In Our Bookish Era

Who doesn't love when a cold case starts to warm up and we learn whodunit. This episode we've got two fiction cold cases for ya. One evolves a pregnant teenager who was found in a dumpster, even though her mom is a judge, no one ever looked very hard at who her killers was, until now. The other has a woman pretending to be a potential murders daughter, but jokes on her, he more with it than she thinks, can she connect him to these crimes or will she be his next victim - dundun.

Books Discussed:

Paper Ghosts by Julia Heaberlin

Girl Forgotten by Karin Slaughter

Its a mini episode month! And as Hallmark tells us, it's the month of love. Rachael is kicking us off with an adorable love story about an editor and her mystery lover that she's slowly falling for has he edits her manuscript.

How much cuter could it get?!f

Book Discussed:

Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson

We learned a new genre, work fiction, and so now here we are. This episode the characters in our books have a job that is carrying the story, or at least as a very centralized part in the plot. Kristia's main character works in Hell, literally. The coffee machine is always broken, and none of first five pens you try will work. While Rachael's character is a high powered lawyer who snaps a bit and takes a job as a maid. The only issue here is she doesn't know how to clean, or cook, or any of the basic skills one would need to work as a maid.

Books Discussed:

Sign Here by Claudia Lux

The Undomestic Goodness by Sophie Kinsella

Happy 2023!

This episode we're reading books that we were gifted for the Holiday. Rachael got a winner about a father and daughter who are living off the gride in the forest, but everything starts to go wrong when a lost teenager shows up on their property. Kristia's book has so many lies and half truths, it's hard to know who you can trust. Which character is actually the mastermind and is someone actually dead?

Books Discussed:

There Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant

Every Last Secret by A.R. Torre

As the year wraps up we're getting ready to see what the future holds. Hopefully it doesn't follow the path of either of these stories. There is a city in the sky, children held as hostages by an AI, holograms, war, and goats, a lotta goats. Oh, and water crisis all around.

Books Discussed:

The Scoripion Rules by Erin Bow

The Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He

Our last mini for the year is here! Rachael wraps up our December minis with a ten year cold case of a missing boy. This story takes place in what could be any small town, with any ole Middle Town Sheriff Department. Everyone's stories are intertwined and no one's secrets are safe today.

While this may be a dark and twisted story, we hope your December is wonderful. Wishing you and yours a festive time. Stay Safe Night Owls! -R&K

Book Discussed:

The Deep, Deep Snow by Brian Freeman

As the New Year approaches we'd like to take a look back, into the past, and by that we mean read a book or two set back in the day. Rachael's book was turned into a movie and has very mixed reviews. We love her main character and want only for the best, but when you're called the Marsh Girl, life is a bit hard. Kristia's book is by the Queen of Mystery, everyone dies and she has no idea who could have done it (a real head scratcher if you will).

Books Discussed:

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Minis are back and with that, let us introduce our very original idea of 'snow'! Kristia is starting us off strong with a meet cute that takes place in an unlikely March snow storm. Spanning a year our main characters continue to run into one another, like it's fate one might say. You'll want to shake these characters while you fall in love with them!

Trigger Warnings: death of a friend, aging/sickly parents, postpartum depression (all mentioned lightly in this episode)

Book Discussed:

Eight Perfect Hours by Lia Louis

This episode we're covering Peter Pan retellings. One is all about if Wendy never went to Neverland with Peter but instead went with Captain Hook. The other is 2 generations after Peter first visited Wendy and Wendy's granddaughter's life now.

The moral of both stories is that Peter isn't as great as Wendy and the stories made him out to be.

Books Discussed:

Straight On Till Morning by Liz Braswell

Darling, Girl by Liz Michalski

We've got one of our favorite topics this week, the book was better. Each book was turned into a tv show, one we've seen and one we haven't, but we're certain the books are better!

Kristia branched out with a historical fiction read, and the whole story is written in the form of letters. Set shortly after the second world war, this story is full of enjoyable characters that make it hard to set down. Rachael found out her book is closer to a spy novel than she expect. She's got a flight attendant with a drinking problem, who probably didn't kill that guy, but she doesn't listen to her lawyer. Note: it's usually best to take your lawyer's advise.

Books Discusses:

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian