Raven Bookery Podcast

There are so many books on our respective TBR's, but what book are we most excited to read? Join the Raven Sisters as we talk about books we haven't read yet, but are anxious to dive into. Are any of these books on your personal TBR's? Let us know!

Here's a question for you. Are Superhero's SciFi or Fantasy? Join the Raven sisters are we (but mainly Samantha and Ann) discuss the categorization of Superheros, and maybe take a huge detour and talk about Star Wars.

Who is that one author that you have loved for years, but you feel like doesn't get enough love? Well, the Raven Sisters have a few authors to talk about. Join us as we give some love to authors who we feel need just a little bit more of it. Did we mention an author you like?

What has the random topic jar have in store for us today! From first lines to last, amazing insights to silly lines. Quotes are what is in store for us today! Join the Raven Sisters as we talk about our favorite quotes! What are some of yours?

What better way to start the new year than with a little mini ranting episode! Join the Raven sisters as we give each other space to rant. What would you rant about?

The books we read are vast and varied.....well most of the time. Sometimes we just read what we like and that's awesome! Listen in as the Raven Sisters discuss, and recommend, what our typical read looks like.

You know we all love to read, and the books we read are vast and varied. But what is our favorite to read? Join the Raven Sisters as we discuss those books that we just love to read and devour.

Within the Venn Diagram of our combined libraries, the Raven Sisters have a few authors in common. The main one being, Shannon Hale. Join us as we discuss one of our collective favorite authors and suggest a few books of hers that you might like to dive into yourself.

In this episode, the Raven Sisters discuss book reviewing. Whether or not we write them or trust ones that had been written. Join us as we talk about our own versions of reviews along with various other tangents. Enjoy!

What was the last book that you gave 5 stars? Join the Raven sisters this week as we go through a couple of our latest 5 star reads. And hey, maybe something might sound interesting to you.

Welcome back every body! Since we've been gone for some time, we decided to talk about what we've been up to for the last year. There have been new jobs, babies, and lots and lots of reading. So settle in, pull a random book topic from the jar, and lets jump back into this!

Some girls plan out what their wedding will look like from a young age. For Book lovers, we tend to dream and plan out what our personal libraries would look like. This week, the Raven Sisters discuss what their dream libraries would be and we help Samantha plan out how to actually make hers into a reality. Lets get to dreaming!

Join us on a magical journey through history as we discuss the historical fiction (fantasy) book Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan. Ann and Samantha have read and loved this book, while Lissi is reading it for the first time. Spoilers will be shared as we discuss the pains and heartaches of each part of this book, as well as the tearful resolution. Happy listening!

This month, the Raven Sisters are discussing "Big Tree" by Brian Selznick, selected by Ann. Join us as we talk about plants, trees, life, and how the moon is Earth's baby. As always, spoilers will abound.

Even though we all loved to read, we all have different tolerance levels when it comes to swearing, violence, and adult situations. The Raven Sisters are no different! Join us as we discuss our personal tolerances when it comes to language, violence, and bedroom activities. We also get a fun little #BookRant from our resident school administrator, Ann. **Slight content warning on this one. There is a brief discussion about disemboweling something.**

Heart starts beating, palms get just a teensy bit sweaty, there are butterflies dancing the cha-cha in your stomach. No you don't need to go to the hospital. You're in LOVE! In celebration of the day of love, the Sister's Raven have shared their favorite books that gave them all the lovey, dovey feels. Try not to swoon too hard while listening :)

We can all agree that reading, in any form, is wonderful. But what is the preferred way to consume a story? The Raven Sisters discuss print, e-book, and audio books in today's randomly drawn topic.

This book can be described as, Secret Garden meets Stranger things. Or, Wednesday Addams staring in an Edgar Alan Poe story written by a woman. OR Wednesday Addams staring in Stranger Things. However you describe Gallant by V.E. Schwab, we can all agree on the fact that this book was a wonderful read! Join us as we go into detail about the story and writing style. And, as always, spoilers will abound!

How do you keep your place in your current read? Do you go the traditional route and use a pretty bookmark? Are you a little more unorthodox and grab whatever is around you? OR are you completely unhinged and use ketchup or bacon? However you decide to save your place is up to the reader, but we can all agree, those who dog ear? Monsters. Enjoy! **Editor Note** We are still finding the perfect settings for our recordings and some episodes are better than others. This would fall in the "other" category. Sorry.

In our opinion, the Harry Potter books are wonderful and nothing can come close to the magic we feel and felt while reading. BUT we can't just re-read Harry Potter all the time, so what should we read? Well, the Raven Sisters have provided three suggestions that have they feel similar themes and elements as the Harry Potter series, plus with some honorable mentions. Enjoy!

You know when you're reading the synopsis of a book, or skimming reviews and things just start clicking? We know that feeling well. Join us as we pull from the Jar of Random topics! This week, the Raven Sisters talk about "green flags" before starting a book. They also can't help themselves and throw in some "red flags" too. As always, the opinions we express are just that, opinions and welcome all different ideas and opinions.

If you got through the title of this episode, Congratulations! The Raven Sisters talk about Brandon Sanderson's new book The Frugal Wizards Handbook for Surviving Medieval England. One sister enjoyed it, the other two have...thoughts. Many thoughts. Join us for a full on discussion, not only about the book, but about Brandon Sanderson in general. Be ye warned! Spoilers ahead!

Tis the Season of giving...BOOKS! It's no secret that the Raven Sisters love books and bookish merchandise, but what was the best gift given? Were there any "bad" gifts given? Join us as we discuss book gift giving, and so much more.

On this special Thanksgiving episode, we express our personal relationships with books and reading, and discuss the benefits that come with taking time to read. Thank you to all of you who have listened and have joined in the conversation. We love all of you! <3 Side note: All three of us were sick during recording, so please excuse coughing, sniffling's, and sneezing's. Thank you!

We are all busy with life. School, work, families, church and other responsibilities. How are we able to fit reading time in-between everything else that needs to be done? Well, the Raven Sister discuss some interesting and fun ways to fit in that precious reading time.

Have you been recommended a book to read, and then you turn around and recommend it to someone else? Well, that is what we call a recommendation chain. Copy Write, Raven Bookery, 2023. Join us as we talk about books that were suggested to us, that we suggest to others.

We've read so many books and fairy tales have always been a go-to for all of us. But what has been our favorite retelling? Will Lissi share a Cinderella retelling? Will Samantha finally find a Beauty and the Beast retelling she likes? Will we ever get to Ann's book? Listen in to find out!

With all of our busy lives, when do we actually find the time to read? Join us as we talk about the random times we choose to read and can squeeze in a chapter or two. The conversation morphs into a somewhat competition of who has stayed up the longest reading. What can we say. We're sisters. Everything is a competition.

It's book club time! I hope you all read and enjoyed My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows because we sure did! Join us as we share our favorite parts of the story. Be aware, we are talking about the WHOLE book so take this as your spoiler warning. :)

You know when you're chatting with your book besties about books, your conversations just go off in random directions? That's pretty much what this episode is all about. Thanks to the jar of topics (now officially the name) we talk about two different topics, but it really turns into 3. I hope you have as much fun listening as we did recording!

Oh the positions we get ourselves into while reading. Some of them are normal, but others, maybe not so much. Laugh along with us as we discuss the weird, random, and unique ways we choose to read and listen to books. Remember, it's not where you read, it's the fact that you're reading that counts.

Join us as we have a book club type discussion of our favorite childhood book, Ella Enchanted. We talk about the book, what came after reading the book, and a bunch of other random topics. Be warned, there are spoilers for Ella Enchanted. Enjoy!

Join us for our first pull from the jar of topics. What will it be? Will the three sisters agree in their opinions? Will the house be divided against itself? Don't worry, we will still love each other when it's over... Or will we. *Please note, the items discussed in the episode (and all book topic episodes to come) are simply our opinions. We love hearing other's thoughts and opinions and invite you to join in our conversation!

When was the last time you laughed so hard you spewed your drink, or choked on a piece of food? We each love to laugh and love it when a book makes us laugh out loud. So we've each chosen a book that did just that. Enjoy!

Hello there you beautiful people! Welcome to our first ever podcast episode of our brand new podcast! We are so excited to share with your our bookish thoughts and to get a conversation going about random bookish topics. Enjoy the episode! **Just as a disclaimer, this is our first ever episode we recorded, and so things are a little, uhm, scattered? It get's better, we promise :D**