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AudioShelf
by Britney and Brad
AudioShelf is a weekly book review Podcast and YouTube channel for lovers of all things literature! Your hosts, Brad and Britney, will discuss many different topics ranging from audiobook reviews, narrator & author interviews, and general industry topics. The episodes are enthusiastic, candid, and above all else, honest.
Episodes
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10 of the Best Books of 2020 | Episode 295
2020 was a good year....FOR BOOKS. There were so many wonderful releases and revisits that really helped us make it through. To be frank, there are a lot more books than 10 that really helped us, but we had to put boundaries up with ourselves! Let us know if any of the books on our list, also…
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The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver | Episode 294
Wow.....WOWWWWWWW. We are pretty sure that there is a new record for the amount of tears cried while reading a book, and we are pretty sure WE are the record holders :P. There's no two ways about it, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver is an emotional ride that you will probably cry…
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The Night Swim by Megan Goldin | Episode 293
Thank you NetGalley for supplying us with a copy of the audiobook for The Night Swim! The Night Swim by Megan Goldin is a very, very heavy book. We feel like we would be doing a disservice if we didn't say that there are many trigger warnings for both the main story arc as well as the secondary...
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The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard | Episode 292
The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard is a book that gave a mixed bag of feelings. We differ on our opinions of the characters as well as the pacing, but agree the narrators did an AMAZING job with this one. John Keating made us hate him so much thanks to his portray of antagonist Jim, and…
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The Guest List by Lucy Foley | Episode 291
This is a wedding that no one will ever forget! In Lucy Foley's novel, The Guest List, there are dark secrets behind every smiling and congratulatory face, and on the night of Jules wedding to Will, someone winds up MURDEREDDDDD! We listened to the audiobook of this thriller and boy was it a…
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Read It & Watch | Episode 290
Lifetime may think that it's cool, but their book to movie adaptations are out of control. We recently listened to the novel Ten by Gretchen McNeil, narrated by Tavia Gilbert. Ten is a YA thriller/horror about a group of teens that go out to a secluded island for a weekend of partying. However...
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Sister Dear by Hannah Mary McKinnon | Episode 289
One of us really loved this one. One of us got to the final 2% and just kept screaming "COME ONNNNNNN". Hannah Mary McKinnon's latest thriller, Sister Dear, is a polarizing novel that will make you side eye your parents and ask them if there's any chance that you have a half sibling that is super...
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Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron | Episode 288
When life gives you a bunch of tyrannical patriarchy lemons.....SMASH THEM IN THE FACE AND TELL THEM YOU PREFER ICED TEA. We all know the fairy tale of Cinderella: abused and treated as a servant by her step-mother and step-sisters, Cinderella was visited by a fairy godmother the night of a big...
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This is How I Lied by Heather Gudenkauf | Episode 287
We love a thriller with liars...which is basically all thrillers ever. Heather Gundenkauf's This is How I Lied is a suspense that will have you asking the big question of: What the heck is up with this town?! 25 years ago, 16 year old Eve Knox's body was found by her best friend, Maggie, and…
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How to Save a Life by Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke | Episode 286
In Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke's latest collaboration, How to Save a Life, they tackle the magical realism that is groundhog day. No, not the day that we where a rodent pops out of the ground and tells us if we'll have more winter or get spring soon, but the phenomenon of repeating a day over and...
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A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow | Episode 285
Well, sometimes you love the fantasy and some times you wish for more contemporary. That is exactly what happened to us with the audiobook version of A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow. The blend of realism with mythos, and half the narration just did not mesh with us at all. Now, that…
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Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas | Episode 284
This is a book that really knows how to kick some GLASS, hahahahaha! Sorry....dad joke from people who aren't dads. In all honesty, Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas takes some time to gain momentum, but when it finally does it's a book you cannot stop listening to. We did the audiobook version of...
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Are Vampire Novels Making a Comeback? | Episode 283
Welp, if 2020 wasn't weird enough, we have a resurrection of the vampire happening. It seems like every day there is a new book announced that focuses on the charming, blood suckers. Whether it's the 3rd time Stephenie Meyer is going to tell the same story with Midnight Sun, a fresh take on vamps...
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When I was You by Minka Kent | Episode 282
A thriller that is actually thrilling?! Say it isn't so! Minka Kent delivers a dream come true in When I Was You with early, middle, and late game twists, intelligence, and an unapologetic villain. We listened to the audiobook version of this novel and HOLY HELL were the narrators fantastic. Not...
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The Bookish Drag Tag | Episode 281
We're doing something light and fun this week and making up our own tag called the Bookish Drag Tag! The rules are simple, so if you want to play - please do! 1. Pick out your favorite RuPaul's Drag Race Queen 2. Think of a trait that they displayed on the show (creepy, emotional, full of heart,...
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All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban | Episode 280
We are starting to think that maybe the YA thriller genre isn't for us. Between all the inaccurate whiny teens, and the frustrating wrap-ups we just aren't thrilled with these thrillers. This week we tackled the audiobook for All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban, narrated by Kate Rudd. While…
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How the Young Adult genre has changed | Episode 279
If we asked you to name a YA book, what's the first one that pops in your head? Is it The Outsiders? Is it Little Women (Brad hopes not)? Is it anything that was assigned reading in your school that you'd have been completely bored with? Those questions are what inspired us to dive into the…
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Flipping Channels and Pages | Episode 278
Well, we're still here in quarantine and we aren't sure about everyone else, but we've been watching A LOT of TV. From the upbeat music of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, to the family in This is Us who just REALLY can't catch a break, we are sharing with you what we've been enjoying and books…
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The Lowdown on Lockdown | Episode 277
With Maryland under a stay-at-home order, we turned to a virtual medium to bring you our bookish opinions :P. Thanks, Zoom (not sponsored). Over the weekend we saw an article about a book called Lockdown by Peter May, a crime thriller about a pandemic that puts London in quarantine. Not so crazy…
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Is Goodreads censoring you? | Episode 276
A Goodreads librarian has got something against the monthly free audible originals and it's making people REAL mad. When Brad first noticed that his 2019 book challenge number dropped by 8 books, he started hunting for the cause. It didn't take him long to realize that Goodreads was deleting…
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Who is going to win this fight? | Episode 275
Here's the game. We each went through our Audible Original books, picked different ones to listen to, came together to have them fight it out on which one was better. Britney chose The Messengers, which was a March freebie for audible users, and Brad chose Tinaca Jones, which was a February...
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Audiobooks to last you through quarantine | Episode 274
We read an article from Yahoo called "10 celebrity narrated audiobooks to listen to while quarantined" and we started thinking "huh, you know who sometimes SUCKS at narrating books and the only reason their audiobooks do well is because they have a pre-existing fan base and have the publicity to...
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The Kill Club by Wendy Heard | Episode 273
This club is DEADLY. The Kill Club by Wendy Heard is a fast paced action thriller that centers around...yup you guessed it....a club that kills people. When our main character, Jazz, is contacted by the nefarious club and promised a means to gain custody of her little brother, she agrees to…
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YA fantasy authors dipping their toes into the adult fantasy pond | Episode 272
We have a questions for young adult fantasy authors...what pulls some of you to the adult fantasy world? In today's latest discussion we are talking about authors who started out in the YA world and then ventured into the adult scene, why they may do this, and what authors we could see dabbling…
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Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin | Episode 271
HOLY VENGENCE, BATMAN! Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin takes high school revenge to a whole new level. Think: the girls from The Craft, the colorful manic of Saved by the Bell, and a dash of Zac Efron's hair from High School Musical and you got Foul is Fair. All of that basically means AMAZINGNESS....
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It's a March Christmas Miracle! | Episode 270
We've had A LOT of book mail that is long overdue for some opening! It's Christmas in March over here and we are LOVING IT! Check out what we got in our massive book haul and thank you to all of the publishers and authors that sent their work our way! This is the audio from our latest booktube.…
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Episode 269
We are BACK with a book that has EASILY made it to our "best listens of 2020" list! We are obsessed with everything Taylor Jenkins Reid puts out, and so there's no surprise that The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is a smash hit. Old Hollywood + drama = our dream! This is the audio from our latest...
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These books need a rewrite! | Episode 268
You ever read a book that you like just fine, but you feel like something is lacking, or not right, or unnecessary? Well, we definitely have and we are taking those books to task today! We have 3 novels that we feel REALLY could have used a bit of something something to make them really…
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The Whisper Man by Alex North | Episode 267
Our parents taught us that if we don't have anything nice to say.....leave a review. So that's what we are doing today for the AUDIOBOOK version of The Whisper Man by Alex North. A drab narration, an okay story, and just bleh characterizations makes this our least favorite audiobook of 2020. But...
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Will we EVER read these books?! | Episode 266
We've been building our Forever TBR list since we were in elementary school. Books we've seen in movies, books our favorite teachers recommended, books Brad never got to read because he went to Catholic school until 8th grade. Our list has been STACKED for a long time. So long, in fact, we are...
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Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson | Episode 265
Never have I ever....enjoyed listening to someone scuba dive in a book - Britney. Never have I ever....wanted a book to get it over with already! - Brad. WE DON'T AGREE ON A BOOK! This is a rare occurrence in the universe that happens, maybe, only twice a year. Britney really enjoyed listening to...
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Setting each other up on blind dates.....with books! | Episode 264
We going on a date.....with some books. It's going to be real romantic, and even though people will tell us our love is wrong, but our affection for these papery beauts will be undeniable. This week we are playing a little game! We both scoured our bookshelves and found a book that we think the...
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The Wives by Tarryn Fisher | Episode 263
Ohhhhhooooo, The Wives is a supreme suspense that makes an overlooked day of the week front and center: Thursday! Think about it. No one likes Thursday, it's after Wednesday and right before the beloved Friday, except in The Wives....Thursday is EVERYTHING, because it's our main character's name...
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What does the thriller genre got against women? | Episode 262
So we've noticed something that is really interesting about most books in the thriller genre: they revolve around women. Either the woman is overcoming a tribulation, the story is based around a woman, or the woman is being stalked by some shadowy figure getting ready for MURRRRRRDERRRRR. We know...
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The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper | Episode 261
The scene: Brad has read Phil Stamper's The Gravity of Us, Britney has not. She's not a big fan of YA Contemporary, and Brad is trying to convince her to give this romantically sweet novel a shot. Will he convince her? Find out as we do a Reader Q&A of this LGBT contemporary new release! -- This…
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Books that make us hate our jobs! | Episode 260
We are feeling REAAAAALLLLL job envy today! Every now and then there comes a time when the main character (or minor character, lbr) in a book has a job that just makes you go "YES! THAT'S THE JOB I WANT!". 9 times out of 10 those jobs pay like garbage and wouldn't actually bring you any real joy,...
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The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware | Episode 259
We are BACK with another Ruth Ware suspense/thriller and this time we are going into the terrifying world of NANNYING! Just kidding....kind of. In The Turn of the Key we open up with Rowan writing about her experience at Heatherbrae House to a solicitor that she hopes will represent her in...
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Books that make us HOT! | Episode 258
Sorry, mom, for what you are about to support :P. We are breaking down our list of favorite books to listen to when we want to add a little steam to our day! It's not quite NSFW, but your co-workers may look at you and ask you to rewind so they can add the books we list to their wishlist, hehe!...
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Someone We Know by Shari Lapena | Episode 257
We LOVEEE a good Shari Lapena novel! In Someone We Know, she's got us convinced that she keeps a tiny town model somewhere in her basement where she gains her writing superpower by creating and destroying little plastic people's lives. And with Kristen Potter behind the mic to narrate this...
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Our first Book of the Month subscription box! | Episode 256
Hey everyone! Come check out what we have in our box! So the short story here is that there was a special happening for the Book of the Month, so we decided to try out the subscription service. Our thoughts: it's pretty great! This is not a paid promotion at all, just a couple of frugal shoppers...
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The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides | Episode 255
ALERT // This episode DOES contain spoilers, but there's ample warning before we begin our spoiler chat. The Silent Patient was the hottest read of 2019. A suspense that takes you into the psychotherapy world of Theo and the silent mind of Alicia. There's a huge twist in this novel that Britney...
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Checking out the Beacon Book Box | Episode 254
WELL it's Christmas all over again at AudioShelf as we bust into the Beacon Book Box we won last month! There's so much cool stuff in this subscription box from makers, artists, and authors. We are obsessed and are so happy that we WON SOMETHING! We never win ANYTHING! Do you have a subscription…
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A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer | Episode 253
Oh. My. Gawd! The book of the year is here! We feel like we've been waiting an entire year for this book to come out....BECAUSE WE HAVE! A Heart So Fierce and Broken is the second installment in Brigid Kemmerer's The Cursebreaker series. Much like the first novel (A Curse So Dark and Lonely), we...
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New Year, New Goals! | Episode 252
HAPPY NEW YEAR! We all know that with a new number comes new goals, which is what we are chatting about today! We have our sights (get it? because 20/20....heh...) set pretty high, but we feel confident that with the community's help we'll be able to accomplish it all! We hope your New Year is…
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Year in Review | Episode 251
2019 is coming to an end and we are giving you EVERYTHING in this is a jam packed special! Not only are we giving a little review of our year, but we are also dropping our TOP BOOKS OF 2019! If you wanna start your bookish 2020 off right, take a listen of what we tackled in 2019 and are…
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Merry Happy Holidays to All | Episode 250
Happy holidays! We hope that you and your family are celebrating the holiday season with lots of good food, happiness, and BOOKS! Cheers from us here at AudioShelf to a merry month! --This is audio from our latest BookTube. If you want to see us in action, subscribe to our YouTube channel! Read...
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Turning Christmas Books into Christmas Movies | Episode 249
It's Christmas time! And our Christmas wish is to be movie producers that have movie rights to all the happy, mysterious, semi-raunchy holiday books in order to turn them into Hallmark, Lifetime, Hulu, Netflix, ALL THE NETWORKS classics. Sure, most of them won't actually end up being any good…
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We hope our SOs don't get mad over our BOOK BOYFRIENDS! | Episode 248
If you could bring any fictional BOOK character as your date to your family holiday festivities, who would you take? Why would you take them? And do you think your reasoning uncovers a need for more daily hugs? Because that's exactly what we discovered about ourselves...... Check out our video,...
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Holiday Greetings from Sugar & Booze by Ana Gasteyer & Mona Mansour | Episode 247
The great thing about the holidays is that there's a lightness in the air that TRULY only happens once a year. It can help reconnect lost friendships, make new friendships stronger, and bring dysfunctional families together for at least 1 good day of cheer. It's a magical time and one that Ana...
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Christmas Drama | Episode 246
What IS a Christmas drama, and how is it different from regular dramas? There's a lot that goes into a Christmas drama in order to make it feel dramatic, wholesome, and holly jolly! We're diving in and breaking down the Christmas drama genre as well as offering some recommendation that we've read...
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AudioShelf is a weekly book review Podcast and YouTube channel for lovers of all things literature! Your hosts, Brad and Britney, will discuss many different topics ranging from audiobook reviews, narrator & author interviews, and general industry topics. The episodes are enthusiastic, candid, and above all else, honest.
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