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Not going to make my reading goal this year. I'm reading so much less when I'm studying. A bit of a bummer but here we are #ReadingChallenge #ReadingBooks #Reading

Ready for a new week? Butch/Femme Fiction suggestions for the I Heart SapphFic featured reading challenge category for the week of 12/15/25: Holiday Romance.
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Book covers for the I Heart SapphFic reading challenge category for the week of 12/15/25 on a shoreline/distant horizon background: Holiday Romance.

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My best friend and I are constantly arguing about which sauce should go on a bacon sandwich - I’m with brown sauce and she is wrong - so I bought us both a copy of this book, and my copy has finally worked its way to the top of my to be read pile!

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The cover of my copy of Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A Breakfast Odyssey by Felicity Cloake

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Enjoy Your Stay at the Shamrock Motel by Andrew Kaufman (Coach House Books): https://chbooks.com/Books/E/Enjoy-Your-Stay-at-the-Shamrock-Motel & The Language of the Stars by Nathan Hellner-Mestelman (Linda Leith Publishing): https://www.lindaleith.com/en/Pages/bookDetail/The_Language_of_the_Stars See alt-text.

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Book cover for Enjoy Your Stay at the Shamrock Motel by Andrew Kaufman (Coach House Books): Fair warning: no one spends the night, or even an hour at the Shamrock without experiencing some form of transformation. Whether it’s accidentally sleeping with a bear, turning yourself into a river, or getting entirely too intimate with the sun, time spent at the Shamrock will make you wiser, stronger, sexier, and more yourself. Even if that’s the last thing you want. These linked stories explore the intersection of personality and desire, love and lust, the joy and sadness of being alive and in love. Heated pool, cable TV, and a shot at redemption: the Shamrock Motel offers it all. https://chbooks.com/Books/E/Enjoy-Your-Stay-at-the-Shamrock-Motel

Book cover for The Language of the Stars: The Scientific Story of a Few Billion Years in a Few Hundred Pages by Nathan Hellner-Mestelman (Linda Leith Publishing): Ever wondered what atoms, cells, people, refrigerators, the universe, and beer have in common? Nathan Hellner-Mestelman takes us right back to the Big Bang, then hurls us through cosmic history as we discover how to swirl up galaxies, solar systems, and eventually life. From molecules to modern society, this book will take you through every reason we're alive in this universe coupled with every cosmic force trying to kill us. In this quirky medley of science and speculation, we'll cover every common thread weaving across our cosmos. https://www.lindaleith.com/en/Pages/bookDetail/The_Language_of_the_Stars

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Immortal Woman by Su Chang (House of Anansi): https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-immortal-woman & The Road Between Us by Bindu Suresh (Assembly Press): https://assemblypress.ca/shop/road-between-us See alt-text.

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Book cover for The Road Between Us by Bindu Suresh (Assembly Press): Estela, a lawyer, struggles professionally after a deep childhood loss and an ill-advised undergraduate dalliance. Ash is a diplomat posted to Buenos Aires and Beijing who wants what he can’t have. Ophélie, a nurse, makes a grievous medical error that alters the course of her life. And Roman is an academic whose careless sexual escapades after a painful divorce lead to even more painful consequences. Tense, poetic, and as binge-worthy as a miniseries, The Road Between Us explores why we make the decisions we do, and how those decisions affect the people we love. https://assemblypress.ca/shop/road-between-us

Book cover for The Immortal Woman by Su Chang (House of Anansi): Lemei, once a student Red Guard leader in 1960s Shanghai and a journalist at a state newspaper, was involved in a brutal act of violence during the Tiananmen Square protests and lost all hope for her country. Her daughter, Lin, is a student at an American university on a mission to become a true Westerner. She tirelessly erases her birth identity, abandons her Chinese suitor, and pursues a white lover, all the while haunted by the scars of her upbringing. Following China’s meteoric rise, Lemei is slowly dragged into a nationalistic perspective that stuns Lin. Their final confrontation results in tragic consequences, but ultimately, offers hope for a better future. By turns wry and lyrical, The Immortal Woman reminds us to hold tight to our humanity at any cost. https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-immortal-woman

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Cover of "Smalltown Novella" by Ronald Schernikau; The pic on the cover is a black and white photograph of the author, a stylish looking young man with a sharp face, neat eyebrows, a thin moustache, long hair. He holds his slender hand elegantly in front of his mouth and looks directly at the camera with intense, expressive eyes.

Ready for a new week? Butch/Femme Fiction suggestions for the I Heart SapphFic featured reading challenge category for the week of 12/08/25: Second Chance.
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Book covers for the I Heart SapphFic reading challenge category for the week of 12/08/25 on a shoreline/distant horizon background: Second Chance.

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Perfect Little Angels by Vincent Anioke (Arsenal Pulp): https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/P/Perfect-Little-Angels & Barbara Joan Scott's debut novel, The Taste of Hunger (Freehand Books): https://freehand-books.com/product/the-taste-of-hunger/ See alt-text.

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Book cover for Barbara Joan Scott's debut novel, The Taste of Hunger (Freehand Books): In Saskatchewan in the late 1920s, a fifteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant named Olena is forced into marriage with Taras, a man twice her age, who wants her even though she has refused him. Stuck in a hardscrabble life with a husband she despises, starved for a life of her own choosing, at every turn Olena rebels agains her husband and her fate. As Olena and Taras drag everyone around them into the maelstrom that is their marriage, they set off a chain of turbulent events whose aftershocks reverberate through generations. https://freehand-books.com/product/the-taste-of-hunger/

Book cover for Perfect Little Angels by Vincent Anioke (Arsenal Pulp), which was a finalist for the Writers' Trust of Canada’s 2024 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers. In a boarding school, tensions brew between students and vengeful staff. An addict seeks a fresh start in pottery class. A man returns home from university abroad with confessions that unravel his mother's world. Amid winter storms, a ghost delights her grief-stricken partner. And atop a hill surrounded by rot and garbage, two lovers dare to embark on a secret, dangerous romance. Human desires - for connection, salvation, and understanding - imbue these deeply Nigerian stories with universal resonance. https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/P/Perfect-Little-Angels

The cover of Duncton Wood by William Horwood.
The Duncton Chronicles I

Moving on to the next book for this year, and it’s something a bit different. I have quite a few books on my shelves already where Grant Morrison is the author, but they are all graphic novels, unlike this traditional novel. I’m only a chapter into the story and I’m already buying copies for some of my nearest and dearest to go in their Chrimbo stockings

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The cover of my copy of Luda by Grant Morrison

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Count On Me by Ann Cavlovic (Guernica Editions): https://guernicaeditions.com/products/count-on-me & Supergiants by Kyle Flemmer (Wolsak & Wynn): https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/supergiants See alt-text.

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Book cover for the collection Supergiants by Kyle Flemmer (Wolsak & Wynn): For millennia humanity has looked upwards and traced stories in the night sky, projecting our human wants and desires outward. In Supergiants, Kyle Flemmer turns his gaze in the other direction. What does our reach for the stars say about us? Working with the technical language of engineering and astrophysics, Flemmer reorients the reader within our galaxy. https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/supergiants

$Book cover for the novel Count On Me by Ann Cavlovic (Guernica Editions): Count on Me exposes how a family can fracture when aging parents grow frail and debts from the past resurface. Tia is raising a baby when her older brother Tristan gradually takes over their ailing parents’ bank account, house, and medical decisions. Through a web of complex family dynamics, Tia uncovers the disaster left by Tristan’s meddling in their parents’ lives. As Tia tries to set things straight, she confronts how money and love were entangled in her family, and whether her own mothering now goes to opposite extremes. Told in an intelligent and hopeful voice, this is a story about sibling rivalry, elder abuse, how life can become transactional, and how we come to feel entitled to someone else’s money. https://guernicaeditions.com/products/count-on-me$

2026 #Audiobook Challenge: Signups

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Sign Up for the 2026 Speccy Fiction Challenge https://bookdout.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/sign-up-for-the-2026-speccy-fiction-challenge/ ##SpeccyFicChal, #BookReview, #Books, #Fantasy, #Fiction, #Horror, #Reading, #ReadingChallenge, #Sci-Fi, #ScienceFiction

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Twentysomething by Megan Williams. Releasing today! (Bullshit Lit): https://www.bullshitlit.com/shop/p/twentysomething & The Great & the Small by A.T. Balsara (Common Deer Press): https://www.commondeerpress.com/books-1/the-great-and-the-small See alt-text.

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Book cover for Twentysomething: poems by megan williams. A collection of poems by Megan Williams. Releasing on December 5, 2025. (Bullshit Lit‬): “there is no living poet that does soft, tender sentences as sharply edged with gutting vulnerability as she does.”-Kirsti MacKenzie https://www.bullshitlit.com/shop/p/twentysomething

Book cover for The Great & the Small by A.T. Balsara (Common Deer Press). Ananda is a troubled teen who feels like a misfit at home and at her new school, and her unusual ability to connect with animals makes her feel like even more of an outsider. Fin is a Tunnel rat who lives in the passages beneath the city, in the dark places humans overlook or despise. Orphaned as a pup, he is the nephew of the Tunnel's charismatic leader, the Beloved Chairman, and is willing to do anything to please his uncle, including becoming his lead henchman. The worlds of humans and rats suddenly collide when Ananda protects Fin during a chance encounter. As the Chairman launches a plague war against the humans, both Fin and Ananda wrestle with secrets so terrible that they threaten their very existence. https://www.commondeerpress.com/books-1/the-great-and-the-small

Sophia Rose’s 2025 Reading Challenges Update: November

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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Core of the Sun by the queen of Finnish weird Johanna Sinisalo, translated by Lola Rogers (Grove Atlantic imprint Black Cat): https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-core-of-the-sun/ & Taiwanese speculative novel The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei, translated from the Chinese by Ari Larissa Heinrich (Columbia University Press): https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-membranes/9780231195713/ See alt-text.

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Book cover for Taiwanese speculative novel The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei, translated from the Chinese by Ari Larissa Heinrich (Columbia University Press): It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor. Momo prefers to keep to herself, and anyway she’s too busy for other relationships: her clients include some of the city’s best-known media personalities. But after meeting her estranged mother, she begins to explore her true identity, a journey that leads to questioning the bounds of gender, memory, self, and reality. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-membranes/9780231195713/

Book cover for The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo, translated by Lola Rogers (Grove Atlantic imprint Black Cat): From the queen of “Finnish weird,” a captivating and witty speculative satire of a Handmaid’s Tale-esque welfare state where women are either breeders or outcasts, addicts chase the elusive high of super-hot chili peppers, and one woman is searching for her missing sister. https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-core-of-the-sun/

Bonus daily(ish) #SmallPress #books post! Because I got this by email today: Buy 1 Assembly title from https://assemblypress.ca/shop and they’ll throw in 1 free Brick title; buy 1 Brick title from https://www.brickbooks.ca and you’ll receive 1 free Assembly title! Images stolen from the email, obvs.

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