Mostly Fictional

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In this podcast, readers Pam and Hallie share their thoughts on the books of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.... more

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The podcast currently has 145 episodes available.

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June 05, 2024 Ep. 65: "Don’t You Love a Good Long Sad Book?"
Pam has more birthday books and Hallie already broke the library book ban for June.

Books mentioned in order:
Tidal Creatures by Seanan McGuire
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire
The Seven Skins of Esther Willing by Holly Ringlad
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor
Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes
Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
Devotions by Mary Oliver
True Grit by Charles Portis
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
The Library of the Unwritten by A. J. Hackwith
Mindhunter by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard
In a Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
The Fury by Alex Michaelides
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
The Lost Time Accidents by John Wray
Glassworks by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
...more
57min
May 29, 2024 Ep. 64: Pam Gets Roasted For Her Chaotic Reading Week
Hallie has a DNF and Pam discovers an all-time favorite author.

Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Babel by RF Kuang
The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
The Wolves of Mercy Falls series by Maggie Stiefvater
A Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Mindhunter by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Library of the Unwritten by A. J. Hackwith
True Grit by Charles Portis
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
...more
49min
May 22, 2024 Ep. 63: Hallie’s Last Read May Have Made Her a Conspiracy Theorist
Climate fiction and serial killers -- our reads this month are obviously Very Happy Subjects!

Books mentioned in order:
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Eleutheria by Allegra Hyde
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger
Mindhunter by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
Ink Blood Sister Scribe Emma Törzs
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
L’Ombre du vent by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Shadow of the Wind)
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett
Ex Libris Series by Jim C. Hines
Tidal Creatures by Seanan McGuire
Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
...more
59min
May 15, 2024 Ep. 62: Somehow Hallie Already Read One of Pam's Birthday Books
We return after a forced internet-outage hiatus!

Books mentioned, in order:
Foxes in Love by Toivo Kaartinen
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
Off the Record by Camryn Garrett
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
The Ministry of Time Kaliane Bradley
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth): A Memoir by Markus Zusak
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Mindhunter by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
...more
1h 7min
May 01, 2024 Ep. 61: Hopefully Pam’s Next Book is Depressing?
In this episode, Hallie shares her Independent Bookstore Day haul, and Pam has Hallie choose her first read of May.

Books mentioned, in order:
Search by Michelle Huneven
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Sun House by David James Duncan
Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park
The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson
Off the Record by Camryn Garrett

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
...more
41min
April 24, 2024 Ep. 60: Pam's DNF and Hallie's Wish-I-DNF'd
In this episode, Hallie has returned from Boston with five finished titles. Plus, Pam has a book acquisition!

Books mentioned, in order:
The Boston Massacre: A Family History by Serena Zabin
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin
Love and Other Disasters by Anita Kelly
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa translated by Stephen Snyder
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Clear by Carys Davies
Killer Instinct by S.E. Green
The Colony by Audrey Magee
Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Emma by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
...more
1h 1min
April 17, 2024 Ep. 59: Pam Lets a Book Go Gently Into That Good Night
In this episode, Pam and Hallie celebrate National Poetry Month!

Books mentioned, in order:
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Other Minds: the Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
The Odyssey by Homer
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Boston Massacre: A Family History by Serena Zabin
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwan Bo-Reum
Legends and Lattes by by Travis Baldree
What You Are Looking For Is In the Library by Michiko Aoyama
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa translated by Stephen Snyder
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
Sociopath by Patric Gagne
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Mrs. Death Misses Death by Salena Godden
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
Sister Golden Calf by Colleen Burner
Pam’s Poem: https://allpoetry.com/Do-Not-Go-Gentle-Into-That-Good-Night
Hallie’s Poem: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8505739-Lament-by-Rainer-Maria-Rilke

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
...more
1h 3min
April 10, 2024 Ep. 58: A Quarterly Check In and a "Chunky Baby Leg" Reading Goal
In this episode, we give a check in three months into the year on how our 2024 Reading Resolutions are going.

Books mentioned, in order:
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
Bunny by Mona Awad
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Educated by Tara Westover
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Emma by Jane Austen
The Boston Massacre: A Family History by Serena Zabin
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwan Bo-Reum
What You Are Looking For Is In the Library by Michiko Aoyama
Icarus by K Ancrum
Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
Sheine lende by Darcie Little Badger
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix
Tidal Creatures by Seanan McGuire
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire
Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Atomic Habits by James Clear

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
...more
53min
April 03, 2024 Ep. 57: Is This Pam’s Octopus Reading Year?
Hallie reflects on her Luck of the Libby month and Pam shares how she skiied down a mountain on her wedding day!

Books mentioned, in order:
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
Bookshops and Bone Dust by Travis Baldree
The Wolves of Mercy Falls by Maggie Stiefvater
Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto
There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler
Other Minds: the Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Emma by Jane Austen
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Sociopath by Patric Gagne
The Boston Massacre by Serena Zabin
Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford
Washington by Ron Chernow

How to get new releases on Libby: https://help.libbyapp.com/en-us/6260.htm

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
...more
55min
March 27, 2024 Ep. 56: Rating Our Reading Weeks From 1-10
We read a total of nine books in this episode, and Pam has two books to haul!

Books mentioned, in order:
Icarus by K. Ancrum
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum
Greenwood by Michael Christie
Never by Jessa Hastings
Magnolia Parks series by Jessa Hastings
Peter Pan by JM Barrie
Darling by K. Ancrum
What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
What Feasts At Night by T Kingfisher
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by Barbara Demick
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Love Beyond Body, Space & Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology by Hope Nicholson
Charlotte’s Web by EB White
Aednan: An Epic by Linnea Axelsson
The Odyssey by Homer
Yellowface by RF Kuang
The Poppy War by RF Kuang
Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by RF Kuang
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullaly and Nick Offerman
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Emma by Austen
Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

Story from the anthology: https://galli-books.co.uk/2018/05/01/ne-le-by-darcie-little-badger/

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
...more
1h 4min

FAQs about Mostly Fictional:

How many episodes does Mostly Fictional have?

The podcast currently has 145 episodes available.