I Like to Beautifully Read

Explicit content warning

07/01/21 • 67 min

Sometimes you just need to get up at 5AM and beautifully read, ya know?
Vee recounts her experiences reading This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, a wonderfully crafted sapphic romance about post-human time travelling agents... need I say more?
And Jess gushes about the book that actually broke her reading slump: Beach Read by Emily Henry, a contemporary romance/romantic comedy (somebody tell me what the difference is) with quick banter and uncomfortably timed animal excretions.

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Jess & Vee (Incoherently) Discuss: Piranesi

It was bound to happen. Jess is finally out of her reading slump and dove straight into Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - which of course meant that we needed to sit down with some drinks and a pipe and chat about what we thought about this book.
We by no means covered even half of the theories or ideas that this book brings up, so if you have anything to add, hit us up on Twitter or Instagram! If you haven't even read this book, what are you doing? Go read it!
mouth noises sponsored by THC and olives

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I Read Ice Planet Barbarians and It's Worse Than You Think

cw: rape
In this month's role reversal, Jess reads a book of essays and Vee reads (really awful) alien smut!
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino is highly recommended book of personal essays exploring the ways that capitalism has ruined everything. Guest appearance by Foucault.
Ice Planet Barbarians: A Scifi Alien Romance by Ruby Dixon (not her real name) is... not recommended. In fact, it's atrocious and I suggest you forget it ever existed. It's a book about heteronormative assumptions and giving excuses for rape because it feels good.
Look, consent is sexy. That's it, that's all.