Episodes
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Alexa Play Auld Lang Syne
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran end Season 2 with some stats, reflections, and celebrate 44 episodes of complete nonsense. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads: Unruly by David Mitchell The Wager by David Grann…
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Why Does Everyone Have Fucking Wings?
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran recap the Sarah J. Maas podcast episode, feel fake earthquakes, and discuss the perfect Rhysand casting. Spoiler Warning for ACOTAR series, Throne of Glass series and Crescent City series. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma -...
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Hey So What The Actual Fuck
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran do another round of 1 star Goodreads reviews of their favorite books, discuss how romantasy names have gone too far, and what true love really is. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent...
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You Get A Dragon, You Get A Dragon!
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran talk about dragons, sing the Game of Thrones theme song, and how everyone wants to fuck Zeus. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads: Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson A Crown So...
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Simply a Silly Goofy Fun Time
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran talk about danmei (Chinese gay fiction), electrolytes, and Heated Rivalry. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads: The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark A Master of Djinn by…
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Can You Fuck The Wind?
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, for their Valentine's special, Emma and Fran talk about what makes romantasy a romantasy, plan a reading retreat, and shit on Valentine's Day. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads: The…
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Everything is Pirate Adjacent
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran talk about pirate books, drinking in Mexico, and how hot Kate Beckinsale is. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry Herman...
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The Anti-Christopher Nolan Club
Porking Scale: 🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran talk nonfiction books, AI cults, and why Emma hates Christopher Nolan. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads: The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman Fran's Recent Reads: Alchemized by...
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We Might Just Be a Tiny Bit Jaded
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran celebrate galentines by analyzing romance couples, roasting Fourth Wing once again, and talk Heated Rivalry. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads: The Bullet That Missed by…
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The One Where They Didn't Meet Their Reading Goals
Porking Scale: 🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran recap their bookish 2025 goals, their goals for 2026, and how 2026 is only chill no stress. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads: Heroes by Stephen Fry On...
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A Court of Psychedelics and Whiny Not-Volleyball Players
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma, Fran and Zoe discuss Crescent City by Sarah J. Maas, problematic romances, and why the hell are we in a tunnel. SPOILER WARNING FOR CRESCENT CITY SERIES BY SARAH J. MAAS! Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran -...
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The One Star For The Lobster and The Worms
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran play the Goodreads bad reviews game show, recall how they terrorize their dads, and real estate in San Francisco. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads:...
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Last Christmas I Gave You My Ass
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran discuss holiday books, mince pies, and why the fuck literal heirs to thrones are assassins. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads: Fallen City by…
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Lost in the Depths of AO3
Porking Scale: 🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran review and discuss books inspired by fanfiction, the Star Wars Extended Universe, and why people would reread books. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads:...
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No One Here Has a Frontal Lobe
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran recap Iron Flame, give a throwback to Dragon Tales, and mommy issues. Spoilers for Fourth Wing and Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros! Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent Reads: Emma's...
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Of Course There Are Dragons
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran discuss their top 5 must read books, the perils of Texas hotels, and how big books are not your friend. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads: Bride by...
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I'm a Hex Girl And I'm Going To Fight The Patriarchy
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran recap Fourth Wing, share ankle updates, and talk about The Expendables movie franchise. Spoiler Warning for Fourth Wing! Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent...
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The Expendables 5: Fourth Wing
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran recap Fourth Wing, share ankle updates, and talk about The Expendables movie franchise. Spoiler Warning for Fourth Wing! Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent...
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2 Spoopy 2 Furious
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran talk about thrillers, whether you can listen to them at 3 times speed, and how they are too smart for plot twists. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads:...
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You Get A Vampire, You Get A Vampire!
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran cover more Twilight memes, sapphic vampires, and how TSITP would be better with vampires. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads: Black Rose by Karina...
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Where The Hell Have You Been, Crazy Bitch?
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran finally cover Twilight, discuss how spooky cows really are, and Dracula's wigs. Spoiler Warnings for the Twilight series! Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent Reads: Emma's...
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Backstreet's Back (Alright, I Guess)
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran launch Season 2 by guessing books from bad summaries, discuss the supremacy of apple juice, and accidental cannibalism. Nuxe Lip Balm Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent…
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We Did It, Joe (Season 1 Finale)
Porking Scale: 🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran celebrate Season 1, gab about their favorite books of 2025 so far, and celebrate their Lord and Savior Hozier. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads: The...
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Space Jesus Chronicles (Leto 2.2's Version)
Porking Scale: 🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran recap God Emperor of Dune, how Arrakis is basically Palm Springs, and if you can truly be loved if you are a worm. Spoilers for God Emperor of Dune, Children of Dune, Dune Messiah, and Dune! Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma -...
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My Coochee is a Sacred Place
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran discuss sanitation and health in romantasy, why Fourth Wing is basically for horse girls, and whether or not toilet paper exists in romantasy. Spoiler Warning for A Court of Wings and Ruin (22:27 - 26:24)! Follow us on Instagram!...
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Honey, I Gave The Children Space Crack
Porking Scale: 🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran recap Children of Dune, talk about British paperbacks, and how nothing beats a Jet2 holiday. Spoilers for Children of Dune, Dune Messiah, and Dune! Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin…
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Its Literally Just Twilight Though
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran talk about their TBRs and more new releases, how The Summer I Turned Pretty is actually just Twilight, and book buying bans. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent Reads: Emma's...
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All Smut With No Plot To Be Found (Feat. Zoe!)
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma, Fran and Zoe discuss A Court of Frost and Starlight and Silver Flames, walking into doors, and having a poll for your parents mentioning grandchildren.. Spoilers for the A Court of Thorns and Roses and Artefacts of Ouranos series! Follow us on...
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What Even Is Fiction?
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran discuss fave mythology retellings, human sacrifices, and sitting like gargoyles. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads: The Fifth Season North Is The...
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The Vibes Are Simply Off
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran give their hot takes on books (again), discuss zombie romances, and how much smut makes something smutty. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads: One True...
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The Blue Man Group on Planet Not-Hoth (feat. Steven!)
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽 TW: Mention of dubious-consensual situations (29:07-29:21, 31:04-31:16) In this episode, Emma, Fran and Steven talk all things Ice Planet Barbarians, motorcycle maintence, and Willem Dafoe's massive schlong. Spoiler Warning for Ice Planet Barbarians! Follow us on...
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Paul Atreides and His No Good, Very Bad, Day
Porking Scale: 🐽 In this episode, Emma and Fran poorly recap the events of Dune Messiah, offend all of Australia with their accents, and why being Space Jesus makes you a bad husband. Spoiler for Dune Messiah and Children of Dune! Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma…
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The Real Housewives of Taylor Jenkins Reid (and Simu Liu) (feat. Haley!)
Porking Scale: 🐽 In this episode, Emma, Fran and Haley talk all things Taylor Jenkins Reid, Nexplanon's fantasy moment, and how the real enemies to lovers is the friends we made along the way. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent...
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I'm Rolling with the LGBT(QIA2S+)
In this episode, Emma and Fran talk about queer books, bisexual identity and coming out, and why male corsets are sexy. Spoilers for Red, White and Royal Blue and The Nightmare Before Kissmas! Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent...
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The Men Yearn For The Worms
In this episode, Emma does a terrible job of summarizing the first Dune book to Fran, they talk about the perks of showering after drinking, and how Timothy Salami is the absolute worst person ever. Spoiler Warning for Dune (the movies and book), Dune Messiah, Children of Dune and God Emperor of...
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1 in 5 Moms Approve of Smut (feat. Emma's Mom)
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽🐽 In this week's episode, Emma and Fran discuss the Mead Mishaps trilogy with Emma's mom Yo, why smut is fun to read, and whether its ethical to fall in love with a werewolf. Spoiler Warning for That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon (Mead Mishaps trilogy)! Follow Girl…
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Are You There, God? Its Me, The Plot.
Porking Scale: 🐽🐽🐽🐽 In this week's episode, Emma and Fran discuss their most anticipated new releases, why Cruel Prince is not a bully romances, and whether a book can have too much smut. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent...
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Time and Place Does Not Apply (feat. Zoe)
In this week's episode, Emma and Fran discuss A Court of Mist and Fury and A Court of Wings and Ruin with their friend Zoe, the perils of Bingo Night, and why Amren is spooky. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Spoiler Warning for A…
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Hunger Games 2: The Divergent Maze Runner
In this week's episode, Emma and Fran discuss movie adaptations, embrace their Twilight cringe, and Michael Sheen. Check out Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, CA! Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads: The…
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At 3x Speed, No One Can Hear You Cringe
In this week's episode, Emma and Fran discuss pros and cons of audiobooks, bathroom-related emotional damage, and why Emma no longer flies on American Airlines. Check out Emma's mom at Girl Take The Lead (Spotify, Apple Podcasts)! Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma…
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But Did You Grovel?
In this episode, Emma and Fran discuss second chance romances, how Fourth Wing and baseball are a wild combination, and how much you have to grovel to be valid. Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Recent Reads: Emma's Recent Reads: My...
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Its Actually Rye-land, Not Rhysand (feat. Zoe!)
In this episode, Emma and Fran discuss ACOTAR with their friend Zoe and cover alien penises, how dragons are definitely not dinosaurs, and how the Under the Mountain saga was just stupid. Spoiler Alert for A Court of Thorns and Roses series! Follow us on Instagram! @bookingwildpod Emma -...
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The Bookish Hot Takes That Might Get Us Cancelled
In this episode, Emma and Fran discuss post nut clarity, their grievances with Crescent City, why you should not introduce new characters late in the story, and why The Cruel Prince is the biggest disappointment. Minor spoiler alerts for Crescent City series, The Cruel Prince, and Artefacts of...
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Rambling About Books for 66 Minutes Straight
In this episode, Emma and Fran introduce themselves, talk about their fave genres, discuss the limitations of enemies to lovers, and absolutely not hate on Fourth Wing. Follow us on Instagram at: Podcast - @bookingwildpod Emma - @leatherboundgremlin Fran - @bibliophilebaldwin Like and subscribe…
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