Episode 22: One Robot Uprising Away from Switching Sides

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 take the opportunity to lovingly roast each other’s reading personalities, encounter both murderous mermaids and detective sheep, and wonder what ever happened to the Bermuda triangle? Then, we wrap things up with a Spotlight Segment on our biggest bookish “icks” – the words, phrases, and writing habits that make us want to gently set a book down and walk away (or catch on fire). Books We Mentioned:  2:30- Spur of the Moment Question: Bookish roasts Murder Bimbo, Rebecca Novack Every Summer After, Carley Fortune Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens The Mad Wife, Meagan Church Ice Planet Barbarians, Ruby Dixon Married to the Alien Cowboy, Ursa Dax   11:45- Reading Round Up: 12:00- The Deal, Elle Kennedy   23:45- The Road to Tender Hearts, Annie Hartnett   32:45- Eve’s Hollywood, Eve Babitz   35:00- Tehrangeles, Porochista Khakpour   38:40- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo; Daisy Jones and the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid   40:35- Into the Drowning Deep, Mira Grant   51:30- Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Rick Riordan   54:50- Three Bags Full, Leonie Swann   1:01:00- Pony Confidential, Christina Lynch   1:01:45- Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt   1:03:05- Booklist Magazine   1:04:45- A Time to Gather: How Ritual Created the World, and How it Can Save Us, Bruce Feiler   1:09:05- With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories, Nicole Nehrig   1:11:55- Spotlight Segment- Epistolary Books A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas The Edens series, Devney Perry Powerless, Elsie Silver Done and Dusted, Lyla Sage Carley Fortune titles Onyx Storm, Rebecca Yarros The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune Poem by Lyndsey Rush- “And the Shape of Her Body? Unusual”