Feature: Pride 2026 TBR & Giveaway June is here and so is our annual tradition of reading every queer book we can get our hands on, crying at fictional characters, and losing sleep over slow burns that took three hundred pages to pay off. This year’s Pride TBR is stacked […]
Guest Post: YA Books Featuring Music by Annie Cardi We always love welcoming authors to the blog, and today we’re excited to feature a special guest post from Annie Cardi, author of the powerful YA novel Red, a timely and emotional story centered on the #MeToo movement, faith, and the […]
Book Recommendations: Girls Who Don’t Stay Put You know how we all have a type? Well, I have many types but one of mine happens to be women in (historic-ish) academic settings and murder. It is not really about murder, though all three of these books have murder in them. […]
Book Recommendations: The Cost of the Bargain Two books landing this April from Page Street YA are doing something that goes past their gorgeous covers and their queer romances, though they have all of those things. The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams by Michelle Kulwicki releases April 21st and The Redwood […]
Feature: Fear Street, Then and Now: How The Prom Queen Found Its Way Back When a glossy new edition of Fear Street: The Prom Queen showed up from Simon & Schuster (TY!), I was transported right back to my teen years (ahem, that’s in the late 1900s for folks who […]
Book Recommendations: If Project Hail Mary Wrecked You, Read These Next Project Hail Mary is one of those books that sneaks up on you. It starts as a survival puzzle: Ryland Grace wakes up alone on a spacecraft with no memory of who he is or how he got there, […]
Book Recommendation: The Kiss Bet by Farrah Penn Most of us remember the specific, shaky brand of panic that comes with a first kiss. It is that universal rite of passage that stays vivid because it is usually some combination of hopeful, messy, and deeply awkward. This is the exact […]
Book Recommendation: Cursed Princess Club: A Most Unusual Princess by Michelle Knudsen Cursed Princess Club: A Most Unusual Princess by Michelle Nudson continues everything that made the Cursed Princess Club series so special for me in the first place. It is funny, heartfelt, and quietly radical in the way it […]
Book Recommendations: January Little Free Library Additions Every time I restock my Little Free Library, I tell myself I’m just putting out a few books. Sometimes there is a central theme and sometimes I am adding books with the kids that live in the neighborhood in mind. This month’s additions […]
Feature: Favorite Reads of 2025 Well it is that time of year, when readers share their favorite reads of the year, and even though both Christy and I haven’t read as much as we have in other years, we still want to share with you the books we enjoyed most! […]