Melissa and James read Goodreads Choice Awards 2022 Best Debut Novel winner, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, through themes of feminism, impact, and letting children be children (or not).

Join us next month when we read Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.

Melissa and James read Dana Schwartz's Anatomy: A Love Story, touching on gender and class, education, and vampire-adjacent plot points.

Join us next month for Goodreads Choice Awards 2022 Best Debut Novel winner, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.

Melissa and James read Sabaa Tahir's All My Rage, through themes of memory, imagination, justice, and salvation.

Join us next month for another Goodreads Choice Best YA Fiction finalist, Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz.

Melissa and James read Lynn Painter's The Do-Over just in time (okay, five weeks early) for Valentine's Day, discussing life lessons, favorite movies, and trying to figure out what "main character" actually means.

Join us next month for Goodreads Choice Best YA Fiction finalist, All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir.

James and Melissa read Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me through themes of self-actualization, parents and grandparents, and smashing capitalism (or not).

Join us next month for an early Valentine’s Day special,The Do-Over by Lynn Painter.

James and Melissa read Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us, discussing personal responsibility, traditional gender roles, and why this book so popular.

Trigger warning for domestic abuse.

Join us next month Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me, a tribute to James' newly-embraced love of the holiday romcom.

James and Melissa read She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick through themes of want-versus-need, female friendships, and whether "becoming your true self" is a real thing.

Join us next month for Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us (trigger warning for domestic abuse).

James and Melissa read Sayantani DasGupta's Debating Darcy (and also Fire Island from Hulu), discussing narrative ownership, why regency media is so popular, and Melissa's high school forensics experience.

Join us next month for She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick.

James and Melissa discuss Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light, through themes of family, belonging, and chance. Content warning for our younger viewers; some NC-17 chapters in here again.

Join us next month for Debating Darcy by Sayantani DasGupta (with a dash of Hulu's Fire Island for good measure).

Melissa and James discuss Ali Hazelwood's The Love Hypothesis, touching on power dynamics, the role of sex scenes (content warning for our younger listeners!), and certainty vs doubt.

Join us next month for A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske. Content warning again for a couple of very sexy chapters that might not be appropriate for all readers.