Our first book for September’s prompt to Read a Book with an Animal in the Title is . We loved reading about this obsessive, codependent relationships between two girls in post-war France.  Content warnings: mentions of violence and sexual…

For our last book in August, Corinne picked . Content Warning: racism, abuse, alcoholism  Our next book discussion will be . You can find it at your local bookstore or library and read along with us. If you want to read along with The…

Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine follows several generations of a family in the Colorado area. Fair warning, we have some criticisms about this book’s writing, so if you loved it, you may want to skip this episode.  Content advisory:…

Or: A Fantastic Journey Across Seven Borders, five languages, And Three Major Religions, not counting the minor sects. Told by the DEAD, supplemented by the AUTHOR, drawing from a range of BOOKS, and aided by IMAGINATION, the which being the greatest…

July’s prompt for The Bookstore Challenge 2023 is to Read a Book Over 500 Pages, and/or a Graphic Novel. Our pick for the 500 pager is coming up later this month, but in the meantime, we have a graphic novel,  . Is it this…

This week we read Weetzie Bat and Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block (both can also be found in the anthologized book Dangerous Angels). These books were massively popular with off-beat teens in the 90s and have a huge following. Will they still manage…

Becca’s DNF book pick for June’s prompt is . The novel is Lahiri’s follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning story collection, The Interpreter of Maladies.  Our next book is actually two books, Weetzie Bat and Witch Baby by…

As chosen by our Patrons (plus Corinne), our extra book for May is . Gospodinov is Bulgarian, thus fulfilling the prompt to read a book by an author from a country you’ve never been to, as neither of us have been to Bulgaria. And as a…

Corinne’s pick for The Bookstore Challenge 2023 prompt to “read a book by an author from a country you’ve never been to” is . Kpomassie writes about his childhood in Togo and his fulfilled ambition to move to Greenland and experience life…

Becca’s pick for May’s prompt to read a book by an author from a country you’ve never been to is  (the country is Hungary). We are already fans of hers from reading her later novel Abigail, and we’re thrilled to read another classic Szabó…