This week, we discuss what we love – and what we don’t – about popular book cover trends. We then venture into the world of true crime and accidentally uncover Summer’s surprisingly strong enthusiasm for clone stories. We wrap things up with a mid-year check-in on our reading goals, stats, and favorite books of the year so far.

Books We Mentioned: 

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Knight’s Nook local independent bookstore in Yukon, OK

4:00- Spur of the Moment Question: What style of book covers do you like?

Where’d You Go Bernadette, Maria Semple

Emily Henry covers

Ali Hazelwood covers

Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses vs Crescent City

10:30- Reading Round Up:

10:40- The Carpool Detectives, Chuck Hogan

14:10- Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann

24:43- The Summer of Broken Rules, K.L. Walther

33:30- The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey

39:00- My Murder, Katie Williams

41:00- The Hunger Games narrated by Tatiana Maslany 

43:00- The Daisy Chain Flower Shop, Laurie Gilmore (and other titles in the Dream Harbor series)

44:16- Rebel Blue Ranch series, Lyla Sage

49:38- Books by Sangu Mandanna

49:50- Books by Sarah Beth Durst

56:25- This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me, Ilona Andrews

59:25- The Bridge Kingdom, Danielle L. Jensen

1:02:50- A Novel Love Story, Ashley Poston

1:04:50- Into the Blue, Emma Brodie

1:15:00- The Correspondent, Virginia Evans

1:16:45- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote

1:17:30- Spotlight Segment- 2026 Mid-Year Check In 

Checking in on: 

A Few Rules For Predicting The Future, Octavia E. Butler

Her Last Breath, Taylor Adams

Star Shipped, Cat Sebastian

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Beth Brower

The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells

The Road to Tender Hearts, Annie Hartnett

Lady Tremaine, Rachel Hochhauser

Married to the Alien Cowboy, Ursa Dax

The Traveling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa

ACOTAR 6

Hunger Games