Jess gets hives at the thought of 1930s forensics methods, and Janine is open to bribery, in this episode of Books & Banter, this week featuring American Demon: Eliot Ness

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Link to the Behind the door podcast here.

Link to the Homecoming podcast here.

Sources for fun facts can be found here and here.

AI portrait of Jack the Ripper can be found here.

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A Page to Screen special episode!

Jess hears “Capricorn” and thinks “candy corn”, Janine starts out not knowing who Andy Serkis is and ends up fangirling, and Janine and Jess agree on something controversial for a change in this episode of Books & Banter, this time featuring both the book and movie versions of Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.

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Place hold on the book recommended by Janine, 11/22/63 by Stephen King here.

Author website here.

Fourth wing podcast here.

Fun facts source article here.

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Jess dreams of a movie about a shark-ray hybrid (starring Steve Irwin), Janine reveals she doesn’t like Calvin and Hobbes, and both go on all manner of tangents to avoid talking about the actual book, in this episode of Books and Banter, featuring The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall.

Place a hold on The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea here.

Place a hold on the book Janine & Jess recommended, Fable by Adrienne Young, here.

Janine’s sources for this episode’s fun facts:

Are mermaids real?

21 Facts about mermaids

Mermaids and Merpeople

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Janine is sad for kids who are exploited by their influencer parents, Jess can’t stand the logical and scientific inconsistencies of cozy mysteries, and Janine finds Jess’s aggravation amusing in this episode of Books & Banter, featuring Death by Bubble Tea by Jennifer Chow.

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To check out the Hannah Swensen series Janine mentioned, click here.

Listen to the podcast episodes Jess & Janine mentioned:

Amish Vampires in Space

A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag

Twisted Tea Christmas

For fun facts, check out these articles:

Bubble Tea (wikipedia)

Bubble Tea leads to constipation

Bubble tea death

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Janine has no idea how to pronounce the name of that Greek Island, and Jess can’t pronounce “salete” or “chaperone” in this episode of Books and Banter, this time featuring A Semester in the life of a garbage bag by Gordon Korman.

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Fun facts can be found in this pdf on page 132.

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Janine shows off her Dolly Parton impression, Jess reels off her favourite facts about the appendix, and both spend as much time on tangents as actually discussing the book in this episode of Books & Banter, this time featuring Behind the Door: the dark truths and untold stories of the Cecil Hotel by Amy Price.

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Article on the Skid Row Running club here.

Article on the Cecil Hotel here.

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Janine is weirdly attached to her copy of certain books, and Jess (verbally) flails incoherently while attempting to describe the plot in this episode of Books and Banter, this week featuring a review of Homecoming by Kate Morton.

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Janine and Jess return to the Empyrean Riders again, all too briefly, before going off on a tangent (again), in this bonus episode of Books and Banter, this time featuring the bonus chapters of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros.

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To listen to the podcast review of Fourth Wing, click here.

The Verity bonus chapters podcast is here.

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Cynical and naïve make a triumphant return as Jess and Janine unabashedly fangirl, Jess is unnervingly good at thinking up torture methods, and Janine has no doubts about her complete inability to survive the gauntlet at Basgiath War College, in this episode of Books and Banter, this week featuring Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros.

To place a hold on Iron Flame, click here.

To place a hold on the first volume in the series, Fourth Wing, click here.

The Verity podcast is here.

The Holly podcast is here.

The Empyrean Riders website is here.

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Jess cannot stop referring to “How To Train Your Dragon for adults” and Janine is a sucker for reality shows, in this episode of Books & Banter, this week featuring Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros.