3.5 Stars. My friend and I are doing a reading challenge this year and one of the challenges is to read a book with a cat on the cover. I thought it would be difficult to find a book that had a cat on the cover AND was one I wanted to read. Cats are great, I have one myself, but books with cat covers? Not usually my cup of tea. I can’t remember where I heard about Lost Cat, but it turned out this […]
Gay romance, burnt food, and examinations of masculinity
3.5 stars. I love a good M/M romance and have been trying to seek out more queer romances. This one looked delightful and it did not disappoint. What I didn’t know going into this book was that one of the characters is trans which means that this is officially my first trans romance! I really liked that Ginsberg being trans wasn’t the story, it was just one small part of the story. Former logger and all-around manly man Derrick inherited his parent’s B&B after they […]
Who tells your story?
When I bought tickets to Hamilton last October, I immediately put myself on Hamilton hiatus. I wanted to go into the musical fresh and be able to experience it without the official recording going through my head or being distracted by things I’d read or watched. Now that I’ve seen the musical, it’s time to gobble up all the Hamilton things. First on my list was Hamilton: The Revolution. Hamilton: The Revolution is basically the history of the musical from the very beginning to opening […]
The history of American spooks
3.5 stars. Learning about history via a tour of the most haunted places in America is not something I knew I wanted until I heard Liberty Hardy talking up Ghostland on a Book Riot podcast. Once I knew it existed, I had to get my hands on it. Colin Dickey travels the country learning more about the ghosts of America’s history. The ghosts take both him and the reader to some very random places and histories. From a house hunt in Los Angeles to “the […]