Broads and Books

It's summer time, which means it's road trip time. And road trips mean sibling fights, meltdowns over sweaty knees, and driving towards doom (or Disney).

This week, we've got picks with vacations, travel, and murder houses, perfect for reading on your own trips. Plus, updates on Podcat's nefarious plans, and a proposal for Keith Morrison. Because, why not.

BONUS! Check out the all-new extra episode dropping today! We give you our top rules for road trips, PLUS a Spotify playlist!

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This week's picks include:


Fiction:

Amy: The Stand, Stephen King

Erin:  How to Start a Fire, Lisa Lutz

Other Books:

Amy: M Train, Patti Smith (Patti performing "Gloria") (Memoir)

Erin: The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson (True Crime)

Pop Culture:

Amy: Thelma and Louise (Movie) 

Erin: An Idiot Abroad (TV)

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Plus: Send us your ideas and challenges, and you could be featured on a future episode!  

Broads and Books is a book podcast, a funny podcast, and a feminist podcast. And you'll find we're one of the best podcasts. Each week Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste. 

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, unachievable reading lists, amazing business ideas, and so much more. We also update you on our mascot, Podcat, and her latest attempts to kill us. Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week. 

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Broads and Books is the funny and feminist book podcast you need in your life!

Each episode, Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste.

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, pitch amazing-slash-crackpot business ideas, implicate ourselves in future crimes, check in on our Podcats, and so much more.

Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week.

Visit us at www.broadsandbooks.com, and talk to us on Instagram and Facebook!

We see your unachievable body standards. And this week we've got picks that deliver a big FU to all of it.

Plus, we talk about the magic mirrors we wish we had, our adolescent beauty disasters, and advice for all the young women who think all this stuff matters.

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Fiction:

Amy: Dietland, Sarai Walker

Erin:  13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Mona Awad

Other Books:

Amy: The Fuck It Diet, Caroline Dooner

Erin: Smashed: Stories of a Drunken Girlhood, Koren Zailckas

Pop Culture:

Amy: Shrill (TV) 

Erin: Embrace (Documentary)

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Like what you hear? Subscribe to Broads and Books wherever you get your podcasts. And hey -- be a pal. Give us a rating and review while you're there! 

Plus: Send us your ideas and challenges, and you could be featured on a future episode!  

Broads and Books is a book podcast, a funny podcast, and a feminist podcast. And you'll find we're one of the best podcasts. Each week Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste. 

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, unachievable reading lists, amazing business ideas, and so much more. We also update you on our mascot, Podcat, and her latest attempts to kill us. Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week. 

Find links to all of episodes, along with bonus material, at BroadsandBooks.com. You'll also find ways to get in touch and follow along every week!

Broads and Books is the funny and feminist book podcast you need in your life!

Each episode, Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste.

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, pitch amazing-slash-crackpot business ideas, implicate ourselves in future crimes, check in on our Podcats, and so much more.

Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week.

Visit us at www.broadsandbooks.com, and talk to us on Instagram and Facebook!

Graphic novels. Illustrated memoirs. Instagram wonders. This week, we're all about picks that have pictures.

You'll also hear about the B. Dalton guy that haunts Erin's dreams, the terror of geese gangs, the horror of student artists with one name, and how we are erasing SnoCaps from existence. Plus: two of our picks are listener-recommended!

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Fiction:

Amy: Bitch Planet, Kelly Sue DeConnick

Erin:  Good Talk, Mira Jacob

Other Books:

Amy: The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui

Erin: Hyberbole and a Half, Allie Brosh

Pop Culture:

Amy: Dirty Computer, Janelle Monae (Music/Movie)
Erin: Keith Leans on Things / Please Hate These Things (Instagram)

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Like what you hear? Subscribe to Broads and Books wherever you get your podcasts. And hey -- be a pal. Give us a rating and review while you're there! 

Plus: Send us your ideas and challenges, and you could be featured on a future episode!  

Broads and Books is a book podcast, a funny podcast, and a feminist podcast. And you'll find we're one of the best podcasts. Each week Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste. 

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, unachievable reading lists, amazing business ideas, and so much more. We also update you on our mascot, Podcat, and her latest attempts to kill us. Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week. 

Find links to all of episodes, along with bonus material, at BroadsandBooks.com. You'll also find ways to get in touch and follow along every week!

Broads and Books is the funny and feminist book podcast you need in your life!

Each episode, Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste.

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, pitch amazing-slash-crackpot business ideas, implicate ourselves in future crimes, check in on our Podcats, and so much more.

Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week.

Visit us at www.broadsandbooks.com, and talk to us on Instagram and Facebook!

The Broads were issued a challenge this week from one special listener: find classic books that don't suck. Challenge. Accepted.

So this week we're giving you picks that are classic in every way, but are also damn good. Along the way we talk about the Broads' classic falls, revisit the great "do you the break the binding" debate, and dissect Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cream pies. For reals.
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This week's picks include:

Fiction:

Amy: Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Erin:  Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

Other Books:

Amy: "Still I Rise," Maya Angelou (Poetry) (and watch her performance of the poem)

Erin: "Death of a Salesman," Arthur Miller (Play)

Pop Culture:

Amy: Splendor in the Grass (Movie)

Erin: The Royal Tenenbaums (Movie)

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Like what you hear? Subscribe to Broads and Books wherever you get your podcasts. And hey -- be a pal. Give us a rating and review while you're there! 

Plus: Send us your ideas and challenges, and you could be featured on a future episode!  

Broads and Books is a book podcast, a funny podcast, and a feminist podcast. And you'll find we're one of the best podcasts. Each week Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste. 

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, unachievable reading lists, amazing business ideas, and so much more. We also update you on our mascot, Podcat, and her latest attempts to kill us. Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week. 

Find links to all of episodes, along with bonus material, at BroadsandBooks.com. You'll also find ways to get in touch and follow along every week!

Broads and Books is the funny and feminist book podcast you need in your life!

Each episode, Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste.

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, pitch amazing-slash-crackpot business ideas, implicate ourselves in future crimes, check in on our Podcats, and so much more.

Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week.

Visit us at www.broadsandbooks.com, and talk to us on Instagram and Facebook!

We're broads, and we like books. Sometimes better than the movie. And sometimes, we like the movie better. We're crazy that way.

So this week we're looking at books better than the movie, and for our pop culture picks, movies/shows better than the books. Along the way, we dissect the worst of movie annoyances, our favorite Batmans, and a bunch of other delightful nonsense.

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Fiction:

Amy: The Color Purple, Alice Walker

Erin:  This is Where I Leave You, Jonathan Tropper

Other Books:

Amy: Watchmen, Alan Moore (Graphic Novel)

Erin: Jarhead, Anthony Swofford (Memoir)

Pop Culture:

Amy: Game of Thrones (TV)

Erin: Molly's Game (Movie)

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Like what you hear? Subscribe to Broads and Books wherever you get your podcasts. And hey -- be a pal. Give us a rating and review while you're there! 

Plus: Send us your ideas and challenges, and you could be featured on a future episode!  

Broads and Books is a book podcast, a funny podcast, and a feminist podcast. And you'll find we're one of the best podcasts. Each week Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste. 

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, unachievable reading lists, amazing business ideas, and so much more. We also update you on our mascot, Podcat, and her latest attempts to kill us. Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week. 

Find links to all of episodes, along with bonus material, at BroadsandBooks.com. You'll also find ways to get in touch and follow along every week!

Broads and Books is the funny and feminist book podcast you need in your life!

Each episode, Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste.

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, pitch amazing-slash-crackpot business ideas, implicate ourselves in future crimes, check in on our Podcats, and so much more.

Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week.

Visit us at www.broadsandbooks.com, and talk to us on Instagram and Facebook!

Sometimes a sequel is actually BETTER than the original! This week's picks are about the magic that can sometimes happen when you revisit a good thing. Plus, the broads talk fashion trends that could stand to be revisited, and that creepy Doublemint commercial from back in the day. And Erin evades Podcat's attempt at murder. AGAIN.

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Fiction:

Amy: Invasion of the Tearling, Erika Johansen

Erin:  The Child, Fiona Barton 

Other Books:

Amy: Y: The Last Man, Bryan K. Vaughn

Erin: Spending the Holidays with People I Want to Punch in the Throat, Jen Mann

Pop Culture:

Amy: Thor: Ragnarok (Movie)

Erin: Narcos: Mexico (TV)

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Like what you hear? Subscribe to Broads and Books wherever you get your podcasts. And hey -- be a pal. Give us a rating and review while you're there! 

Plus: Send us your ideas and challenges, and you could be featured on a future episode!  

Broads and Books is a book podcast, a funny podcast, and a feminist podcast. And you'll find we're one of the best podcasts. Each week Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste.

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, unachievable reading lists, amazing business ideas, and so much more. We also update you on our mascot, Podcat, and her latest attempts to kill us. Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week. 

Find links to all of episodes, along with bonus material, at BroadsandBooks.com. You'll also find ways to get in touch and follow along every week!

Broads and Books is the funny and feminist book podcast you need in your life!

Each episode, Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste.

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, pitch amazing-slash-crackpot business ideas, implicate ourselves in future crimes, check in on our Podcats, and so much more.

Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week.

Visit us at www.broadsandbooks.com, and talk to us on Instagram and Facebook!

Yes, those words are all horrible. And they reveal this week's theme: The horrors of the workplace. 

These picks will have you nodding along in cringing solidarity. Plus, the broads talk their own personal work horrors, ideal workplaces, and our newest business venture involving gladiator matches. 

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Fiction:

Amy: Severance, Ling Ma

Erin: Company, Max Barry

Other Books:

Amy: "I Was a Playboy Bunny," Gloria Steinem 

Erin: Bad Blood, John Carreyrou 

Pop Culture:

Amy: "9 to 5" (Movie)

Erin: "Business Wars" (Podcast)

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Like what you hear? Subscribe to Broads and Books wherever you get your podcasts. And hey -- be a pal. Give us a rating and review while you're there! 

Plus: Send us your ideas and challenges, and you could be featured on a future episode!  

Broads and Books is a book podcast, a funny podcast, and a feminist podcast. And you'll find we're one of the best podcasts. Each week Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste. 

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, unachievable reading lists, amazing business ideas, and so much more. We also update you on our mascot, Podcat, and her latest attempts to kill us. Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week. 

Find links to all of episodes, along with bonus material, at BroadsandBooks.com. You'll also find ways to get in touch and follow along every week!

Broads and Books is the funny and feminist book podcast you need in your life!

Each episode, Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste.

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, pitch amazing-slash-crackpot business ideas, implicate ourselves in future crimes, check in on our Podcats, and so much more.

Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week.

Visit us at www.broadsandbooks.com, and talk to us on Instagram and Facebook!

This week, our picks will have you asking: what the actual what?!

These picks are genre-bending, category-defying, and all-around delightfully different. Plus, the broads talk animal hybrids, bread pudding restaurants, and jury foreman-ing, and Amy finally nerds out over her favorite chameleonic performer. 

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Fiction:

Amy: Eleanor, or, the Rejection of the Progress of Love, Anna Moschovakis

Erin: Water, Jennifer Wilson

Other Books:

Amy: The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson

Erin: Best American Non-Required Reading

Pop Culture:

Amy: Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, David Bowie (Album)
Erin: Fyre and Fyre Fraud (Documentaries)

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Like what you hear? Subscribe to Broads and Books wherever you get your podcasts. And hey -- be a pal. Give us a rating and review while you're there! 

Plus: Send us your ideas and challenges, and you could be featured on a future episode!  

Broads and Books is a book podcast, a funny podcast, and a feminist podcast. And you'll find we're one of the best podcasts. Each week Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste. 

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, unachievable reading lists, amazing business ideas, and so much more. We also update you on our mascot, Podcat, and her latest attempts to kill us. Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week. 

Find links to all of episodes, along with bonus material, at BroadsandBooks.com. You'll also find ways to get in touch and follow along every week!

Broads and Books is the funny and feminist book podcast you need in your life!

Each episode, Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste.

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, pitch amazing-slash-crackpot business ideas, implicate ourselves in future crimes, check in on our Podcats, and so much more.

Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week.

Visit us at www.broadsandbooks.com, and talk to us on Instagram and Facebook!

SO. MANY. ACTIVITIES. This time of year brings all sorts of gift-giving occasions. And we've got ideas for you. But in true Broads and Books fashion, we've got some twists.

Mother's Day:

• People I Want to Punch in the Throat, Jen Mann
• Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power Of Women’s Anger, Rebecca Traister
• Mother, Mother, Koren Zailckas
• The Dark Dark, Samantha Hunt

Graduation:

• Theft by Finding, David Sedaris
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain
• Bibliophile, Jane Mount
• Educated, Tara Westover

Father's Day:

• History of the World in 6 Glasses, Tom Standage 
• Essential Bukowski: Poetry,  Charles Bukowski
• Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami, Roben Farzad
• Red Clocks, Leni Zumas

Wedding:

• This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, Ann Patchett
• The Brutal Language of Love: Stories,  Alicia Erian
• Last Girlfriend on Earth, Simon Rich
• We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver

Birthday:

• How to Murder Your Life, Cat Marnell
• Everything is Teeth,

Broads and Books is the funny and feminist book podcast you need in your life!

Each episode, Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste.

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, pitch amazing-slash-crackpot business ideas, implicate ourselves in future crimes, check in on our Podcats, and so much more.

Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week.

Visit us at www.broadsandbooks.com, and talk to us on Instagram and Facebook!

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This week, we've got weddings. We've got marriages. We've got hamsters in tuxes, Podcat's own show, and a gaggle of sister wives. This episode has it all, just in time for summer wedding season. 

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Fiction:

Amy: Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff

Erin: Seating Arrangements, Maggie Shipstead

Other Books:

Amy: Safekeeping, Abigail Thomas

Erin: We are Never Meeting in Real Life, Samantha Irby

Non-books:

Amy: Kill Bill (Movie)

Erin: Queen of Versailles (Movie)


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Like what you hear? Subscribe to Broads and Books wherever you get your podcasts. And hey -- be a pal. Give us a rating and review while you're there! 

Plus: Send us your ideas and challenges, and you could be featured on a future episode!  

Broads and Books is a book podcast, a funny podcast, and a feminist podcast. And you'll find we're one of the best podcasts. Each week Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste. 

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, unachievable reading lists, amazing business ideas, and so much more. We also update you on our mascot, Podcat, and her latest attempts to kill us. Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week. 

Find links to all of episodes, along with bonus material, at BroadsandBooks.com. You'll also find ways to get in touch and follow along every week!

Broads and Books is the funny and feminist book podcast you need in your life!

Each episode, Amy and Erin choose a unique theme. Then we choose two fiction books, two other genre books (short story collections, memoir, non-fiction, true crime, poetry, etc.), and two pop culture picks based on that theme. We surprise each other with our picks, talk about why we like them, and give you unexpected recommendations for every reading taste.

Along the way, we share embarrassing stories, pitch amazing-slash-crackpot business ideas, implicate ourselves in future crimes, check in on our Podcats, and so much more.

Broads and Books is fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and basically the best time you'll have all week.

Visit us at www.broadsandbooks.com, and talk to us on Instagram and Facebook!