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Minisode 5: Daddy issues

Minisode 5: Daddy issues

Book reviews!

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Show shout-outs (in order of appearance):

  • Boys Don’t Cry by Fiona Scarlett

  • A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

  • Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

  • Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

  • The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

  • Sally Rooney

  • Educated by Tara Westover

  • Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

  • Arc of a Scythe trilogy (Scythe; Thunderhead; The Toll) by Neal Shusterman

  • Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarrows

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Episode 7: The Master of Myth

Episode 7: The Master of Myth

Our first guest! Shawnna Kerns aka the Master of Myth

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Show shout-outs (in order of appearance):

  • American Diaries series by Kathleen Duey

  • Into the Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville

  • The Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner

  • The Silver Slippers by Elizabeth Koda-Callan

  • Jennifer McMahon

  • One by One by Ruth Ware

  • A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos #0) by Samantha Shannon

  • The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

  • House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City #3) by Sarah J. Maas

  • Xoxo, Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness by Cody Rigsby

  • The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy

  • Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon (audiobooks narrated by Davina Porter)

  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

  • The Southern Vampire Mysteries series by Charlaine Harris

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Episode 6: Where the hell have you been loca?

Episode 6

Our 2023 reading recap and so many updates!!

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Show shout-outs (in order of appearance):

  • NetGalley

  • The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

  • Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison

  • Normal People by Sally Rooney

  • The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright

  • Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane

  • Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

  • Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

  • Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

  • Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson

  • Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas

  • Throne of Glass Tandem Reading Guide

  • ACOTAR series by Sarah J Maas

  • Crescent City series by Sarah J Maas

  • Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See

  • The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

  • Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark

  • The Zodiac Academy series by Caroline Peckham

  • Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

  • Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

  • The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

  • The Poppy War series by R. F. Kuang

  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

  • Close to Home by Michael Magee

  • Red Rising series by Pierce Brown

  • The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

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Minisode 3: Tilapia telepathy

Minisode 3

Two short and sweet book reviews.

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Show shout-outs (in order of appearance):

  • Heaths Book Club

  • The Bonds That Tie series by J. Bree

  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

  • The Martian by Andy Weir

  • No Heaven for Good Boys by Keisha Bush

  • A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

  • The Guncle by Steven Rowley

  • Sense of Wonder by Matthew Salesses

  • The English Teacher by Lily King

  • Remarkably Bright Creatures

  • Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane

  • The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery by Richard Osman

  • Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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Episode 4: Hey all you podcats and kittens

Episode 4

The tell-all you never asked for. Get to know your amazing, cool, beautiful hosts, Brandi & Diane.

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Show shout-outs (in order of appearance):

  • Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

  • The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

  • Into the Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville

  • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

  • Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller (correction of mistakenly naming “C.S. Lewis” in the podcast)

  • Harry Potter series

  • When We Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

  • Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

  • The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

  • Holes by Louis Sachar

  • The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

  • Happy Place by Emily Henry

  • Maame by Jessica George

  • Book Lovers by Emily Henry

  • All Swell? Podcast

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Minisode 2: I feel a lot of things

Minisode 2

Two short and sweet book reviews.

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Show shout-outs (in order of appearance):

  • Take What You Can Carry by Gian Sardar

  • Lake Union Publishing (Amazon Publishing)

  • Penguin Random House

  • Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah

  • The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell: A Novel by Robert Dugoni

  • NetGalley

  • Light of the Second Star by Vanessa Raccio (pub date 6 June 23)

  • Peter Pan

  • Grimm’s Fairy Tales by the Grimm Brothers

  • The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka

  • Shrek

  • The Emperor’s New Groove

  • Book Lovers by Emily Henry

  • Happy Place by Emily Henry

  • People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

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Episode 3: Book tropes

 

Episode 3

Book tropes we love and hate and everything in-between.

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Show shout-outs (in order of appearance):

  • ARCs (Advance Reader Copies)

  • Amazon Prime first reads

  • Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

  • ACOTAR by Sarah J Maas

  • Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn

  • Crescent City by Sarah J Maas

  • Romeo & Juliet

  • Atonement by Ian McEwan

  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

  • Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

  • Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

  • Pearl Harbor movie

  • Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

  • Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah

  • My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

  • The Turnout by Megan Abbott

  • People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry

  • Bargain Books Richmond

  • Sherlock Holmes

  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

  • When We Had Wings by Ariel Lawhon, Kristina McMorris, Susan Meissner

  • Bewitched Shadows by Autumn Blake

  • Spare by Prince Harry

 
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Episode 2: Genre deep dive, part 2

Episode 2, part 2

Do it, read it, write it?

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Show shout-outs (in order of appearance):

Fantasy/YA (young adult) (0:01:45)

  • Red Rising Saga (Red Rising; Golden Son; Morning Star; Iron Gold; Dark Age; and, Light Bringer) by Pierce Brown

  • ACOTAR (A Court of Thorns and Roses) (A Court of Thorns and Roses; A Court of Mist and Fury; A Court of Wings and Ruin; A Court of Frost and Starlight; and, A Court of Silver Flames) by Sarah J Maas

  • Crescent City duology (House of Earth and Blood, and, House of Sky and Breath) by Sarah J Maas

  • Throne of Glass series (The Assassin and the Pirate Lord; The Assassin and the Healer; The Assassin and the Desert; The Assassin and the Underworld; The Assassin and the Empire; Throne of Glass; Crown of Midnight; Heir of Fire; Queen of Shadows; Empire of Storms; Tower of Dawn; and, Kingdom of Ash) by Sarah J Maas

  • The Inheritance Games series (The Inheritance Games; The Hawthorne Legacy; The Final Gambit; and, The Brothers Hawthorne) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

  • The Chronicles of Narnia series (The Magician’s Nephew; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Horse and His Boy; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Trader; The Silver Chair; and, The Last Battle) by C. S. Lewis

  • @Ben Barnes

  • Shadow and Bone trilogy (Shadow and Bone; Siege and Storm; and, Ruin and Rising) by Leigh Bardugo

  • Six of Crows duology (Six of Crows, and, Crooked Kingdom) by Leigh Bardugo

  • Shadow and Bone on Netflix

  • His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; and, The Amber Spyglass) by Philip Pullman

Historical Fiction (0:21:47)

  • The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

  • The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

  • Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

  • “DNF” = did not finish

  • Home Front by Kristin Hannah

  • The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

  • The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

  • The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

  • The Mothers by Brit Bennett

  • Circe by Madeline Miller

  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

  • The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

  • The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

  • The Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray

  • Freedman/Johnson trilogy (Yellow Crocus; Mustard Seed; and, Golden Poppies) by Laila Ibrahim

Horror (0:34:00)

  • The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

  • Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

  • Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

General Fiction (0:42:00)

  • Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

  • Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau

  • Beartown by Fredrik Bachman

  • The People We Keep by Allison Larkin

  • Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

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Episode 2: Genre deep dive, part 1

Episode 2, part 1

“You give me poetry and I’ll give you smut”

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Show shout-outs (in order of appearance):

Memoir (0:04:30)

  • My Life in France by Julia Child

  • How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones

  • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

  • Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

  • Lazarus’s Denial by Linda S. Hopkins

  • Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susanna Callahan

  • Born A Crime by Trevor Noah

  • I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy

  • Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Poetry (0:22:40)

  • Frank O’Hara

  • Pablo Neruda

  • Shel Silverstein

Contemporary Fiction (0:32:00)

  • Writers and Lovers by Lily King

  • Euphoria by Lily King

  • Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

  • Deacon King Kong by James McBride

  • Atonement by Ian McEwan

  • @James Mcavoy

  • Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

  • I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

  • The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

  • Take What You Can Carry by Gian Sarder

  • No Heaven For Good Boys by Keisha Bush

  • The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Duboni

  • Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

  • Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

  • So, What Are You Reading? Podcast

  • Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

Mystery/Thriller (1:10:00)

  • Dublin Murder Squad series (In the Woods; The Likeness; Faithful Place; Broken Harbor; The Secret Place; The Trespasser; The Witch Elm; and, The Searcher) by Tana French

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Episode 1: Welcome to the club + a 2022 recap

 

Episode 1

Who we are, how many times we’ve recorded this episode, some hot takes, and a study on Brandi’s repeated use of the word “stunning”. Welcome to the club!

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*Maze Runner Series book spoiler at minute 36, skip to minute 37*

Show shout-outs (in order of appearance):

  • The Boxcar Children Books by Gertrude Chandler Warner

  • RL Stine books

  • Brandi’s Little Free Library charter #118670

  • Goodreads

  • The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

  • Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette

  • Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth

  • Dust Off the Bones by Paul Howarth

  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

  • The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

  • Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark

  • Know My Name by Chanel Miller

  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

  • The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

  • Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

  • Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

  • Maze Runner Series by James Dashner

  • @Dylan O’Brien

  • Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

  • Maame by Jessica George

  • Read with Jenna

  • Better in Balance Podcast with Nia Renteria

  • Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

  • Zodiac Academy Series by Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti

  • @Dakota Johnson

  • Call of Duty

 
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