Booked on Sundays

It's our FULL EPISODE on All Fours by Miranda July! Haven't read the book yet and worried you'll listen past a multiple warnings and breaks to get to the spoiler-full section? Check-out our earlier spoiler free preview!

Tune in as we unpack this woman-goin-through-it buzzy questionably explicit novel. This one is for anyone who's ever regretted a road trip, made charcuterie with avocados, or dedicated serious time to learning a tiktok dance. Have your own thoughts? We'd love to hear them! Submit a footnote!

For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. And check out the spoiler-full episode of A All Fours coming soon! Don't forget to book your Sundays!

Book blurb:

An irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious, and surprising novel about a woman upending her life

A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to New York. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey.

Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.

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Spring is a time of growth, rebirth, a welcome after a cold winter season. So why not kickoff our spring season with a book where our main character grows through a series of interesting, or maybe questionable decisions. Tune in as we unpack this woman-goin-through-it novel in our SPOILER FREE preview of our full episode on All Fours by Miranda July. This one is for anyone who's ever regretted a road trip, made charcuterie with avocados, or dedicated serious time to learning a tiktok dance. Have your own thoughts? We'd love to hear them! Submit a footnote!

For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. And check out the spoiler-full episode of A All Fours coming soon! Don't forget to book your Sundays!

Book blurb:

An irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious, and surprising novel about a woman upending her life

A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to New York. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey.

Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.

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Love is in the air with our read for this month! Tune into our FULL EPISODE for our first historical romance read of the pod, A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera. Hear learn our passionate feelings about the main characters getting passionate, and submit a footnote with your opinions on just how ridiculous the descriptions and word choice concerning copulation can really get!

For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. And tune in next month for our episode on All Fours by Miranda July. Don't forget to book your Sundays!

Book blurb:

Paris, 1889

The Exposition Universelle is underway, drawing merchants from every corner of the globe. Luz Alana Heith-Benzan set sail from Santo Domingo armed with three hundred casks of rum, her two best friends and one simple rule: under no circumstances is she to fall in love.

The City of Light is where Luz Alana will expand Caña Brava, the rum business her family built over three generations. It’s a mission that’s taken on new urgency after her father’s untimely death and the news that her trust fund won’t be released until she marries. But buyers and shippers alike are rude and dismissive; they can’t imagine doing business with a woman…never mind a woman of color.

From her first tempestuous meeting with James Evanston Sinclair, Earl of Darnick, Luz Alana is conflicted. Why is this man—this titled Scottish man—so determined to help her? And why, honestly, is he so infuriatingly charming?

All Evan Sinclair ever wanted was to find a purpose away from his father’s dirty money and dirtier politics. Ignoring his title, he’s built a whiskey brand that’s his biggest—and only—passion. That is, until he’s confronted with a Spanish-speaking force of nature who turns his life upside down.

Evan quickly suspects he’ll want Luz Alana with him forever. Every day with her makes the earl wish for more than her magnificent kisses or the marriage of convenience that might save them both. But Luz Alana sailed for Paris with her eyes on liquor, money and new beginnings. She wasn't prepared for love to find her.

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This month we are spicing it up with our SPOILER FREE Preview of our full episode on our first historical romance read of the pod, A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera. Listen in to learn our passionate feelings about the main characters getting passionate, and submit a footnote with your opinions on just how ridiculous the descriptions and word choice concerning copulation can really get!

For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. And check out the spoilerful episode of A Caribbean Heiress in Paris coming soon! Don't forget to book your Sundays!

Book blurb:

Paris, 1889

The Exposition Universelle is underway, drawing merchants from every corner of the globe. Luz Alana Heith-Benzan set sail from Santo Domingo armed with three hundred casks of rum, her two best friends and one simple rule: under no circumstances is she to fall in love.

The City of Light is where Luz Alana will expand Caña Brava, the rum business her family built over three generations. It’s a mission that’s taken on new urgency after her father’s untimely death and the news that her trust fund won’t be released until she marries. But buyers and shippers alike are rude and dismissive; they can’t imagine doing business with a woman…never mind a woman of color.

From her first tempestuous meeting with James Evanston Sinclair, Earl of Darnick, Luz Alana is conflicted. Why is this man—this titled Scottish man—so determined to help her? And why, honestly, is he so infuriatingly charming?

All Evan Sinclair ever wanted was to find a purpose away from his father’s dirty money and dirtier politics. Ignoring his title, he’s built a whiskey brand that’s his biggest—and only—passion. That is, until he’s confronted with a Spanish-speaking force of nature who turns his life upside down.

Evan quickly suspects he’ll want Luz Alana with him forever. Every day with her makes the earl wish for more than her magnificent kisses or the marriage of convenience that might save them both. But Luz Alana sailed for Paris with her eyes on liquor, money and new beginnings. She wasn't prepared for love to find her.

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Ready to dive into the depths of lore, religion, love, and power? Tune into our review of The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, and let us know your own thoughts about the book or our discussion by submitting a footnote here!

For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. Don't forget to book your Sundays!

Book blurb:

A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door.

Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.

Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.

Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.

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Ready to dive into the depths of lore, religion, love, and power? Or maybe you want to just dip your toes in? Tune into our SPOILER FREE Preview of our full episode on The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. We try to keep it high level for this high fantasy, talking about the origins of the world and initial thoughts in this preview. Read the book already or have your own thoughts, or simply just excited about dragons? Submit a footnote here!

For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. And check out the spoilerful episode of The Priory of the Orange Tree later this month! Don't forget to book your Sundays!

Book blurb:

A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door.

Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.

Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.

Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.

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If you tuned in to our preview - thanks! This is the full episode, starting spoiler free, and transitioning to spoiler full. Not sure you want to risk hearing any spoilers? Check out our spoiler free preview!

Welcome back! We are excited to return to your ears with season 3 of Booked On Sundays. We are starting off our season with an episode we recorded all together in the same room, which if there's something I know about love it's that love is being together with your best friends. Speaking of, our first book of season 3 is Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton!

Read the book already or have your own thoughts, or do you know something about love that neither us nor Dolly mentions? Submit a footnote here!

For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. Tune in next month for our episode on The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon! Don't forget to book your Sundays!

Book blurb:

When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and—above all else— realizing that you are enough.

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Welcome back! We are excited to return to your ears with season 3 of Booked On Sundays. We are starting off our season with an episode we recorded all together in the same room, which if there's something I know about love it's that love is being together with your best friends. Speaking of, our first book of season 3 is Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton! We are also excited to announce a little change to our release schedule. We will now post the SPOILER FREE beginning section of each episode a few weeks ahead of the full episode so folks who haven't read the book can tune in without fear of listening to far and getting spoiled! Read the book already or have your own thoughts, or do you know something about love that neither us nor Dolly mentions? Submit a footnote here!

For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. And check out the spoilerful episode on Everything I Know About Love later this month! Don't forget to book your Sundays!

Book blurb:

When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and—above all else— realizing that you are enough.

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If you've come here for a discussion on a self-help book on how to lose a time war, I'm afraid you're in the wrong place. However, if you are here for one our giggliest episodes yet discussing the lush and vibrant worlds of Red and Blue in This is How You Lose the Time Way by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, then you are absolutely in the right timeline. This is our season finale for Season 2, so we are going out in a bang! Join us as we pour over letters of time battles, gush over the romance of fish guts, and wonder if we will ever find this type of love. Per usual, we will continue with our Season 2 spoiler-free intros, where we will discuss our initials thoughts about the book before turning spoiler full in the second half of the show. We encourage you to tell us your own thoughts through a footnote, which you can submit here!

For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. We will be back in the new year with Season 3, but in the meantime, don't forget to book your Sundays!

P.S. This is one of our favorites.

P.P.S I do feel like we learn how to lose the time war so maybe if are looking for that sort of guidance, you might actually find it here.

Book blurb:

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.

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E.T phone home? More like fax home. Join us this month as we fangirl over our favorite alien Adina in Marie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland. This book is really the whole package - it made us think, made us cry, and made us laugh. Adina provides original (or unoriginal depending upon who you ask) takes on the human world that are downright hilarious. Amongst the laughter over her dry humor, we discuss the emotional journey we all had with this book as we follow Adina's life on Earth and her interactions with her superiors. Per usual, we will continue with our Season 2 spoiler-free intros, where we will discuss our initials thoughts about the book before turning spoiler full in the second half of the show. We encourage you to tell us your own thoughts through a footnote, which you can submit here!

For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. Next month we are taking a dive into sci-fi with This is How You Lose the Time Way by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, Don't forget to book your Sundays!

Book blurb:

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth.

At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different: She possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of Earthlings.

For years, as she moves through the world and makes a life for herself among humans, she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and surprising joys of their existence. Then, at a precarious moment, a beloved friend urges Adina to share her messages with the world. Is there a chance she is not alone?

Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a novel of startling originality about the fragility and resilience of life on our Earth and in our universe. It is a remarkable evocation of the feeling of being in exile at home, and it introduces a gentle, unforgettable alien for our times.

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