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In Jessica Strawser's fourth book A Million Reasons Why, out March 23, secrets have a DNA all their own. In this interview, Michael and Jill chat with Jessica about the ways we define family, and how we put back the pieces of our lives after truths are told. A Million Reasons Why is already one of B**K It's favorite books of 2021. You won't want to miss it!

Also featuring by Jessica Strawser:
Almost Missed
Not That I Could Tell
Forget You Know Me

This episode is sponsored by Downbound Books.

In this episode, Michael and Jill chat all about to-be-read piles, more commonly known as TBR piles! How many books are in your TBR pile? How do you decide what's in your TBR pile? And does your TBR pile ever change? All of this and more is discussed, featuring Jill having an anxiety attack over Michael's reading habits and Michael being in shock about Jill's lack of unread books in her entire house!

Featuring:
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
A Million Reasons Why by Jessica Strawser
The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga
Read This For Inspiration by Ashly Perez

This episode is sponsored by the Blue Manatee Literacy Project.

In this extra episode, Jill and Michael sit down for an interview with Nancy Johnson, author of the B**K It! Book Club selection The Kindest Lie!

This episode is sponsored by the Blue Manatee Literacy Project.

In our first official book club selection, we discuss Nancy Johnson's debut book The Kindest Lie!

This episode is sponsored by the Blue Manatee Literacy Project.

When is something a gimmick and when is it the only way the story could've been told? In episode two, Jill and Michael explore some of their favorite gimmicky books, some of their least favorite, and some that are somewhere in between!

Featuring:

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

Texts From Jane Eyre Daniel M. Lavery

Pride by Ibi Zoboi

Such a Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster

This episode is sponsored by Blue Manatee Literacy Project.

We're back! In the season premiere of season two, Jill and Michael talk about their end-of-2020 reading habits, what they hope to read in 2021, and what they are definitely going to leave behind!

Featuring:
Caul Baby by Morgan Jerkins, 4/6/21
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel, 3/2/21
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas, out now
A Million Reasons Why by Jessica Strawser, 3/23/21
Revival Season by Monica West, 6/15/21
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict, 6/2021
The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson, 2/2/21

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This episode is sponsored by the Blue Manatee Literacy Project.

SURPRISE! We're back...sort of! Jill and Michael do a quick hello and introduction before the season two premiere next week!

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The season one finale of B**K It! is here with a long ass list of books! We discuss all the reading we did this year, our favorite books of 2020, and reflect on what a dumpster fire of a year this has been and how reading has been difficult, but ultimately as helpful as ever.

Featuring:

Friends and Strangers

Summer

Caste

Before the Ever After

The Daughters of Erietown

Conjure Women

Dancing with the Octopus

A Long Petal of the Sea

Kent State

Also: Old Lovegood Girls, The Nickel Boys, Stand Up, Yumi Chung!, The Blackbird Girls, The Jetsetters, The Queen Bee and Me, Ways to Make Sunshine, Dress Coded, We Are Water Protectors, Everybody Says Meow, Baby Monster, Seven Clues to Home, We Dream of Space

"Oh, it's just a guilty pleasure." How often have you said that to justify reading something you REALLY wanted to read? In this episode of B**K It!, Michael and Jill break down the myth of the guilty pleasure, why they shouldn't exist, and why you should read whatever you want to read free of judgement!

Featuring:

Jo & Laurie

Someday, Someday, Maybe

How to Find Love in a Bookshop

My Ex-Life

Nonfiction can be intimidating, no matter how much of a bookworm you are! Not only can it feel dense, but oftentimes, historical and nonfiction text misrepresents marginalized communities. In this interview with historian, author, activist and public speaker Blair Imani, we talk about how historical text has evolved, the work she hopes to do, and her personal history that got her to where she is today.

Featuring:
Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream
Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History