Show notes:

You hear us say it at the beginning of every episode: we have very different reading styles! Yes, there’s some overlap here and there with genres or authors that we love, but for the most part, we gravitate in opposite directions when it comes to reading. As a result, the terms “Team Sarah” and “Team Mia” have become a shorthand we use to refer to our specific reading styles and habits. So, if you’ve ever wondered which team you’re on or what it all means, this is the episode for you. 

 

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Something Bookish:

[5:21] M: Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones

[6:55] S: Got a brand new Kindle Paperwhite!

 

Team Sarah Reading Recs:

• The Idea of You by Robinne Lee

• People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

• Open Book by Jessica Simpson

• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

• Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

• Vicious Lost Boys series by Nikki St Crowe

• How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann

• I Hope This Finds You Well by Kate Baer

• Wild by Cheryl Strayed

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

• In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune

• The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton

• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

• Love in the City series by Jen Morris

• The Thousandth Floor series by Katharine McGee

• The Selection series by Kiera Cass

 

Team Mia Reading Recs:

• Runaway Groomsman by Meghan Quinn

• The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey + Michaela Angela Davis

• Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

• I Would Leave Me If I Could by Halsey

• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

• Lost on Planet China by J. Maarten Troost

• How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

• The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

• Shadow and Bone series by Leigh Bardugo

• Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton

• The Borrowed World series by Franklin Horton

 

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Episode 86, Long Books We Love

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