Episode 27: There’s Always a Mob, Man

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 tackle the very important issue of which books feel like August before Beccah experiences the literary equivalent of an identity crisis after enjoying several of her least favorite tropes. Summer continues her deep dive into the world of Sarah J. Maas to prepare for the upcoming book release in October. To wrap things up, we end with a Spotlight Segment exploring high school reading lists, while we, the obvious experts, decide what we think should stay, what should go, and what we'd assign instead. Books We Mentioned:  2:40- Spur of the Moment Question: If the month of August was a book genre, what would it be? S.A. Cosby novels The Dry, Jane Harper 7:25- Reading Round Up: 7:40- Finlay Donovan is Killing It, Elle Cosimano  14:30- Wells Ranch series by Bailey Hannah, specifically: Love Wells Kept 16:50- Rebel Blue Ranch series, Lyla Sage 17:05- Chestnut Springs series, Elsie Silver 18:40- Safe Haven, Nicholas Sparks 23:45- Resisting the Alien Rider, Ursa Da 26:00- The Vow, Movie (incorrectly cited as a Nicholas Sparks novel, whoops!) 32:30- Crescent City Series, Sarah J. Maas A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas Throne of Glass Series, Sarah J. Maas 42:00- Adversary to the Villain, Hannah Nicole Maehrer 47:43- Excavations, Kate Myers 51:28- Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters, Rick Riordan 51:55: Invisible Women, Caroline Criado Perez Spotlight Segment- High School Reading Lists Revisited The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald  The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett  The House on Mango St., Sandra Cisneros  To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston The Color Purple, Alice Walker Monster, Walter Dean Myers  The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne  Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Minister’s Black Veil, Nathaniel Hawthorne  1984, George Orwell Hunger Games, Susanne Collins The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood The Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway  Life of Pi, Yann Martel Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer The Things They Carried, Tim O’brien  The Martian, Andy Weir  The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho  Lord of the Flies, William Golding Stanford Prison Experiment, Documentary or Podcast The Lottery - Shirley Jackson  Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare Julius Caesar, Shakespeare Macbeth, Shakespeare Hamlet, Shakespeare  The Odyssey, Homer Circe, Madeline Miller The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien  American Born Chinese - Gene Juen Yang The Crucible, Arthur Miller Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury Night, Elie Wiesel The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka  Firekeepers Daughter, Angeline Boulley The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon  Out of My mind, Sharon M. Draper