Episode 19: Just Here for the Ha-Has

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. From there, we establish (officially) that we are each other’s other half of a book best friend necklace, reflect on the lines from books that have stuck with us, and watch Beccah engage in some extremely normal, definitely-not-parasocial reading choices based on her celebrity crush (Hudson Williams, if you’re listening… we can explain). And finally, we wrap things up with a Spotlight Segment answering a listener question about DNFing books – especially when it comes to book club picks. Books We Mentioned:  Mary Oliver poetry Pablo Neruda poetry Spur of the Moment Question: What are examples of writing that has stuck with you? 4:00- Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer 5:00- Twilight, Stephanie Meyer 5:40- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 5:50- Moby Dick, Herman Melville 6:00- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins Reading Round Up: 9:00- The Paradise Problem, Christina Lauren 16:45- Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan 17:20- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins 27:20- Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins 31:00- Good People, Patmeena Sabit 32:00- God of the Woods, Liz Moore 40:04- The Hounding, Xenobe Purvis 41:04- Angie Kim, Celeste Ng 42:30- One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand, Luigi Parandello  48:00- The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton 51:00- The Courage to be Disliked, Ichiro Kashmir 58:00- The Bridge Kingdom, Danielle L Jenson 1:02:20- Quicksilver, Brimstone, Callie Hart 1:02:50- Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros 1:03:00- A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas 1:03:45- Tehrangeles, Porochista Khakpour Spotlight Segment-DNFing 1:13:40- The People We Keep, Allison Larkin 1:15:50- North Woods, Daniel Mason 1:16:00- Married to the Alien Cowboy, Ursa Dax 1:28:00- The Hunting Wives, May Cobb 1:34:00- The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Beth Brower 1:36:30- How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix