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Are all cats ice queens? Are all ice queens cats? What if they’re British? Kris’s Alexa wants to weigh in on this very important conversation, too. 

We answer a listener question about debut authors that swept us off our feet, making this a recommendation-heavy episode. After this edifying topic, Kris and Tara belly up to a long conversation about the latest season of the trash can that is the latest season of Love is Blind.

Official Recommendations

From Kris: Nurses (Global/NBC)
This week, Kris recommends the Canadian medical drama Nurses (Global/NBC), which follows a group of nurses in a busy downtown Toronto hospital. There’s a lot of death and dying in the show, so watch out for that if you’re squeamish. Otherwise, Kris describes it as a much less angsty Grey’s Anatomy.

From Tara: Tempting Olivia by Clare Ashton
Tara recommends the contemporary sapphic romance Tempting Olivia by Clare Ashton. An icy, perfectionist lawyer with a secret celebrity crush ends up representing that celebrity during her divorce and, well, you can kind of figure out the rest from there.

Tara praises the reality of how the relationship is handled, including how the power dynamics of their professional/client relationship are handled. Tara adored this book so much so that it’s now her favourite Clare Ashton book, toppling the reigning champ, Poppy Jenkins. Run, don't walk.

Works/People Discussed

• Vengeance Planning for Amateurs by Lee Winter
• The Delicate Things We Make by Milena McKay
• Compass Rose by Anna Burke
• Stick McLaughlin: The Prohibition Years by C.F. Frizzell
• Changing Majors by Ana Hartnett
• The Red Files by Lee Winter
• Jericho by Ann McMan
• The Music and the Mirror by Lola Keeley
• Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix)
• Survivor, Season 46 (CBS)
• The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC)
• Love is Blind, Season 6 (Netflix)
• RuPaul’s Drag Race, Season 16 (MTV)
• RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World, Season 3 (BBC Three)
• Taylor Tomlinson: Have it All (Netflix)
• Lean in to Love by Catherine Lane

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We've got a packed house this week at ol’ QR HQ. Kris has some big projects out on them lonely roads. Tara’s reading slump seems to have been busted (fingers crossed). We talk card conventions and we answer your questions. Pull up a chair and hang out for a while.

Official Recommendations

From Kris: Theater Camp (2023)
This week, Kris recommends Theater Camp. It's a delightful and heartfelt mockumentary-style comedy about a summer theater camp in New York where the kids are wonderful and the adults are all hot messes.

From Tara: How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly
This week, Tara recommends How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly, a cozy and queer sports romance. Which sport? Tara doesn’t know. Basketball, maybe?  It features characters from Kelly’s other books but stands alone just fine. Tara adored this book.

Works/People Discussed

• All Things Beautiful by Alaina Erdell
• The Grammys
• The Color Purple (2023)
• True Detective: Night Country (HBO)
• RuPaul’s Drag Race, Season Sixteen (MTV)
• Not in the Plan by Dana Hawkins
• Keep This Off the Record by Arden Joy
• Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
• Thorn by Anna Burke
• The Bear (FX on Hulu)
• Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly
• Something Wild & Wonderful by Anita Kelly

Support & follow the show

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