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Episodes
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Amberlee and Kim discuss what they have done successfully and any challenges they expect to happen.
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss the short story published in the Atlantic and how they struggled to understand it.
Sister Godzilla: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/02/sister-godzilla/302088/
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Amberlee and Kim talk about their experience and progress for the 2022 NaNoWriMo event. They introduce their stories, talk about their prep, and any pitfalls they anticipate for the month of November.
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Feliz día de los Muertos! While Kim suffers from an allergy attack, Sarah and Amberlee discuss what they loved, liked, and disliked in this Latinx YA read!
Sunday Oct 30, 2022
Sunday Oct 30, 2022
Amberlee, Sarah, Kim, and Mike continue their discussion on the Shining and the Stanley Hotel.
Sunday Oct 30, 2022
Sunday Oct 30, 2022
Amberlee, Sarah, Kim, and Mike discuss Stephen King's The Shining from the hotel which inspired an iconic book.
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss the Donner Party, cannabilism, and whether historical fiction should diverge far from the truth.
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss the tough topics of this book such as body dysmorphia, fundamentalism, and ratings.
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim explore tales of horror and tragedy for the town of Anoka in these indigenously inspired short stories.
Saturday Oct 08, 2022
Saturday Oct 08, 2022
Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim react to the idea of Love Hypothesis being turned into a movie!
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim begin a month of spooky reads with the gothic fantasy The Death of Jane Lawerence!
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss the works of Shirley Jackson, the writing it influenced, and recommend similar stories.
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss the semantics of romance in a well, plot, and, once again, Reylo fanfiction.
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss elevators, one night stands, and Ali Hazelwood's writing.
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss aliens, what makes good science fiction, and the sexual choices in this popular Tik Tok book.
Upcoming Episodes
1/31/2023 | The Poppy War| RF Kaung
2/7/2023 | The Last Graduate | Naomi Novik
2/14/2023 | Bonus Episode | Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake | Alexis Hall
2/21/2023 | Harrow the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir
2/28/2023 | Rapid Reads 17 | The Deep | Rivers Solomon
3/7/2023 | The Dragon Republic | RF Kaung
3/14/2023 | Rapid Reads 18 | The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Stories) | Ursula K. Le Guin
3/21/2023 | The Golden Enclaves | Naomi Novik
3/28/2023 | Bable | RF Kaung
4/4/2023 | Nona the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir
4/11/2023 | Exit Strategy | Martha Wells
4/18/2023 | The Burning God | RF Kaung
4/25/2023| Fugutive Telemetry | Martha Wells
5/2/2023 | Network Effect | Martha Wells
To Be Decided
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin
War of Two Queens | Jennifer L Armentrout
Misrule | Heather Walter