Books, Booze and Brunch

My third Christmas romance of 2022! This one was right in the middle of the pack - it was a novella, so it didn't suffer in the same way...

Okay, so the first Christmas romance I read this year was a novella, and then I picked up this one by the same author, and it's a novel,...

The first of my yearly gay Christmas romances! I enjoyed this one a lot, which is a tight little novella - frankly my preferred length for m...

I really enjoyed this novella!! It was such an interesting sci-fi space opera setup about a convent of nuns in a living spaceship traveling ...

The second book in the Rivers of London series! I liked this one, though not quite as much as the first one, which had the benefit of being ...

 Boy, this novella did not work for me. As is probably evident from the title, it's a story about Miranda from The Tempest living in Mil...

 A book club book! This is a fairly standard modern retelling/adaptation of a fairy tale, in this case Sleeping Beauty, in which the princes...

Another mystery! This is the second one in the series that started with Magpie Murders , which I enjoyed a lot. This one has a similar frami...

The next novella in the Wayward Children series! I am experiencing a bit of diminishing returns at this point with this series, unfortunatel...

There are times when I know that it's less that the books I'm reading aren't good, and it's more that I'm reading them b...

Another free Tor novella about humans and robots! This one fucked me up less regarding the pandemic, but did slightly fuck me up in terms of...

This was a free Tor download, and I've been meaning to read something by Scalzi for a while, so I thought sure! I'll give it a shot!...

Another portal fantasy! And another book I have owned for a very long time and kept waiting for the "right time" to read, for some...

After meaning to read the Rivers of London series for years, I have finally begun! Turns out it's good.  It's very interesting what ...

The third book in the Wayward Children series! This was the one that made me realize that the second book wasn't a standalone, but was i...

Another mystery, but this time a modern one! However, it's a modern one masquerading as a post-WWII one, all wrapped up in an enigma, yo...

Look, sometimes you just need to read a Christmas m/m romance novel right after Easter.  This one was...fine? The set up was great: a cute g...

My foray into classic English society mysteries continue! I was recommended this book at some point, by...someone (possibly my sister-in-law...

I have finally returned to Wayward Children series! And frankly, I probably should have reread Every Heart a Doorway before I picked up thi...

Another Christie mystery! This is the first one I've read after already seeing an adaptation of it. I watched the 2022 movie version of ...