James and Melissa discuss Rainbow Rowell’s Slow Dance through themes of personal growth, escape, and returning home.

Join us next month for Intermezzo by Sally Rooney.

James and Melissa discuss Alexene Farol Follmuth's Twelfth Knight through themes of performance, identity, and greatness via their respective source texts of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and the great 2006 romcom She's the Man.

Join us next month for Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell.

James and Melissa discuss Natalie Sue's I Hope This Finds You Well through themes of power, personal growth, and whether or not you should be friends with your coworkers.

Join us next month for Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth.

James and Melissa discuss Yulin Kuang's How to End a Love Story, touching on forgiveness, genre, and how everything is just fanfiction. Notes: trigger warning for suicide of a loved one, and spiciness alert for lots of heterosexual intercourse.

Join us next month for Natalie Sue's I Hope This Finds You Well.

James and Melissa discuss Emily Henry’s Funny Story through themes of communication, community, and compromise.

Join us next month for Yulin Kuang's How to End a Love Story (spiciness alert for lots of heterosexual intercourse.)

James and Melissa discuss Andrew Joseph White’s The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, talking about systems of power, resistance, and the use of violence in this book's (warning!) very graphic imagery.

Join us next month when we return to lighter themes with Emily Henry's 2024 summer read, Funny Story.

Melissa and James discuss Elissa Sussman’s Once more with Feeling, touching on Broadway, Britney, Barbie, and more.

Join us next month when we read The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White.

Meanwhile, check out Melissa’s cameo in the SF Chronicle’s feature on SF’s best karaoke bars. Very on-brand.