In Episode 195, we’re officially wrapping up our 2025 reading goals and chatting about what we’ve been up to the last three months. (Surviving, mostly!) Lots of books are being read and writing plans are cooking! The real new year starts in spring anyway.
Show Notes
Jette is absolutely crushing her reading goals! And we both may need to update some of our Storygraph goals for 2026 because we’re way ahead already.
We visited Hopeless Romantic and the Hopeless Romantic/Little Ghosts crossover store at Union Station in the last few months. If you’re in Toronto, we definitely recommend checking them out! It turns out horror and romance are a perfect pair.
Since we have a Romance episode coming up at the end of May, we tried to curb our romance talk, but we will be doing a deep dive soon enough!
In our next episode, we’ll be talking about Slewfoot by Brom as part of our #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt series, since we’ve been seing it everywhere!
After that, we’re attempting to tackle our TBRs and reading M Train by Patti Smith, which we both have physical copies of. That episode will be out April 29.
And don’t forget to read along with our current book club, Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit.
Books & Authors Mentioned
The Windy City Series by Liz Tomforde
Elsie Silver
A Five Letter Word for Love by Amy James
Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy
A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James
This Is a Safe Space by Lucinda Berry
Crushmore: Essays on Love, Loss, and Coming-of-Age by Sophie Ansari, Nava Kavelin, and Penn Badgley
Rebel Blue Ranch Series by Lyla Sage
Soul Searching by Lyla Sage
When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice by Ilise S. Carter
Wells Ranch Series by Bailey Hannah
Silver Pines Ranch Series by Paisley Hope
All the Missing Pieces by Catherine Cowles
Anderson in Bloom by Jennifer Dugan
Passing by Nella Larson
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
The Fountain by Casey Scieszka
Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Game Changers Series by Rachel Reid
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
