Booked AF Podcast

We’re heading back to the dystopian life of the Red Rising Trilogy with Pierce Brown’s second book “Golden Son”. Get ready for a wild ride! 

Other books mentioned this episode

* The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown 

* Road of Bones by Demi Winters 

*  End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird

* Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

To prepare for the next episode, read parts 3 and 4 of Golden Son! 

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Hosted by Nancy Leal, Rebecca Tumino, and Vanessa Duncan

A little late on the upload but here’s Part 2 of Big Swiss! Get ready for a bumpy ride because this book was a challenge for a few of us!

Other books mentioned this episode

- Three Mothers by Hannah Beckerman

- Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas

- 5 years to Freedom by Rejean Venne

- The wrong daughter by Dandy Smith

- Beneath the Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan

- One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune

- The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

- You Shouldn’t Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose

- Tough Guy by Rachel Reid (3rd in the Game Changer series)

- Caught Up by Liz Tomforde (3rd in the Windy City series)

- The Road of Bones by Demi Winters

- The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

- Smoke gets in your eyes by Caitlin Doughty

- Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

- The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird

To prepare for the next episode, read Golden Son by Pierce Brown!

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We’re pivoting once again to a new genre that’s both chaotic and messy with Jen Beagin’s Big Swiss. We’ll be tackling chapters 1 to 9 in this first episode and trust us it’s a doozy.

Other books mentioned this episode:

The Long Walk by Stephen King

Darling Girl by Liz Michalski

Invisible Women (Data bias in a world designed by Men) by Caroline Criado Perez

Game Changer by Rachel Reid

Every Summer After by Carley Fortune

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry (a memoir)

The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson

How to Age Disgracefully by Claire Pooley - super cute

Started The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

To prepare for the next episode, read Big Swiss chapters 10 to the end!

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Time to finish off our hot takes and hypotheses for the first book in the Red Rising Saga (trust me, we’ve got plenty) and find out where the first book lies on our bookshelf. 

Other books mentioned this episode:

• I hope this finds you well by Natalie Sue  

• Two can Play by Ali Hazelwood 

• The Long Walk by Stephen King

• Heated Rivalry - Rachel Reid

• The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson

• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly 

• The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

• How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

• Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas 

To prepare for the next episode, read Big Swiss chapters 1-9. 

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We’re jumping into a whole new genre once again with some dystopian Sci-Fi vibes coming your way! A well-known new classic Red Rising by Pierce Brown, will be our March book club book, so join us for our usual chaos.

Other books mentioned this episode:

- Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

- It should have been you by Andrea Mara

- I hope this finds you well by Natalie Sue

- The Ascended by Grenwich and Lennox

- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

- Unsteady by Peyton Corinne

- Heated Rivalry’ by Rachel Reid

- Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

- This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

- The Strength in Our Scars by Bianca Sparacino

- The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a human-centred planet by John Green

To prepare for the next episode, read Red Rising parts 3 and 4.

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We’re finishing off this love story by Emily Henry and deciding where it will go on our famous bookshelf. Where do you think Great Big Beautiful Life landed?

Other books mentioned this episode:

- In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park

- Cold Cold Bones by Kathy Reichs

- Doomed by Chris Palaniuk

- Onxy Storm by Rebecca Yarros

- The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

- The Ascended by Bree Grenwich and Parker Lennox

- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

To prepare for the next episode, read Red Rising parts 1 and 2.

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We’re starting off our first Romance read for the love month of February! We’ll be jumping into Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry to see if we feel the love between the FMC, MMC and anything else along the way!

Other books mentioned this episode:

- The Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristin Harmel

- Sense and Second Degree Murder by by Tirzah Price

- Damned by Chuck Palahniuk

- A Death at Party by Amy Stuart

- The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

- Cold Cold Bones by Kathy Reichs

- In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park

- Eldritch by Keri Lake

- Drive by Kate Stewart

- Brimstone by Callie Hart

- Lies He Told Me by James Patterson

- The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

- The Ascended by Bree Grenwich and Parker Lennox

- The Savage Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie

- Assassin’s Blade by SJM

- The 7 husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

- Heir of Fire by SMJ

- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin?

- Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

To prepare for the next episode, read Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry from chapter 22 to the end of the book!

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We’re finishing off Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt! Join us as we finalize our thoughts, theories, and, of course, our rating of this book. (Will this be one we agree on finally??)

Other books mentioned this episode:

- The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown

- In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

- Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

- Good Spirits by B.K. Borison

- King’s Cage by Victoria Aveyard

- God of the Woods by Liz Moore

- The Savage Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie.

- Assassin’s Blade by SJM

To prepare for the next episode, read from the beginning until Chapter 22 of Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry.

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We’re jumping into a whole new contemporary book! Join us as we get into Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. This one might be a tear-jerker; see what we have to say.

Other books mentioned this episode:

- Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown

- Katabasis by R.F.Kuang

- The Rose Bargain by Sasha Peyton Smith

- Lovelight Farms by B.K Borison

- King’s Cage by Victoria Aveyard

- Sunrise on the Reaping by Susanne Collins

To prepare for the next episode, read until from A Three Martini Truth to the end of Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.

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We’re finishing up our first duology with the Crowns of Nyaxia! Join us as we finish off The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent. Let’s finish up and find out if we have ALL our questions answered by the end of this romantasy.

Other books mentioned this episode:

- Fourteen Days (a Collaborative Novel)

- Everyone in my Family has killed someone by Benjamin Stevenson

- The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown

- Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

- Red Queen and Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

- The Rose Bargain by Sasha Peyton Smith

- Holiday Ever After by Hannah Grace

- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

- The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas

To prepare for the next episode, read until from the beginning until A Three Martini Truth in Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.

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Hosted by Nancy Leal, Rebecca Tumino, and Vanessa Duncan