This week we dissect our personal rating systems, gush our favorite online reading trackers (spoiler alert: it's storygraph), and discuss what makes us give a book five stars! We also chat about our recent five star reads and why they made the cut!

No spoilers this episode! Just vibes! Happy listening and tell us your recent five star read on instagram @Bringyourownpod

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This week we welcome our very first special guest on the pod, Logan of @lcsbookstagram on instagram! Queen of Small Town Romances and audiobooks, Logan walks us through her personal reading journey, how she discovered bookish communities, her favorite parts of content creation, and more!

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This week we talk all things audiobooks! We reveal our audiobook origin stories,  dissect our individual listening habits, and foam at the mouth over our favorite narrators. We also each brought our latest audiobook obsessions and provide evidence as to why it should be your next listen!

Audiobook picks (no spoilers just vibes):
Belladonna: 42:11
Juniper Hill: 52:02
Life's Too Short: 1:01:14

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First in our Author Spotlight Series: #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry! While gushing over our favorite novels written by Henry, we also discuss her recent rise in popularity, and how we each came to discover her work. And yes, we're talking all about her latest release Happy Place too!

Spoiler-filled discussion timestamps:
Beach Read: 28:48
People We Meet On Vacation: 48:37
Book Lovers: 1:07:41
Happy Place: 1:21:20

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This week we discuss our favorite smutty romance books! Brandi gushes over Give Me More by Sara Cate, Kendra is on her knees for Play With Me by Becka Mack, and Kayla turns bright red reading a scene from Heartless by Elsie Silver. We also go in-depth about our personal smut preferences, how we started reading spicy romances, and more!

Things get very NSFW very fast so we recommend listening with your earphones for this one!

Spoiler-filled discussion time-stamps:
Give Me More - 18:18
Play With Me - 42:04
Heartless - 58:00

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This week we're sharing our unpopular bookish opinions. We're giving our thoughts on the pregnancy trope, love triangles, discreet covers and more! For more on our unpopular bookish opinions or to tell us your own, follow the pod on instagram @Bringyourownpod

Episode contains spoilers for Heartless by Elsie Silver.

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Part two of our deep-dive into the #Booktok favorite Addicted/Calloway Sisters Series series by Krista and Becca Ritchie. We’ll be covering the remaining five books in the series: Thrive, Addicted After All, Fuel the Fire, Long Way Down, & Some Kind of Perfect. Follow us on instagram @BringYourOwnPod to keep up on all things happening with the pod!

Time Stamps:

Thrive:07:39

Addicted After All: 33:38

Fuel the Fire 50:09

Long Way Down: 1:11:33

Some Kind Of Perfect:1:31:35

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Part one of our deep-dive on the #Booktok favorite Addicted/Calloway Sisters Series series by Krista and Becca Ritchie. We cover our favorite books, characters and couples from the series, followed by and in-depth spoiler-filled discussion of the first five books: Addicted to You, Ricochet, Addiction For Now, Kiss The Sky, and Hothouse flower. Follow the pod on Instagram @BringYourOwnPod

Time stamps:

Addicted to You: 25:58

Ricochet: 49:00

Addicted for Now: 1:00:05

Kiss the Sky:  1:14:25

Hothouse Flower: 1:35:00

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In celebration of Women's History Month we've each brought our favorite Book Girlfriend. These are the fictional women who inspire us, teach us, and make us fall to our knees. No kidding, we would do anything to spend a single night with many of these women. Have a favorite Book Girlfriend? Tell us on Instagram and give a follow to stay up to date with the pod and see list of spoilers for this episode! @Bringyourownpod

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This week we’ve each brought our favorite trope! From Fake Dating to Single Parent- find out what makes these tropes stand out to us and the books that deliver on them! Have a favorite trope we forgot to mention? Tell us on Instagram and give us a follow to stay up to date with the pod and more! @BringYourOwnPod

Potential minor spoilers for: It Happened One Summer, Juniper Hill, The Soulmate Equation, Fallen Men, Happy Place, Terms & Conditions, Yours Truly, In a Jam, Wall of Winnipeg & Me, The Cruel Prince, The Simple Wild, Magnolia Parks, The Addicted/Calloway Sisters series, The Like Us series. 

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