Episode 12: Tornado Truthers, Milk Apologists

Welcome back to I Reckon I’ll Read It, a podcast where two Okie gals talk books, share recs, and don’t hold back on their mighty big opinions. Join Beccah and Summer in some good-old-fashioned book talk.  This week, we kick things off with another Reading Roundup: two books we’ve finished, two we’re currently reading, and two that are up next. Then we attempt a little book therapy to figure out what actually makes us cry in books (with… limited success), poke fun at the ever-present Oklahoma tornado stereotypes in fiction, and wrap things up with a Spotlight Segment where we confess what books we keep dodging.  Books We Mentioned:    Spur of the Moment Question: What Was the Last Book That Made You Cry? 2:30- Brimstone, Callie Hart   3:55- The Horse and His Boy, C.S. Lewis   5:10- A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas   6:18- Books by Brene Brown   6:30- Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer   6:55- Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid   Reading Round Up: 8:45- Elizabeth of East Hampton, Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding   18:35- The Bone Thief, Vanessa Lillie   19:00- author Lou Berney, Summer previously read The Long and Faraway Gone   29:20- Warrior Girl Unearthed, Angeline Boulley   36:15- The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion   43:10- Isabel and the Rogue, Liana De La Rosa   *Fact check, we both say “Regency” period in England, but both stories take place during the Victorian period.    50:00- Burning Daylight, Emily McIntire   56:13- The Poet Empress, Shen Tao   Spotlight Segment: Books We’ve Been Dodging  Books we’ve been “about to start” for forever 1:05:00- The Correspondent, Virginia Evans The Backyard Bird Chronicles, Amy Tan The Sign For Home, Blair Fell   A classic we’ve always wanted to read 1:08:50- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas Les Miserables, Victor Hugo   Books we’ve been actively avoiding 1:14:30- Beloved, Toni Morrison Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison Sula, Toni Morrison Giovonni’s Room, James Baldwin A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas