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Want to get into reading? We have a book for that! We're sharing beginner picks, emotional reads, wild cards, and books we'd NEVER recommend to newbies. Plus: book ratings, romantasy news, and bookish grievances.

Books Mentioned:

Big Little Truths

Unchained

The Last Word

Fast and Easy Five Ingredient Recipes

Daggermouth

Dracula

Love, Like Apples

The One

The Family Experiment

The Best Worst Thing

The Nightingale

Red Rising

Your Knife, My Heart

Piranesi

Book Lovers

An American Marriage

These Summer Storms

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Broken Country

Razorblade Tears

Listen for the Lie

Chain-Gang All-Stars

11/22/63

A Court of Splintered Harmony

Hamnet

Kingdom of Ash

House of Sky and Breath

The Sword of Kaigen

Swift and Saddled

Japanese Gothic

Bookish News:

Broken Rival

Firedance — James Patterson & Haley McBride

King of Ashes

Goodreads Saga:

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

Also mentioned: Anastasia (movie)

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Romantasy, questionable logistics, and why the blond guy is never endgame.

This week on Philynnit: A Book Besties Podcast, we're diving into romantasy. Or fantasy. Or fantasy-adjacent. We briefly attempt to define the genre before deciding that if they hooked up, we're talking about it. 😂

From ACOTAR and Throne of Glass to Fourth Wing and Crescent City, we're discussing our favorite fantasy worlds, disappointing sequels, and the fictional men living rent-free in our heads.

Why is the blond guy never endgame? How do these wings work? Does anyone care about hygiene in Prythian? And should our favorite fictional men EVER be adapted for television?

Plus, recent reads, questionable bookish decisions, and plenty of tangents!

⚠️ SPOILERS: This episode is spoiler-light but includes some character, relationship, and plot discussions. Proceed accordingly!

📚 BOOKS MENTIONED

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Black Ties and White Lies — Kat Singleton

Willing Prey — Ali Oleander

The One Who Walked Away — Karen Rose

Daggermouth — H.M. Wolfe

The Siren — Tomi Adeyemi

The Intrigue — Silvia Moreno-Garcia

House of Earth and Blood — Sarah J. Maas

ACOTAR series — Sarah J. Maas

Throne of Glass — Sarah J. Maas

Fourth Wing — Rebecca Yarros

To Cage a Wild Bird — Brooke Fast

Blood of Hercules — Jasmine Mas

The Everlasting — Alix E. Harrow

A Court of Silver Flames — Sarah J. Maas

The Pisces — Melissa Broder

Under Lock and Key — Lana Ferguson

Shark Heart — Emily Habeck

Dire Bound — Sable Sorensen

Gild — Raven Kennedy

Shield of Sparrows — Devney Perry

The Unnamed — M.S. Masood

His Face Is the Sun — Michelle Jabès Corpora

Big Little Truths — Liane Moriarty

Hamnet — Maggie O'Farrell

Love, Like Apples — Jeff Zentner

Dracula (Audible) — Bram Stoker

The Sword of Kaigen — M.L. Wang

Happy reading, besties! 💕

Mafia men, morally gray love interests, questionable decisions, and absolutely ZERO expertise in organized crime. 😂

This week on Philynnit: A Book Besties Podcast, Phi gives Lynn (and all of you!) a crash course in mafia romance! We're talking Italian mafia, Russian Bratva, Irish mob, and fictional men who have absolutely no business being this appealing.

Plus, how a truly terrible cinnamon iced coffee launched our 12-year friendship, why "save it for the podcast" is our newest rule, tiny hands making their inevitable return, our ongoing Goodreads data saga, and Teddy Hamilton audiobook homework. Expect tangents, questionable men, and plenty of laughs!

• Not That Kind of Proposal — Victoria Lavine
• The Maddest Obsession — Danielle Lori
• Hans — S.J. Tilly
• Foreign — Sonora Jha
• Japanese Gothic — Kylie Lee Baker
• Victorious — V.E. Schwab
• Bad Bishop — L.J. Shen
• Twisted Pawn — L.J. Shen
• Fallen Rook — L.J. Shen
• Beautiful Things Obey — T.L. Smith, Penny Lee & Kia Carrington-Russell
• Dangerous Men — Evelyn Ward
• Distance — Luna Mason
• Verity — Colleen Hoover
• Heart the Lover — Lily King
• Broken Country — Clare Leslie Hall
• The Burning Side / The Bright Years — Sarah Damoff
• Daggermouth — H.M. Wolfe
• The One Who Walked Away — Karen Rose
• Intemperance — Sonora Jha
• The Siren — Tomi Adeyemi
• Incidents Around the House — Josh Malerman
• Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
• The Intrigue — Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Fall on Netflix, starring Jamie Dornan and Gillian Anderson.

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Happy listening, book besties! 🎧

Episode 2: Bookish Icks, Tiny Hands & Red Flags 🚩📚

What gives you the immediate bookish ick? A cringeworthy nickname? A fictional man who is one giant walking red flag?

This week, Phi and Lynn are talking bookish icks, toxic fictional men, disappointing reads, HEAs vs. emotional devastation, and the tiny-hands problem. Plus: how did Phi’s husband manage to change her mind about one of her biggest icks?!

IN THIS EPISODE:
🚩 Bookish icks & fictional red flags
🤏 Tiny hands, BIG problems
😂 Phi’s unexpected change of heart
📖 HEAs vs. emotional devastation
💔 Disappointing reads
📚 Recent reads & bookish adventures

BOOKS DISCUSSED 📚

The Measure — Nikki Erlick
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9780063204218

Japanese Gothic — Kylie Lee Baker
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9781335001559

Of Ink and Alchemy — Sloan St. James
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9798347018710

Doomsdate — Laura Piper Lee
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9798217095612

Mile High — Liz Tomforde
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9781649379696

When in Dublin — Tracy Avery
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9781970967005

Devil — Sierra Simone
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9781464274626

The Stopover — T.L. Swan
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9781923232174

Atmosphere — Taylor Jenkins Reid
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9780593158739

Dire Bound — Sable Sorensen
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9780316601382

In Stormy Weather — Chelsea Curto
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9781668217436

Verity — Colleen Hoover
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9781538784051

The Drowning Woman — Robyn Harding
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9781538726778

Not That Kind of Proposal — Victoria Lavine
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9781668083291

How to Troll a Guy in Ten Days — Pippa Grant
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9781955930598

Foreign — Sonora Jha
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9780063440906

Intemperance — Sonora Jha
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9780063440845

Villains Trilogy (Vicious, Vengeful & Victorious) — V.E. Schwab
https://bookshop.org/a/126952/9781250192233

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What’s YOUR biggest bookish ick? 👀🚩

WE DID IT!!! Episode 1 of Philynnit: A Book Besties Podcast is LIVE!!!

We’re Phi & Lynn: two best friends, seven kids between us, an unreasonable number of books, and WAY too much to talk about. So naturally… we started a podcast. 😂

In Episode 1:
📚 How we read so much while working full-time + raising seven kids
✋ Why life is too short to finish bad books. FREE YOURSELF!
🐉 Forgetting everyone between fantasy releases except Xaden
🪽 And, somehow, the logistics of angel wings

“How does he shower?” “Are they wet? How do they dry?” “Do you use soap on the wings?”

If you’ve ever wondered who is washing a fictional man’s wings… welcome. These are your people.

BOOKS DISCUSSED
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The Final Target — Nora Roberts
https://amzn.to/4yHNFF3

Mile High — Liz Tomforde
https://amzn.to/4AILLFp

Doomsdate — Laura Piper Lee
https://amzn.to/3W7hiAQ

Threshing Day — Rebecca Yarros
https://amzn.to/4xYeiUO
Plus the first 3 Fourth Wing books:
https://amzn.to/4dcJo3F

The Correspondent — Virginia Evans
https://amzn.to/4daaCrI

Several People Are Typing — Calvin Kasulke
https://amzn.to/4rC2N3L

I Hope This Finds You Well — Natalie Sue
https://amzn.to/4huyV4Q

Lights Out — Navessa Allen
https://amzn.to/4yvL3tO

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin
https://amzn.to/46UVpqR

The Measure — Nikki Erlick
https://amzn.to/4dJqxgG

Not That Kind of Proposal — Victoria Lavine
https://amzn.to/4ddZbz6

Devil — Sierra Simone
https://amzn.to/4yellJn

Quicksilver — Callie Hart
https://amzn.to/4e62V5Y

Appetite — P. Paramita
https://amzn.to/3U7S4BV

Plus the Maasverse: ACOTAR, Throne of Glass & Crescent City.

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