Welcome back to I Reckon I’ll Read It, a podcast where two Okie gals talk books, share recs, and don’t hold back on their mighty big opinions. Join Beccah and Summer in some good-old-fashioned book talk. 

This week, we kick things off with another Reading Roundup: two books we’ve finished, two we’re currently reading, and two that are up next. From there, we take the opportunity to lovingly roast each other’s reading personalities, encounter both murderous mermaids and detective sheep, and wonder what ever happened to the Bermuda triangle? Then, we wrap things up with a Spotlight Segment on our biggest bookish “icks” – the words, phrases, and writing habits that make us want to gently set a book down and walk away (or catch on fire).

Books We Mentioned: 

2:30- Spur of the Moment Question: Bookish roasts

Murder Bimbo, Rebecca Novack

Every Summer After, Carley Fortune

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

The Mad Wife, Meagan Church

Ice Planet Barbarians, Ruby Dixon

Married to the Alien Cowboy, Ursa Dax

11:45- Reading Round Up:

12:00- The Deal, Elle Kennedy

23:45- The Road to Tender Hearts, Annie Hartnett

32:45- Eve’s Hollywood, Eve Babitz

35:00- Tehrangeles, Porochista Khakpour

38:40- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo; Daisy Jones and the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid

40:35- Into the Drowning Deep, Mira Grant

51:30- Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Rick Riordan

54:50- Three Bags Full, Leonie Swann

1:01:00- Pony Confidential, Christina Lynch

1:01:45- Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt

1:03:05- Booklist Magazine

1:04:45- A Time to Gather: How Ritual Created the World, and How it Can Save Us, Bruce Feiler

1:09:05- With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories, Nicole Nehrig

1:11:55- Spotlight Segment- Epistolary Books

A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas

The Edens series, Devney Perry

Powerless, Elsie Silver

Done and Dusted, Lyla Sage

Carley Fortune titles

Onyx Storm, Rebecca Yarros

The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune

Poem by Lyndsey Rush- “And the Shape of Her Body? Unusual”