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”

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 share our rarely talked about writing lives, listen to Beccah go on a passionate rant about the cheesy, interchangeable book titles currently taking over publishing, and watch Summer repeatedly inform us that she wants a “light, summer read” before immediately bringing a book about serial killers to the table. We wrap things up with a Spotlight Segment on epistolary novels — discussing the stories told through letters, journals, emails, and all the beautifully nosy ways characters let us into their lives.

Books We Mentioned: 

2:30- Spur of the Moment Question: Are you a writer?

Freida McFadden

Ali Hazelwood

Ursa Dax

CM Nacosta

Ruby Dixon

Reading Round Up:

9:20- The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances, Glenn Dixon

12:40- In the Lives of Puppets, TJ Klune

20:25- How to Write a Love Story, Catherine Walsh

26:40- One Golden Summer, Carley Fortune

27:10- This Summer Will Be Different, Carley Fortune

27:30- Every Summer After, Carley Fortune

34:30- The Daisy Chain Flower Shop, Laurie Gilmore

35:25- Rebel Blue Ranch series, Lyla Sage

38:00- Starter Villain, John Scalzi 

38:43- Murder Bimbo, Rebecca Novack

40:00- Assistant to the Villain, Hannah Nicole Maehrer

44:50- Final Girls, Riley Sager

47:55- Survive the Night, Riley Sager

51:30- The Long and Faraway Gone, Lou Berney

53:35- What You Are Looking For Is in the Library, Michiko Aoyama

57:00- The Secret, Book & Scone Society, Ellery Adams

1:00:00- Spotlight Segment- Epistolary Books

The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans

Lady Susan, by Jane Austen 

Dracula, Bram Stoker  

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky 

Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple  

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Partial), by Mary Shelley 

The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis 

Address Unknown, by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor 

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Anne Shaffer 

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker 

Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding  

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte  

Carrie (partial), by Stephen King

The Martian (Partial), by Andy Weir 

The Princess Diaries, by Meg Cabot

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels, by Janice Hallett 

84 Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff 

The Chestnut Springs series, Elsie Silver 

Love & Saffron, Kim Fay

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, by Beth Brower

To Sir Phillip with Love, Julia Quinn

The Diaries of Anne Frank

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, Beccah makes an emotional plea for someone – anyone – to love sad existential books, so she can have people commenting about her great taste in books. Things take a wild turn when a cricket appears in the studio, triggering a genuine crisis mid-recording. Once the heart palpitations subside, we get overly invested in the concept of a detective pony (despite the obvious thumb-related limitations). We wrap things up with a Spotlight Segment breaking down all the different book apps out there!

Books We Mentioned: 

Spur of the Moment Question: What book made you have an over-dramatic reaction?

3:35- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

4:40- My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult

7:00- The Hunger Games series, Suzanne Collins

7:30- The Correspondent, Virginia Evans

8:45- Brimstone, Callie Hart

10:20- Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt

Reading Round Up:

14:30- Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, Jesse Q. Sutanto

25:30- These Summer Storms, Sarah MacLean

29:00- Elin Hildebrand novels

37:30- The Patron Saint of Second Chances, Christine Simon

42:15- Tartufo, Kira Jane Buxton

44:00- Yesteryear, Caro Claire Burke

1:00:30- The Book Club for Troublesome Women, Marie Bostwick

1:01:30- We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi

1:12:00- The Message, Te-Nehisi Coates

1:14:00- Married to the Alien Cowboy, Ursa Dax

1:14:10- Pony Confidential, Christina Lynch

1:18:30- Open Throat, Henry Hoke

1:18:40- The Hounding, Xenobe Purvis 

1:22:00- Spotlight Segment- Book Apps

Accessing books:

Libby

Hoopla

Kindle

Libro.FM

Tracking books:

Goodreads

Fable

Storygraph

For cute graphics: 

Margins

Reading “WrapUp”

Buy/sell books:

Thrift Books

Pango

Book of the Month

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 establish (officially) that we are each other’s other half of a book best friend necklace, reflect on the lines from books that have stuck with us, and watch Beccah engage in some extremely normal, definitely-not-parasocial reading choices based on her celebrity crush (Hudson Williams, if you’re listening… we can explain). And finally, we wrap things up with a Spotlight Segment answering a listener question about DNFing books – especially when it comes to book club picks.

Books We Mentioned: 

Mary Oliver poetry

Pablo Neruda poetry

Spur of the Moment Question: What are examples of writing that has stuck with you?

4:00- Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

5:00- Twilight, Stephanie Meyer

5:40- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

5:50- Moby Dick, Herman Melville

6:00- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

Reading Round Up:

9:00- The Paradise Problem, Christina Lauren

16:45- Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan

17:20- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins

27:20- Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins

31:00- Good People, Patmeena Sabit

32:00- God of the Woods, Liz Moore

40:04- The Hounding, Xenobe Purvis

41:04- Angie Kim, Celeste Ng

42:30- One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand, Luigi Parandello 

48:00- The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton

51:00- The Courage to be Disliked, Ichiro Kashmir

58:00- The Bridge Kingdom, Danielle L Jenson

1:02:20- Quicksilver, Brimstone, Callie Hart

1:02:50- Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros

1:03:00- A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas

1:03:45- Tehrangeles, Porochista Khakpour

Spotlight Segment-DNFing

1:13:40- The People We Keep, Allison Larkin

1:15:50- North Woods, Daniel Mason

1:16:00- Married to the Alien Cowboy, Ursa Dax

1:28:00- The Hunting Wives, May Cobb

1:34:00- The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Beth Brower

1:36:30- How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix

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 share the weirdest places we’ve ever read a book, and Beccah makes the shocking discovery that she has accidentally been reading a thriller… after fully committing to the book without reading the blurb. We wrap things up with a Spotlight Segment for National Poetry Month, sharing a list of poets and poems for anyone looking to finally dip their toes into poetry.

Books We Mentioned: 

Spur of the Moment Question: The weirdest place you’ve ever read a book?

4:40- Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt

8:50- Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier

10:45- Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins

Reading Round Up:

12:30- With Her Own Hands, Nicole Nehrig

20:02- This Story Might Save Your Life, Tiffany Crum

20:50- Listen for the Lie, Any Tintera

29:10- The Mad Wife, Meagan Church

32:45- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

40:15- So Far Gone, Jess Walter

43:10- Lost Lambs, Madeline Cash

43:30- Run For the Hills, Kevin Wilson

53:00- A Bit Much, Lyndsay Rush

59:30- How About Now: Poems, Kate Baer

Spotlight Segment- National Poetry Month:

1:02:00- Our favorite poets

Summer- Contemporary

Lyndsay Rush

Button Poetry

Josie Balka

Ada Limon

Amanda Gorman

Beccah- Classic

John Keats, “Bright Star”

Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18”

Emily Dickinson

William Blake

Rumi

Poe

Langston Hughes

Sylvia Plath

Rupi Kaur

Taylor Swift

Noah Kahan

Jewel

Shel Silverstein

Entry Point Poets:

Mary Oliver

Billy Collins

Rupi Kaur

Lyndsay Rush

Accessible but Impactful:

Langston Hughes

Maya Angelou

Ada Limon

If You’re Feeling Brave, try these classics:

Emily Dickinson

Robert Frost

William Blake

Poe

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, things take a turn with cowboy aliens, tails (yes… tails), and Beccah’s “top five” favorite books list continues to defy both logic and math. We wrap things up with a Spotlight Segment celebrating women authors for Women’s History Month — highlighting voices that have shaped literature and the stories we keep coming back to.

Books We Mentioned: 

Spur of the Moment Question: How do you organize your bookshelves?

Les Miserables

War and Peace

The Count of Monte Cristo

Ali Hazelwood

Homer

A Literary Letter for Every Day of the Year, Liz Ison

Reading Round Up:

12:25- My Husband’s Wife, Alice Feeney

13:00- His & Hers, Alice Feeney

Frieda McFadden, Riley Sager

23:45- The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates

35:40- Big Dumb Eyes, Nate Bargatze 

36:35- North Woods, Daniel Mason

38:00- Married to the Alien Cowboy, Ursa Dax

45:10- Ice Planet Barbarians, Ruby Dixon

45:15- How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf, Molly Harper

49:30- Tin Man, Sarah Winman

59:00- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins

1:02:00- The Man Who was Thursday: A Nightmare, G.K. Chesterton

The Bell Jar

The Awakening

Pride and Prejudice/ Persuasion

The Night Circus

Spotlight Segment- Women’s History Month, Literature Version:

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Jane Austen

The Bronte Sisters

Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

The Yellow Wallpaper, Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

The Color Purple, Alice Walker

The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

Toni Morrison

Maya Angelou

Agatha Christie

Amy Tan

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 dive into the wild world of genre mashups and dream up some strange combinations – debating what works and what really doesn’t. Cat detectives take a leading role in our genre discussion, and as the episode progresses, so do the questionable sci-fi robot noises. Then, we wrap things up with a Spotlight Segment on genre labels and our own genre-labeling system.

Books We Mentioned: 

1:15- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

Spur of the Moment Question: Favorite genre mashup?

7:00- The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year, Ally Carter

7:45- Silvia Moreno Garcia, Isabel Canas

11:45- Vampires of El Norte, Isabel Canas

12:00- The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells

14:00- A Court of Thorns and Roses series, Sarah J. Maas

Reading Round Up:

17:00- When in Rome, Sarah Adams

24:50- In Your Dreams, Sarah Adams

27:00- The Belle of Belgrave Square, The Siren of Sussex, Mimi Matthews

32:00- Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn

35:00- Harlem Rhapsoday, Victoria Christopher Murray

36:00- The Goodbye Cat, The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa

40:00- Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune

47:45- Twilight, Stephanie Meyer

49:00- The Girls Who Grew Big, Nightcrawling, Leila Mottley

55:45- The Stardust Thief, The Ashfire King, Chelsea Abdullah

1:02:00- The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights

1:04:00- Lady Tremaine, Rachel Hochhauser

1:04:40- Circe, Madeline Miller

1:06:15- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins

Spotlight Segment- Genre Designations:

1:18:20- The Wedding People, Alison Espach

1:23:30- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

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 spend an excessive amount of time discussing The Little Mermaid (we apologize in advance), bring a couple of current reads celebrating Black History Month to the table, and somehow get so silly that Summer laughs to the point of tears – more than once. We wrap things up with a Spotlight Segment on book-to-screen adaptations: what we love, what we hate, and a few we’re convinced should have never made it off the page.

Books We Mentioned: 

Spur of the Moment Question: Favorite/least favorite book to screen adaptation?

2:30- The Percy Jackson series, Rick Riordan

6:00- Twilight, Stephanie Meyer

6:15- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

7:15- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

8:55- Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

9:00- Persuasion, Jane Austen

Reading Round Up:

10:50- The Favorites, Layne Fargo

19:50- Heated Rivalry, Rachel Reid

20:00- Helm, Sarah Hall

32:00- The Storm, Rachel Hawkins

33:20- The Ex Hex, Erin Sterling

40:40- The Personal Librarian, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

41:00- Harlem Rhapsody, Victoria Christopher Murray

52:40- Dominion, Addie E. Citchens

59:00- A Spy in the House of Love, Anais Nin

Spotlight Segment: Book to Screen Adaptations:

Titles Mentioned in Segment

The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

Persuasion, Jane Austen

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry

Beach Read, Emily Henry

Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn 

Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis 

Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen

Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt

The Love Hypothesis, Ali Hazelwood

Seven Days in June, Tia Williams 

Heated Rivalry Series, Rachel Reid

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. In this episode, we cover a surprising number of genres, convince ourselves that our lives would be better (and far more emotionally compelling) if narrated by a cat, pivot hard into robot territory (with far too many android jokes), and land with a very honest conversation about book slumps – how they happen, why they stick around, and how to get out of one.

Books We Mentioned: 

Spur of the Moment Question: Current favorite bookish accessory

Book pouches, pens, bookmarks

Reading Pillow

Reading Round Up:

10:20- The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa

14:15- Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt

19:50- All Systems Red, Martha Wells

26:20- A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas

29:00- In the Lives of Puppets, TJ Klune

30:50- Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko

32:38- Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

40:45- Cursed Daughters, Oyinkan Braithwaite

41:22- My Sister the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite

51:35- The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

56:48- The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living, Hillary L. McBride

1:01:20- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk

Spotlight Segment: Reading Challenge- Reading Slumps

1:17:00- Morning Glory Milking Farm, C.M. Nacosta

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, things quickly go off the rails with some truly unnecessary vocal “stims,” very impassioned reactions to Wuthering Heights, and a few non-traditional reads brought to the table just to keep things interesting!

Books We Mentioned: 

1:13- Brimstone, Callie Hart

2:20- The Long Game, Rachel Reid

4:00- The Hunger Games series, Suzanne Collins

Spur of the Moment Question: An author you trust to lead you through emotional danger

5:58- Authors: 

Angeline Boulley

Emily Henry

Rebecca Ross

Fredrik Backman

Autobuy Authors:

Ali Hazelwood

Rachel Gillig

Sarah J. Maas

Simone St. James

Isabel Canas

Silvia Moreno Garcia

Reading Round Up:

10:43- Here For It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays, R. Eric Thomas

18:40- Two Can Play, Ali Hazelwood

26:30- A Holiday by Gaslight, Mimi Matthews

28:40- Anatomy of an Alibi- Ashley Elston

35:00- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

52:10- Lost Lambs, Madeline Cash

59:20- The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien, John Hendrix

Spotlight Segment: Reading Challenge - Childhood Favorites 

1:05:40- Time for a new reading challenge!

1:10:00- The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin

1:12:30- Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech