We’re nearing the end of January! Here’s what we’re reading lately:
Elyse: I just started Strike and Burn ( A | BN | K | AB ) and DNF’d after one chapter. 1. The hero is named Strike Madden. 2. The hero and heroine make out less than an hour after she sees her sister’s dead body in a morgue. 3. His parting words to her are “See you around this fucking world, Honor.”
Lara: I’m reading I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming. ( A | BN | K | AB ) The humour and I don’t mesh well but I’m really enjoying the twists and turns. I never know what’s going to happen next in this book.
Elyse: Update on Strike and Burn: they have sex in a room with a dead body
Claudia: I’ve just finished Earl Crush by Alexandra Vasti… ( A | BN | K | AB ) I’m not sure how I feel about it. There were fun moments, to be sure.
Sarah: I’m listening to the full cast audio of Sweep in Peace. ( A | BN | K | AB ) I think the single narrator versions, which aren’t abridged, are Audible only, but the full cast audio drama-style versions are on Hoopla.. I didn’t think I’d like the full cast versions but the first one was really fun to listen to. There are some benefits to having unique voices for the very over the top side characters.
Sneezy: I’ve recently started My Farm by the Palace. It’s cozy and low key unhinged.
Tara: Yesterday, I read the graphic novel I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner. Super lovely friends to lovers, trans regency romance. It’s pretty cozy, but also directly addresses the whole “but how did they get so rich, anyway?” of the time.
Susan: I am getting rid of approximately 200 books and finally reading the literary graphic novels my local comic book store keeps picking as book of the month, ask me anything @_@
Shana: I’m reading A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell. It’s a m/f historical romance with a trans hero. I love that it takes the traditional scientist/artist pairing and makes the woman the absentminded scientist.
Amanda: I’m reading a cheese shifter book called Why Cheese? ( A | BN | K | AB ) No, I will not elaborate further
Tara: Amanda, I read what you wrote WAY too quickly and wondered why you’d read Who Moved My Cheese?, and if anyone hasn’t listened to that episode of If Books Could Kill, I highly recommend it.
Whatcha reading to cap off January? Let us know in the comments!
