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The transcript for Podcast 491. Book Recs, Wishes, and Jokes: Farewell to 2021, and Wishes for 2022 has been posted! This podcast transcript was handcrafted with meticulous skill by Garlic Knitter. Many thanks. ❤ Click here to subscribe to The Podcast → View the full article
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The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics RECOMMENDED: The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite is $1.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal. Carrie read this one and gave it a B+: The book is evocative, interesting, and full of competence porn, fashion, art, and intelligent people saying intelligent things. Anyone who doesn’t mind a slow pace will love this. As Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover’s sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It isn’t until she finds a letter from the Countess of Moth, looking for someone to translate a groundbreaking …
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http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/TrackYourReading22-200x300.jpgIt’s sharing time! Over the past few years, we’ve shared different versions of this reading tracking spreadsheet and each year it’s been improved by one of you! And I’ve received so many email messages and requests for more options from readers who absolutely adore it. Like 2021, this past year has been a difficult one for reading for many people. Sometimes reading was all I wanted to do, and sometimes I struggled to get into a book. I still used my tracking spreadsheet, though, and adding new titles gave me a little boost every time. The value of keeping up with my reading tr…
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Welcome to Cover Awe, where we get to look at pretty covers! http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/51fmfokQ58L.jpeg Cover illustration by Christin Engelberth Amanda: I love the light and dark comparisons of their mounts! Thought I’d definitely be keeping an eye on that dagger/sword. I hope she’s throwing it up rather than it falling down. Maya: I LOVE the blue horse. And the composition does a lot of good work setting up the characters – one of the land, the other of the air, united by their love of throwing knives at each other. The best kind of bestie is the one that throws you a knife when you need it! Sneezy: This cover is so beautiful …
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All of these are part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals, so grab them while you can! I feel like Sundays always have a really good selection. Life’s Too Short Life’s Too Short by Abby Jimenez is $2.99! This is the third book in The Friend Zone series, which can all be read as standalones. This one came out in April 2021 and Elyse mentioned it in Hide Your Wallet. All of Jimenez’s books pack an emotional bunch, so be ye warned. A brilliant and touching romantic comedy from …
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B+ Bold Fortune by M.M. Crane December 28, 2021 · Berkley Contemporary Romance Quinn Fortune is the head of a land trust in Lost Lake, Alaska. On that land is an old gold mine. As a result, Quinn is inundated with people telling him what to do with the land. While he’s notoriously unwelcoming to Outsiders (i.e. any soul not from Lost Lake, Alaska) he is especially hostile towards those that want him to sell/change/adapt the land of which he is the custodian. Enter Violet Parrish, someone who is hellbo…
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We’re taking a break from our regularly scheduled bi-weekly bestsellers to bring you the bestsellers of 2021. These are determined by our affiliate sales data, which means these are the top books you all purchased through our site links last year. Thank you for all of your support! The Heiress Gets a Duke by Harper St. George Amazon | B&N | Kobo Gentleman Jim by Mimi Matthews Amazon | B&N | Kobo Ten Things I Hate About the Duke by Loretta Chase Amazon | B&N | Kobo Book of Love by Erin Satie Amazon | B&N | Kobo A Wi…
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http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/themes/smartbitches/images/posts/hide-your-wallet.jpg If you’re new to Hide Your Wallet, this is where we list new releases we’re pretty excited for in the coming month. Each reviewer has a book maximum (five per person), and we’ve separated HYW into two parts. The first HYW of the month will cover books that release from the 1st to the 14th. The second HYW will cover books released from the 15th to the end of the month. We also think this will help us feature books from smaller publishers who don’t have buy links up as early as the bigger trade houses. As always, if we missed any books that you’…
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http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/themes/smartbitches/images/posts/hide-your-wallet.jpg I believe this is new for our “Best Of” week, but I challenged each of our reviewers to pick their favorite book they read in 2021, whether they reviewed it or not. The book didn’t have to release in 2021, though. Some of them weren’t too happy they had to pick just one, though this place would be absolutely lawless if I didn’t make rules! Here are our favorites of the year! We’d also love to hear about your best read of 2021! The Heiress Gets a Duke Author: Harper St. Ge…
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A Heart of Blood and Ashes A Heart of Blood and Ashes by Milla Vane is $1.99! Romancelandia went nuts for this fantasy romance, though I will warn the environment and world is pretty bleak at times. We also had a great guest review for this one by Crystal Anne with an E. What do you think of the series? A generation past, the western realms were embroiled in endless war. Then the Destroyer came. From the blood and ashes he left behind, a tenuous alliance rose between the barbarian riders of Parsathe and the walled kingdoms of the south. That alliance is all that stand…
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We’re recapping all kinds of stuff this week, and today: our top five podcast episodes from 2021 with some honorable mentions! http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/themes/smartbitches/images/podcast/header_05c.jpg Looking at the year overall, these are the top five most listened to Smart Podcast, Trashy Books episodes of the year – and thank you to everyone who listened, recommended, shared, and posted about the show. Special thanks to all our Patreon community members, who helped shape this season and keep the show going each week! Honorable mentions 463. Women and Poison in History with Mikki Kendall (June 25) Today, we’re going to talk about food safe…
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Amanda and I are saying goodbye to 2021, and looking ahead to 2022! We talk about exciting things coming in January, including the 17th anniversary of Smart Bitches, plus we talk about books that got us through 2021. Super bonus: we’ve got messages from Tara, Catherine, Sneezy, and Martin who have book recs, wishes for the new year, and lots and lots of jokes. This episode is our New Year’s wish for you: stay safe and happiest new year to you wherever you are. Listen to the podcast → Read the transcript → Here are the books we discuss in this podcast: …
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The Menopause Manifesto RECOMMENDED: The Menopause Manifesto by Dr. Jen Gunter is $1.99! Thanks to everyone who let us know about this sale. Tara gave it an A: If your field of fucks is completely barren and you just want some straightforward, evidence-based information served with a healthy dose of snark and the occasional jab at pseudoscience and Gwyneth Paltrow, this will be the book for you. The internationally renowned, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Vagina Bible , Dr. Jen Gunter has been called the world’s most famous–and outspoken–gynec…
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http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Bestof2021-213x300.jpgNB: This week, we’re taking a look back at 2021. We’ve got a week of best-of posts to share, with reviews, cover snark, sales, and more. We hope you enjoy revisiting our archives, and most of all, we wish you and yours a wonderful holiday and a happy new year – with all the very best of reading. … We’re counting down the best of our 2021 reviews, which I’m sure you’re all curious about. Counting down from ten, these are the first five reviews in terms of page views. There are some familiar faces in this top ten when compared to last year. Let’s get into it! … A | BN5. The Lord of…
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http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Depositphotos_52671211_original-300x200.jpgHey everyone! It’s Wednesday! That means the week is half over; you got this! We’re in this weird time between Christmas and New Year’s that always throws me off. It’s like this seasonal purgatory and I don’t know why December shouldn’t end with Christmas. Get us off this ride! A slightly shorter links post this time, but all the links are silly and fun. I hope they bring you joy! See you all on the other side, lovelies! … What a discovery to make! And yes, there are pictures in the Twitter thread. … I grew up in a rural area and admittedly, watching a Fo…
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The Lord of Stariel RECOMMENDED: The Lord of Stariel by AJ Lancaster is FREE! Ellen gave it an A: I adored this book and I NEEDED to tell the Bitchery about it. This is a whimsical, fun, sweet fantasy mystery with wonderful characters and a healthy dollop of romance. The Lord of Stariel is dead. Long live the Lord of Stariel. Whoever that is. Everyone knows who the magical estate will choose for its next ruler. Or do they? Will it be the lord’s eldest son, who he despised? His favourite nephew, with the strongest magical land-sense? His scandalous daughter, who …
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http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Bestof2021-213x300.jpgNB: This week, we’re taking a look back at 2021. We’ve got a week of best-of posts to share, with reviews, cover snark, sales, and more. We hope you enjoy revisiting our archives, and most of all, we wish you and yours a wonderful holiday and a happy new year – with all the very best of reading. … We’re counting down the best of our 2021 reviews, which I’m sure you’re all curious about. Counting down from ten, these are the first five reviews in terms of page views. There are some familiar faces in this top ten when compared to last year. Let’s get into it! … A | BN | K | AB10.Bo…
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Wild Rain RECOMMENDED: Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins is $1.99! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals. Catherine wrote a Lightning Review for this one and gave it a B+: I enjoyed this story a lot. It contains many of the elements that feel like a traditional Western to me – scenes of blizzards and horse-breaking, confrontations in the local saloon, slick shysters from out East come to take advantage of the locals – but the central characters buck the stereotypes in numerous ways. The second novel in USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins’ compelling new Wome…
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http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Bestof2021-213x300.jpgNB: This week, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite and our most popular pieces of writing this year. We’ve got a week of best-of posts to share, with reviews, cover snark, and more. We hope you enjoy revisiting our archives, and most of all, we wish you and yours a wonderful holiday and a happy new year – with all the very best of reading. … This one is new to the Best Of roster! Since we feature other things outside of reviews like HaBOs, Rec Leagues, and general opinion pieces, we wanted to look at what y’all really engaged with the most. I kept out sale posts and our r…
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Circe Circe by Madeline Miller is $4.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and it’s being price matched. I know $4.99 is a little higher for books we feature on sale, but everyone and their mom has been loving Circe. I want to say that most of my book group has read it by now. Have you read it? Does it live up to the hype? In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child–not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers th…
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