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Saturdays are when we round up all the sapphic book news from the previous week into one convenient location. Think of it as your personal queer reading directory! After all, we know the weekend is when so many of us are able to unwind for a minute and want to get lost in a good wlw book. What could be better?
Where in the heck is TB has returned
Now that TB & Miranda have recovered some from all their travel, it’s time to share some photos from their adventures. Below, you’ll find photos from their first stop, along with a book by Chelsea M. Cameron.
A bit about the first stop. Miranda visited the museum last summer and she purchased a t-shirt for herself and TB. If you look closely at the shirts, you’ll learn something about their friendship. One reads: I’m Lucy. The other reads: I’m Ethel. Before looking at the photos, can you guess who wore which shirt?
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Without further ado, let’s get to all the sapphic book news from this past week!
The allure of Venice keeps Artie Bryson happily buried in the past. Until the night Nikki Velvet’s sultry voice lures Artie into the Casino di Venezia cabaret. And the night after that…
The rumors about chemistry teacher Regan and her best friend Kylie are no longer just rumors!
Chemistry teacher Regan and her childhood best friend, Kylie, often got in trouble and had to visit the principal’s office when they were growing up. But this time, their trip to the principal’s office has a very different reason: they need to tell Regan’s boss that the gossip about them is no longer just rumors.
Radio technician Paula has a secret crush on the sexiest voice in LA
Paula, a technician at a radio station, has a big crush on radio show host Dr. Christine Graham. Every night, she vows to ask her out—only to chicken out every time.
But then Christine hosts a special show about revealing secret love on Valentine’s Day…
Christmas in Australia is such a strange phenomenon for those in the northern hemisphere.
The concept of searing heat, cricket on the sand, wrapping paper sticking to sweaty skin, and cold cuts of meat with salad for Christmas lunch and dinner, is unbelievably foreign for those used to snow, mulled wine, and beanies. Here is a snapshot of an Australian Christmas on one street in a Melbourne beachside suburb during the week leading up to December 25. Please enjoy this collection about the daily unexpected gifts that life delivers, but especially those we receive at Christmas.
High school best friends Sara and Sofia had always been inseparable, but neither of them knew that they were hiding a secret attraction. The girls lost touch after graduation, but thirty years later, they run into each other in a coffee shop, and it’s love at first sight. Or second sight, anyway.
Two women escaping their own demons. One stuck in the past, the other a very real present.
Lucy Owens’ life was irrevocably changed in a matter of seconds. Filled with guilt and pain, she keeps herself to herself, and for years, she manages to avoid immersing back into society until she meets Nicole Granger and her three small children. Haunted by her past and the physical abuse at the hands of the man she loved, Nicole and Lucy find an uneasy understanding that will ultimately set them both free.
Footloose Nora discovers the woman she’s fallen for is from a family battling a blood feud with Nora’s own proud Irish family. Oops? A fun, sexy, reformed-player lesbian romance.
Building bridges has a very different meaning for Jameson Reid than it does for Candace Fletcher.
J.D. Reid spends her days designing some of the most elegant and majestic buildings and homes in North America. U.S. Senator Candace Fletcher has spent her life working to build bridges between people. J.D. Reid is not who Candace Fletcher was expecting to arrive on her doorstep. Candace will challenge all of Jameson’s preconceptions about the women of Washington D.C. The enigmatic architect will test the resolve of the Junior Senator from New York. Two women will discover that falling in love may be out of their control, but creating a relationship in the world of politics and business is completely BY DESIGN.
Keeley thought Dove would never be interested in her, but she was very, very wrong.
They met at a party fourteen years ago when Keeley was very flirty, and Dove was very… straight. And now, oblivious to who the artist is, Dove is in Keeley’s tattoo studio getting the bisexual flag tattooed on her foot. But then Dove starts to feel a panic attack coming on and so she asks Keeley to climb on top of her, to be her human weighted blanket and help calm her down…
A lesbian billionaire romance with a suspense twist...
Penny is falling for the enigmatic, incredibly wealthy Carter Forbes. There’s just one problem: Carter is the woman who kidnapped her…Will her reasons make a difference?
Hot MILF Alex goes on a cruise with her 20-year-old girlfriend and the ocean's not the only thing that's getting super-wet!
Alex Master is going on a cruise! With her new girlfriend Melody, who just happens to be her daughter’s best friend and loves making Alex submit in super-kinky ways. Find out exactly how wet they’ll get on the ship and on every island they visit!
With Meryn’s youthful optimism pitted against Henrietta’s jaded acceptance of the world as it is, life will never be the same for either of them.
Henrietta Cochran has spent nearly forty years dealing with the effects of polio and putting up barriers to protect herself. Into her life sails Meryn Fleming: out, outspoken, and fiercely political. Neither is prepared for what follows when life throws them together.
When Trenton Smith wakes up from a coma to a life she doesn't remember, she has to retrace her life and rebuild relationships with the people that she was once close with.
First released on Kindle Vella
Will the journey prove too difficult to handle or will memories from the past lead her to a woman that once held her heart?
A Love that Transcends Time -- and Scones to Die For
Akachi of Asphodel is a twelfth-century knight of the Order of Sophia, whose home was destroyed by Crusaders. Crying out for help from the Goddess, she awakens to find herself in a strange new world of wonderous technology, unforeseen dangers, and a love that reaches across time and rewrites history.
Available through Kindle Unlimited
Have you read Does Love Always Win yet? Get it here!
TB loves exploring places near and far, so we’ve created a weekly game where TB goes on an adventure, snaps some photos, and then lets you guess her location.
On day one of their epic road trip from Massachusetts to Colorado, TB and Miranda stopped in Jamestown, New York to visit the Lucy and Desi museum. They brought along Marriage of Unconvenience by Chelsea M. Cameron.
To switch up things, we’re not going to ask you on the place where the writing duo visited, but the name of the TV show Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are most famous for. TB learned some facts about the show that blew her mind, considering how popular the show became. Then again, she shouldn’t have been so surprised because it’s an example of how prevalent racism has been in history.
Here are some clues about the TV show.
1. It premiered on October 15, 1951 on CBS.
2. When Lucille Ball suggested her real-life husband, Desi Arnaz, star as her husband in the show, CBS executives said no because they didn’t think television audiences would want to see an “all-American girl” married to a Cuban.
3. To convince CBS to reconsider, Ball and Arnaz put together a vaudeville show that was such a massive success that other networks looked to signing them, causing CBS finally to agree to having Arnaz in the show.
4. There ended up being 180 half-hour episodes over six seasons.
5. It became the most-watched show in the United States four of the six seasons it aired.
6. It’s considered one of the most influential sitcoms in history.
7. Many who know TB & Miranda, think they’re a lot like Lucy (TB) and Ethel (Miranda).
