Season 3, Episode 12: Big Bookish Feelings + Spoopy Season Reading
Today, Kaytee and Mary are discussing:
Bookish Moments: virtual author events and a library fake out
Current Reads: books that get better and better and have big emotions
Deep Dive: what is spoopy season? And what do we read for peak spoopiness?
Book Presses: spoopy presses for your shelves
As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down!
New: we are now including transcripts of the episode. These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!
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Bookish Moments:
2:14 - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
Current Reads:
6:01 - The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller (Mary)
9:34 - New York by Edward Rutherford (Kaytee)
11:54 - A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green (Mary)
11:59 - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
15:38 - Book 3 - I could find no evidence!
16:19 - Big Friendship by Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow (Kaytee)
16:27 - Scribd: try it out for 2 months free
17:03 - Call Your Girlfriend Podcast
19:29 - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness with Siobhan Dowd (Mary)
23:53 - My Storied Year by Katie Proctor (Kaytee)
Deep Dive - Books for Spoopy Season:
29:23 - The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
30:14 - City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
31:48 - Sweep: A Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier
32:40 - The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
33:48 - Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell
34:45 - Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
34:52 - A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
34:58 - A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock Series) by Sherry Thomas
36:56 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
38:00 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
38:11 - Jane Eyre narrated by Thandie Newton
40:32 - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
41:32 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
41:33 - Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
41:40 - Harry Potter by JK Rowling
41:41 - Tana French books
42:28 - Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
42:37 - Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
44:52 - My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, and Brodi Ashton (Mary)
44:58 - My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, and Brodi Ashton
45:09 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
47:42 - The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (Kaytee)
47:51 - It by Stephen King
47:53 - Pet Sematary by Stephen King
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