Welcome to the Thunderdome! Join your hosts and a few new faces, Jess (@bookshelfbinge), Molly (@mollysmilesreads), and Shaye (@shayealexabk), while we deep dive into Apollycon 2022. Let's chat while Kearsten plays the ultimate hostess and tries to wrangle this rowdy bunch while they share their experiences with the ticket buying, volunteering, and the convention process. 

**Disclaimer: Everything shared in this episode will be our own opinions and experiences; we are not here to invalidate anyone's experience, we just wanted to share as much information with you as possible. 

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Our pick for the August Book Club is Vicious by V.E. Schwab, click here to join the discord and follow along! Our Journey thru Middle Earth Readathon is just starting and there is still plenty of time to join. Our first event will be a one hour reading sprint this Wednesday, August 10th at 4pm PST/7pm EST.

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