Smack and Gabi cover a lot of ground, briefly recapping the (long-past) Book Crawl and highlighting recent reads.  Smack has mostly been indulging in romantic paranormal novels (mostly) set in the interwar period and has started quite a variety of books ranging from non-fiction writing research to the truly bizarre.  Gabi has been delighting in an excellent adventure romp with very fun character dynamics and great anxiety and grey-ace rep.  We also discuss a good middle-grade series that’s also sometimes jarringly sad, some great graphic novels, and a series we’ve both read that’s perfect for pandemics and vacations!

Book discussed in this episode include:

• Silence for the Dead by Simone St. James
• The Other Side of Midnight by Simone St. James
• An Inquiry Into Love and Death by Simone St. James
• The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
• Graceling Realm series by Kristin Cashore
• Bladesmith series by Tricia Levenseller
• The Witch Boy series by Molly Ostertag
• The Great Troll War (The Last Dragonslayer, #4) by Jasper Fforde
• The Lazy Girl’s Guide to Magic series by Helen Harper
• Let the Mountains Be My Grave by Francesca Tacchi
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• A Crown of Ivy and Glass by Claire Legrand
• Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede