Babes Babblin' Bout Books

Welcome to our podcast, a cozy corner for book lovers of all kinds! 📖💛

This week, we're keeping things light and playing a bookish round of "This or That," similar to Would You Rather. We each came prepared with our own picks from a variety of categories, including genre preferences and a few out-of-pocket wild cards, and now we have to choose a side, no fence-sitting allowed.

What happens when the questions get a little unhinged? 👀 Will we agree, or will this episode reveal some serious bookish differences?

So grab your favorite mug, settle into your comfiest reading spot, and join us for a fun, low-stakes debate. Just remember: there are no wrong answers, only strong opinions! 🍂

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Welcome to our podcast—a cozy corner for book lovers of all kinds! 📖💛

In this episode, we're wrapping up our summer TBR and getting honest about how it all went. Did we actually finish everything on our list, or did life (and a few unexpected reads) get in the way? We're taking a nostalgic stroll back through June, July, and August, sharing the standout reads, the ones that fell flat, and a few in between.

So grab your last iced coffee of the season (or lemonade, we don't judge!), find a sunny spot while it lasts, and join us as we close out summer reading—one book at a time. 

Books Mentioned:

• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

• Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

• Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb

• The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

• Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

• This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum

• Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark by Jessa Hastings

• Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan

• The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jaqueline Harpman

• The Two Towers by by J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Burning Side by Sarah Damoff

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion: Vol 4 by Beth Brower

• Strangers by Belle Burden

• Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

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Welcome to our podcast—a cozy corner for book lovers of all kinds! 📖💛

In this episode, we’re putting our knowledge of each other’s reading tastes to the test! Dash, Paige, and Erin are each choosing a new book for one another to read in September. We're putting our friendship-fueled book recommendations to the test! 📚✨

Will we nail each other’s picks? Will we discover our next five-star read? Or will someone completely miss the mark? 👀 Either way, there’s something pretty special about feeling known, loved, and understood by your friends—and getting a new book for your TBR out of it!

Books Mentioned:

• Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevenson

• Main Characters by Bobby Palmer

• When In Rome by Sarah Adams

• Daisy Haites by Jessa Hastings

• The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley

• The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel

• The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

• Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

• Finding Grace by Loretta Rothschild

• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

• Whistler by Ann Patchett

• A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

• Artificial Wisdom by Thomas Weaver

• Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

• The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick

• The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

• Normal People by Sally Rooney

• Clementine Crane Prefers Not To by Kristin Bair

Welcome back to our podcast—a cozy corner for book lovers of all kinds! 📖💛 We're pausing mid-year to talk about the books that earned the full five stars. We're breaking down what pushed each pick over the top, the moments that made us laugh, the ones that made us cry, and exactly why you need to add these to your TBR. Grab your favorite reading drink and settle in—these are the reads defining our 2026. 📚✨

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Welcome back to our podcast—a cozy corner for book lovers of all kinds! 📖✨ In this episode, Producer J takes over the mic as the self-proclaimed non-reader reader to interview her three reader-reader co-hosts. From childhood reading memories and busy schedules to book budgets, reading habits, and the realities behind finishing book after book, no question is off the table.

Whether you're the kind of person who always has a book in hand or you're just trying to finish your first one in years, this conversation might just make you rethink what it means to be a reader. 💛

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Welcome back to our podcast—a cozy corner for book lovers of all kinds! 📖✨ This time we're trying something a little different: a strict buddy read! Dash, Erin, and Paige set themselves a page-per-day schedule for Jacqueline Harpman's haunting I Who Have Never Known Men—and the catch? No talking about the book with each other until the very last page was turned. No texting theories, no "wait, did you get to that part yet?", nothing. Just three readers, alone with the story, until it was time to finally compare notes.

In this episode, we're pulling back the curtain on how that experiment actually went. Did the strict schedule help us savor the book, or did it drive us a little crazy waiting to talk about that twist? We're sharing what we loved (and didn't) about reading this way, whether we'd ever try it again, and all the little moments we were dying to text each other about but couldn't.

Then, we dig into the book itself—the mystery, the isolation, the questions it leaves you sitting with long after the last page. So grab your favorite reading drink, settle in, and join us as we talk buddy reads, self-restraint, and one seriously unforgettable book. 📚🔒✨

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Welcome back to our podcast—a cozy corner for book lovers of all kinds! 📖☀️ In this episode, we're diving into our summer TBR, sharing the books we're currently reading and the ones we're hoping to finish before the season winds down. From stories we can't wait to get back to, to those long-awaited reads we're finally making time for, we chat about what's on our stacks and why each pick made the cut this summer.

We break down our current reads, our summer goals, and the reasons these particular books earned a spot on our list right now. Whether it's a book club pick or a story we've been meaning to get to all year, we're sharing it all—plus a few sneak peeks at what's waiting in the wings. So grab your iced coffee (or lemonade!), find a sunny spot, and join us as we talk all things summer reading—one book at a time. 🍹📚✨

Anne of Green Gables Box Sets mentioned:

Would look beautiful next to Emma M Lion

Little House on the Prairie Vibes

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Welcome back to our podcast—a cozy corner for book lovers of all kinds! 📖💛

We're talking DNFs. Did Not Finish. Maybe a few of the most controversial letters in the book community?

We're getting into all of it: what a DNF actually means to us, where the "soft DNF" fits in, and how we each decide when a book has officially lost us. Then we get personal talking about the books we quietly abandoned, the ones we probably should have put down way sooner but stubbornly pushed through anyway, and the ones we almost gave up on that ended up totally winning us over.

No shame, no spoilers, just three babes being radically honest about the books that didn't make the cut. Whether you're a "always finish what you start" reader or a proud DNF-er, this episode might just change how you think about putting a book down. 📚✨✨

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Welcome back to our podcast—a cozy corner for book lovers of all kinds! 📖💛

Can you believe we're already halfway through 2026?! Neither can we. This week, we're pausing to take stock of our reading year so far. We talk about how many books we've actually read and whether we're on track to meet the goals we set back in January.

We're diving into the Mid-Year Tag, which means all the good stuff: gushing over our best reads, confessing our biggest disappointments, and celebrating the authors and characters that completely stole our hearts this year.

Plus, we get honest about our goals for the year, talking about what's working, what's not, and what we're tweaking heading into the second half of the year. Expect real talk, a few surprising picks, maybe some tears (the books made us do it), and a whole lot of bookish enthusiasm.

Whether you're cruising past your reading goal or quietly pretending you didn't make one, this episode is for you. Grab your favorite reading snack and settle in. We think the second half of 2026 is looking pretty great. 📚✨

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Welcome back to our podcast—a cozy corner for book lovers of all kinds! 📖💛

Think you know your favorite book characters? So did we and then this episode happened! This week, we're putting our reading memories to the ultimate test with a quote guessing game. We take turns dropping a quote on each other with absolutely zero context and have to figure out which character said it.

From iconic one-liners to deep cuts that only the most devoted fans would recognize, we're covering the whole spectrum and let's just say some of us are a lot more confident than we should be. Expect plenty of wrong answers, dramatic pauses, and more than a few moments of pure disbelief.

Think you can do better? Play along with us and see how many you can get right before we reveal the answers! Whether you're a quote-memorizing superfan or just love watching us struggle, this one is guaranteed to be a good time.

Grab your favorite reading snack and settle in. Let's see who really knows their bookish quotes! 📚✨

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