Coast to Coast Books

Is it better to buy books or borrow books? And is buying books from Amazon really so bad? Kristen and Rosika also chat about the perils of home ownership DIYs, Kristen’s questionable relationship with books that end happily, and reveal exactly who keeps punching the microphone!

Books Mentioned

One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake

Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly  by Anthony Bourdain

Eat a Peach by David Chang

One Bake, Two Ways: 50 Crowd-pleasing Bakes with an All-plant Option Every Time by Ruby Bhogal

Bake Joy: Easy and Imaginative Bakes To Bring You Happiness by Kim-Joy

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Power by Naomi Alderman

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

Trashy Town by Andrea G. Zimmerman and David Clemesha

This week Kristen and Rosika wander off from the plot of the episode. Choosing to focus instead on the moral ambiguity of a potato related emergency & marinate on a book that makes us reflect on our time as ICU nurses. 

Books Mentioned

Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

World War Z by Max Brooks

Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson

Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater

Verity by Colleen Hoover

Kristin and Rosika drink a gallon of Hater-ade and joyfully yell about all the books they hate. And feel better about themselves for doing it, that’s definitely what happens. Spoiler warning for spoiled books in the beginning of the episode!

Creators Mentioned

Lexi aka newlynova

https://www.youtube.com/@newlynova

Books Mentioned

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

The Women by Kristin Hannah

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

The Things They Carried  by Tim O'Brien

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Join us this week as we swan dive into our love of cheesy and sometimes downright terrible romance novels! Love is in the air for Valentine's!

Creators Mentioned

You Can Sit With Us podcast

https://open.spotify.com/show/6xglolTDhKYA8OKyM8IgZQ?si=e17cea082a3d4444

Books Mentioned

Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater

The Maid by Nita Prose

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

Verity by Colleen Hoover

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Earth’s Children Series by Jean M. Auel

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J. Maas

Bride by Ali Hazelwood

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

Beach Read by Emily Henry

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Is finishing books always best? Should we be quitters or completionists? This episode explores the complexities why we do or do not DNF books! Also Kristen makes a friend at her local aquarium.

Creators Mentioned

Books Unbound

Books Mentioned

Oh Crap Potty Training by Jamie Glowacki

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Albatross by Terry Fallis

Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius

Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Emma by Jane Austen

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Looking for awesome reads for the year 2025? Check out this episode as we heap praise on our favorite reads of last year!

Creators Mentioned

Books Unbound

Jay at my0.25lifecrisis

Books Mentioned

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson

Braving It by James Campbell

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Boreum

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

Bride by Ali Hazelwood

North Woods by Daniel Mason

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

Rosika and Kristen talk about all things dystopia! Giving awesome book recommendations to you and trying to convince ourselves we're not in one!

Books Mentioned

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

The Power by Naomi Alderman

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

World War Z by Max Brooks

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Y: The Last Man (series) by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Inspired by Books Unbound Rosika and Kristen take the "Moody Readers" Book Tag together! Featuring many adorable tangents and a less cursed microphone for Kristen!

Creators Mentioned

The Moody Readers Tag was created by Slanted Spines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mhq-AXn3A0

Books Unbound

https://www.booksunboundpodcast.com/

Books Mentioned

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Onyx Storm (The Empyrean 3) by Rebecca Yarros

Dating Dr. Dill by Nisha Sharma

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 

North Woods by Daniel Mason

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh

The Last Word by Taylor Adams

Sun Flower Lion by Kevin Henkes

Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes

Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Fair Play by Eve Rodsky

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 

Best friends Rosika and Kristen begin our bookish hero's journey together in podcasting! Talking about our book related New Years Goals for 2025 and introducing ourselves to our listeners.

Thanks for being kind as we work out starting a podcast and getting the audio dialed in.

Creators Mentioned

Sara Elizabeth's fabulous takedown of why Goodreads is awful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ukjGdHfX8

See Rosika's recently abandoned Youtube channel themidnightreader

https://www.youtube.com/@themidnightreader

Books Mentioned

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Book by Haruki Murakami

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