Books, Booze and Brunch

This is more of a reference book than it is something that you typically read from cover to cover, but I got a lot out of it this December, ...

The final book club book of the year! Totally coincidentally, one of my other projects of the year has been to watch a whole bunch of John C...

A book I have owned forever! I genuinely have no memory of why I decided I needed to buy this, but it has the permanently affixed used book ...

Another book club book! A huge percentage of the books I managed to read this year have been book club books, but I've also enjoyed the ...

 A book club book! And one which surprised me a lot, largely in how much I loved it. This is the second book by Becky Chambers that I've...

 If you are looking for a lovely queer women historical novella, with a nice bit of mystery and magical realism, all set within San Francisc...

 Well! I can't exactly say why I didn't read a single book for over four months this year, but that's what happened. I finally s...

 A book club book! Another one of those where I managed to read the book but missed the actual book club, which is a shame because I think d...

 Listen, are you in the mood for a delightful gay regency romance between a widow who now runs the family printing press with her grown son,...

 This is a Tor novella that is part of a LGBTQ story anthology. I...liked it? Sort of? It's got a Hannibal-esque horror feeling to me, w...

 The second book in this duology! This one was also great, even if it didn't quite have the delight of Assembling the Gang in Six of Cro...

Boy I didn't really like this one either! This is a romance between two marines post-WWII, which should be exactly up my Band of Brother...

 Listen. If you're going to give me a gay romance with a title like A Boyfriend for Christmas, I'm going to expect a lot of Christma...

 Another gay romance! This one starts in England in the mid-18th century, and involves a stable master who gets caught having sex with a man...

 So I FINALLY read this duology and hey guess what: It's great!!! Honestly it is an ideal YA historical urban fantasy with found family ...

This is one of those books where you know everything from the title and the genre that you need to know. Does a m/m romance novel called Kid...

 The final book of the Queen's Thief series!! This one had a lot to live up to by following Thick as Thieves, which I (as predicted by e...

We started the new year with a book club book! A book club book about a nonbinary artist named Jebi who somehow finds themselves in the midd...

We made it to 2021! Allegedly, at least. Last year I succeeded in reading not quite as many books as I had intended to, but I still read mor...