- Episode 18: Second Annual Mysterious Galaxy Summer Bingo Throwdown Showdown one-on-one PvP Fights, Part III
The “fight” continues! In the third and final part of our second annual showdown, we (finally) find out who had the better reading experience during Mysterious Galaxy’s 2022 summer bingo. Smack was ahead at the halfway mark at the end of Part Two, but the only way to know who ultimately won is to listen! We also found out that Mysterious Galaxy has fifty (FIFTY) book prompts for a 2023 challenge in honor of their 30th birthday so we may be doing this…a lot.
- Episode 19: Break Me Gently
Smack and Gabi discuss their reading highlights since the summer, which included spooky Halloween reads and a couple of very excellent duologies. Some reads will be spun off into their own future bonus episodes, including a set of paranormal romances that were Smack’s “Green Creek” and a brick that is impossible to describe in brief. Gabi explains blorbos and poor little meow-meows, we sulk about novella marketing decisions, Smack breaks down the HarperCollins strike, and we tie everything off with a completely understandable meltdown about Our Flag Means Death, which is not a book but is nonetheless an excellent but tragically incomplete piece of media.
- Bonus Episode 4: The F***ing Hands
In this bonus episode, Smack goes on her own “Green Creek rant” (i.e., full of spoilers!) about the Elder Races series of paranormal romances by Thea Harrison. Despite occasional appealing features that kept her reading through four novels and four novellas she finally found the fortitude to DNF, but not before accumulating a host of thoughts and frustrations to share with the masses. May she be an inspiration to us all.
- Episode 20:
Infinite TBR 