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Mostly Fictional — 154 episodes

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Ep. 154: Reading Books That Are Hot Online 🔥

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Ep. 153: A Very Series-us Episode 📚

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Ep. 152: Join Us In Our Boat of ARCs 🛳️

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Ep. 151: Pam Gets In Trouble at the Book Store 🫣

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Ep. 150: Dueling Book Clubs ⚔️

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Ep. 149: TOAD-ally Overwhelmed With Library Holds 🐸

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Ep. 148: Hallie Sows Chaos in a Company Book Club 😈

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Ep. 147: Pam’s Silver Medal for the Library Hold List 🥈

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Ep. 146: Feeling Evil and Diabolical About Our Reading 💖

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Ep. 145: Books News We Won’t Use But Maybe You Will!

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Ep. 144: This Week’s Mad Libs Reads

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Ep. 143: The Emotional Cash of a Reread 🤑

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Ep. 142: You’ll Never Guess The Comps Pam Makes For This Book

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Ep. 141: We're Reading Like Snails 🐌

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Ep. 140: Pam's Not Clowning Around With Her Reads 🤡

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Ep. 139: Our 2025 Reading Wrap Up + 2026 Reading Goals!

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Ep. 138: Choose Your Own Adventure: Skip Ahead in an Audiobook, or Accidentally Read Fanfic?

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Ep. 137: Who’s Reading a Mystery? The Suspense!

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Ep. 136: Pam Hauls S'More Books!

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Ep. 135: Hallie Is Trapped In a Book Box of Her Own Making

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Ep. 134: A Very Merry Bookish Gift Guide

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Ep. 133: Suspending Reads Into the Void!

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Ep. 132: Our 225B4GDBY Episode

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Ep. 131: Hallie Is In Book Purgatory

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Ep. 130: In Our Novella Era

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Ep. 129: Count How Many Vampire Books, AH AH AH!

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Ep. 128: Horror? For Fall? Groundbreaking

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Ep. 127: Pam Did "Method Reading" For a Scary Story

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Ep. 126: Jinx, We Both Have Book Hauls

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Ep. 125: A Wikipedia Page of an Episode

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Ep. 124: Multiple Years of Attempts at 100 Years of Solitude

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Ep. 123: Pam's Blue Period

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Ep. 122: Having Fun Isn’t Hard When You’ve Got a Library and Car

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Ep 121: We’re Not Artists or Chefs, Just Readers

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Ep. 120: Pam's Genius "On Hold" Book Strategy

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Ep. 119: Our Reading is Soiled!

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Ep. 118: Our Current Reads Need Red String Boards

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Ep. 117: How Are Our 2025 Reading Goals Going?

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Ep. 116: Pam's Small Book Haul From Across the Pond

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EPISODE 115: Pam’s Audiobook Has Ads?

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Ep. 114: What Hallie Read On Maternity Leave

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Ep. 113: Our Ranked Thoughts on Bookish “Aesthetics” and Items

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Ep. 112: A Garden of Titles (aka Flowers as Books!)

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Ep. 111: Pam's Birthday Book Haul feat. Her Husband!

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Ep. 110: Our Favorite Children’s Lit

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Ep. 109: Pam Breaks a Rule for Her Book Haul

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Ep. 108: Hallie Finally Finished a Book!

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Ep. 107: Hallie's On-Deck-To-Read List

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Ep. 106: Celebrating Spring with Cold, Ominous Reads

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Ep. 105: Pam's Current Reads Are Giving Her a Hug

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Ep. 104: Hallie’s Incredibly Bookish Weekend Adventures

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Ep. 103: Hallie Has a Loophole For Reading Her Current Book

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Ep. 102: One of Pam’s Reads Gave Her the Ick

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Ep. 101: Pam's "DNHF" Week

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Ep. 100: Our 100th Episode Bonanza! 🥳

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Ep. 99: Reading & Relaxation & … EELS?!?!

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Ep. 98: Our 2025 Anticipated Titles (& Hallie's Dragon Corner) 🐉

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Ep. 97: Does Pam Only Read Happy Books Now?

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Ep. 96: Hallie Wants Pam to Slow Down on Her Audiobook

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Ep. 95: Pam is Completing Hallie’s 2025 Reading Goals

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Ep. 94: Our 2024 Wrap Up and 2025 Reading Goals!

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Ep. 93: Pam Basically Researched Herself into a Mood Read

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Ep. 92: Our Accidental Canadian Author Episode

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Ep. 91: Our Current Reads Sound Like They're About Space! ✨ (They Aren't)

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Ep. 90: Did We Even Like Our Reads This Week?

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Ep. 89: Pam Unhauled Half of Hallie's Collection

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Ep. 88: Hallie Recommends Chaotic Reading Choices to Pam

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Ep. 87: Celebrating Halloween with Pam's Horror Movie/Book

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Ep. 86: Pam’s Library Haul and Hallie’s Three (!) Bookstore Trips

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Ep. 85: This Was Apparently Hallie's Translated Fiction Week

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Episode 84: How Pam Earned 20+ Books

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Ep. 83: We're 75% Into the Year, So Time For a Goal Update!

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Ep. 82: Hallie Watched a Book Adaptation Series Instead of Reading

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Ep. 81: Pam's Bright Young Women Year

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Ep. 80: Pam Can’t Figure Out the Fourth Narrator!

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Ep. 79: Pam Has Her Eye on a “Heist” Book

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Ep. 78: The Reading Pressure of a Long Weekend

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Ep. 77: Hallie Bought So Many Books She Can’t Even Tell Us About Them All

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Ep. 76: We Have a Chat in a Jane Austen Corner

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Ep. 75: We Survived Our Worst Reading Week

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Ep. 74: Hallie's Completed Another Bingo on Her Bookshelf Bingo

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Ep. 73: We Both Read Books About Violins?

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Ep. 72: We Made Up a “Weather Report” Tag

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Ep. 71: Pam's Spontaneous Summerween Reading!

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Ep. 70: We’re Midway Through the Reading Year and Freaking Out

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Ep. 69: Reading Books All the Way Through Their Author’s Notes and Acknowledgements

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Ep. 68: Pam Doesn’t Like Reading Her Name in a Book

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Ep. 67: Hallie May Have Found a Must-Read Author

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Ep. 66: Pam’s Notes For Her Book Only Say “Boring”

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Ep. 65: "Don’t You Love a Good Long Sad Book?"

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Ep. 64: Pam Gets Roasted For Her Chaotic Reading Week

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Ep. 63: Hallie’s Last Read May Have Made Her a Conspiracy Theorist

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Ep. 62: Somehow Hallie Already Read One of Pam's Birthday Books

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Ep. 61: Hopefully Pam’s Next Book is Depressing?

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Ep. 60: Pam's DNF and Hallie's Wish-I-DNF'd

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Ep. 59: Pam Lets a Book Go Gently Into That Good Night

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Ep. 58: A Quarterly Check In and a "Chunky Baby Leg" Reading Goal

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Ep. 57: Is This Pam’s Octopus Reading Year?

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Ep. 56: Rating Our Reading Weeks From 1-10

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Ep. 55: Pam's Multiple Choice Options For Her Next Read

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Ep. 54: The Oscars Were Very Bookish This Year

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Ep. 53: We're Both Reading Books About Food!?

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Ep. 52: What Are the Libby Awards?

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Ep. 51: Hallie Is Reading One of the Most Banned Books

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Ep. 50: The Love Languages As Books: A Valentine’s Day Book Tag

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Ep. 49: Pam's Honeymoon Reading and the Argylle Drama!

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Ep. 48: Hallie Reads a Poem From the Author of Her Current Book

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Ep. 47: Pam’s Bachelorette Bookstore Crawl Book Haul

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Ep. 46: Hallie is Accidentally In the Middle of Four Buddy Reads

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Ep. 45: The 2024 Books We Have Our Eyes On

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Ep. 44: Our 2024 Reading Goals (and Hallie Forgot She Had a Book Haul)

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Ep. 43: Our 2023 Reading Stats Episode!

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Ep. 42: How Did We Do On Our 2023 Reading Goals?

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Ep. 41: Hate-Reading and Describing Books As More Than "Interesting"

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Ep. 40: Did Stephenie Meyer Steal From Victor Hugo?

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Ep. 39: We Recorded This Episode on Hallie's Birthday!

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Ep. 38: Pam's Surprise Not-a-Book Haul

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Ep. 37: A Maggie Stiefvater Appreciation Episode (and “Grape Tomato” Books)

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Ep. 36: Hallie Has a Huge Book Haul and We Choose Our #TenBeforeTheEnd

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Ep. 35: We Both Read Magical Romances to End October

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Ep. 34: Hallie Discovered the Perfect Palate Cleanser Book

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Ep. 33: Pam's Book Has 12,000 Extra Words? Plus "The Guest" Book Club

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Ep. 32: We Discuss the Big Audiobook News

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Ep. 31: Transitioning Into Spooky Reads for Fall

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Ep. 30: Will We Finish Our Current Reads Before They’re Due Back to the Library?

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Ep. 29: Some Fun Facts and Not-So-Fun Facts From Our Current Nonfiction Reads

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Ep. 28: Pam’s Secret Haul and Hallie’s Beef with Book Stickers

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Ep. 27: Hallie Picks Pam's Next Audiobook

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Ep. 26: Hallie Finally Finished David Copperfield

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Ep. 25: Pam Tests Hallie on Canadian Slang

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Ep. 24: Pam’s Current Reads Are Summoning Autumn Vibes

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Ep. 23: A Surprisingly French Episode

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Ep. 22: What Does It Mean For a Book to Be “August”?

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Ep. 21: Book Hauls, Travel Nightmares, and Enjoyable Audiobooks

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Ep. 20: We Decide to Tidy Up Our Library Holds (And a Book Tag!)

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Ep. 19: We’re Halfway Through the Year — Time for a Goal Check!

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Ep. 18: We Go On A Tangent About Dream Sequences in Books

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Ep. 17: We Finished 8 Books and Pam Has a NYC Haul

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Ep. 16: Checking Out Books for the Back Half of the Year

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Ep. 15: Pairing Songs with Books, Plus an Awards Update

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Ep. 14: Pam Had Two Book Hauls and Hallie Read a Ton on Vacation

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Ep. 13: Creating a Rainbow of Books

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Ep. 12: A Check In On Our 2023 Reading Goals

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Ep. 11: Pairing Fiction and Nonfiction Titles By Vibes

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Ep. 10: Our 10 Formative Reads For Our Tenth Episode

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Ep. 9: Our Current Reads and a Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Buddy Read

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Ep. 8: What Are Our Most Anticipated 2023 Releases?

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Ep. 7: We Recommend "Janus" Reads to Start the 2023 Reading Year

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Ep. 6: What We Want From Our 2023 Reading

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Ep. 5: Our 2022 Wrap Up Episode! Stats, Superlatives, and More

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Ep. 4: We’re Already Thinking About 2023 Book Goals! Plus, a Spoiler-Free Book Club of Our Wives Under the Sea

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Ep. 3: Pam and Hallie Judge Books By Their Covers, and Pam’s Dog Also Shares His Thoughts

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Ep. 2: Pam Reads Books About Trains and Hallie Raves About Libraries

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Ep. 1: Meet the Readers: Annotating, Mood Reading, and What Makes a Book a 5-Star