We love to read a mega-hyped Booktok book with an upcoming movie adaptation, so naturally we HAD to pick up The Housemaid and see what Freida McFadden is all about. In today's review we discuss the insanity of the plot, whether or not we predicted the twists, and our thoughts on the choice to adapt this to film. Did this one live up to the hype? (Spoiler alert: they almost never do.)

Our 1-minute reviews and initial ratings start at (16:46). Full spoiler discussion starts at (20:00).

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Preemptive apologies, we both are getting over some sickness so this episode is full of croaky voices and throat clearing...celebs, we are just like everyone else. Even though we were sick and busy we actually managed to have a lot of content to cover. Thankfully, RiLee was still chronically online when we recorded this. Check back in next month to see if she has an identity crisis during November!

0:00 - Life Updates 

20:29 - Book Review

• Murderland by Caroline Fraser
• Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
• Slewfoot by Gerald Boom
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer

38:05 - Book Release Radar

• We Fell Apart by E. Lockhart
• The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer
• Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree
• The Strength of the Few by James Islington

41:38 - Movie Reviews

• Chainsaw Man
• Regretting You
• Tron: Ares

56:47 - TV Reviews

• Chad Powers
• My Hero Academia
• 911
• RHOSLC

58:50 - TV Watch Report

• Nobody Wants This
• Love is Blind
• The Witcher S4
• Stranger Things

1:04 - Movie Watch Report

• Predator: Badlands Nov 5
• The Running Man Nov 14
• Now you see me 3 Nov 14
• Wicked: For Good Nov 21
• Rental Family Nov 21
• Hamnet Nov 26
• Misc: Sydney Sweeney movie, Zootopia 2, Jennifer Lawrence/Robert Pattinson movie

1:12:50 - Music Review

• Lily Allen
• Demi Lovato 
• bbno$

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Welcome to our October book club! We're so glad you voted for this one because it means the Stephanie Garber girls are still with us. Garber's long-awaited adult debut is here and it gave us so much to talk about... love interests, time-travel magic, mysterious objects, folklore and more!

Spoiler discussion starts at (14:05).

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Following our review of the book The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware we are back to discuss Netflix's movie adaptation and unfortunately, this was more of a Titanic experience than a Love Boat experience. This was not our favorite movie adaptation and the majority of our discussion focuses on questionable deviations (and spoilers!) from the book. Into Netflix's woman-verse we go...

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2:32- Book Discussion Begins

4:35 - Spoilers and One Minute Reviews 

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We've lived many lives since September and we are finally here to report on them!

(03:21) Reading Report

• Vicious by V.E. Schwab
• Emma by Jane Austen

(10:01) Watch Report - Movies

• Downton Abbey - The Grand Finale
• The Breakfast Club
• Rear Window
• Unknown Number: The High School Catfish
• Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle
• KPop Demon Hunters
• The Pixar Story
• The Long Walk
• When Harry Met Sally

(41:10) Watch Report - TV

• Wednesday - Season 2
• Great British Bake Off - Season 16
• Only Murders In The Building
• The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City - Season 6
• Current NFL Season
• Mare of Easttown

(1:03:10) Music

• Olivia Dean - The Art Of Loving
• Lola Young - I'm Only F**king Myself
• JADE - That's Showbiz, Baby!
• Audrey Hobert - Who's The Clown?

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She is finally here! Taylor Swift has birthed her 12th child and we are here to discuss it. In this episode we cover our first thoughts on the album, the album theatre release and discuss each track in detail. From cringey lyrics to hidden lore, we've got it all. Unfortunately, the word schlong is thrown out...that's showbiz baby!

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A hysterical woman no one believes??? What an unreal, never before read story! Jokes. All tropes aside, we had fun discussing The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware and RiLee's Reddit habits.

0:00 - General Discussion

7:40 - One Minute Reviews (spoilers)

10:44 - Detailed Book Discussion

Rating: 6/10

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Jenny Han had us in a chokehold all the way through that finale. We're crying because it's over. Smiling because it happened. And also raising our eyebrows because... what the hell was that?

This episode contains spoilers for the entirety of seasons 1-3 of The Summer I Turned Pretty. Today we're discussing primarily episodes 7-11 of season 3. For our thoughts on episodes 1-6, Listen Here!

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We are FULLY committing to the fall season and leaning into all our cozy impulses (even if it is 90 degrees in Texas). In the spirit of coziness and frankly limited mental bandwidth we are reading Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree, the ultimate relaxing vibe.

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Today's game showed us that some authors open their books with a bang, and others...well... go girl give us nothing. We had a great time either way, and we hope you do too! Most of these lines are from books we've covered on the pod, so play along with us and see if your memory is better than ours. (It probably is.)

This episode is completely spoiler-free, unless you consider knowing the opening scene of a book to be a spoiler, in which case that's an L for you.

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