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Hi, Should-Heads! Welcome to  Kelloween, a 13-day celebration of all things scary, spooky, gory, and macabre. To kick us off today we are joined by our friend Kathy to discuss true crime. We've got podcast, book and movie recs, plus our true crime podcast homage: the weekly distraction.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of violence and murder. Animal abuse and rape are briefly mentioned. 

Recommendations:

Kathy: The First Degree (podcast), My Friend Dahmer (book by Derf Backderf and it's also a movie)

Julia: Britney's Gram and Toxic (both podcasts)

Kelly: RedHanded (podcast), The Yoga Store Murder (book by Dan Morse), The Clovehitch Killer (movie)

Rachael: The Trail Went Cold (podcast)

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Hi, Should-Heads!   We're so excited to discuss The Ex Hex! We all absolutely loved it and had the best time chatting with author Erin Sterling. We also do a deep dive into the Bad Art Friend saga (read the link to follow the story that took over book Twitter this week) and join us as we discuss love, witchcraft and curses. 

Currently reading: 

Julia: Book slump 
Kelly: As if on Cue (Marisa Kanter) 
Rachael: I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are (Rachel Bloom)

Book News: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/magazine/dorland-v-larson.html 

Recent acquisitions: 

Julia: none 
Kelly: The Perishing (Natashia Deon), The Lincoln Highway (Amor Towles) and Everything We Didn't Say (Nicole Baart) 
Rachael: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Fannie Flagg), Rodham (Curtis Sittenfeld), The Last Chance Library (Freya Sampson), Kristy and the Snobs (Ann M. Martin and Chan Chau) and Ghosts (Raina Telgemeier)

Other books discussed: 

The Hacienda (Isabel Canas), Payback's a Witch (Lana Harper), Not Your Average Hot Guy (Gwenda Bond), Witch, Please (Ann Aguirre)

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Hi, Should-Heads! Sometimes it seems like Julia got the idea to start a podcast just so she could talk about how great Spoiler Alert is. (If that's true, it's definitely the best possible reason.) We had a great time with Olivia Dade chatting about fandom and ships, obviously, but also minotaurs, ranch dressing and representation. 

Other books discussed:

And They Lived Happily Ever After (Therese Beharrie), Morning Glory Milking Farm (C.M. Nascosta) and The Black Hawk (Joanna Bourne), plus authors Jennifer Crusie and Mia Sosa.

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Hi, Should-Heads! We're joined by our friend Kathy to share some of the best releases out in October! We also discuss being intentional with reading choices and oh hey, did you know Julia had a birthday recently?

Currently reading:

Julia: Defy the Night (Brigid Kemmerer) and Please Don't Sit on my Bed In Your Outside Clothes (Phoebe Robinson)
Kelly: As if on Cue (Marisa Kanter)
Rachael: Rock Paper Scissors (Alice Feeney) and Exhausted (Nick Polizzi)

Recent acquisitions: 

 Julia: The Echo Wife (Sarah Gailey), The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano (Donna Freitas), Game Changer (Neal Shusterman), Fierce Self-Compassion (Kristin Neff) and The Sum of Us (Heather McGhee)
Kelly: Time Will Tell (Barry Lyga), Pony (RJ Palacio), Several People Are Typing (Calvin Kasulke)
Rachael: Bad Fat Black Girl (Sesali Bowen) and My Monticello (Jocelyn Nicole Johnson)

Our Most Anticipated:

Kathy: Not Your Average Hot Guy (Gwenda Bond), Bad Girls Never Say Die (Jennifer Mathieu), Fan Club (Erin Mayer), Capote's Women (Laurence Leamer), Squad (Maggie Tokuda-Hall)

Julia: All the Feels (Olivia Dade), Well Matched (Jen DeLuca), My Monticello (Jocelyn Nicole Johnson) and Always in December (Emily Stone)

Kelly: Where They Went (Scott Carson), We Are Not Like Them (Jo Piazza and Christine Pride), Frankie and Bug (Gayle Forman), Any Sign of Life (Rae Carson) and Black Birds in the Sky (Brandy Colbert)

Rachael: The Storm of Echoes (Christelle Dabos), Tacos For Two (Betsy St. Almant), Femlandia (Christina Dalcher), Girlie Drinks (Mallory O'Meara) and My Monticello (Jocelyn Nicole Johnson)

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Hi, Should-Heads! We spent last Friday going to some of the bookstores in Baltimore and DC! (There are a bunch we missed, so hopefully there will be a part two the next time Rachael comes to Baltimore!) We visited five bookstores and were joined by Kindred Spirit of the Pod Bekki Fahrer for three of them. It was a great day and became a Very Expensive Friday.

Plum County Literacy Festival discussion links:

https://twitter.com/EliotSchrefer/status/1440009959228456960?s=20 

https://starherald.com/news/local/education/plum-creek-literacy-festival-cancels-events-after-authors-pull-out-over-discriminatory-concordia-policy/article_d21d788b-97fe-5480-9a57-d29b1266c411.html?mode=comments 

 Currently Reading: 
Bekki: The Secret Bridesmaid (Katy Birchall), The Gifts of Imperfection (Brene Brown), Malice (Heather Walter) and Legendbourne (Tracy Deonn)
Julia: Defy the Night (Brigid Kemmerer) 
Kelly: Off the Record (Camryn Garrett); just finished Defy the Night and What I Like About You (Marisa Kanter) 
Rachael: Under the Whispering Door (TJ Klune) and Black Nerd Problems (William Evans); just finished Defy the Night.

Recent Acquisitions:
Julia: The Graceling series (Kristin Cashore), So Many Beginnings (Bethany C. Morrow), The Dating Playbook (Farrah Rochon) and Under the Whispering Door (TJ Klune)
Kelly: Defy the Night (Brigid Kemmerer)

The Ivy:

Julia: The Two Lives of Louis and Louise (Julie Cohen) and Eliza Starts a Rumor (Jane L. Rosen)
Kelly: Harlem Shuffle (Colson Whitehead)
Rachael: The Extraordinaries (TJ Klune) and Exhausted (Nick Polizzi and Pedram Shojai)

Busboys and Poets:
Bekki:  Certain Dark Things (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
Julia: Blackout (Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk and Nicola Yoon) and How Long 'til Black Future Month (NK Jemisin)
Kelly: Things We Couldn't Say (Jay Coles) and The Insiders (Mark Oshiro)
Rachael: Blackout (Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk and Nicola Yoon)

Capitol Hill Books:
Bekki: A Desolation Called Peace (Arkady Martine) and Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)

East City Books:
Bekki: Harrow the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir), Under the Whispering Door (TJ Klune) and Praying With Jane Eyre (Vanessa Zoltan)
Julia: Malice (Heather Walter)
Kelly: Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Malinda Lo)
Rachael: Wow, No Thank You (Samantha Irby) and A Clash of Steel (T.B. Lee)

Mahogany Books: 
Julia: Rise to the Sun (Leah Johnson)
Kelly: Off the Record (Camryn Garrett)
Rachael: An Unkindness of Ghosts (Rivers Solomon)

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Hi, Should-Heads! It's technically fall and we are ready for it. Bring on your apple cider, comfy clothes and...all things scary?! (If you're Kelly.) 

Book News:
 
Reader infographic: https://blog.bookbaby.com/2020/08/the-reading-habits-of-five-generations-infographic/  
 
Currently Reading: 
 
Julia: Grown (Tiffany D. Jackson) 
Kelly: The Lost Girls (Sonia Hartl) 
Rachael: The Space Between Worlds (Micaiah Johnson) and So Many Beginnings (Bethany C. Morrow) 
 
Recent Acquisitions: 
 
Julia: Matrix (Lauren Groff) 
Kelly: Simone Breaks All the Rules (Debbie Rigaud), All Our Hidden Gifts (Caroline O'Donoghue), That Weekend (Kara Thomas) and Redhanded: An Exploration of Criminals, Cannibals, Cults, and What Makes a Killer Tick (Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala) 
Rachael: The F It Diet (Caroline Dooner) and Defy the Night (Brigid Kemmerer)

Fall recommendations:

Julia: Every Day (David Levithan), Circle of Friends (Maeve Binchy) and A Curious Beginning (Deanna Raybourn)

Kelly: Pet Sematary (Stephen King), The Shining (Stephen King), everyone should watch Clickbait (Netflix) and I want to compare/contrast The Exorcist's theatrical version with the director's cut

Rachael: Life After Life (Kate Atkinson), The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (V.E. Schwab), Graceling (Kristin Cashore), Flight Behavior (Barbara Kingsolver), Good In Bed (Jennifer Weiner), What Alice Forgot (Liane Moriarty), Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery), Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier), My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante) and Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout)

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Hi, Should-Heads! We're so excited to be talking with Debbie Rigaud, one of our new favorite authors! Her most recent book is Simone Breaks All the Rules, but we delve into her backlist (including a royal rom-com), what it's like to work with Alyssa Milano and so much more. 

Check out the gorgeous cover for her upcoming release, A Girl's Guide to Love and Magic (out next summer): https://twitter.com/diversebooks/status/1437053729505792001/photo/1 

Preorder it here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-girls-guide-to-love-magic-debbie-rigaud/1140075293?ean=9781338681741 

Other books discussed:

Your Life Has Been Delayed (Michelle I. Mason), Frankie & Bug (Gayle Forman), I'm So Effing Tired (Amy Shah), For Black Girls Like Me (Mariama J. Lockington), Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry (Joya Goffney) and the collected works of Paula Chase, Kristina Forest and Christopher Paul Curtis. 

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Instagram: @froandabow 

Twitter: @debbierigaud 

Website: https://www.debbierigaud.com/ 

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Hi, Should-Heads! We're about to be incredibly optimistic and share the five books we're each determined to read before the end of the year. Will we do it, or are we setting ourselves up for failure?
 
Book News:
 
Stephen King short story: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/humble-charity-red-screen-stephen-king-books 

Supply chain problems: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/manufacturing/article/86833-high-costs-services-disruptions-plague-book-biz-supply-chain.html 
 

Currently Reading:
 
Julia: All the Feels (Olivia Dade) and Obviously: Stories From My Timeline (Akilah Hughes)
Kelly: The Unheard (Nicci French)
Rachael: So Many Beginnings (Bethany C. Morrow), The Comfort Book (Matt Haig) and The Space Between Worlds (Micaiah Johnson)
 
 
Recent Acquisitions:
 
Julia: Love Hypothesis (Ali Hazelwood) and In Every Mirror She's Black) (Lola Akinmade Akerstrom)
Kelly: The Assignment (Liza Wiemer), The Love Hypothesis (Ali Hazelwood), The Neighbor's Secret (L. Alison Heller), Rock Paper Scissors (Alice Feeney), So Many Beginnings (Bethany C. Morrow), Take Me Home Tonight (Morgan Matson), In the Wild Light (Jeff Zentner) and Persist (Elizabeth Warren)
Rachael: Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr), Happy Hour (Marlowe Granados), Black Nerd Problems (William Evans and Omar Holmon), So Many Beginnings (Bethany C. Morrow), Claudia and the New Girl (Ann M. Martin, Gabriela Epstein), Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy (Chynna Clugston-Flores), I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are (Rachel Bloom), The Fate of Food (Amanda Little) and Rock Paper Scissors (Alice Feeney)

Backlist TBR:

Julia: Sanctuary (VV James), Grown (Tiffany D. Jackson), Anxious People (Fredrik Backman), Ninth House (Leigh Bardugo) and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke)

Kelly: More Than Maybe (Erin Hahn), Mexican Gothic (Silvia Moreno-Garcia), The Only Good Indians (Stephen Graham Jones), Survivor Song (Paul Tremblay), The Lost Village (Camilla Sten)

Rachael:  My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Ottessa Moshfegh), We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver), Foundryside (Robert Jackson Bennett), Perfect Life (Jessica Shattuck) and Sing You Home (Jodi Picoult)

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Hi, Should-Heads! This is the last podcast of the summer and we are ready for fall. And a new season means a bunch of new books. September has so many amazing reads and I'm honestly not sure how we narrowed it down to five each (that's a lie. Julia and her threats helped us narrow it down).
 
Book News:
 
PRH and preorders: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/87229-gorman-book-s-price-hike-startles-booksellers.html
BSC Season 2: https://deadline.com/2021/08/the-baby-sitters-club-season-2-premiere-date-netflix-trailer-1234822444/ 
 

Currently Reading:
 
Julia: Nothing (book slump) 
Kelly: Ski Weekend (Rektok Ross) 
Rachael: The Awakening (Nora Roberts)
 
 
Recent Acquisitions:
 
Julia: Nothing (book slump)
 
Kelly: Bad Witch Burning (Jessica Lewis)
 
Rachael: The Barefoot Sisters: Southbound and The Barefoot Sisters: Walking Home (Lucy Letcher and Susan Letcher), Under the Whispering Door (TJ Klune), All the Feels (Olivia Dade)

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Hi, Should-Heads! It feels like it's been forever, doesn't it? That makes this episode all the more appropriate; we're discussing Locked in Time, a favorite of Kelly's and her best friend Jen's, and a book that's about people that actually have been living forever (or fairly close to it). We also discuss more childhood favorites and our current pop culture favorites.

Currently Reading:

Julia: Locked in Time (Lois Duncan), Bridgerton (Julia Quinn) and The Other Me (Sarah Zachrich Jeng) 
Kelly: Fresh (Margot Wood); recently read Chasing the Boogeyman (Richard Chizmar), The Family Plot (Megan Collins) and The Nothing Man (Catherine Ryan Howard) 
Rachael: A Slow Fire Burning (Paula Hawkins), Once There Were Wolves (Charlotte McConaghy), Don't Overthink It (Anne Bogel) and Pleasure Activism (Adrienne Maree Brown)

What We're Watching:

Julia: Downton Abbey

Kelly: Friends and Ted Lasso

Rachael: My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Good Place and listening to The Self Love Fix podcast

Recent Acquisitions:

Julia: Four Thousand Weeks (Oliver Berkeman)

Kelly: e-galleys of True Crime Story (Joseph Knox), We Are Not Like Them (Christine Pride and Jo Piazza) and Here's to Us (Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera); bought Velvet Was the Night (Silvia Moreno-Garcia) and preordered A Night to Die For (Lisa Schroeder)

Rachael: Keeper of the Light (Leanne Lovegrove), All the Feels (Olivia Dade), The Ex Hex (Erin Sterling), Detransition, Baby (Torrey Peters) and Migrations (Charlotte McConaghy)

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