🥒✨Episode 31: Jars that press pickles they’re oddly satisfying!
Blood or pickles?
Stamping or tabbing?
Tears or trauma?
Do we still blot lipstick? 💄
We talk new book journaling ideas and evolutions, and seriously—what are YOU doing with your tabbies?!
This episode has all of it.
Kasie gives 3.5 stars ⭐⭐⭐½ to EMOLECIPATION by Dylan West (dylanwestauthor.com), who writes young adult science fiction and fantasy that is faith-based and is also a video game designer 🎮📖.
💔 A tear-jerker!
Rachel gives 4 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐ to The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali @marjankamali7 — a historical romance novel about two young lovers, Roya and Bahman, whose romance blossoms in a Tehran stationery shop in 1953, only to be tragically separated by a political coup.
😬 ARC talk!
Rachel gives 2 stars ⭐⭐ to The Determined Book by Rachel Rueckert @rachekrueckert.
Awesome cover. Let-down story. Not enough action!
🩸✨ Kasie reads Queer Little Nightmares and gives it 4 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐.
Queer Little Nightmares is a collection of fiction and poetry that takes classic monsters, flips the horror gaze, and says: what if the things we’re taught to fear are actually powerful, beautiful, and deeply queer?
Edited by David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli, this anthology is unsettling, lyrical, fierce, and absolutely not here to make you comfortable—and Kasie loved that for her.
Perfect for readers who like their horror thoughtful, their poetry sharp, and their monsters a little too relatable.
🩸✨ Trigger warnings!
📲 Follow the editors:
🖤 @divad.ly
🖤 @dzompare
🔍 Rachel reads Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica @marykubica.
Local Woman Missing is a suspense thriller about the disappearances of Shelby Tebow, Meredith Dickey, and Meredith’s daughter, Delilah, in a quiet suburb, with the mystery deepening when Delilah reappears eleven years later, leading to shocking revelations about the past and present.
Rachel gives it 3 stars ⭐⭐⭐.
🔥 Kasie reads a sci-fi sapphic graphic novel and absolutely loses it:
WELCOME BACK, HELP, I’M ALIVE!
4 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐ by Christopher Sebela.
Kasie is drooling over all the hotties in this one. GORGEOUS art. Fiery story.
📲 @xtophersebela @xtop
Also featured because chaos and vibes:
☕ @bookandbottle
💄 @rupaul - PLEASE add Queer Little Nightmares to your reading list!!
🥐☕Huge thank you to @chez.david.french.restaurant for letting us record our bookish podcast in your beautiful space—and for keeping our coffee cups very full. The delicious French food and pastries were absolute perfection. Perfect vibes, perfect pours. We’re so grateful! ☕✨
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