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Welcome back everyone! Today marks our very first author showcase featuring Amber's favorite suspense writer, Riley Sager and just in time for spooky season! Listen in as we skim over all 10 Riley Sager books!

Riley Sager Books

Final Girls The Last Time I Lied Lock Every Door Home Before Dark Survive the Night The House Across the Lake The Only One Left Middle of the Night With a Vengeance The Unknown

You wake up and instead of living your Instagram Influencer life, you are transported back to 1855 living a pioneer life. No, no thank you. Amber and Amanda love too many modern conveniences to even consider living a pioneer lifestyle. I hate doing laundry now, I can't even picture my delicate hands doing 1855 laundry.

Today we are discussing Yesterday by Cara Claire Burke.

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This week Amanda and Amber explore the fascination with Cowboy Romances. What is it about a man that says y'all, while wearing a cowboy hat, a fitted pair of wranglers and boots, slinging hay bales with his pearl snap button shirt open showing his glistening abs while working the land? Amanda and Amber are here to talk about it and offer you some book recs to scratch that country itch. Saddle up and let's rope some cowboys! Yee haw!!!

Hey Everyone! Did you see the movie Obsession is out for streaming consumption? Amber was lucky enough to watch it in the theater but for those of you that missed it, go give it a look see and come back to fill your TBR with books all about the multi-faceted emotion that is obsession.

Amanda and Amber did all the leg work and complied a list of books to fill you with that UNHINGED obsession vibe you get from the movie.

**SPOILER ALERT** This episode does contain spoilers about the movie. If you want to watch it, stop what you are doing, watch it (with the lights on as Amanda would suggest) and come back to see what the hell you are supposed to read after watching that craziness.

Books featured in this episode -

YOU — Caroline Kepnes

The Collector — John Fowles

Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall

The Monkey's Paw — W.W. Jacobs

The Husbands — Holly Gramazio

The Other Valley — Scott Alexander Howard

Rouge — Mona Awad

YouthJuice E.K.Sathue

The Silent Patient — Alex Michaelides

Come Closer by Sara Gran

We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede

The Eyes Are the Best Part — Monika Kim

Sophie, Standing There — Meg Mason

Bloom — Delilah S. Dawson Annie Bot — Sierra Greer

Welcome to our book club pick, Between the Pages with The Ascended by Bree Grenwich and Parker Lennox.

Just a reminder, there are spoilers in this episode so if you have every intention of tackling this 750 page tome, do not listen until you have finished. Then join us as we talk about whether Booktok did us dirty on all the hype or whether we thought that the hype was deserved.

Welcome back everyone! Today Amanda and Amber battle it out for which book featuring the Boy Band theme was better. Turns out neither one that they picked for themselves sang a perfect harmony but we found one to save the day. Join us as Amanda talks about her feelings on Superfan by Jenny Zhang, Amber talks about her feelings on American Fantasy by Emma Straub and why they both can't quit thinking about The Idea of You by Robin Lee. So hang your posters of N*Sync and The Backstreet Boys back on your walls and pull out those dusty copies of TigerBeat for a nostalgic trip down memory lane.

What could be more relaxing than snapping open a spine on your summer beach vacation and diving into the pages of your new paperback read? Maybe you're reading about a woman who moves to a small coastal town to start anew where she opens a book shop, flower shop, coffee shop, well some sort of shop and falls in love with the grumpy town lifer that no other woman has been able to reach. OR maybe you're reading about a woman who moves to a small coastal town because she ran away from the secrets of her past only to return home to have those secrets resurface as bodies begin to pile up around her and she must solve the mystery of the killer before she is next on the list.

One of us wants salty air, yearning, and emotionally unavailable men in linen shirts. The other wants abandoned cabins, suspicious locals, and a family vacation where at least three people don't make it home. Are you summer lovin' your beach reads or summer runnin'?

Beyond the Stroke - Erin Hawkins

Every Summer After - Carly Fortune

Just for the Summer - Abby Jimenez

The Five-Star Weekend - Elin Hilderbrand

The Paradise Problem - Christina Lauren

The Summer I Turned Pretty - Jenny Han

The Counselors by Jessica Goodman

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

What Comes Before Dawn by Addison Michael

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

Survive the Night by Riley Sager

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

It's that time again! Can you believe we are already in the 3rd quarter. Amanda and Amber are here with some more great titles to add to your TBR. So straighten those stacks as you get ready to precariously add to the piles.

Books Mentioned in the Episode

Helpless by Jessica Knoll The Romance Revival by Christina Lauren Ungodly Rich by Katharine McGee Immortality Island by Nikki Jefford Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves Trying not to love you by Kaylee Ryan Lady X by Molly Fader Love You More by Emily Giffin The Death Row Club by V.A. Vazquez The Good Parts by Evann Normandin Pretty dead things by Kelsey cox Sea of Charms by Sarah Beth Durst #3 in the Spellshop Series Lightwing Caroline Peckham Crown of Hearts and Chaos #2 Big Little Truths Liane Moriarty The Unknown by Riley Sager Immortal Rose by Alexandra Bracken The Women in White by Sarah Pekkanen The Lion and the Deathless Dark by Carissa Broadbent The Iron Hex by Victoria S. Walsh Time Travel for Beginners Jaclyn Moriarty Local Gods by Melinda Salisbury The House of Boleyn By Tracy Borman Heart of Glass by Jennifer Hillier The Wild Beneath by Kelly Anderson I Punched an Alien and Now We’re In Couples Therapy by Kimberly Lemming Scion by James islington Kiss, Slay, Replay by Rachel Harrison Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel A Killer for Christmas by Kim Harrington Paper Ghosts by Sarah Addison Allen The Emperor’s Enemy by Jasmin Mas Trust Fall by Lynn painter Wildwood by Ashley Woo The Sweetest Fiend by Raven Kennedy Grim Tidings by B.K. Borison Crown of Crimson and Crows by Tessa Hale Buried in the Woods Below by Daniel G. Miller The Knave and the Moon Rachel Gillig TurnCloak by L.K. Steven Book 2 in the SilverCloak Saga They Know if You’ve Been Bad or Good By Alta Hensley The Endless One by Emma Hamm Book 3 in the Gravesinger Series

Hi Everyone!

Amanda and Amber are back again for a Between the Pages Book Club. This episode we read Stripped Down Bunnie XO's memoir. Come join us while we talk Bunnie's candid, empowering, and chaotic story. You all know Amanda doesn't like memoirs but she loved this one and wants to talk about it with you!

Today’s episode is all about the books BookTok made us read. You know the ones. The books that suddenly appear everywhere until eventually you cave and think, ‘Fine. I guess I’ll see what all the fuss is about.’ Amanda and Amber pick one book each from their BookTok list to dive into and see if it is under-hyped, over-hyped, or appropriately hyped. And of course we'll throw in a couple other books to grow that TBR stack because if there is one thing we need, it's more book recs.

BOOK MENTIONS

My Husband's Wife - Alice Feeney The House of Beating Wings - Olivia Wildenstein Hail Mary - Andy Weir Hunting Adeline - H.D. Carlton Throne of Glass - Sarah J Maas People We Meet on Vacation - Emily Henry The Cruel Prince - Holly Black The Will of the Many - James Islington Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros YesterYear - Caro Claire Burke Fever Dream - Elsie Silver Birthday Girl - Penelope Douglas The Ascended - Bree Grenwich The Ballad of Falling Dragons - Sarah A Parker The Off Campus Series - Elle Kennedy Every Summer After - Carly Fortune