For once the Lazy Book Lovers haven't been so lazy! We've been making our way through our tbr lists so that's why we're bringing you a two part reading update. In part 1, Toni's been on a romance kick again and Tali's bringing a mix of thriller, speculative fiction and fantasy.

Books discussed in today's episode are:

Toni reads:

• Ice Planet Barbarians
• Twice in a Blue Moon
• Happy Place
• Bride

Tali reads:

• Wayward Children series
• The Disappearing Act
• Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

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Since vampires are having their moment we have made you a little tbr list, from classics, to debuts, to translated fiction, this short and sweet list has a little bit of everything.

Books discuss in this episode are:

• Dracula – Bram Stoker
• Shanghai Immortal – A.Y. Chao
• Masters of Death – Olivie Blake
• The Southern Book Clubs Guide to Slaying Vampires – Grady Hendrix
• Fangs – Sarah Anderson
• The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
• Certain Dark Things – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Shadow of Night – Deborah Harkness
• Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist

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In March and April we ran the Lazy Book Lovers podcast's first ever buddy read! The rules are simple, we try to pick an indie author whose book is available on Kindle Unlimited and we have two months to read it. Our book for March-April was Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J Tuli!

In this spoiler free episode, we talk about the themes, plots and characters in the book and what we did and didn't like.

You can join our next buddy read on Storygraph here, which will be A Thorn Among Roses by Hayley Anderton!

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This is a full spoilers chaos episode with a bunch of recs from Tali's recent thriller binge. We're bringing you lots of death and lots of weird sh*t happening in fancy mansions with rich people!

Books discussed in today's episode are:

• The seven deaths of Evelyn hard castle - Stuart Turton
• The family game - Catherine Steadman
• The murder game - Tom Hindle
• The Christmas Murder Game - Alexandra Benedict
• The 12 days of murder - Andreina Cordani

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• Join our May-June readalong
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Also known as Asian Heritage month, we've created a little tbr list of books and authors for you to check out during May (although, as we always say, it's important to read diversely all your round!). This suggested reads list came from books on Tali's and Toni's radar that we would like to read, so get ready for the usual strange mix of horror, mystery, fantasy, contemporary fiction and romance...

Books discussed in today's episode are:

• Silver Under Nightfall - Rin Chupeco
• A Magic Steeped in poison - Judy L Lin
• How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu
• Six Crimson Cranes - Elizabeth Lim
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
• Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel
• Black Water Sister - Zen Cho
• Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao
• If You Could See the Sun - Ann Liang
• Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating - Adiba Jaigirdar
• The Stardust Thief - Chelsea Abdullah
• This Woven Kingdom - Tahereh Mafi

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Curious about what books are coming out over the next few months? Join us for a little list of some the books that are coming out in the second quarter of the year (April-June). In this episode we read out the synopsis's of books that are releasing soon and offer our... very 'qualified'... opinions on these books and whether we'll be picking them up!

Books discussed in today's episode are:

• The Last Murder at the End of the World- Stuart Turton
• Table for Two - Amor Towles
• The Cemetery of Untold Stories - Julia Alvarez
• The Husbands - Holly Gramazio
• Just for the Summer, Part of Your World #3 - Abby Jimenez
• The Familiar - Leigh Bardugo
• Dragon Fruit - Makiia Lucier
• How to End a Love Story - Yulin Kuang
• Funny Story - Emily Henry
• The Return of Ellie Black - Emiko Jean
• Better Left Unsent - Lia Louis
• Goddess of the River - Vaishnavi Patel
• Five Broken Blades - Mai Corland
• The Unwedding - Ally Condie
• Not in Love - Ali Hazelwood
• One of Our Kind - Nicola Yoon
• Lovers and Liars - Amanda Eyre Ward

Full list on Storygraph

Credit to the Booklistqueen website, which was our main resource for this episode, alongside some from Goodreads, Readers Digest and Penguin

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Tali took part in the trans readathon in March so this week we are bringing you a recommendation list made up of books she has read that were either written by a trans author, or have trans characters, because more diverse reading is a great goal to have year round!

The books we discuss in today's episode are:

• This is how you lose the time war - Max Gladstone
• Upright women wanted - Sarah Gailey
• The Tea Dragon Society - K O'Neill
• The Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo
• Mooncakes - Suzanne walker
• Light From uncommon stars - Ryka Aoki
• Feed them silence - Lee Mandelo
• Pet - Akwaeke Emezi

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We're trying something new! Here is an update on all things reading and life related for the first three months of the year, usually we only do the yearly summaries but we thought it would be fun to do summary updates throughout the year.

Today we talk about:

• A little bit of life
• A good 10+ min tangent chat about t.v. and movies we've enjoyed lately (oops)
• Total reads for the year so far
• Page stats for the year
• Top reading moods
• Reading speed and book pace stats
• Top genres and authors

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