Welcome back to Whatcha Reading! Here’s how we’re kicking off October:
Claudia : I’m reading A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by KJ Charles , after weeks of waiting for my library copy to drop. It’s book 2 of her new series and I’m glad to be back to the marsh (posh side) now.
Lara : I’m trying to get myself back on track with my reading challenge after a major diversion into Alice Coldbreath territory. So I’m reading a palate cleanser: the first book in the Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg series by Fred Vargas . ( A | BN | K | G ) It’s quirky and odd and utterly charming.
Sarah : I’ve been listening to The Belle of Belgrave Square , which is read by two narrators, something I don’t always enjoy but works very well in this case because the chapters switch POV between the heroine and the hero. I thought I’d downloaded it for a recent plane trip, and I was in midair when I noticed it hadn’t, and I was SO BUMMED not to be able to continue listening!
Claudia : I’d be curious about your thoughts on some of the resolution once you get to the end!
A | BN | K Kiki : I’m listening to A Fatal Thing Happened On the Way To The Forum by Emma Southon which is about murder in Ancient Rome and is interesting (even as someone who never thinks about the Roman Empire) and funny. I love when nonfiction authors are able to make their personality shine through the facts of something they’ve dedicated their life to studying and Southon is really good at that. She’s serious when it’s called for in talking about Rome as a slave state and snarky when comparing whiny men of old to whiny men of today.
Elyse : I’m reading Night of the Witch ( A | BN | K ) and I’m really enjoying it so far
Maya : I’m reading Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration by Tasseli McKay . ( A | BN | K ) I just did a panel with Tasseli about her book and she’s brilliant and wonderful. I’m also reading Creep by Myriam Gurba . ( A | BN | K ) I continue to adore how she writes!
Shana : That sounds so good, Maya! I just finished some delightfully improbable tentacle smut by Rianne Burnett. Now I’m reading The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian . I’m pretty confused, probably because I didn’t read the first book in the series.
A | BN | K Lara : Oh no, Shana! I read the first book in that series and I was still confused when reading the second because I’d forgotten the detail from the first. The two need to be read really close together, I find
Sneezy : I’ve restarted Moonrise by the Cliff
The art is beautiful and the story well done so far. When I tried to read it before, the story made me too anxious. Maybe I’ll need to circle back again, but so far I’m loving it
Susan : I accidentally fell into a Baldur’s Gate 3 pit but I’m dragging myself out to read volume two of I Want to Be a Wall ! It’s a lavendar marriage between a gay man and an asexual woman, and it manages to be both melancholy and so funny that my partner came to check on me because I was laughing so hard.
So, whatcha reading? Tell us in the comments!
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