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Happy 4th of July from us here at I'd Read That!
It's a great time to over indulge in some food, so we take a minute to talk about our favorite food books.

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In this episode, Liz & Jerry elaborate on another reading challenge.
Read a book you want to travel to.
Reading a book set in a place you want to visit is certainly more affordable than the real thing. It also gets you motivated to plan that big trip.
Where would you like to go?

Books Mentioned:
Heartsong by Tj Klune
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Shadow of the Moon by M. M. Kaye
The Drifters by James A. Michener
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments by T. L. Huchu
The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Paris Connection by Lorraine Brown
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

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It's book club time!
We're discussing 'Starter Villain' by John Scalzi. Liz & Jerry have a great time discussing this absurd and hilarious book and picking on the wealthy.

Also, cats or dolphins?

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We're back in the studio and have a new episode for you. Today we celebrate Asian American Pacific Islanders Month by sharing some of our favorite reads.
Additionally, most of North America got to experience the Northern Lights, unless you're Liz and there is a good movie.

Books Mentioned
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala

AAPI Books
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mothar & Max Gladstone

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Bonus episode today for you folks!

In this unscheduled bonus episode of I'd Read That, Liz & Jerry go over Grady Hendrix's latest novel 'How to Sell a Haunted House'.

This episode is full of spoilers so be warned.

Additionally, we put together this episode due to a fire at the Fayetteville Public Library where we record and edit our show. With all of the hullabaloo, we weren't able to put together a regular show on time.

Please consider donating to FPL. Thank you!

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The library news story.

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We made it to 1 year!
Thanks for all the support this past year for the show. We are truly grateful for all of you.

We put up another Mt. Rushmore, this time for the book that made us readers.
What childhood favorite did we leave out?

Liz's Rushmore

Jerry's Rushmore

Honorable Mentions

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Hope you enjoyed the Eclipse! Not necessarily the Twilight novel, but the celestial occurrence.

Today we take on poems in all their glory. We are not the most versed poem readers but we certainly enjoyed the journey. Please listen along and offer your own poetry experience.

Books Mentioned
Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards
Inheritance by Elizabeth Acevedo
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
When the World Didn't End by Caroline Kaufman
Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne
Why Fathers Cry at Night by Kwame Alexander

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Quiet As it's Kept by Na'tosha De'von
Edgar Allan Poe Poems
100 Selected Poems by ee cummings
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Collected Poems by Dylan Thomas

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Today Liz & Jerry banter about how old they are as they pick a book from their birth year to fulfill a challenge!

Also if you like worms, this episode is for you.

Books Mentioned
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
In Deeper Waters by F. T. Lukens
Ghost Station by S. A. Barnes
System Collapse by Martha Wells
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
Vicious by V. E. Schwab

Liz being old: Misery by Stephen King
Jerry being old: Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.

Beloved by Toni Morrison
Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre

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Today we discuss our book club pick 'The Pallbearer's Club' by Paul Tremblay.

Synopsis:
What if the coolest girl you've ever met decided to be your friend?

Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended funerals. But his new friend thought the Pallbearers Club was cool. And she brought along her Polaroid camera to take pictures of the corpses.

Honestly, that's just scratching the surface. Listen to Liz & Jerry debate what is cool, music, and Jerry's fear of the 'unreliable narrator'. 

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Today Liz & Jerry discuss the advantages and disadvantages of physical and digital books. Short story, we love books of all kinds!!

Join us for a listen.

Books Mentioned:
Romantic Comedy by Curtin Sittenfeld
Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen
Garlic and the Witch by Bree Paulsen
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeeke Emezi
Heartstopper #5 by Alice Oseman
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

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