#13: Fall Reading Challenge, Spooky vs. Cozy TBRs, and The Love Hypothesis Adaptation
The Everygirl Book ClubShow Notes
Lauren and Garri kick off The Everygirl Book Club’s October solo episode by discussing current reads, including the October pick And He Shall Appear, and disappointment with the Fourth Wing short-story collection Threshing Day. They note recent four-star reads, share ambitious October TBRs, then review The Love Hypothesis movie adaptation. They reveal a fall reading challenge with themed categories, debate cozy vs. scary fall tastes, create the perfect fall TBR, and close with LITigation on TBR pressure and whether readers must read other Sarah J. Maas series before the next ACOTAR release.
00:00 Intro 01:24 Read Receipts 06:10 Threshing Day 14:23 Lauren October TBR 18:18 Garri October TBR 25:39 The Love Hypothesis Movie Review 31:14 Adaptation Thoughts 36:17 Fall Reading Challenge 38:38 Cozy vs. Spooky Tastes 42:29 Building The Perfect Fall TBR 54:48 LITigation
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Books Mentioned And He Shall Appear by Kate van der Borgh Fallow by Sarah Anderson Fruit Fly by Josh Silver Twig's Traveling Tomes by Gryffin Murphy Threshing Day by Rebecca Yarros Understory by Chloe Benjamin by Emma Brodie Bad Words by Rioghnach Robinson The Knave and the Moon by Rachel Gillig The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig The Thief and the Traitor Bride by V. L. Bovalino The Second Death of Locke by V. L. Bovalino Play Nice by Rachel Harrison Witches of Cambridge by Alice Hoffman Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel Switzy by Emma Cline Grim Tidings by B.K. Borison Good Spirits by B.K. Borison Love Felt Like This by Julie Olivia If It Makes You Happy by Julie Olivia Tradwife by Saratoga Schaefer Main Characters by Bobby Palmer If Not You by Elena O’Clove Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna A Short Stay in Hell by Stephen L. Peck The Ex Hex by Rachel Hawkins The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood Normal People by Sally Rooney East of Eden by John Steinbeck Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) series by Sarah J. Maas A Court of Splintered Harmony by Sarah J. Maas Crescent City series by Sarah J. Maas Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas
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