Trials of the TBR

Join us this season for some fun monthly book themes! This episode we talk a little about each month and what it brings along with our first book of season three. Happy New Year!

Join us for our last episode of 2022, where we discuss The Matzah Ball and A Merry Little Meet Cute. We also discuss gift ideas, and the world cup! Don't forget to let us know any of your TBRs you'd like read!

This week we discuss our second Native American book pick with Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves. This dystopian book takes us into the near future where dreaming has stopped and the indigenous groups are being targeted for their ability to continue dreaming. We also discuss our upcoming (and last) picks of the year, a few gift ideas, and just overall life things. Don't forget to let us know your thoughts on The Marrow Thieves!

This week we discuss Sarah Pearse's The Sanatorium, just in time for spooky season. Travel to the Swiss Alps during a storm with us to discover what is going on and why people are disappearing. We discuss what we enjoyed, things we would do differently while reading and even some previous tie ins from last season. What are your thoughts on this book? let us know on Instagram!

  We end our Hispanic Heritage Month reads this week with Silvia Moreno-Garcia's noir thriller Velvet Was the Night. Set in 1970s Mexico, this historical noir follows two unlikely anti-heroes in parallel trajectories as they search for the same missing woman for their own reasons. Let us know your thoughts on the book and keep us posted on your reading journey :) Happy Reading!

This week we kicked off Hispanic Heritage Month with a romance! Ramon and Julieta will transport you to current day Barrio Logan in California, with ties to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Alana Quintana Albertson transformed a classic into her own unique piece to bring light to some current issues places are dealing with, post covid. Drop a comment on our Instagram to let us ko your thoughts on this one!

It's Banned Book Week everyone!! Join us as we kick off American Library Association's Banned Book Week (Sept. 18th to the 24th), which celebrates the freedom to read. Held during the last week of September each year, this week shows the value of free and open access to information and this year's theme is "Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us." 

Our banned/frequently challenged book pick for this week is Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo. 

This week we jump right in to our book of choice, Lyndsay Faye's "King of Infinite Space". Join us as we discuss our favorite and least favorite characters, personal ratings and feelings.  Also, catch the next book we will be reading.  What are your thoughts on the book?

Our first book of the new season! We are kicking things off this season with our "Back to School" theme and diving right into Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Well known, well loved, and most groan inducing for students everywhere, we'll be talking about our favorite scenes, quotes, and what we liked and didn't like about this tale where danger is everywhere and no one is safe.