Books, Booze and Brunch

A bookclub book! Specifically a novella, and it's the sort of space scifi mystery type story that I'm so glad is the length that it ...

A book that made me realize how much a story set in the 2000s really is a period piece now. Which is fine! It's nice to know that I'...

Time for some vacation reads at a house in the woods! The first one is this extremely classic gay romance about a guy named Will who fled hi...

This is a perfectly adequate Christmas romance novella in which two retired hockey players end up in a bit of a Canadian shack situation and...

Set in the dying days of World War I, two former public school boy friends find each other again while convalescing from the front. One has ...

The last of my GGK rereads before I finally read his most recent two novels! This book is such a curious one - it takes place only fifty yea...

This is a gay romance novel that spans multiple decades and follows the romance of a soviet spy and an American spy who are partnered to sol...

Final book club book of the year! A lovely little novella about a future version of California that has split off from the U.S., and the foo...

A book club book! We've got dark oxbridge academia, we've got Dante, we've got two protagonists with Secrets and a Past, we'...

Note: I know the author socially I am fairly certain that I read about half of this book when it first came out, put it aside with the inten...

I read this after watching all of the show, and while I was very happy I did purely from a desire to see how books are adapted into televisi...

A story in a genre that already feels like a classic, even though it's really only been a thing for about twenty years at this point. We...

A book club book! This is one of those books where I get what it's doing, and it's interesting enough, but it didn't quite pull ...

A book club book! This is a sci-fi space allegory about castes and what we tell ourselves when we create processes to lift up those who have...

This was recommended by someone I follow on bluesky, and at first glance it looked like a standard (and delightful!) m/m regency romance nov...

A book club book! This is a charming fable that felt like it was an old fairy tale that I had somehow never heard of before. There's a r...

A book club book! Although I've read it well in advance for once.  I think I may have gone into this book with expectations that were to...

One of my best friends got married a few months ago, and she gave a selection of books to each person in her bridal party based on their tas...

The sequel to The Mimicking of Known Successes , this book picks up where that one left off, with our intrepid duo stumbling on a new myster...

So I put a hold on this book in the library when I read the following quote from it: "There's no instruction manual for falling in ...