Coast to Coast Books

We wanted a scary spooky episode so join Kristen and Rosika as they engage in the ultimate fear factor challenge… letting someone else choose our next reads! Served with a heaping table of side quests: Kristen survives a Noreaster, Rosika embroiders to fulfill her mother’s victorian lady dreams, eldest daughters prevail at mid autumn festival, and mistakes were made all around in the shed building/ luffa growing categories!

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Creators Mentioned

Jay at my0.25life crisis

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Books Mentioned

Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino

Dungeon Crawler Carl: The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman

Julie Chan is Dead by Liann Zhang

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Alanna the Lioness by Tamora Pierce

Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce

The Circle Opens Series by Tamora Pierce

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

Join Kristen and Rosika this episode where (as usual) at least one of us is falling apart and one of us went on a book reading bender! Join us in celebrating banned books week by reading whatever the hell we want and no one can do anything about it! Also featuring tangents on joining dungeon cults, Brie Larson’s acting, and a heated debate about if licking lips is sexy at all.

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Creators Mentioned

Jay at my0.25life crisis

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Books Mentioned

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker

Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman

The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman

Hooked by Asako Yuzuki

Butter by Asako Yuzuki

Room by Emma Donoghue

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGinty

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Armed with zero professional qualifications and maximum confidence, Kristen & Rosika attempt to attack the scale of the AI apocalypse in the world of literature. Project Panama, AI generated language, AI translation , and AI in education are all up on the chopping block between two best friends who just really love books. This weeks tangents include: sports inflicted toddler meltdowns, the magic of little town libraries, and giving flowers to an author for world building outside the lanes of fantasy. 

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Creators Mentioned

Jay at my0.25life crisis

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Books Mentioned

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker

Chasing My Cure by David Fajgenbaum

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang

The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi

Shy Girl by Mia Ballard

1984 by George Orwell

Join our hosts Kristen and Rosika this week as they dive into what meaning book awards have on our life as average readers! Kristen also unwittingly reads almost all of Rosika’s recent favorites including the brothers Green, Trevor Noah, and just a little apathetic robot named Murderbot. As always we feature amazing tangents including: how capitalism is ruining the sports dreams of children, horses vs zebras, and Jay is back and gracing our mailbag! 

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Creators Mentioned

Kelly @kellyseeksbooks

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Jay at my0.25life crisis

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Books Mentioned

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

The Long Walk by Stephen King

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

Looking for Alaska by John Green

Dealing with Dragons by Patricia Wrede

The Pendragon Adventure Series by D.J. MacHale

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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In this extra long episode join Kristen and Rosika as they chat about mom life, garden life, and of course… trad wife in fiction life! Many tangents include: the joys of the football ultra section, nap miracles, summer barf, dinosaur squash patches, and cucumber-geddon. If you’re just here to listen to two best friends chat about Yesteryear skip ahead using the chapters below! Your loss though because the cucumber-geddon is peak comedy.

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Creators Mentioned

Kelly @kellyseeksbooks

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Jay at my0.25life crisis

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Books Mentioned

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

This Is Your Mind On Plants by Michael Pollen

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson

Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hershey

The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Enchanted Hour by Megan Cox Gurdon

Julie Chan is Dead by Liann Zhang

Bunny by Mona Awad

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Join Kristen and Rosika as they talk about the reading slumps that sucked them both under this year and the books that are getting them out of it.  Also featuring the antics of traveling solo with little kids, the profound suck of little baby colds, feral pumpkins, DIY loofas, animated crushes, and well adjusted childhood nightmares.

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Creators Mentioned

Kelly @kellyseeksbooks

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Jay at my0.25life crisis

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Books Mentioned

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

Stiff by Mary Roach

Gulp by Mary Roach

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto

Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum

Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal

Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan & Pia GuerraRemarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Bunny by Mona Awad

Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Kristen and Rosika check in on their new years reading goals and how successfully (or not) they have been at pursing them! Also featuring bookstore closing book hauls, being an unhinged chaos muffin at world cup betting, butchering Scottish words, and the comedic virtues of human blanket facsimile creations to appease tiny overlords.

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Books Mentioned

That Sounds So Good by Carla Lalli Music

Night Bitch by Rachel Yoder

Are You There God It’s Me Margeret by Judy Blume

Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation by Ari Folman

Recipes Mentioned

Gingery Beef by Carla Lalli Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5FltYLOZpE

Flash in the Pan Chicken With Burst Tomato Sauce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAuqteNsM0M

Join Rosika & Kristen this week as we wander wildly away from any tangible topic and valiantly manage to still have deep literary discussions about the books going on in our lives right now. We might just be the Everything and Nothing book club that you wanna join. Side quest conversations include: the downsides of being popular in your 30s, navigating the awkwardness of being the power eater of your friend group, being body shamed by a toddler, living Stardew Valley garlic farm dreams, & singing to chickens while blueberry picking.

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Creators Mentioned

Kelly @kellyseeksbooks

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Books Mentioned

Stiff by Mary Roach

Bonk By Mary Roach

Gulp by Mary Roach

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

The Crescent Moon Tearoom by Stacy Sivinski

The Witching Moon Manor by Stacy Sivinski

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow  by Gabrielle Zevin

Join Kristen & Rosika for this extra long episode talking about out profound and profoundly embarrassing experiences at author talks. There are some strong topics included particularly the discussion of the genocide being committed against the people of Palestine, so… fair warning. Special feature tangents include: giving up on puff pastry, sleep regressions, multigenerational bread bakeoffs, toddler birthday party era, finding the ultimate use for hospital socks, love letters to formerly stoned coworkers of our youth, & time traveling demented turkeys.

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Creators Mentioned 

Kelly @kellyseeksbooks

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Jay at my0.25life crisis

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Books Mentioned

The Official Stardew Valley Cookbook by Eric Barone and Ryan Novak

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld

Murder on Sex Island by Jo Firestone

The Murderbot Diaries Vol 2 by Martha Wells

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

American War by Omar El Akkad

Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney

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Join Kristen & Rosika for a whacky 50th episode where the garden talk turns into an actual show and we give book recommendations to the world of vegetables. We also confess our gardening sins, chat mother’s day celebrations, dental emergencies, and falconry in Irish castles. 

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Creators Mentioned

Kelly @kellyseeksbooks

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Books Mentioned

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

Maison Ikkoku by Rumiko Takahashi

Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

Hollywood, Ending by John Green

Lost and Found by Mercury Stardust

How to Be Heard by Roxane Gay

Heartstopper by Alice Osman

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Murder on Sex Island by Jo Firestone

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Never Enough by Jennifer Breheny Wallace

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry