Episode 21: You Know What I Reckon I Won’t Read? That Book Right There

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 share our rarely talked about writing lives, listen to Beccah go on a passionate rant about the cheesy, interchangeable book titles currently taking over publishing, and watch Summer repeatedly inform us that she wants a “light, summer read” before immediately bringing a book about serial killers to the table. We wrap things up with a Spotlight Segment on epistolary novels — discussing the stories told through letters, journals, emails, and all the beautifully nosy ways characters let us into their lives.   Books We Mentioned:    2:30- Spur of the Moment Question: Are you a writer? Freida McFadden Ali Hazelwood Ursa Dax CM Nacosta Ruby Dixon   Reading Round Up: 9:20- The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances, Glenn Dixon   12:40- In the Lives of Puppets, TJ Klune   20:25- How to Write a Love Story, Catherine Walsh   26:40- One Golden Summer, Carley Fortune   27:10- This Summer Will Be Different, Carley Fortune   27:30- Every Summer After, Carley Fortune   34:30- The Daisy Chain Flower Shop, Laurie Gilmore   35:25- Rebel Blue Ranch series, Lyla Sage   38:00- Starter Villain, John Scalzi    38:43- Murder Bimbo, Rebecca Novack   40:00- Assistant to the Villain, Hannah Nicole Maehrer   44:50- Final Girls, Riley Sager   47:55- Survive the Night, Riley Sager   51:30- The Long and Faraway Gone, Lou Berney   53:35- What You Are Looking For Is in the Library, Michiko Aoyama   57:00- The Secret, Book & Scone Society, Ellery Adams   1:00:00- Spotlight Segment- Epistolary Books The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans Lady Susan, by Jane Austen  Dracula, Bram Stoker   The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky  Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple   Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Partial), by Mary Shelley  The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis  Address Unknown, by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Anne Shaffer  The Color Purple, by Alice Walker  Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding   The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte   Carrie (partial), by Stephen King The Martian (Partial), by Andy Weir  The Princess Diaries, by Meg Cabot The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels, by Janice Hallett  84 Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff  The Chestnut Springs series, Elsie Silver  Love & Saffron, Kim Fay The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, by Beth Brower To Sir Phillip with Love, Julia Quinn The Diaries of Anne Frank