Books, Booze and Brunch

My final Christmas mystery of 2023! This one was pretty entertaining - it's an obvious riff on Murder on the Orient Express, only it...

Well, one of the best things I can say for this novella is that it was short, except that its main flaw was also its slightness. Two best fr...

The sequel to The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen, this book is just as delightful and captivating as the first one. The focus of this boo...

Man, I loved this book. Two men who have been sleeping together but don't know each other's real names at a pub in London part on ba...

Another Christmas mystery novella! This one is about a woman living in New York in 2019, who always spends Christmas alone, and rereads an o...

Next up on the Christmas-themed stories, the first mystery of the month! Apparently this is a sequel novella to a very popular full length m...

We have once again hit the time of year when I stop pretending there's any chance of me getting to Book Zero and finishing my To Be Read...

A book club book! This is a vampire-esque story set in modern England, only instead of them surviving on human blood, they eat--you guessed ...

So most years, in addition to however many new books I succeed in reading, I often reread a fair number of books. In the past I haven't ...

This is a lovely queer Beauty and the Beast retelling, in which the standard beauty's father ends up in the cursed house with the beast ...

Note: I know the author of this book socially.  Man, I knew going into this book that it was going to go in directions I wasn't expectin...

Note: I know the author of this book socially.  For some reason, after I read the first book I took months and months to pick up the second ...

As soon as I heard that there was another book written for adults by the author of The Binding , one of my favorite books that I read in 202...

This is a fairly standard speculative novella about a young woman in a village who needs to find her inner Joan of Arc to stand up to oppres...

A fantasy novella about a woman who keeps the border between our world and a version of the afterlife, and the man who comes to her and asks...

A novella! Another one in a collection from Tor that focuses on stories with LGBTQ themes.  This story focuses on twins Mokoya and Akeha, wh...

This is one of the books that's been in my TBR pile since before 2016! Glad I finally got to it.  There's a pull quote from Jane Yol...

Sometimes your reading plan gets completely derailed because a person you're on vacation with keeps reacting out loud to a book they...

A book club book! I hadn't read anything by this author before, and I really enjoyed this book a lot. It's set in early 20th century...

A lovely novella to read on a summer afternoon! There's not a lot of conflict in this gay regency romance, but sometimes that's just...