In Episode 154, it’s time for another instalment of #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt with I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones. We just can’t stay away from the spooky books this summer, but this one has a distinctly summer vibe with it’s unique twist on the slasher genre. You’ll want to …
In Episode 139, Gen and Jette continue their #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt series with The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz. It’s our first whodunnit style mystery, and we had a great time. Show Notes While we’ve definitely seen this book floating around Instagram (hence why we picked it), we’ve also seen …
It’s time for another round of #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt! Actually, it was mostly BookTok this time. We’re finally diving into one of Colleen Hoover’s books. Verity has been all over Instagram and TikTok, and when friend of the pod Kattie read it, we knew it was time. We had a lot to …
In Episode 118, Gen and Jette continue their series #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt with Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. It takes place in a Tokyo cafe that allows people to time travel…though there are a few rules. We’re always suckers for a time travel story and immediately fell in love …
In Episode 114, Gen and Jette read the latest novel from Elissa R. Sloan, Hayley Aldridge is Still Here. The novel follows the life of former child star Hayley Aldridge as she tells her story and works to get out from under a conservatorship that she’s been in for a …
In Episode 98, Gen and Jette discuss The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. This episode falls into our #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt series, which lets us jump on the train of a popular book to see what all the fuss is about and if it lives up to the hype. The …
In Episode 86, Gen and Jette discuss Our Violent Ends, Chloe Gong’s sequel to These Violent Delights. (Listen to that episode here!) This book solidifies it — we’ll officially read everything Chloe Gong writes! Show Notes We go off on a few tangents about Shakespeare, retellings, and art history. Check …
In Episode 75, Gen and Jette talk about Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley. This is the third instalment of our #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt series. As with all the books we love, we kind of rambled on a bit, but we also talked about how well Boulley balanced the crime genre with real …
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 …
In Episode 60, Gen and Jette introduce a new episode category—Bookstagram Made Me Do It! We see so many incredible books on Instagram and we want to talk about some of the ones we had to get our hands on immediately. So we’re starting with The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes …
