We read this year’s YA sensation, Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, and… we’ve got some questions. Next time we will be discussing Wind/Pinball by Haruki Murakami. Get it and read it and talk to us about it. Check out the website!  

We celebrate one year of podcasthood by answering your burning questions. We laugh a lot and talk about ourselves, truly a millennial woman’s dream come true. We have read Children of Blood and Bone for next week’s episode, you have probably heard of it.

We talk about our call in contest, reading Brooke Bolander’s The Only Harmless Great Thing, and how easy she made it to believe in a world where Elephants use sign language. CALL US AND maybe WIN BOOKS 616-730-1656. Next time we are reading…

Hey! This week we’ve got some news about a call in contest – our number is 616-730-1656, call us with a question or comment and win some books (so long as you live in the US)! We also talk about The Detroit Festival of Books AND bring you some field…

This week we discuss Terese Marie Mailhot’s memoir Heart Berries. Listen to find out why it’s unlike any memoir we’ve ever read. A list of media related things we bring up: -Roxane Gay’s Hunger-Native American memoirists Joy Harjo and Leslie…

We’ve reimagined the childhood fortune telling game MASH to be about our dream bookstore. Play it with your friends and tell us what wonderful places you dream up! Highlight this week: Becca calling children’s story time “a reading to children event.”…

This week on The Bookstore: fairy tales, scary stories to tell in the dark, and how large format cameras work. We read Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado and mostly don’t know what we think. Next read: Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

Scandals are back in this all new STAR STUDDED episode of The Bookstore! Learn how to game The NYT Bestseller List, and how to befriend your favorite author with the help of just a fax machine and a party city wig. If you’re new to the podcast and…

This week we find out why Less by Andrew Sean Greer is more than just a lighthearted, Eat, Pray, Love novel or more than even just a book about a dude writer. Our next few discussions are: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen…

This week we read I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan. And reader, we did not like it. Spoilers abound, but don’t worry because you’re not going to be reading this one anyway – we took care of that for you. Find out what sank this promising premise of a…