Best Cellars

It's the final week in the pod-closet. To celebrate, we - two self-professed couch potatoes - have decided to read Choosing to Run by ultramarathoner Des Linden. Come for the stories about our failed high school sports records, stay for the high-pitched screams and the sweat.

THE BOOK: Choosing to Run by Des Linden

THE WINE: Unfiltered Natural Skin-Contact Wine with a Drunk Rainbow?

Grab your Birkenstocks, because this week, we're going OUT IN THE FIELD for this very special (read: unhinged) minisode, in which we break zero trademark laws! We are geniuses!!!

Are you ready to talk about INJUSTICE? So is Barb. This week, we read Demon Copperhead and unpack opioid addiction, the lack of rural superheroes, and what your non-mother-given-name is. Also, we apologize for the late post but it was Labor Day! We were resting!!!

BOOK: DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver

WINE: Odd Lot Red Blend

iCarly fans, take note: this week, we're reading I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy. On the agenda: trigger warnings. Also, our voices. Also also, some thoughts. Just listen, okay?

THE BOOK: I'm Glad My Mom Died

THE WINE: Primataccia

We did it. We read a Colleen Hoover. Do we have regrets? You'll have to listen to this episode to find out. Plus: What makes a lady thriller? Can it still be a meet-cute if you're both splattered with a stranger's blood? What is real: the letter or the book? (IYKYK)

THE BOOK: Verity by Colleen Hoover

THE WINE: Vertigo Riesling

A tale as old as 1992. (Or was it 1991?) Join us for our first VINTAGE best seller - the famed Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller - and discussion questions like: Do old people have better sex? Is Virgin Widow a valid romance trope? Would you let a dreamy man into your home if your husband was at a county fair and also, boring? All this and more in this round of Best Cellars!

THE BOOK: The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

THE WINE (ALCOHOL): Apple Brandy from Snowline Orchard

The wholesome-turned-cryforhelp memoir, Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton is this week's muse. Tune in to find out which of us is a Potterhead, how Tom feels about Jo, and whether Maddie can pull off a Cockney accent. (The jury is still out.)

Could Maddie and Tyler kill someone? If they were bad, would that be okay? Also, what exactly is the premise of 24? Find out all this and more in episode 5 of Best Cellars.

THE BOOK: Righteous Prey

THE WINE: The Stag

Do you like Shakespeare? Do you like duologies? Do you like immortality? Then tune into this week's episode, where we talk about Chloe Gong's book Foul Lady Fortune, romance tropes, Tyler's troll name, and how to steal Jeff Bezos' phone password.

THE BOOK: Foul Lady Fortune

THE WINE: Icebreaker Sake

Arrrgh, it's episode 3! This week, we dive into book 15 in THE BAD GUYS series. Tune in to enjoy a riveting discussion on kid humor, our deepest fears (bees), and the benefits of mass producing unhinged children's books.

THE BOOK: The Bad Guys in Open Wide and Say Arrrgh!

THE WINE: We don't remember!