Amanda DeWees
It’s time, it’s time! Get your finest diaphanous nightgown, a candle, some time, and your laptop or computer, and join us for our discussion of With This Curse by Amanda DeWees! The window below will go live at 8pm ET, and Amanda DeWees will be joining us for a Q&A at 9:00pm ET. How cool is that? VERY COLD because THE FLOORS of our HAUNTED creepy MANSION are very cold so wear slippers. And possibly a … Continue reading Book Club Chat: With This Curse by Amanda DeWees→
We’ve selected With This Curse by Amanda DeWees for our October read for the SBTB book club. Our official selection post has some more information on the book, including Elyse’s thoughts on why it’s a great Gothic pick for the month of October. Our chat will occur on Wednesday, October 25 from 8:00pm – 9:30pm EDT. That afternoon, we’ll post the chat link on the site and it will go live around 8:00pm. Sarah will lead a discussion of … Continue reading October Book Club Announcement→
October is my favorite time of year. I love the perfect fall weather, the appearance of pumpkin/ apple spiced everything, and I totally love all the spooky stuff associated with Halloween. That’s why for this month’s book club, I recommended that we try a Gothic romance. So for October, we’ll be reading With This Curse by Amanda DeWees. I cut my teeth on Gothics written by Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney before I ever picked up … Continue reading Book Club October Selection: With This Curse by Amanda DeWees→
We know many of you are excited to discuss this month’s book club selection: Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai! You can read our official selection post here to catch up. Our chat will occur on Wednesday, August 30 from 8:00pm – 9:30pm. That afternoon, we’ll post the chat link on the site and it will go live around 8:00pm. If you’re new to the chats, Sarah will lead a discussion of the book and then Alisha … Continue reading August Book Club Chat Announcement!→
And now, for some utterly not surprising news: our August Smart Bitches Book Club selection is Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai! We oohed and aahed over the series’ covers and Redheadedgirl gave the book an A grade, recommending a big glass of wine or a rich pint of ice cream to pair with your reading experience. In fact, describing the book sounds like I’m describing some really tempting wine: it’s sexy and emotionally complex, with nearly … Continue reading Book Club August Selection: Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai→
It’s time for our every-other-month Smart Bitches Book Club selection! This month, we were craving some fantasy romance, and we picked a much-recommended and much-loved title, and I cannot wait to talk about it with you. Our June selection: Radiance by Grace Draven! If you haven’t read this book before, I hope you’ll give it a try. For me, it was an ideal blend of fantasy and romance, with a friends-to-lovers plot between two characters I … Continue reading Book Club June Selection: Radiance by Grace Draven→
It’s time for our Book Club discussion! Yay! Tonight at 8:30pm ET, the window below will go live with a text-based chat, and we’ll be there, beverages in hand, ready to discuss To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. If you’ve participated in the book chats we’ve hosted before, the format is the same: I ask nosy questions, I concoct silly polls, and we chat about the book for about an hour. I hope you’ll join … Continue reading Smart Bitches Book Club Chat: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han→
