Bloodlust & Bonnets | 
This week's #WednesdayTradition features Bloodlust & Bonnets by Emily McGovern and rum & raspberry orange juice.
#BookBathAndBeverage #GraphicNovels #LibraryLove
[ID: paperback library book next to a clear glass with orange liquid and ice cubes on a dark wood board over a tub filling with bubbles and water.]
"Gentlemen, I do hope you like honey, for I have a bee in my bonnet." Halloween Reading for Fictional Hangover October Book Club Challenge. Terror in the Haunted House: Read a book featuring a haunted house. It's a Magical Castle but hey that works. It's definitely going on my #forevershelf next to another Fall Favorite - Pumpkinheads. ??⚔??♂️?
#happyhalloweenathome
#fictionalhangover #fhbookclubchallenge
#hauntedhouse #fallfavorites
My wrap-up for September! My favorites for fiction have to be The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Bloodlust & Bonnets (the latter of which is hilarious and bloody and full of Lord Byron!); and for non-fiction, it‘s tied between Dear Church by Lenny Duncan and Shameless by Nadia Bolz-Weber. Both are super important reads for religious communities.
Oh, and I‘d highly recommend Intimations by Zadie Smith!
#septemberwrapup #bujo
pickThis graphic novel was amazing! Poking fun at some your favourite classic romances, B&B is funny, sweet, and just an all-round good time. The art just adds to the hilarity of the situations that the main characters find themselves in! What could be better than a trio of romantic figures fighting (or trying to fight) vampires? Very much enjoyed this one; I actually slowed down to savour it! #lgbtq
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First #bookreport of the year is pretty graphic novel heavy, but I did manage two nonfiction audiobooks while working from home.
Said nonfiction books tick off two boxes on my #readingwomenchallenge
For the rest - Bloodlust and Bonnets was an absolute delight, Bitter Root was a great new to me series, and the Firefly story was a good side story and made me all nostalgic for the show.
Have to give a think to my weekly forecast (coming later)
pickThis was utterly ridiculous, sometimes a little slow, but beautifully illustrated, and exactly what I needed to start off December. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
My #DecemberTBR is predominately ARCs. I also have a couple of in progress books I really want to finish (one I‘ll finish tonight) and my last book for my #MountTBR goal. This is, as usual, ridiculously unrealistic, but I‘m going to give it my best effort because I have a plan for 2020 and I‘d like a clean slate to start the new year. 🥳
Oh, and not pictured is my annual reread/listen of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Great library haul today! Also weirdly colour coordinated. #sunsettones
pickThis graphic novel personifies MADCAP in that it is both amusingly eccentric and full of eccentric, reckless characters... excellent banter, loose plot, rather fun 😂
Let‘s do this!!!
panAnother graphic novel e-arc that I received through netgally and this one was not for me it was just meh for me. I almost dnf this one but kept on reading it until the end I wish I had dnf it. I really didn‘t like this one at all.
pickIt starts as Lucy dispatches her suitor with his own cane, she‘s bored…she then carries on finishing off a crowd of vampires….she knew they were vampires didn‘t she?
She is approached by Lady Travesty who wants her to join her secret immortal vampire cult, she‘s ‘saved‘ just in time by Lord Byron…you know? From the books?
Brilliantly illustrated too
pickA goofy send-up of both the Regency and paranormal romance genres. McGovern takes a lot of potshots at genres tropes, to the point that the book is perhaps overstuffed to the detriment of the plot. It has a lot of the same energy and humor that Nimona brought to the table, tho this is not a YA graphic novel (some swearing and one nekkid succubus) - the creator also originated the “My Life as a Background Slytherin” webcomic.
so-soThis was pure silly Regency-era spoof fun and I was very much here for the deadpan ridiculousness of Lucy, Byron (yes that Byron, from books) and Sham bumbling their way through vampire-adjacent adventures. The plot definitely drags in the middle of the book though, and it often meanders without much logic or forward motion at all. Not unlike the Gothic literature it pokes fun at, but not always easy to stay engaged with. Pub date Sept 17 🧛♂️
so-soThis book was....ridiculous, but not necessarily in a good way? I liked the illustrations and the premise and the inclusiveness, but it was also ridiculous and annoying in parts. I finished this feeling relieved it was over, but also that it was cute.
