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“To casual misogyny, may it kindly fuck off forever.”

Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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Plot: Ari has always been obsessed with weather. Now a grown meteorologist, she has a chance to work for her hero, who is unfortunately too busy fighting with her ex-husband and producer at the station, right in front of the entire office. After a particularly bad fight, Ari gets drunk with colleague from the sports section – Russell, and they hatch a plan to hook then up again, if only to get some peace at work. And if they make a friend in the process, […]

That’s a bingo!

The Ex-Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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4.5 stars Smart Bitches Summer Bingo: Pets (Steve Rogers Goldstein plays a fairly major role in the book) CBR16 Bingo: Dreams (Shay has dreamed about having her own show on public radio for over a decade) Shay Goldstein grew up loving radio. She and her now deceased father would listen to radio together and even have their own pretend radio shows, so she is very grateful for her job as a producer at a Seattle public radio station, and is very happy with what she […]

A romantic hero who is a spectacular loser in bed

Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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Plot: Chandler is a journalist moonlighting as a ghost writer for D list celebrities trying to cling to relevance and not even making enough money to afford a place to rent at market value, instead crashing at her cousin’s house. So here she is, at maybe not rock bottom but feeling pretty lousy and this guy who is nice and funny and clever and good looking appears out of nowhere for a night of fun. Only two problems: one, he’s leaving the next day, and […]

A lovely, sex-positive, sex-heavy but asexual friendly start to the year.

Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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A quite pleasing book to open the year on, although I am a bit sad it wasn’t five stars, since this was one of my five-star predictions from a several months ago. OH WELL. The sex lessons trope can be so good when done well, and it was done very very well here. Our main character is Chandler—a ghostwriter and former journalist who is still trying to find herself in her early thirties. She takes a ghostwriting job for an actor who is famous for […]

a thousand apologies and what feels like a thousand reviews (through November 2023)

Edinburgh by Alexander Chee

The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

Kindred by Octavia E Butler

Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Hinumegin er mars by Sólrun Michelsen

Trust by Hernan Diaz

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt

Happy Place by Emily Henry

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones

The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It by Owen Jones

In the Beginning was the Sea by Tomás González

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene

Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

The City & the City by China Miéville

A History of Burning by Janika Oza

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin

Passion Simple by Annie Ernaux

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Forget Me Not by Julie Soto

Hotel of Secrets by Diana Biller

The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain by Brett Christophers

The Late Mrs. Willoughby by Claudia Gray

Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon

A Tempest at Sea by Sherry Thomas

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

Rivals by Katherine McGee

Reign by Katherine McGee

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

The Iliad by Homer, Emily Wilson

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

10 Things that Never Happened by Alexis Hall

The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer

The Fraud by Zadie Smith

A Dangerous Kind of Lady by Mia Vincy

A Little Life by Hanya Yanighara

Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

The Starting Over Game by girl_with_kaleidoscope_eyes

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Edinburg by Alexander Chee CBR15: Sex True fact, when someone British asked me what I was reading I pronounced this “Edin-BERG” and to their credit they didn’t laugh but instead asked, with some horrified sincerity, if that’s how Americans say it. It’s not! At least, not on purpose. It’s just how can the English language claim to have been invented in a country that seems to not have grasped even a shred of understanding of how the various letters in it work? I digress. This is […]

Do you remember the 21st night of September?

See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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“See You Yesterday” by Rachel Lynn Solomon is a fun, original take on the classic “Groundhog Day” narrative. The story follows Barrett Bloom, a college freshman who’s looking for a fresh start after an intense high school experience. However, things take a wild turn when she finds herself trapped in a time loop on the first day of school. Together with Miles, a fellow time-loop victim, she sets out to find a way out of the loop while navigating the ups and downs of their […]



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