Stitch & Bitch - May 2026

this is like my third attempt to read this because I kept not finishing it when I got it from the library. , but I'm a decent way into it and I'm I'm quite enjoying it.

I enjoyed it, though. I got to the end and thought this still felt a little bit like a retread of oh frick, what's his name? The general Aerisadia's story line from like the prisoner of Limnos or whatever that was.

I loved the first one which was called Detective Auntie. Like five out of five stars. Adored it.

Five out of five stars. That book is amazing, and I still need to read her book on color.

So, I enjoyed it. , I don't have anything terribly important to say about it, but it's definitely I think this one is kind of it's the kind of book that the right person will pick it up and it will speak to them in a way that they really need to hear. So, I would recommend it.

But I bought the first volume of the manga, and I realized I can get the other ones from one of my libraries. So, I will be reading more of this.

I'm listening to it on audiobook and I just I think maybe it's not for me, it's fine, but I've [clears throat] forgotten that I was reading it, which is not a good sign.

I got this one purely because Hope Larson did the graphic novel version of A Wrinkle in Time some years ago, which I really liked, and I'd actually never seen anything else that she had done before.

I agree with both of you on that. , it's definitely one that I don't remember so much about the plots, but the setting, what she did with that very old-fashioned, not exactly Victorian.

The second one was also okay and like the first one I wish that it had been longer, more in-depth, but I think I have to reconcile myself with the fact that this particular series is lots of vibes and they're short quick stories, not novels.

I also like everybody else except for Rehea read Platform Decay. I finished this book like 36 hours after the mailman delivered it to my house which is amazing but also it's murderbot.

And I actually really enjoyed it. I think the ending was a little bit confusing because it didn't take its time with this kind of like time segue thing. , but other than that, it was really good and I really like the artwork in it, too.

so yeah, I really enjoyed this. it is of course a romance. It's a lover or an enemies to lovers romance.

I didn't think it was scary. I didn't think it was that thrilling. And it's way more about pseudo archaeology than real archaeology, which I didn't realize that was one of the buttons you could push with me.

so I read Whiskey Jack and was a very good idea because that one has some major revelations in it that had me going, "What?"

Wolf Worm, which I enjoyed. I always like it when art stuff shows up in her books.