This week on Tumblereads, we're revisiting an old post deep from the blog archives [https://smutreport.com/2020/08/03/lets-talk-tropes-best-friends-sibling/] to spark the discussion on the Best Friend's Sibling trope.

Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/08/23/tumblereads-best-friends-sibling/].

Tumblereads 34: Let's Talk Tropes - Best Friend's Sibling

This week on Tumblereads, Ingrid asks the Smut Report team to think about load bearing sex scenes. 

Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/08/16/tumblereads-load-bearing-sex-scenes/].

Tumblereads 33: Load Bearing Sex Scenes

We're back from our summer hiatus, which means more weekly discussions of romance books with the Smut Report Team!

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast.

Tumblereads 32: Cheat Codes

After a summer break, the Smut Report team is back with book club! This month was Erin's choice, and we read Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall.

Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/07/26/tsr-book-club-iron-and-velvet-by-alexis-hall/].

Buy Iron & Velvet: Amazon [https://amzn.to/4eaje2h] | Libro.fm [https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=25361&awinaffid=1876928&ued=https%3A%2F%2Flibro.fm%2Faudiobooks%2F9781705214640]

TSR Book Club: Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall

Our June book club pick was A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant. It was Holly's choice, and ended up being a very Holly book. Erin and Ingrid were less enthused.

Buy A Lady Awakened:: Amazon [https://amzn.to/4eajiiE] | Bookshop [https://bookshop.org/a/9436/9780553593839] | Libro.fm [https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=25361&awinaffid=1876928&ued=https%3A%2F%2Flibro.fm%2Faudiobooks%2F9781452677675]

Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/06/14/tsr-book-club-a-lady-awakened-by-cecilia-grant/]

TSR Book Club: A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant

Apparently Holly is new here, because she was surprised when the teachers started murdering the students.

Full show notes (inluding recs!) at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/06/07/tumblereads-the-darkness-of-dark-academia/]

Tumblereads 31: The Darkness of Dark Academia

This week on Tumblereads, Ingrid just wanted to talk about the duology she just binged, so that's what we did. 

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/05/31/tumblereads-sometimes-you-just-want-to-talk-about-the-books-you-just-read/]

Tumblereads: Sometimes You Just Want to Talk About the Books You Just Read

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

Call us Smut Enthusiasts.

Call us Smut Scholars.

Call us Smut Evangelists.

We are The Smut Report: Let’s talk dirty books.

Erin, Holly, and Ingrid have been reading romance novels together for 20 

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The Smut Report Podcast

Call us Smut Enthusiasts.

Call us Smut Scholars.

Call us Smut Evangelists.

We are The Smut Report: Let’s talk dirty books.

Erin, Holly, and Ingrid have been reading romance novels together for 20 years—and we love talking about them.

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