This month we buddy read Manners and Monsters, mainly because the cover seemed appropriate for spooky season. 

Spoiler alert: this one was not a winner for team Smut Report.

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast

TSR Book Club: Manners and Monsters by Tilly Wallace

In the spirit of "negative reviews can be just as helpful as positive ones", this week the Smut Report team talks about some recent reads that didn't work for them.

Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast.

Tumblereads 40: Duds

Ingrid's leading Tumblereads this week—and the team is talking about books they read recently that they really enjoyed. 

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast

Tumblereads 39: Pour on the Sugar

This week on Tumblereads, Erin is asking Ingrid and Holly about lack of follow through. 

Full show notes (lots of links to books whose titles we didn't remember in this one!) at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/10/04/tumblereads-loose-threads/].

Tumblereads 38: Loose Threads

This month on book club, Holly, Erin, and Ingrid buddy-read The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn. They talked about metaphors and how much every single person in this book needs therapy.

Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/09/28/tsr-book-club-the-paris-match-by-kate-clayborn/]

TSR Book Club: The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn

This episode of Tumblereads was inspired by this excellent piece by Rien Grey [https://www.riengray.com/blog/the-perpetual-disappointment-of-if-only-eroticism].

Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast.

Tumblereads 37: Spanky Hanky Panky

Ingrid loves a good craft list, so we're talking about how authors ruin the meet cute. 

Want more episodes like this? Check out "How to Ruin a Bleak Moment in 10 Ways [https://smutreport.com/2026/02/08/tumblereads-how-to-ruin-a-black-moment-in-10-ways/]" and "How to Ruin a Kiss in 10 Ways [https://smutreport.com/2026/03/08/tumblereads-how-to-ruin-a-kiss-in-10-ways/]."

Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast



Tumblereads 36: How to Ruin a Meet Cute in 10 Ways

This week on Tumblereads, Erin wanted to talk about book series, which is a very large topic, so we kinda went all over the place.

Full show notes (including links to all the many many series we discussed) at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/09/06/tumblereads-series-and-all-their-permutations/].

Tumblereads 35: Series and all their Permutations

This month, Ingrid is leading book club, and the team is talking about Not Another Vampire Book by Cassandra Gannon. There was a lot of discussion of the line between laughing at something and laughing with something.

Buy on Amazon [https://amzn.to/4A21f7c]

Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/08/30/tsr-book-club-not-another-vampire-book-by-cassandra-gannon/]

TSR Book Club: Not Another Vampire Book by Cassandra Gannon

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

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 