Épisodes

  • "Hemlock and Silver" Part One
    Jan 12 2026

    Welcome to Season Six of the podcast! This season we will be reading four books: three from the Winter Reading Challenge, and one from our Classics Campaign. In today's episode we will discuss part one of "Hemlock and Silver" by T. Kingfisher. This is Emily H's pick from the "Retelling of a Classic" category in the Winter Reading Challenge.


    Titles mentioned in this episode:

    The September House

    The Sentence

    Beloved


    *music provided by Pixabay

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    39 min
  • "Top 5 of 2025 Part Two"
    Dec 1 2025

    Join Danae as she talks with Jessica and Andy about their top five reads of the year!


    Titles mentioned in this episode:

    Everything is Tuberculosis

    Dungeon Crawler Carl

    Tress of the Emerald Sea

    A Short Stay in Hell

    The Husbands

    The End is Always Near

    Nuclear War

    James

    Berlin

    The Road to Tender Hearts

    The House of Leaves

    A Marriage at Sea


    music provided by Pixabay

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    59 min
  • "Top 5 of 2025 Part One"
    Nov 24 2025

    Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they discuss their top five reads of 2025 and talk about what is ahead for Season 6 in the new year.


    Titles mentioned in this episode:

    Zip It: The Keep It Shut 40-Day Challenge

    All You Have to Do Is Call

    Theo of Golden

    One Dark Window and Two Twisted Crowns Duology

    When the Sea Came Alive

    Life & Death & Giants

    Eight Perfect Murders

    The Rose Code

    The Correspondent

    All the Colors of the Dark

    Legendborn

    Black Woods Blue Sky

    The God of the Woods

    The Feminine Mystique

    Wild Dark Shore

    The Dictionary of Lost Words


    music provided by Pixabay

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    56 min
  • "Charlotte's Web"
    Nov 3 2025

    Join Danae, Allie, and Emily for the last episode of Season 5 as they discuss Charlotte's Web by E.B. White and give their adult reading recommendations. Thank you for joining us this season and stay tuned for our best reads of the year episode!


    Titles mentioned in this episode:

    Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

    Animal Farm by George Orwell

    The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott

    Timbuktu by Paul Auster

    The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

    All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

    Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch


    music provided by Pixabay

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    47 min
  • "Welcome to Dead House"
    Oct 27 2025

    Join Danae, Allie, and Andy as they discuss the first book in the Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine and give their adult horror read alikes for this book. Enjoy this episode just in time for Halloween!


    Titles mentioned in this episode:

    Salem's Lot by Stephen King

    Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

    House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

    Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

    Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

    We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough

    I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

    The Passage by Justin Cronin


    music provided by Pixabay

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    47 min
  • "The Secret of the Old Clock"
    Oct 20 2025

    Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they discuss the very first Nancy Drew mystery by Carolyn Keene and give their adult mystery recommendations.


    Titles mentioned in this episode:

    The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

    The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas

    The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

    Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke

    The Trespasser by Tana French

    The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson


    music provided by Pixabay

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    43 min
  • "The Bad Beginning"
    Oct 13 2025

    Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they discuss the first book in A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket and try to find adult recommendations with dark humor and absurdist plotlines! Also, how serendipitous that we are publishing this on the 13th of the month!

    Titles mentioned:

    Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

    Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

    The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston

    Fool Series by Christopher Moore

    Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson

    Catch-22 by Joseph Heller


    music provided by Pixabay

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    43 min
  • "Little House in the Big Woods"
    Oct 6 2025

    Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they discuss the first book in the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder and talk about adult pioneer stories that are engrossing reads!


    Titles mentioned:

    Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

    Caroline: Little House, revisited by Sarah Miller

    A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert

    Giants in the Earth: a saga of the prairie by O.E. Rolvaag

    Proving Her Claim: on the Dakota Frontier by CK Van Dam

    A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich

    Anything by Willa Cather

    Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish

    Lone Women by Victor LaValle


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    41 min