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Happy Jewish American Heritage Month 2026!
Happy Jewish American Heritage Month! We’re celebrating as we do with books starring Jewish protagonists and/or by Jewish authors, and for more recs, check out previous years’ posts! Picture Books Shabbat is… by A.J. Sass (text) and Noa Kellner (illustration) What does Shabbat mean to you? Is it making a big meal with your relatives on Friday night? Singing songs on Saturday morning? Or maybe…
I need you to take me seriously when I say KD Casey is the Rachel Reid of gay baseball romance and you need to read these books. Diamond Ring is up there with The Long Game for me
I okay listen think someone needs to take advantage of the popularity of Heated Rivalry and option Unwritten Rules by KD Casey for TV. This is partly because I thought it was a good romance novel and I quite enjoyed it but also, I’m going to be honest, I REALLY want to know what the production designers would come up with for the scene where Zach and Eugenio are reunited in NYC and Eugenio is having fun lightly domming Zach by making Zach sit on the couch and touch himself while Eugenio feigns disinterest and pretends to read one of Zach’s comic books. Is he holding a copy of Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye? Sina Grace’s Iceman? I need to know.
Queer Book Ship Tournament 2024
Viv/Tandri - Legends & Lattes
Jean Moreau/Jeremy Knox - The Sunshine Court
Sally-Anne/Sez - Beanstalk
Christine Braxton/Stephanie - Fire Season
Characters, book, and author names under the cut
Queer reads: KD Casey
For day 28: To round out the romance section, and the month of queer reads, I bring you the subcategory of Gay Sports Romances. I think I picked up KD Casey because Cat Sebastian recommended Diamond Ring on instagram, and that was it for my and this rabbit hole.
So, first off, I must state that I do not care for sports. Like, I don’t hate them, because that’d be way more feelings toward a thing I do not care about. But for any given sport event happening on the TV, I’d rather be in the other room reading a book. Ironically, it might be a sports romance.
KD Casey does not hate sports. In fact, they care about them greatly. All the baseball fanning, all the baseball knowledge. When I explained my new-found interest in sport romance novels to my coworkers (all of us high school English teachers), one of them said, “Oh, so you read sport romances like it’s sci fi.” To which, yes, except I know way more about space ships in the far flung future (or a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away) than I do about baseball.
But these were fun. The series actually is called Unwritten Rules, and it starts with Unwritten Rules, but I think I read them Fire Season, Unwritten Rules, Diamond Ring, which is 2, 1, 3? Anyway, there’s some flashback stuff going on, so it wasn’t too far off. There’s lots of sporting happening in these books, but also very gorgeous men with lots of feelings and internalized homophobia. Actually half of the characters have no internalized homophobia, but that’s part of the angst. Sports, as we can imagine, whether we like sports or not, is not a world that’s super open for gay people of any stripe, and part of sports as the setting presents some built-in conflict for the characters. If you’d like your romances without homophobia, these probably aren’t for you, but I think I mentioned how much I like angst, and these deliver on that.
KD Casey makes writes some great tension, steamy sex, and compelling characters who all have some serious baggage. There’s also stuff about recovery, injury, and physical disabilities (one of the MC in Unwritten Rules is hard of hearing, which is always present but isn’t actually part of the conflict of the story.)
If you like sports, check these out. If you don’t like sports, but you think Cat Sebastian has some good recommendations (or you think I do), check these out.
I know I’m probably the only person on here who reads her books, but god KD Casey’s newest novella was great.
my November 2021 book ratings
# of books read: 6
Psycho (Necessary Evils #2) by Onley James ★★★☆☆
Off Limits (Secrets Kept #1) by Riley Hart ★★★☆☆
Dirty Slide (Dirty Players #1) by Lauren Blakely & KD Casey ★★★☆☆
Death (The Four Horsemen #4) by Laura Thalassa ★★★★☆
Believe Me (Shatter Me #6.5) by Tahereh Mafi ★★★★★
Savage Rivals (Alstone High #3) by Becca Steele ★★★★★
Listening to an audiobook of Unwritten Rules by KD Casey so I was looking at the author’s instagram to see if there was any art of the main characters because I’m not amazing at remembering physical descriptions when I hear them in audio form and I’m OBSESSED with the fact that the author has a series of novellas that are, essentially, ghost hunter AU fanfic for her baseball romance series. INCREDIBLE.
