The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast

S13:Ep263 - Another Fine Mess with Guest Lindy Ryan + Carnival and Festival Book Recs - 9/3/25


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For our guest this week, Lindy Ryan @lindyryanwrites, it's spooky season all year round. She grew up on a diet of #Goosebumps books and never got over her love of the dark and twisty. Now she writes her own horror stories and her BLESS YOUR HEART series will give you some thrills and chills with the Evans women. Four generations of them--great-grandmother Ducey all the way down to angsty teen Luna run a funeral home in their small Texas town. And they also have a little side project: protecting the town from the undead. Both BLESS YOUR HEART and ANOTHER FINE MESS, the second novel in the series, follow the Evans women who, with snark and heart, protect those they love from the proverbial "bloodbath."
And for our book recommendation section of the show, we’re thinking about carnivals, fairs, and festivals. Kentucky recently held its state fair, and with that in mind, we think you should make yourself a corndog or deep fry a Twinkie and get ready to add some books to your TBR lists. We’ve got a graphic novel for kids, a thriller from the 1940s, a mystery, historical fiction, a National Book Award finalist, and a memoir.
 

 

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan 

2- Another Fine Mess by Lindy Ryan

3- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

4- Howl edited by Lindy Ryan 

5- The Darkest Night edited by Lindy Ryan 

6- But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo

7- Play Nice by Rachel Harrison 

8- Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison

9- Cackle by Rachel Harrison 

10- Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 

11- Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck 

12- A 5 Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover @arizonabookstagrammer - Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

13- All's Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson 

14- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

15- Lewis Sinclair and the Gentleman Cowboys by DMS Fick 

16- The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler 

17- Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham 

18- The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts by Tessa Fontaine

 

Media Mentioned:

1- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Youtube)

2- Nosferatu (1922, Youtube)

3- Metropolis (1927, Youtube)

4- Nosferatu (2024)

5- The Thursday Murder Club (2025, Netflix)

6- Santa Clarita Diet (2017-2019, Netflix)

7- Chernobyl (2019, Max)

8- Nightmare Alley (2021)

9- Shelby County KY Library books taken - 

https://www.wlky.com/article/unreturned-library-book-dispute-shelby-county-reformation-church/65875001

10- Travels with Charley Fact Checking - 

https://www.steinbecknow.com/2020/08/01/travels-with-charley-painting-snapshot/

 

 

 

 

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