Broads and Books

This week, we're looking at manifesting. Is it just The Secret rebranded? Is it just confidence? Plus, the Broads talk about Spotify Wrapped, our dream boards for 2023, where Elon should take his dick rocket, and so much more. 

Links mentioned in the episode: 

• Song from The Proclaimers: "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"

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Our picks from Broads and Books Episode 127: I'm Gonna Be

Novels:

Amy: When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill 

Erin: I Told You This Would Happen, Elaine Murphy 

Other Books:

Amy: “'It’s Not Just Burnout': How Grind Culture Failed Women," Rachel Hilsop (Online collection)

Erin: Alive at the End of the World, Saeed Jones (Poetry) (Plus bonus pick from Amy: Vibe Check podcast featuring the author)

Pop Culture: 

Amy: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Hulu)

Erin: God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty (Hulu, Documentary)

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, we're looking at endings in all their iterations. Plus, the Broads talk about middle-aged closing times, the relief of breakups, navigating book holes,  delighting in billionaires' potential self-wrought endings, and so much more. 

Links mentioned in the episode: 

• Song from Semisonic: "Closing Time" 

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Our picks from Broads and Books Episode 126: Closing Time

Novels:

Amy: Killers of a Certain Age, Deanna Raybourn 

Erin: All That's Left Unsaid, Tracey Lien 

Other Books:

Amy: What is Home, Mum? Sabba Khan (Graphic Memoir)

Erin: Home Body, Rupi Kaur (Poetry) 

Pop Culture: 

Amy: Bad Sisters (Apple TV+ series)

Erin: If Books Could Kill (Podcast)

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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!

This week, we're looking at seizing the moment. Plus, the Broads talk seized moments gone wrong, the tyranny of "yolo," and much more. All in Erin's COVID-free but crusty-lounge-singer voice. Get ready.

Links mentioned in the episode: 

• Song from Starland Vocal Band: "Afternoon Delight" 
• The Anchorman version

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Our picks from Broads and Books Episode 125: Afternoon Delight

Novels:

Amy: The Women Could Fly, Megan Giddings 

Erin: Vacationland, Meg Mitchell Moore 

Other Books:

Amy: Fine: A Comic About Gender, Rhea Ewing (Graphic Memoir)

Erin: Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition, Amber Tamblyn (Essays, Nonfiction) 

Pop Culture: 

Amy: A League of Their Own (Prime series)

Erin: Witnessed: Mystic Mother (Podcast)

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, we're looking at books and picks with a cult following. Plus, the Broads talk food cults, cats turned humans, an overwhelming love for Taika Waititi and David Bowie, and so much more. 

Links mentioned in the episode: 

• Song from The Weather Girls: "It's Raining Men"
• Taika Waititi and Rhys Darby take a lie detector test 

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Our picks from Broads and Books Episode 124: It's Raining Men

Novels:

Amy: SlaughterHouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut 

Erin: Wifey, Judy Blume 

Other Books:

Amy: Heart of a Dog, Mikhail Bulgakov (Novella)

Erin: Reading the Stars: Astrology for Book Lovers, Book Riot (Nonfiction) 

Pop Culture: 

Amy: Velvet Goldmine (Movie)

Erin: Free Guy (Movie)

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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! 

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, we're looking at things that are too good to be true. Plus, the Broads talk attractive MLMs, the best gifts, romance from candy, and so much more. 

Links mentioned in the episode: 

• Song from Soft Cell: "Tainted Love"
• Amy's new book, Exile in Guyville 
• Sign up for updates / email newsletter from Amy 

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Our picks from Broads and Books Episode 123: Tainted Love

Novels:

Amy: Recursion, Blake Crouch 

Erin: Complicit, Winnie M. Li 

Other Books:

Amy: Mrs. Caliban, Rachel Ingalls (Novella)

Erin: Hysterical, Elissa Bassist (Memoir) 

Pop Culture: 

Amy: The Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Movie)

Erin: Untold (Netflix)

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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, Twitter, and Facebook! 

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, we're dancing on that line of confidence vs cockiness. Plus, the Broads talk definitions of sexy, horrible stock photos, the Podcats' new band, and the conspiracy of all conspiracies. And much more.

Links mentioned in the episode: Song from Right Said Fred: "I'm Too Sexy" 

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Our picks from Broads and Books Episode 122: I'm Too Sexy

Novels:

Amy: Half Sick of Shadows, Laura Sebastian 

Erin: Daisy Darker, Alice Feeney 

Other Books:

Amy: Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, Amanda Montell (Nonfiction)

Erin: When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold, Alia Trabucco Zerán, Translated by Sophie Hughes (Nonfiction, True Crime) 

Pop Culture: 

Amy: The Bear (FX on Hulu)

Erin: Fed Up (Podcast)

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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, Twitter, and Facebook! 

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 are leading from the heart. Plus, the Broads kick off a new season of themes, come down hard on pumpkin spice, consider our one-hit wonders, lament how our bodies betray us, and consider how ethics and emotion are weaponized. 

Check out the song from Dee-Lite: "Groove is in the Heart." 

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Our picks from Broads and Books Episode 121: Groove is in the Heart

Novels:

Amy: Eleutheria, Allegra Hyde 

Erin: Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance, Alison Espach 

Other Books:

Amy: Keen, Erin Stalcup (Novella)

Erin: I, Parrot, Deb Olin Unferth (Graphic Novel) 

Pop Culture: 

Amy: Everything Everywhere All at Once  

Erin: Elvis 

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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, Twitter, and Facebook! 

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, we're wondering how much time we've wasted worrying about being the right stuff for dudes.  Our picks take on the male gaze in unique and even horrifying ways. 

Plus, we're talking boy bands, Wahlbergs (and Wahlburgers), period pain for men, attracting creeps, and more. And we get a special visit from TWO podcats. 

Links mentioned in the episode: 

• Song from New Kids on the Block: "The Right Stuff" 

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Our picks from Broads and Books Episode 120: The Right Stuff

Novels:

Amy: How to Be Eaten, Maria Adelmann 

Erin: Dele Weds Destiny, Tomi Obaro 

Other Books:

Amy: Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation, Erika Krouse (True Crime, Memoir)

Erin: You Have a Friend in 10A, Maggie Shipstead (Short Stories) 

Pop Culture: 

Amy: Fresh (Hulu)

Erin: Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 (Netflix) & Musicbox Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage (HBO)

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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, Twitter, and Facebook! 

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, we're talking self-reliance and doing things yourself. Plus, the Broads talk solo travel, group projects, the best amusement park jobs, groupthink, and pumpkin profiling. Plus much more. 

Links mentioned in the episode: 

• Song from Whitesnake: "Here I Go Again" 
• President Obama's Book List

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Our picks from Broads and Books Episode 119: Here I Go Again

Novels:

Amy: The Actual Star, Monica Byrne 

Erin: Mouth to Mouth, Antoine Wilson 

Other Books:

Amy: LaserWriter II, Tamara Shopsin (Hybrid)

Erin: Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama, Bob Odenkirk (Memoir) 

Pop Culture: 

Amy: Loot (Apple TV+)  

Erin: Mind Over Murder (HBO)  

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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.broadsandbook

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, Heath returns! Our favorite guest star joins us for another packed episode filled with randomness across the ages. 

We're looking at our favorite pop culture moments of this summer, PLUS we're looking back at '80s summers and their pop culture glories.

View all the links and moments we mention:
Summer Pop Culture Vibes

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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, Twitter, and Facebook! 

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!