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In this week's episode of Pages n' Pages, we wrap up our Bookish March Madness a little late! We extended our March Madness because of our busy schedules, but what book do you think won our brackets? We also talk about the exciting book releases coming out in April, May and June 2023.

What We’ve Read and What We Are Reading:

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman and narrated by George Newbern

Tempt by Melanie Harlow (Cloverleigh Farms #9)

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert and narrated by Amina Koroma and Jonathan Andrew Hume

The Bodyguard by Katherine Center and narrated by Patti Murin

One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig

Additional Book Mentions:

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall and narrated by Kay Eluvian

The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah (The Sandsea Trilogy #1) 

Exes and O’s by Amy Lea (Influencers #2) 

I’m Glad Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy and narrated by the author 

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall and narrated by Kay Eluvian 

Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones and narrated by Allen Winters, Amando Foresyth, Ines del Castillo, Kimberly M. Wetherell, and Raymond J. Lee

As You Walk on By  by Julian Winters and narrated by Andre Santana

April

Coach by Devney Perry- April 6

Lassiter (#21) by J.R. Ward - April 11

The Fiancee Farce by Alexandira Bellefleur- April 18

Bewitched by Laura Thalassa- April 18

In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune- April 25

Happy Place by Emily Henry- April 25

May

A Crown of Ivy and Glass by Claire Legrand- May 9

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks and Illustrated by Robert Sikoryak- May 9

Atalanta by Jennifer Saint- May 9

The Celebrants by Steven Rowley- May 14

The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren- May 16

Late Americans by Brandon Taylor- May 23

Witch King by Martha Wells- May 30

Once More with Feeling- Elissa Sussman- May 30

June: 

Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood- June 13

The Only One Left by Riley Sager- June 20

The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston- June 27

July:

Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon- July 4

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In this week's episode of Pages n' Pages, we are coming close to finishing out our Bookish March Madness brackets! It was supposed to be the last week, but some life things got in the way and Morgan barely read anything! Enjoy us talking about books for about half the episode and be rambly the rest of the episode!

What We’ve Read and What We Are Reading:

Tryst in the Dark (Omega Lottery #1) by Grace McGinty

Ensnared by the Werewolf (Monstrous Matches #2.5) by Lillian Lark 

Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones and narrated by Allen Winters, Amando Foresyth, Ines del Castillo, Kimberly M. Wetherell, and Raymond J. Lee

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert and narrated by Amina Koroma and Jonathan Andrew Hume

Additional Book Mentions:

A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman and narrated by JK Simmons 

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall and narrated by Kay Eluvian 

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng and narrated by

As You Walk on By  by Julian Winters and narrated by Andre Santana

Lost in the Moment and Found  by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #8) and narrated by Jesse Vilinsky 

One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig

House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City #3) by Sarah J. Maas

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years #1) by Gregory Maguire

A Day of Fallen NIGHT (we said Shadow) (The Roots of Chaos #0) by Samantha Shannon

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In this week's episode of Pages n' Pages, we update our Bookish March Madness brackets and talk all about the books we've read over the past week. What book do you think will be the best book of the month? Let us know what you're reading this month!

What We’ve Read and What We Are Reading:

Tryst in the Dark (Omega Lottery #1) by Grace McGinty

Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass #7) by Sarah J Maas and narrated by Elizabeth Evans

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng and narrated by Jennifer Lim

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones and narrated by Allen Winters, Amando Foresyth, Ines del Castillo, Kimberly M. Wetherell, and Raymond J. Lee

As You Walk on By by Julian Winters and narrated by Andre Santana

Verity by Colleen Hoover

Additional Book Mentions:

The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #8) and narrated by Jesse Vilinsky

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In this week's episode of Pages n' Pages, we discuss the second week of our March Madness brackets! We each read several books and talk about how they fit in our different brackets. What book do you think is going to be our favorite book of the month? Let us know! 

What We’ve Read and What We Are Reading:

Tryst in the Dark by Grace McGinty (Omega Lottery #1)

White Bird by R. J. Palacio

I’m Glad Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy and narrated by the author

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall and narrated by Kay Eluvian

Exes and O’s by Amy Lea (Influencers #2)

Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #8) and narrated by Jesse Vilinsky

Radiant Sin by Katee Robert (Dark Olympus #4) and narrated by Zara Hampton-Brown and Alex Moorcock

As You Walk on By by Julian Winters and narrated by Andre Santana

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng and narrated by Jennifer Lim

Additional Book Mentions:

House of Earth and Blood and House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J Maas

Ninth House and Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone and narrated by Joy Nash and Sebastian York

One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig

Set on You by Amy Lea (Influencers #1)

Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton (Cat and Mouse Duet #2)

Things We Hide from the Light by Lucy Score

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty (Amina al-Sirafi #1)

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In this week's episode of Pages n' Pages, we dive into our first official week of Bookish March Madness! We talk about the books we read as part of our brackets and how they rank! Did you make your March Madness brackets? Let us know! 

TW: Discussion of SA, Child Trafficking, Stalking

What We’ve Read and What We Are Reading:

Mistakes Were Made by Cheryl Wilsner and narrated by Quinn Riley and Stephanie Németh-Parker

A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone and narrated by Joy Nash and Sebastian York

Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse Duet #2) by HD Carlton

Additional Book Mentions:

I’m Glad My Mom Died by (and narrated by) Jennette McCurdy

Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children #8) by Seanan McGuire and narrated by Jesse Vilinsky

Radiant Sin (Dark Olympus #4) by Katee Robert

Verity by Colleen Hoover

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig

Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass #7) by Sarah J Maas

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Exes and O’s (The Influencer #2) by Amy Lea

As You Walk on By by Julian Winters

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Fairies by Heather Fawcett

Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones

Hell Bent (Alex Stern #2) by Leigh Bardugo

Highly Suspicious and Unfairy Cute by Talia Hibbert

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In this week's episode of Pages n' Pages, we talk about our kickoff to our annual March Madness brackets! We created our own book-related tournament filled with books we want to read throughout the month of March. We eventually narrow it down to the best book of the month! In this episode we talk about what is on our TBR for the month. Let us know if you're making your own bracket for March and who you predict will be the winner. 

What We’ve Read and What We Are Reading:

What Was Meant to Be by Q.B. Tyler

Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse Duet #1) by HD Carlton

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng and narrated by Lucy Liu

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree and narrated by Travis Baldree

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson and narrated by JD Jackson, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Joy Nash, Christopher Salazar and Karen Malina White

Mistakes Were Made by Cheryl Wilsner and narrated by Quinn Riley and Stephanie Németh-Parker

Additional Book Mentions:

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone and narrated by Joy Nash and Sebastian York

Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse Duet #2) by HD Carlton

Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children #8) by Seanan McGuire and narrated by Jesse Vilinsky

Radiant Sin (Dark Olympus #4) by Katee Robert

Verity by Colleen Hoover

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig

Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass #7) by Sarah J Maas

Exes and O’s (The Influencer #2) by Amy Lea

As You Walk on By by Julian Winters

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Fairies by Heather Fawcett

Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones

Hell Bent (Alex Stern #2) by Leigh Bardugo

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

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In this week's episode of Pages n' Pages, we dive into our next installment of Reading Pages where we both read the same book and talk about all the spoilers. This installment is To Get to the Other Side by Kelly Ohlert, a book that has its own back story with us in a funny way. If you know, you know! Spoilers ahead for chicken-centered rom-com. 

What We’ve Read and What We Are Reading:

Legends & Lattes by (and narrated by) Travis Baldree

The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin and narrated by Therese Plummer

To Get to the Other Side by Kelly Ohlert and narrated by Stefanie Kay and Paul Heitsch

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson and narrated by J.D. Jackson, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Christopher Salazar, Joy Nash, and Karen Malina White

Additional Book Mentions:

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern

Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern

Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman

The Silent Wife by Karin Slaughter

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

A Night Like This by Julia Quinn

Cybersex by Richard Glynn Jones

Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

Den of Vipers by K.A. Knight

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In this week's episode of Pages n' Pages, we're celebrating Valentine's Day a little differently - by discussing anti-love books! Let us know what books you've read that don't feature a love story or are anti-love! 

What We’ve Read and What We Are Reading:

A Man Called by Frederik Backman

Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto and narrated by Risei Mei

The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah

Holes by Louis Sachar

Cultish: The Language of Fantacism by Amanda Montell

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

Entranced by the Basilisks by LIllian Lark

The Frat Boy by Nikki Sloane

Additional Book Mentions:

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

Season to Taste by Natalie Young

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

The Martian by Andy Weir

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple

Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse

Madame Bouvary by Gustave Flaubert

The Long View by Elizabeth Jane Howard

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

The Life We Bury by Alan Eskins

Sadie by Courtney Summers

A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

Wild by Cheryl Straid

Vicious by VE Schwab

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Help by Kathryn Stocket

The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally

Season to Taste or How to Eat Your Husband by Natalie Young

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Movie Star by Jessica Simpson

Call of the Wild by Jack London

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In this week's episode of Pages n' Pages, we done our gear and head off on our next adventure as we discuss books we think our Dungeons and Dragons characters would enjoy. We are both beginner DnD players and are getting to know our individual characters, an elf and a half-ling, and are loving it! Do you play Dungeons and Dragon? Let us know about your character and what books do you think they'd like? 

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What We’ve Read and What We Are Reading:

The Stardust Thief (The Sandsea Trilogy #1) by Chelsea Abdullah

The Choice (Star-Crossed Lovers Duet #1) by Ashley Jade

Tower of Dawn by Sarah J Maas and narrated by Elizabeth Evans

Four Aunties and a Wedding (Aunties #2) by Jesse Q. Sutanto and narrated by Rissa Mei

Additional Book Mentions:

Loves:

Legends and Lattes by Tracis Baldree

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by she who must not be named….but ONLY the first one

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein

The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah

Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfus

Hates:

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich

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In this week's episode of Pages n' Pages, we dive into the things we books that give us "the ick." These are things in books that just don't sit well with us, from tropes to characters and everything in between. Let us know what pops up in a book that gives you the ick! We talk about a lot of positive things, but sometimes it's fun to talk about the negatives too. 

What We’ve Read and What We Are Reading:

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

Four Aunties and a Wedding (Aunties #2) by Jesse Q. Sutanto and narrated by Rissa Mei

The Stardust Thief (The Sandsea Trilogy #1) by Chelsea Abdullah

The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake and narrated by Tavia Gilbert

Tower of Dawn by Sarah J Maas and narrated by Elizabeth Evans

Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #3) by Tamsyn Muir

Additional Book Mentions:

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Hannah Fawcett

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