Saved by the Books Podcast

Today we're chatting all about the January buddy read: Once and For All by Sarah Dessen! We definitely had some thoughts that would have made this book a fun one to vlog about. Unfortunately, we didn't vlog it, BUT we did keep track of our thoughts! Come check it out once you've read the book!

Today we're answering questions for a tag we created for the readathon happening in the Creating & Co Book Club! Be sure to stop by the group on Facebook to answer the questions too!

In this episode, we're chatting all about our bookish goals and the things we want to do and get out of 2020! Grab your planner and chat with us!

We're back! It's time to wrap up where we went for a couple of months and the year in general. Let's chat about what happened in 2019 and some of our fave reads and talk about our last buddy read, Serpent & Dove

Halloween Book Tag we found on "Zezee with Books"

Carving pumpkins: What book would you carve up and light on fire? Trick or treat: What character is a treat, what character is a trick? Candy corn: What book is always sweet? Ghosts: What character would you love to visit you as a ghost? Dressing up in costume: What character would you want to be for a day? Wizards and witches: What is your favorite Harry Potter moment? Blood and gore: What book was so creepy that you had to take a break from it for awhile? If you could pick any author to go trick or treating with, who would you pick? If you could dress up as any bookish character for Halloween, who would you be? If you could find anything, from any book, in your trick or treat stash, what would you hope to find? In what fictional world would you like to go trick or treating? What book villain would you not like to meet alone in a dark alley on Halloween? Would you rather dress up as a vampire, zombie, werewolf, or a shadowhunter? Pick a candy (just one) from Harry Potter that you would love to find in your stash? What is your favorite Halloween candy?

In the month of September, we read I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella! Unfortunately, it is not one of our new favorites, but we're giving you all the details why! This episode may just get a little rant-y so grab a snack and lets get into it!

Today we're chatting all about some of the common tropes that we see in books. From love triangles to the chosen one to false royalty, we're covering as many as we can think of! Can you guess which ones we love and which ones we hate?

In this episode, we're talking about something we've been seeing around the book community lately. Namely, should we have more defined age ranges? Should some young adult books be classified as new adults? Should bookstores change their shelving systems? What should be classified as new adult? We talk about all of that and more!

Today, we're chatting all about our August buddy read, which was Ace of Shades by Amanda Foody! We both loved the book that was composed of a dark fantasy world where the mafia-like casino owners and gang lords ruled. We're sharing our favorite parts, the parts that made us think and maybe a couple of things that weren't our fave. We hope you'll read the book and then give this episode a listen!

Today we're talking about reading ruts, but not only that, we're talking about the pressure that we put on ourselves to always be reading and how it affects our desire to read. After all, reading is supposed to be a hobby for so many of us, so why do we let it feel like a chore sometimes?