E24: I’M BATMAN

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