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Dear Aunt Libra: Pride Edition

Darlings! You caught me in the middle of my preparations for our annual Pride salon. We’re having it at Sappho’s villa since there were far too many people to squeeze into Gertrude Stein’s tiny flat last year. Poor Alice B. Toklas practically had to practically juggle the canapes!  I have…
Aunt Libra
June 13, 2025
Miscellany

Let’s Hear It for Audiobooks. Literally.

We love a good page-turner, but sometimes life calls for a story you can listen to — during your commute, your daily walk, or while pretending to fold laundry. That’s where audiobooks come in: immersive, effortless, and endlessly bingeable. This week, we’re celebrating stories that sound as good as they…
BookTrib
June 19, 2025
Miscellany

These Books Deserve a Float in the Pride Parade!

Pride Month is here, book lovers, and we’re not holding back! From gothic castles to neon-lit spaceports, these sci-fi and fantasy reads put LGBTQ+ characters front and center — as heroes, heartbreakers, rebels and romantics. Whether you’re into haunted circuses, sentient AIs, or fire-wielding nuns on the run, this list…
BookTrib
June 12, 2025
Miscellany

The Secret Book Club Starter Kit

I’ve always loved book clubs. Not just because they keep us reading — and reading builds empathy while offering escape — but because of the incredible bonds that form when people share stories. Book clubs allow us to connect through characters, dive into each other’s perspectives, and ask the big…
Eliza Knight
June 2, 2025
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Coastal Noir: Santa Cruz as a Character

I was twenty-two the first time I saw the ocean. To my utter shock, I discovered that the Pacific was ice cold beneath the blazing sun and bobbing with blobs of tar leaking from oil pumps off the Santa Barbara shore. Still, it was undeniably beautiful, both in cold reality…
Victoria Helen Stone
June 3, 2025
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From Page-Turners to Scene-Stealers (And Yes, There’s a Giveaway)

Remember when certain books were considered “unfilmable”? Too sprawling, too strange, too interior? Same. Now they’re prestige television. We’re in an era where vibes are getting greenlit. Emotional devastation? Check. Stylized trauma? Gorgeous. Introspective character arcs with morally gray leads and no clean endings? Plug it into a streamer. So,…
BookTrib
May 15, 2025
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Grief Has No Timeline: Why Healing Cannot Be Rushed

Grief has no universal timetable. In my recently released novel, The Shape of What Remains, Tess finds herself stuck 10 years after the shocking death of her 6-year-old daughter. Modern culture in the United States is fast and slows down for no one. Although everyone experiences grief, whether it is…
Lisa C. Taylor
May 7, 2025
Miscellany

Saddle Up, Sweetheart! Cowboys, Curses and Calamity Await

Howdy, partner, Whether you're dreaming of a brooding ranch hand, haunted by your antique credenza, or just wondering why your bookish aunt is sipping Negronis with woodland creatures and Regency busybodies, we’re certain this week’s newsletter is wilder than a werewolf in Deadwood. So go ahead. Pour yourself a little…
BookTrib
May 29, 2025