Podcast: The Bookstore

It’s like a book club, but we actually read the book. Join hosts Becca and Corinne as they recreate their days working and hanging out at their local independent book store.

12.5 – Feuds – Please Don’t Ruin Marlon James For Us

Since scandals were so much fun, we thought we’d try our hand at talking literary feuds! It’s sort of like an episode of Ryan Murphy’s Feud, but in a podcast and about people who write books instead of a TV show about glamorous actresses. Next week we…

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12 – Hollywood Wives

Happy New Year! We’re kicking 2018 off by chatting about Jackie Collins’ catty bonkbuster Hollywood Wives. Content Warning! This episode talks about sex. Like a lot, because we’re talking about a book by Jackie Collins. It’s not hot sex, it’s not even…

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11.5 – We Love Flightless Birds (The New Zealand Episode)

Becca and Corinne talk about a being tourists in the country of New Zealand, about how some english words don’t mean what you think and others mean a lot of things, and about the book Corinne went there to buy (j/k that would be an irresponisble…

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11 – The Vegetarian

10.5 – 2017 In Review: Words is Hard

This week we introduce a new corrections segment and talk about our year in books with some recommended reading you haven’t heard us discuss on the podcast. Books mentioned: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Infomacracy by…

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10 – The Fifth Season

Sorry we’re late, and sorry for the inaccuracies, we’ll be addressing some of our mis-speaks in next week’s episode. Now that that’s out of the way: We’re back! And this week we are discussing N.K. Jemisin’s 2013 fantasy novel The Fifth Season. There…

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9.5 – Literary Scandals 101: Never Trust a Memoir

So we’re not actually talking about memoirs, that was just a funny line that I said when we were recording this. But we are talking Literary Scandals! All of the dirty, wordy, fraud you can handle this week on My Favorite Literary Scandal. We’re off…

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09 – Turtles All the Way Down

This week we have a very special guest: the guy who helps us produce this and also the guy who is married to Corinne, Josh Bourdon. We’re discussing . And also John Green in general. And also mental illness, and being in high school, and other things…

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8.5 – Okay – Look – We Know We’re Wrong About Romance

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller, Literary Fiction, Horror, NEW WEIRD. There’s a lot of genre out there. But what does any of it even mean? We have a lot of questions. And maybe some answers. (No guarantees). This episode was inspired by two…

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08 – My Favorite Thing is Monsters Vol. 1

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