In this episode we discuss Heartless by Marissa Meyer! It takes place in Lewis Carroll's Wonderland, and it's about the Queen of Hea--wait, is that too much of a spoiler? Honestly, we don't know anymore. Maybe! Just, no expectations! Give it a listen!

We talk about The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray!

We talk in brief and spoiler-free about all the books we read in 2018! That includes the books we read together for TanTom, and the books we read on our own. Honestly, it's a lot of books! We're proud of us. We also highlight a few of our favorites from this year, and which ones we think you could skip. And make sure you listen all the way to the end to hear us play a fun game called Rip It or Ship It with all the characters from this year's library!

We discuss the second book in the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Rebel Angels by Libba Bray! Hear us talk about themes like power, deception, love, and identity as we dive into the well of symbolism and mythology that this book holds. Plus, like, the cute romantic bits. They're so sweet!

We read A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray, and it was Great and Terrible! Just kidding; it was all great, and you should read it.

We read Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, and in this short episode we discuss our thoughts, likes, and dislikes.

In this hearty episode, we discuss Stephenie Meyer's novel The Host, exploring how it fell short on conversations of violence, justice, and autonomy. We also talk about the tropes that Meyer's characters are prone to, why we can't stop reading, and how we love a good, trashy soap opera (don't @ us)!

We review and discuss in all its spoiler-y goodness the book One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus, while managing to tangent on the podcast My Favorite Murder, the cockroaches we've killed and captured, and our favorite music from high school.

In today's podcast, we read and discuss The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope.

In this long episode, we discuss in depth The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman and the His Dark Materials epic trilogy as a whole, relating it to everything from the Romantic author John Donne to the science fiction novel Ender's Game to quantum physics to Zoroastrianism.