Here’s how we’re wrapping up our reading this November: Elyse: I’m reading Christmas Eve Love Story by Ginny Baird. It’s a holiday romance where the heroine keeps reliving Christmas Eve over again ala Groundhog’s Day. She also has a senior cat she’s fostering so I love her character Sarah: I am re-reading Call of Crows, and I’m very happy about it. I also started with my favorite, book 2. Yes I am a monster. Shana: … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? November 2024, Part Two →

Happy Saturday and welcome back to Whatcha Reading! Here’s how we’re wrapping up October: Lara: To quote my psychiatrist, ‘pregnancy is a potent and unique stressor’ so I’ve temporarily abandoned my ARCs and I’ve started a reread of Murderbot. Ten out of ten! Shana: There’s no better comfort than a Murderbot reread. I just finished a m/m Beauty and the Beast retelling, Briarley by Aster Glenn Gray, where the father who finds the cursed castle … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? October 2024, Part Two →

Welcome back to Whatcha Reading! Here’s how we’re kicking off October: Elyse: I am reading The Black Hunger which reminds me a lot of a Call of Cuthulu adventure. It’s set partially in India and Tibet during the early 1900s so TW: for colonialism. The books is this bananas supernatural adventure that takes us from Tibet to the Orkney Islands to Ukraine, and there are death cults, hungry ghosts and cannibals. Also the end of … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? October 2024, Part One →

Happy Saturday! We’re wrapping up September with our second Whatcha Reading of the  month. Here’s how we’re capping off our own TBR piles this week: … Shana: I just finished the perfect low-stress read, Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue by Cat Sebastian. It had all the cozy queer midcentury vibes! I’m also reading Maya’s Laws of Love by Alina Khawaja where the main couple meet on a ill-fated flight to the heroine’s wedding. … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? September 2024, Part Two →

Happy Saturday! Here’s how we’re closing out August: Tara: I am on vacation, so I’m in the middle of my annual reread of The Carlisle Series (Truth and Measure, Above All Things) by Roslyn Sinclair. Sarah: If you had to drop everything and give a 15 min presentation could you on the fly talk about this series and convince folks to read it? I bet yes. Tara: Oh, one HUNDRED percent. Not a question. I … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? August 2024, Part Two →

Happy Saturday and welcome to Whatcha Reading! Here’s how we’ve been kicking of August: Lara: I’m finally reading new-to-me books again! I read the truly bonkers Dark Restraint by Katee Robert and now I’m wading through A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire. I thought this one would have more bite to it than the others in the series, but we’ve lapsed into tweeness, alas. It had such promise as the vampire succubus is an … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? August 2024, Part One →

Here’s how we’re wrapping up our reading this July: Shana: I just finished All the Right Notes by Dominic Lim and I adored it. It’s a beautiful gay romance about a pianist who reconnects with his first love. I almost cried when it ended because I didn’t want it to be over. Elyse: I have been struggling hard with anxiety over the election and general state of the world. When my brain gets overwhelmed I … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? July 2024, Part Two →

Happy Saturday! Here’s what the SBTB crew has been reading lately: Shana: I just finished A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C Higgins. It perfectly captured the sapphic need to talk about your newly discovered infatuation with absolutely everyone in your life before you tell the girl you like her. Annoying? Yes. Eerily accurate? Also yes. Sarah: I am not quite back at reading capacity but pre COVID I read Love of my Afterlife … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? July 2024, Part One →

Happy June, everyone! We’re quickly entering “beach reading” season in the States. Here’s what we’re digging into at the beginning of this month: Lara: I’m having a bit of a tumultuous time of it, so I am comfort reading GA Aiken’s Dragon Kin series. It’s compulsive reading! Elyse: I just gave up on The Shadows Between Us. It’s a YA fantasy with a villainous heroine, but it just wasn’t working for me Sarah: I’m reading … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? June 2024, Part One →