Who’s gonna win??  It’s time for ITBR’s 2nd Annual Mysterious Galaxy Summer Bingo…thing!  Smack and Gabi go head-to-head to find out who had a better reading experience during our favorite bookstore’s summer bingo event by selecting titles at random and defending our own books until a champion for each pair (or a tie) is declared.  The one with the most champions at the end of…three or four??...episodes will win a steak prepared by the loser!!  Or they might, if either of us liked steak.  The books pitted against each other in this first episode are:

• Spell on Wheels Vol 1 by Kate Leth, Megan Levens (Illustrator), Marissa Louise (Colorist) v. Hardly Haunted by Jessie Sima
• Help! My Launch Plan Sucks (Help! I'm an Author Book 3) by Mal Cooper, Jill Cooper v. The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller
• Uncommon Charm by Emily Bergslien, Kat Weaver v. The Last Dragonslayer (The Last Dragonslayer #1) by Jasper Fforde
• Recognize Fascism edited by Crystal M. Huff v. Handbook for a Post-Roe America by Robin Marty
• Scales and Sensibility (Regency Dragons, #1) by Stephanie Burgis v. Basic Japanese Through Comics Part 1: Compilation of the First 24 Basic Japanese Columns from Mangajin Magazine by Mangajin Magazine, Ashizawa Kazuko (Illustrator)
• Earp & Chandra (Sundance #2.5) by C.P. Rider v. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen