This month for book club, we're talking building tension and intimacy. And repetition.

Note: This episode contains SPOILERS.

Second note: This is a slightly edited / reuploaded version of this episode.

Buy The Everlasting: Amazon [https://amzn.to/4dJadvs]  |  Bookshop [https://bookshop.org/a/9436/9781250799081]  |  Libro.fm [https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=25361&awinaffid=1876928&ued=https%3A%2F%2Flibro.fm%2Faudiobooks%2F9781250402936]

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/05/25/tsr-book-club-the-everlasting-by-alix-e-harrow/]

TSR Book Club: The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

The Smut Report team talks about what would entice us to buy special editions (TL;DR: annotations).

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/05/17/tumblereads-what-would-you-spend-your-money-on/]

Tumblereads 29: What Would You Spend Your Money On?

We're talking about fancy special editions today. 

Show notes (with copious links and other fun things) at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/05/10/tumblereads-fancy-special-editions/]

Tumblereads 28: Fancy Special Editions

It's Ingrid's week to host, so it should not come as a big shock that we're talking about craft. However, Holly hijacked the conversation a wee bit, so we spent a lot of time talking about historical fashion.

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/05/03/tumblereads-tools-in-the-genre-toolbox/].

Tumblereads 27: Tools in the Genre Toolbox

This month, we dig deep on the reasons this fluffy romcom didn't work for us, because you can do literary analysis on any piece of media if you read it carefully. 

(Note: this is a slightly edited version of the episode)

Buy You Complicate Me: Amazon [https://amzn.to/49blxix]  |  Bookshop [https://bookshop.org/a/9436/9781986937993]  |  Libro.fm [https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=25361&awinaffid=1876928&ued=https%3A%2F%2Flibro.fm%2Faudiobooks%2F9781541440449]

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/04/26/tsr-book-club-you-complicate-me-by-isabel-jordan/]

TSR Book Club: You Complicate Me by Isabel Jordan

We are extra chaotic this week. Sorry, not sorry.

Show notes (including a link to that pineapple / chicken abomination) at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/04/19/tumblereads-is-it-even-a-romance-if/].

Tumblereads 26: Is it even a romance if…

Holly asks Erin and Ingrid: how do they decide what to read?

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/04/12/tumblereads-how-we-pick-books/]

Tumblereads 25: How We Pick Books

AKA culture shifts and reader preference shifts and how they play together.

Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/04/05/tumblereads-reading-old-books/]

Tumblereads 24: Reading Old Books

When family members (in romance books!) stomp on boundaries but the characters in the book shrug it off…that's not cute. But what's actually going on with these scenes?

Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast

Tumblereads 23: That's Not Cute

Are you ready for some poly pirate action? Are you also ready for lots of detail (in a good way) about 19th century naval warfare? Join the Smut Report team as we discuss Rears & Vices by E.M. Caro [https://bookshop.org/a/9436/9781968767006].

Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/03/22/tsr-book-club-rears-vices-by-e-m-caro/]

TSR Book Club: Rears & Vices by E.M. Caro

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