In Episode 69, Gen and Jette continue their series #Bookstagram Made Me Do It with These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong. In this retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in 1920s Shanghai, Juliette Cai and Roma Montagov are heirs to their respective gangs who have to work together to find …
I don’t know about you, but I love to reread my favourite books. It’s a somewhat controversial opinion. Some readers wonder why you’d waste your time on a book you’ve already read when you could be reading something from your never-ending TBR pile. I get it. I always feel a …
Are film adaptations a genre? They should be. And whatever they are, I love them. Yes, I’m aware how controversial that is in the bookish world but I’m coming from the film school world. It started with a class called “Film and Literature.” We weren’t always reading the exact book …
Gen and Jette talk about all kinds of writing with a wonderful guest. Kattie Thorndyke is a podcaster, engineer (with TWO Masters degrees), tea lover, technical writer, blogger, mom, and so many more things! Jette has been on Kattie’s podcast (The Otherwise Intelligent Woman) and now Kattie is returning the …
Well, here we are again. Stay at home orders. Lockdown. Whatever it is we’re calling it these days. If you’re in Toronto, like we are, you never really left. Either way, the pandemic fatigue is real and we miss the days of travelling, so in the meantime we’ll have to …
It’s time for another cup of tea and our first hangout episode of 2021! We’ll be real guys, it’s been a rough start. Still, there have been a few good things and even though we haven’t been reading as much as wanted to, we’ve read some great books as well. …
It’s happening. Another birthday in lockdown and this one is a big one. I’m not always excited about my birthday but this one was going to be special. I was going to go to New York City and celebrate my 40th birthday in style. I, however, will be celebrating at …
In episode 65, Gen and Jette discuss Like Streams to the Ocean, the latest from Jedidiah Jenkins, which covers all the things that make us who we are—ego, family, friends, home, work, and more. We loved Jedidiah’s first book, To Shake the Sleeping Self, and we loved his new one …
People are always asking me—how do you read so much? Meanwhile I’m over here trying to figure out how I can read even more because my TBR pile is starting to rival Mt. Everest. My greatest tragedy in life is knowing that I’ll probably never be able to read all …
Can you believe we’ve been in quarantine for a year? Ugh. Thankfully we have Instagram and the wonderful Bookstagram community to fill the hours with awesome bookish content. Living alone (asides from the #podcat) through this past tumultuous year felt lonely at times. But following these amazing bookstagrammers has helped …
