The Book Cellar

In this episode we spill the tea on what we've been reading this week, how unenjoyable reading has become, and what we're doing to fall in love with reading again.

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Olivetti by Allie Millington - https://amzn.to/3y6URQg

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - https://amzn.to/3QesYMC

Go As a River by Shelley Read - https://amzn.to/4di3UxV

The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate - https://amzn.to/3xYPRxm

The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary - https://amzn.to/4dkHwnC

Adventures of a South Pole Pig by Chris Kurtz - https://amzn.to/4bjjPdT

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - https://amzn.to/4bhT6xZ

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley - https://amzn.to/4dkx3sG

First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston - https://amzn.to/4aVnsqj

American Gods by Neil Gaiman - https://amzn.to/4b9UYcR

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger - https://amzn.to/3Ums55E

The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz - https://amzn.to/44jmVMs

A Girl Called Samson by Amy Harmon -https://amzn.to/44i7uUG

The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse  - https://amzn.to/3JFrZkS

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner -https://amzn.to/3JFrZkS

Spook by Mary Roach - https://amzn.to/3xSNdcl

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin - https://amzn.to/3UiacVN

Happiness For Beginners by Katherine Center - https://amzn.to/3UkObWd

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee - https://amzn.to/3xYaObL

Unsinkable by Jenni L Walsh - https://amzn.to/3UfIdGl

The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - https://amzn.to/4diVgPR

The Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson - https://amzn.to/44mfLXP

White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link - https://amzn.to/3JEhbDr

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate -  https://amzn.to/4dfbjOF

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang - https://amzn.to/49S1Xpj

The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager - https://amzn.to/4aQXpkn

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - https://amzn.to/4aVYd7k

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This week we're discussing what makes a book YA, what content we think should be in there, and some of our favorites.

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The Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson - https://amzn.to/3w9bGcM

A Cricket in Times Square by George Selden - https://amzn.to/4aL0odT

Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan - https://amzn.to/3UeQ8Vw

By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult - https://amzn.to/3U2UOwm

Mysterious Setting by Kazushige Abe - https://amzn.to/3xyOR2G

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - https://amzn.to/3xxPABk

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - https://amzn.to/3QbEbNU

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer - https://amzn.to/4d3DL5X

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas - https://amzn.to/3QewqH7

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros - https://amzn.to/3QbbLnf

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien - https://amzn.to/4b3X3Gz

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume - https://amzn.to/44bad29

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous - https://amzn.to/4d4jP31

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green - https://amzn.to/449wfm4

Redwall by Brian Jacques - https://amzn.to/3U5a2kB

Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin - https://amzn.to/3JpKiui

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech - https://amzn.to/3Uadiep

Eragon by Christopher Paolini - https://amzn.to/446y9nv

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card - https://amzn.to/4aJfssB

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - https://amzn.to/3Wa0WWi

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - https://amzn.to/3QesYMC

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This week we're discussing memoirs, autobiographies, and biographies.

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The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - https://amzn.to/3xxPABk

Only If You’re Lucky by Stacy Willingham - https://amzn.to/3VZy8Qe

A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham - https://amzn.to/3vGr804

All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham - https://amzn.to/43W0uNl

Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan - https://amzn.to/3UeQ8Vw

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - https://amzn.to/3JnSISE

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig - https://amzn.to/3xuiNgg

Mysterious Setting by Kazushige Abe - https://amzn.to/3xyOR2G

Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick - https://amzn.to/4cWiD1u

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt - https://amzn.to/3PX5NWL

Bossy Pants by Tina Fey - https://amzn.to/3JjaaYA

Yes, Please by Amy Poehler - https://amzn.to/3U1kklA

Educated by Tara Westover - https://amzn.to/3vRrd0L

Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis - https://amzn.to/4ayJwXM

On Writing by Stephen King - https://amzn.to/3Q0YMV0

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain - https://amzn.to/3PZWmG4

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan - https://amzn.to/4atUldA

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett - https://amzn.to/4cSWK33

Used and Rare by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone - https://amzn.to/3Q1YkGi

Slightly Chipped by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone - https://amzn.to/3Q21Eks

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner - https://amzn.to/3W00iuy

Taste by Stanley Tucci - https://amzn.to/3vHH2r3

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance - https://amzn.to/3vOxxGv

Open Book by Jessica Simpson - https://amzn.to/4d00TlN

Home by Julie Andrews - https://amzn.to/3Ufsrwm

Home Work by Julie Andrews - https://amzn.to/3xE9jiH

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This week we're talking about the Classics. The ones we love, the ones we hate, and the ones we haven't got to read yet.

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Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano - https://amzn.to/3PUUvSZ

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - https://amzn.to/4cGLZ41

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - https://amzn.to/4aN2RE7

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne - https://amzn.to/4aHqTAw

And Then? And Then? What Else? by Daniel Handler/Lemony Snicket - https://amzn.to/4aHKzUW

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - https://amzn.to/3VO5xNA

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig - https://amzn.to/43RUgxG

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - https://amzn.to/4aF6ug5

The Great Illustrated Classics - https://amzn.to/3xorXuF

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - https://amzn.to/3PPhtuM

The Red Pony by John Steinbeck - https://amzn.to/3U7iX6b

Canary Row by John Steinbeck - https://amzn.to/49mpMFm

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - https://amzn.to/3xpft6a

East of Eden by John Steinbeck - https://amzn.to/3TLdmRL

Beowulf by Unknown - https://amzn.to/3TNt6na

The Divine Comedy by Dante Aligheri - https://amzn.to/3VNmNTa

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - https://amzn.to/4b3bdrJ

Paradise Lost by John Milton - https://amzn.to/3vIiPkd

Anna Kerennina by Leo Tolstoy - https://amzn.to/4aL2IBf

William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, A Winter’s Tale) - https://amzn.to/3U779Rj

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett - https://amzn.to/4akvJUy

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre - https://amzn.to/3U78Pu2

The Diary of Anne Frank - https://amzn.to/3J5SnnM

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - https://amzn.to/43TDcaH

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume - https://amzn.to/4arTmdW

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous - https://amzn.to/3VOHxKb

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane - https://amzn.to/3POx0v2

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - https://amzn.to/4cKOYIy

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - https://amzn.to/43OyMBW

On the Road by Jack Kerouac - https://amzn.to/49ueDm2

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac - https://amzn.to/3vLZe2z

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway - https://amzn.to/3JbJI3g

Walden by Henry David Thoreau - https://amzn.to/4arUcr6

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood - https://amzn.to/3VMLT4E

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison - https://amzn.to/3xtBPDF

Beloved by Toni Morrison - https://amzn.to/3VQEhhI

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - https://amzn.to/49rcaJ8

The Book of the Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi - https://amzn.to/4b3drr5

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith - https://amzn.to/3xpNSBL

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This week we're talking about what we've been reading, and revisiting some favorites from childhood. Do our favorites still hold up? Or, are they better in memory like the film Beetlejuice?

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The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster - https://amzn.to/3TIu3gu

And Then? And Then? What Else? by Daniel Handler - https://amzn.to/3vyIoEh

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch - https://amzn.to/3vyu0Mb

Olivetti by Allie Millington - https://amzn.to/49k45pi

How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin - https://amzn.to/3vJfHo5

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears - https://amzn.to/3vJfWzv

Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary - https://amzn.to/3TZG2YD

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Bloom - https://amzn.to/3VCEEMv

The Wayside School by Louis Sachar - https://amzn.to/4aDJyNN

Matilda by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3vnr2KE

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3TXOmYH

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3TVyGoK

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3TVyHsO

The BFG by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3vB3sdf

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3TUjPLj

The Twits by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3PIccoO

The Witches by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/4ayBo97

Homer Price by Robert McCloskey - https://amzn.to/3VGLErQ

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville - https://amzn.to/43GWOyP

Dear America by Various Authors - https://amzn.to/3TFmQhd

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls - https://amzn.to/3TGK1aR

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - https://amzn.to/3Q6Ugof

The Odyssey by Homer - https://amzn.to/3VAfFtn

Interview With A Vampire by Anne Rice - https://amzn.to/3PNOrf1

The Old Man and the Sea by Papa Hemingway - https://amzn.to/43HtwAf

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne - https://amzn.to/3PKXgq2

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The Cooper Kids Adventure Series by Frank Peretti - https://amzn.to/3PLo2OV

Forbidden Doors (https://amzn.to/3xb9S3a) and Wally McDoogle (https://amzn.to/3TGInpP) by Bill Myers

The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket - https://amzn.to/3xhAIXz

Redwall by Brian Jacques - https://amzn.to/4czU2PP

The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper - https://amzn.to/3xeSAT0

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis - https://amzn.to/3PEX4IY

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren - https://amzn.to/3xkq4zm

The Heartwood Hotel Series by Kallie George - https://amzn.to/4agKQ1p

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews - https://amzn.to/49kPlGX

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse - https://amzn.to/4afvKcu

Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan - https://amzn.to/49ol6yB

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Join us while we talk about the books we've been reading this week, and how we motivates ourselves with reading challenges.

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The books we talked about this week:

Gray After Dark by Noelle W. Ihli

How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin

The Housemaid’s Secret by Freida McFadden

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

And Then? And Then? What Else? By Daniel Handler

On Writing by Stephen King

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Song of the Samurai by C. A. Parker

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

The Things We Cannot Say By Kelly Rimmer

Andy and Rachel's 24 in '24

Andy and Rachel's 52 in 52

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We're talking about the books we finished this week and the adaptation of books to movies and TV. Check out the list of all the books we mention below.

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The books we discuss this week:

Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Between Heaven and Hell by Peter Kreeft

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Jaws by Peter Benchley

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

The Shining by Stephen King

The Dark Tower by Stephen King

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Gutterson

Wayward Pines by Blake Crouch

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Today we discuss what we're reading this week, how we find books to read, and whether it's ever acceptable to not finish a book.

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Come with us as we open the cover of our book journey.

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