Books, Booze and Brunch

Well, sometimes you read a book for book club and every single person shows up and says that didn't work for me!!! and it's a good t...

I confess that this was almost a DNF for me, but I decided that I wanted to know how it would resolve badly enough to stick with it. Do I re...

Sometimes I can't tell if a book doesn't totally work for me or if I've just read it badly. I really liked the world of The Folk...

Look, sometimes you need to end March with a gay Christmas romance novel, okay? This one has a lot to recommend for it - it's got a bake...

This is almost a really sweet and satisfying Christmas romance novel before it kind of falls apart in the end, sadly. Margot and her girlfri...

As is probably obvious from the title of this Christmas romance novel, it's a take on It's a Wonderful Life. But instead of an actua...

Exes who reunite is one of my favorite romance novel tropes, and it pairs especially well with a Christmas romance, since it's so easy t...

This is a Christmas-themed novella set in the same universe as The Maid, and everything that I (despite my misgivings) ended up making my pe...

So about halfway through the second season of House of the Dragon, I decided that I really wanted to just read the 'history' that th...

Okay, look. If you're in the market for a hockey m/m romance novel to read on a porch while you're on vacation, this is perfectly se...

 A book club book! And one we all felt pretty ambivalent about, sadly. It’s very much what I think of as cozy sci-fi, in that while things a...

This book has been on my radar since it was published in 2019, but I only just now decided I was in the right headspace to read a book about...

So, this is a sequel! Something I did not realize when I started reading it. It's a Christmas-season set murder mystery at the English m...

A Christmas manor house murder mystery! The twist with this one is that it's a contemporary setting, and also that it's a game withi...

Sigh, another Christmas romance that's...fine, I guess? This is somehow the third fake dating storyline within the same series, where on...

I keep trying gay romances by this author, because they wrote a couple of romances I read a while ago that I remember liking a lot, and then...

Another catch up Christmas novel! This book should be right up my alley, and instead it's one that has a pretty interesting conceit that...

Yes, it is January and yes, I am still making my way through my Christmas books from 2023! This is a deeply mediocre romance novel about a w...

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...

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...