Heaving Bosoms Reading Embrace 2022

 It's here, the 2022 Heaving Bosoms Reading Embrace! I am a fan of the Heaving Bosoms podcast and love trying to find books that fit the prompts that are jokes from their show! It's hosted by Erin and Melody and they usually have me cracking up. They have great banter between them and I love listening to them as a pick me up. I posted the embrace I did in 2021, so check out my embrace for more ideas.

They go super simple. It's 20 prompts and you can fill them out however you want. They usually do a podcast episode on January reading through everyone that submitted their embrace and it's lots of fun. I remember a couple years ago somebody just did the Mummy and had crazy fun explanations on how it fit each of the prompts. It's not super strict and you can get as creative as you want to meet each prompt. If you haven't tried doing a readathon or reading challenge before, I think this one is a great option since it's only 20 prompts and you have all year to finish it! If you want to learn more, check out their website for more information. They also have a printable pdf of the prompts. Usually in their facebook group there's also a link to a google sheet that's another option to submit your embrace when done (it's what I usually do).

Okay, let's do this! Below are the 20 prompts. As I read throughout the year I'll fill in prompts where I can. When there's only a couple left that are more oddball I'll pick up a book specifically for that. This isn't quite a tbr post, but I'll put some quick fire ideas I have below.

1) Keep Being a Badass

2) Lady Love

3) HB Author

4) Bonkers Romance

5) Scientists in 2022

6) Chekov's Grandma

7) Catch My Farts

8) A Light Kidnap

9) Jimmi Simpson's Robot Adventure

10) Prelude to a Wet Hump

11) St. Vincent Would Always

12) Englandtimes Highlander Vegas

13) Stay Golden Horny Girl

14) Doing 1920s Laundry

15) Forest Bed

16) Murder Robe

17) Ancient Egyptian Glory Hole

18) Pool Floaty Fart Sounds

19) Jazz Bagpipes

20) Funny Joke Dancing

🤗 For HB author I'll probably be using Victoria Aveline once again. I found her thanks to the Facebook group and her next book in the Clecanian series comes out today (January 12th)!

🤗 I feel like reading some sci-fi alien and cyborg romance will cover quite a few prompts. I know that Stay Horny Golden Girl came from an alien romance review, so that would work nicely. It would also easily cover Bonkers Romance and probably Scientists in 2022. If I go with a cyborg sci-fi, that would work nicely for Jimmi Simpson's Robot Adventure.

🤗 For the Ancient Egyptian Glory Hole, I remember there was a trope Tuesday post on instagram that was romances to read if you loved The Mummy. I know there's been a couple other historical romances that have been said to have adventure themes and Indiana Jones vibes. I will definitely need to try to find those posts. I know I added a lot of the books to my tbr on goodreads, but I think it'll be quicker to find the instagram post and see what books were rec'd.

🤗 For Scientists in 2022, my first though was Ali Hazelwood. She wrote The Love Hypothesis last year and has her next book out tentatively this year. She also has three shorter books that are also set in STEM fields.

🤗 For St. Vincent Would Always, I think I'll just pick up a Lisa Kleypas. St. Vincent is the hero from Devil in Winter. I do have the prequel book in the Wallflowers series to read still, but I think I'm going to use any Lisa Kleypas to cover this.

🤗 My last quick idea is to pick up some highlander books for the prompts Englandtimes Highlander Vegas or Jazz Bagpipes. I could also go for a contemporary set in Scotland or with a Scottish main character. I know that Karen Marie Moning has some time traveling highlanders in her Highlander series, so I might finally pick that up.

I hope those quickfire ideas helped jogged your brain in coming up with some ideas, but I'm excited to see how I'm going to fill all these prompts. I hope you are participating as well, even if you don't listen to the podcast! Everyone can get embraced for their reading this way!

Bookishly Yours,

Stasi🍎