Books n Things Podcast

Welcome to another #BookTalk with Books and Things hosts Judith and Roxana! This week we have a friend of the podcast and guest host Arthur Howell from 2 Cents Critic. This week's book was Alex Michaelides, a podcast favorite author!

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This wee we discuss  Benjamin Alire Sáenz's Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.

Next week we will read The Affairs of the Falcóns by Melissa Rivero.

This week's book was by Taylor Jenkins Reid! We thoroughly enjoyed every second of this journey. 

Join us next week as we discuss Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz!

Listen to us talk about food for 20 mins! That's the "things" in Books'n'Things!

Tune in next time when we discuss The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid!

This week Melissa join Judith and Roxana as they discuss this week's Book Report on The Midnight Library by Matt Haig!

Join us next time with The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe!

Join us for this week's book report on The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley! 

Next week's book will be The Maidens by Alex Michaelides!

This week we have a special guest: Jessica! She's excited to join us and discuss our Book Report with Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice. A glimpse into a post-apocalyptic world, this week's book was amazing!

Listen next time as we discuss The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley!

This week's Books and Things Book Report kicks off Spooktober with Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel!

Next week, a podcast favorite author, Stephen Graham Jones, brings us another great book for Spooktober: Night of the Mannequins! 

This week we bring you a Books and Things Book Report on Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Powers!

Join us next week as we truly start Spooktober with Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel!

This week our Book Report is on a great story by Laekan Zea Kemp, Something Between Bitter and Sweet!

Join us next week as we delve into another book by Rory Power: Burn Our Bodies Down!

This week our Book Report is on They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera! It was a touching YA story!

Join us next week as our Book Report takes us on an emotional coming of age journey with Something Between Bitter and Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp.

Join us this week as we give our Book Report on the great story that is The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood!

Next Week we read Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp.

We bring you a great mystery this week! Sit back and enjoy the show!

Join us next week for The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood!

We have a SPECIAL GUEST this week as discuss Body of Stars by Laura Maylene Walter!

Trigger Warning: This book contains sensitive subjects that we were not ready for. 

Wow! What a book! The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter is an intense and suspenseful story of how a tragic event turned Charlotte and Samantha Quinn world upside down. 

Join us next with a SPECIAL GUEST as we cover Body of Stars by Laura Maylene Walter!

This week we bring you One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London. A gripping tale of how a vlogger condemning a popular reality show gets the chance to find love in the most unexpected way. Will you choose Judith or Roxana to be your Main Squeeze?

Next week's book report will be on The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter.

Truly an amazing, suspenseful thriller, When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole takes us on a mystery plaguing Brooklyn. This story gives us a Get Out-type exploration of gentrification and it's destruction of a community and its people. People are going missing as their businesses and residences are snatched up as the changes being thrust upon forces some of them to rise up against the coming tide of yuppies and the affluent class.

Join us next week when we give you our book report on One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London. 

An homage to your mama's daily addictions satiated from your television sets, the story of Carmen Aguilar is filled with telenovela tropes! Once Upon a Quinceañera by Monica Gomez-Hira was a wonderful read and take on the "happily ever after story". We had a blast reading this novel!

Join Us next week with When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole.

Oona is on a trip. A trip through time. Each New Years she's teleported to a different time and age with time having kept going. What will befell our protagonist on her years time jumps? Join us this week as we talk about Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore. 

Next week we read something closer to home: Once Upon a Quinceañera by Monica Gomez-Hira!

This week we bring to you our Book Report on a mystery, thriller with a Hitchcockian premise! Anne Fox believes she sees something she shouldn't have across the street at her new neighbors home. What happens next is a story full of twists and suspense!

Next Week we will be discussing Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore!

Twins connected by quantum entanglement, Roger and Dodger are not your normal or average siblings. They were created by Reed, who plans on making the children extremely powerful. In this world, created by Seanan McGuire, secret societies and alchemy brings humans closer to being god-like. Very interesting and intriguing read of fantasy and science fiction.

Next week our Book Report will be on The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn.

This week Judith and Roxana delve into a devilishly, evil book of romance and murder. My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing takes us into the marital fetish of Millicent and her husband.

Join us next week as we read Middlegame by Seanan McGuire.

Hello Everyone! So much has been happening and we've missed sitting down every week with you all talking about books and things! Let us know if you have any ideas for books!

An homage to the Iliad, The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, takes us on a whirlwind adventure. A true epic we're sure you'll enjoy as well. 

Join us next week as we read Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall.

In Lock Every Door by Riley Sager, Jules Larsen's desperation of finding a job lands her a three month gig as an apartment sitter. Against her friends' wishes, she quickly moves into her the Bartholomew, a gothic, historic building in Manhattan where her $12,000 paycheck comes with an odd rule: absolute no interaction with anyone in the building. Is it too good to be true? 

Join us next week as we delve in to the mythological with The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller!

The books keep getting spicier! Don't get caught by your momma while reading this book. We hope you enjoyed this steamy, naughty modern romance, Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia HIbbert, as much as we did.

Join us next week as we give our Book Report on Lock Every Door by Riley Sager. 

This week Kacen Callender takes us on an emotional journey of self discovery and learning to love oneself with Felix Ever After. 

Next Week we will read Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia HIbbert.

Wow! This week things get risqué as we delve head first into a sexually charged story of drama and sex. This steamy story sweeps us into the life of telenovela actress Jasmine Lin Rodriguez as she runs away from the paparrazzi and into the arms of her hunk of a co-star. We blushed as we read You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria.  We hope you enjoyed it as well!

Join us next week as we discuss Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender.

 Legendborn by Tracy Deonn, an intriguing take on Arthurian Legends enchanted with Southern charm and history, swept us on a magically delightful journey into becoming one of our favorite books of the year!

Join us next week as we do a Book Report on You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria.

My Sister, the Serial Killer is a captivatingly dark noir story of Korede's efforts to cover for her sister. A page-turning thriller that has an abrupt ending, this book had us on the edge of our seats.

Next Week we explore fantasy again with Legendborn by Tracy Deonn.

A captivating tale of a young boy in the bayou that just lost his brother, the King and The Dragonflies by Kacen Callender, shows us a slide of reality that all children should be aware of. 

Next Week join us as we read My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.

The Deep by River Solomon is a novella based on an indie band's song of the same name. The hip hop group sketched out the world and River gave it life! An amazing journey for anyone to enjoy!

Next Week we read King and The Dragonflies by Kacen Callender.

A story for a different generation. This week we read a classic tale by one of America's most prolific writers. A Farewell to Arms takes us through a staccato-like telling of a soldier during WWI in the Italian Army. 

Next Week we dive headfirst into The Deep by Rivers Solomon.

Ahoy mateys! Ye salty dogs are in for a piratey treat this week as we discuss the Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller.  

Next week we read classic! A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. 

**TRIGGER WARNING: We cover multiple sensitive topics during this podcast such as domestic violence. We hope not to offend anyone as we cover this week's book.**

We read The Golden Cage by Camilla Läckberg for this week's Book Report and what a book it was! Hold on to your seats as we cover what the Los Angeles Times calls "A sexy, deliciously dark journey." A psychological thriller telling the story of a scorned billionaire's wife and her revenge to those that wronged her. 

Next we will sail the seven seas with Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller.

This week our Book Report takes you through a beautiful story of self-discovery and love with Something Like Gravity, a novel by Amber Smith. 

Next Week we read the Golden Cage by Camilla Läckberg.

This week we cover a doozy. Akin to the Strangers, Paul G. Tremblay took us on a whirlwind tour of a creepy, suspenseful survival story, The Cabin at the End of the World.

Join us next week as we read Something Like Gravity by Amber Smith.

The week we read a captivating story that stands the test of time. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a whirlwind tour of a young French woman who lives with an eternal curse to live forever and not be remembered by anyone she encounters. 

Join us next week as we read the Cabin at the End of the World by Paul G. Tremblay.

Fingers and Nipples! Things get steamy this week as we cover The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams! The story follows the riveting and titillating story of how second baseman, Gavin Scott, attempts get past second base to  to score the coveted Grand Slam in order to save his marriage. Will joining a secret book club help him understand what it'll take to slide into home and win his wife back? 

Next Week we will be talking about The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue from one of Roxana's favorite authors, V.E. Schwab, 

This week's read is a doozy! Join us as we discuss the riveting tale of a twisted and chilling love triangle with The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen!

Next week we will be reading The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams.

This week we delve into The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, a psychological thriller that had us on the edges of our seats. This story takes us on a wild ride into artist Alicia Berenson's mind and motivation for the murder she committed! This is one we couldn't keep silent about!

Join us next week as we talk about The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen.

This week we discuss the thrilling tale of The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware. This story unfolds through letters giving us the tale of nanny, Rowan Caine. Her tale takes us through a riveting story of her time at Heatherbrae House, a creepy house filled with surveillance systems spying on her every move. This suspenseful book kept us on our feet and biting our nails.

Join us next week as we cover another thriller by Alex Michaelides: The Silent Patient.

This week we delve into the DC Expanded Universe with the graphic novel Darkest Night! This comic takes us to the one of the darkest times in DC's history with zombies and action in super human form!

Join us next week as we discuss The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware!

This was a book! Join us this week as we discuss the roller coast rider that was The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones. This horror book was right up our alley with twists and turns and keeps us on our toes! Couldn't sleep without thinking of the Elk Woman!

Join us next week as Judith has us dive into the world of graphic novels with Blackest Night: Green Lantern!

Welcome to this weeks podcast where Judith and Roxana provide their insights into There There by Tommy Orange! This book is a doozy. A contemporary story that takes us on a whirlwind tour of a large cast of Native Americans living in the Oakland, California area. Unfolding into a rich tapestry of perspectives, each of the characters' trajectories are taking them to the same destination: the Oakland Powwow. 

Join us next week as we continue Indigenous Heritage month with a novel by Stephen Graham Jones: The Only Good Indians!

This week Roxana tells us all about The Road Back to Sweetgrass by Linda LeGarde Grove. A coming of age story of a young indigenous woman in the turbulent 1970s. This story kicks off weekly discussions dedicated to Indigenous Heritage Month from indigenous authors!

Join us next week as we discuss There There by Cheyenne and Arapaho author Tommy Orange.

Todas chupadas, this week we tell stories of famous legends both well known and not so well know from Latin America and the US. Our families and friends contributed to most of our leyendas. 

Next Week: We pay homage to indigenous Native American authors. Our book of the week is called The Road Back to Sweetgrass by Linda LeGarde Grover.  

Happy Halloween, Witches and Warlocks! Welcome to our special, creepy episode where we tell you spooky stories submitted by our listeners, our families' stories, and excerpts from our childhood favorite book: Scary Stories to tell in the dark.

Have fun and be safe this Halloween!

This week we read City of Ghosts and Tunnel of Bones by Victoria Schwab! We tap into the literary Veil alongside Cass as she explores haunted European locations with her parents, ghost hunters, The Inspectors!

Next Week: 

Put down your spell books witches and ghouls for an hour as we read to you scary and spooky leyendas (legends) from where our families are from! 

Don't forget to send us your scary stories for the following week!

Join us this week as discuss a classic, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley! Short and sweet episode this week!

Next Week:

We continue the celebration of Spooktober with Victoria Schwab's City of Ghosts! Find out next week about our thoughts and feelings on a haunted girl and her ability to open the Veil between the living and the dead. 

Don't forget to submit your short spooky stories and legendas so we can read them during our special Halloween episode!