195 - Spring Hangout 2026

In Episode 195, we're officially wrapping up our 2025 reading goals and chatting about what we've been up to the last three months. (Surviving, mostly!) Lots of books are being read and writing plans are cooking! The real new year starts in spring anyway. Show Notes Jette is absolutely crushing her reading goals! And we both may need to update some of our Storygraph goals for 2026 because we're way ahead already. We visited Hopeless Romantic and the Hopeless Romantic/Little Ghosts crossover store at Union Station in the last few months. If you're in Toronto, we definitely recommend checking them out! It turns out horror and romance are a perfect pair. Since we have a Romance episode coming up at the end of May, we tried to curb our romance talk, but we will be doing a deep dive soon enough! In our next episode, we'll be talking about Slewfoot by Brom as part of our #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt series, since we've been seing it everywhere! After that, we're attempting to tackle our TBRs and reading M Train by Patti Smith, which we both have physical copies of. That episode will be out April 29. And don't forget to read along with our current book club, Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit. Books & Authors Mentioned The Windy City Series by Liz Tomforde Elsie Silver A Five Letter Word for Love by Amy James Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James This Is a Safe Space by Lucinda Berry Crushmore: Essays on Love, Loss, and Coming-of-Age by Sophie Ansari, Nava Kavelin, and Penn Badgley Rebel Blue Ranch Series by Lyla Sage Soul Searching by Lyla Sage Playing for Keeps series by Becka Mack When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice by Ilise S. Carter Wells Ranch Series by Bailey Hannah Silver Pines Ranch Series by Paisley Hope All the Missing Pieces by Catherine Cowles Anderson in Bloom by Jennifer Dugan Passing by Nella Larson The Creative Act by Rick Rubin The Fountain by Casey Scieszka Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran The Changeling by Victor LaValle The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Game Changers Series by Rachel Reid Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir The Lottery by Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones