Summer is thriller season (also: cheesy romance season, but given my habit of stockpiling thrillers and the scant handful of romance novels I actually own, we’ll have to go with thriller season). It’s the perfect time to revisit Veronica Mars in the comfort of your air-conditioned home, or pack a suspenseful read into your beach bag and try to figure out if the butler did it while you soak up some sun. This week’s NovelTEA features The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda, with a side of roasted eggplant dip, a practically perfect pairing:
This week is all about cupcakes I wish I was eating right now (and how you can make them). Here are my 5 favorite geeky cupcake recipes!
This week, something rare happened. I was in the mood to read sci-fi.
Not unheard of, just rare, especially in the warmer months. I can’t be the only seasonal/mood reader, right? Thrillers ring my bell all year ‘round, but fluffy chicklit, contemporaries, and books of that nature dominate my TBR during spring and summer. Historical fiction, sci-fi, and fantasy rule the colder months. But, something even weirder happened.
For the first time in a long time, I didn’t have an array of TBR-provided choices to scratch my sci-fi itch. (In fairness, most of my sci-fi stuff is now consumed in comic format. And in fairness, I’ve read most of it already.) I was digging through one of my four nightstand piles when I found it. (It’s okay, I know you’re not judging me for having four stacks and several shelves’ worth of unread books.) Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers. I’d meant to read it a long time ago, so I could hop on the HBO show’s bandwagon, but never got around to it. I checked on Goodreads* and found it was categorized as sci-fi and dystopia. (*Cheerfully ignoring the reviews, which ranged from middling to frustrated.)