Show Notes
Your book besties are back and this week we’re diving into a buddy read that gave us feelings… and also sparked a full-blown texting game. What We’ve Been Reading
The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey Heretical Fishing by Haylock Jobson The Astral Library by Kate Quinn So Happy Together by Olivia Worley Women Living Deliciously by Florence Given
Buddy Read Chat
The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez
This week’s BRC has us talking:
audiobook vs. reading experience characters we love… and ones we’re not sure about emotionally messy relationships and the looming feeling that something bad is about to happen the entire time
Plus: Amanda unknowingly participates in Kat's quote-texting game, and honestly… it might be our new favorite tradition, well not Amanda's, not that she'll remember. New Releases This Week
How to be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself by Jenny Lawson The Faraway Inn by Sarah Beth Durst Son of Nobody by Yann Martel Nothing Tastes as Good: A Novel The Governess’s Guide to Spells and Managing Misfit Marquesses by Amy Rose Bennet A Good Person by Kirsten King A Widow’s Charm by Caitlyn Paxson Mothers and Other Strangers by Corey Ann Haydu Game On by Navessa Allen
What We’re Still Thinking About
complicated friendships and loyalty mother/daughter dynamics how Abby Jimenez balances humor with heavy topics and what we think is coming next in the series
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