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Hello, Should-Heads! We're back with a longer than usual episode (and a fourth host!) and we have a lot to talk about. It's a book club episode and there are spoilers, but the quick version is that you need to read Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley. 

If you haven't read it yet, you absolutely should! The audiobook is incredible, and you can buy it here from Libro.fm: https://tidd.ly/3KieM0n 

When you buy using that link, or sign up for Libro.fm using our promo code WHATYOUSHOULDREAD, you are supporting both the podcast AND your favorite independent bookseller. It's a win-win-win! 

Discussion links:

https://twitter.com/mollymcghee/status/1502343597676548099?s=20&t=jEscJAVCvmvqNLFuIjsDwA 

https://www.epicreads.com/books/9780063088160/whiteout/ 

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/abbott-elementary-abc-scholastic-book-fair-1235199504/ 

Currently Reading: 

Bekki: Dating Dr. Dil (Nisha Sharma), Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir), One Last Stop (Casey McQuiston), The Sum of Us (Heather McGhee), Reading While Black (Esau McCaulley) and Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Julia: Nothing to See Here (Kevin Wilson) 
Kelly: I Was Better Last Night (Harvey Fierstein) 
Rachael: In a New York Minute (Kate Spencer)

Recent Acquisitions:

Julia: Again, Rachel (Marian Keyes), Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling (Emer McLysagh and Sarah Breen), The Verifiers (Jane Pek), One Italian Summer (Rebecca Serle) and My Friend Anna (Rachel DeLoache Williams).

Kelly: Mistakes Were Made (Meryl Wilsner), The Lioness (Chris Bohjalian), Unprotected (Billy Porter), I'll Scream Later (Marlee Matlin) and The Suite Spot (Trish Doller). 

Rachael:  Admissions (Kendra James), The Shadow of the Gods (John Gwynne) and Great Daze (Bryan Preston).

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Our next book club book: The Ones We're Meant to Find (Joan He)

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Hey Should-Heads! We read and loved Dating Dr. Dil and we're so excited to talk to Nisha Sharma. It's a retelling of Taming of the Shrew and it is amazing!

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Hey Should-Heads! March is going to be a Very Expensive Month, so it's good that we have a readathon to plan for! 

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Links Mentioned: 

Britney Spears' book deal! https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/21/entertainment/britney-spears-book-deal/index.html 

Tis the Damn Readathon: https://twitter.com/damnreadathon 

Currently Reading:

Julia: Belgravia (Julian Fellowes) and Admissions (Kendra James)

Kelly: Just finished and loved One Last Stop (Casey McQuiston)

Rachael: between books 

Overdue Book: Maud (Melanie J Fishbane)

Recent Acquisitions:

Julia: Happiness For Beginners (Katherine Center), The Unnamed (Joshua Ferris), The Importance of Being Aisling (Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen), Last Chance Library (Freya Sampson), The Snow Child (Eowyn Ivey) and The Copper Beech  (Maeve Binchy)

Kelly:  none, somehow

Rachael: Model Home (J. Courtney Sullivan), Across the Green Grass Fields (Seanan McGuire, People We Meet on Vacation (Emily Henry), Rachel’s Holiday (Marian Keyes), City of Girls (Elizabeth Gilbert), Anne of Green Gables (L.M.Montgomery), One Night on the Island (Josie Silver), The Family Chao (Lan Samantha Chang), Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates), Sushi For Beginners (Marian Keyes), The Sum of Us (Heather McGhee), What a Complete Aisling (Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen)

Most Anticipated: 

Julia:  One Italian Summer (Rebecca Serle), The Impossible Us (Sarah Lotz) and The Prophet’s Wife (Libbie Grant)

Kelly: I Was Better Last Night (Harvey Fierstein), This Golden State (Marit Weisenberg) and The Book of Cold Cases (Simone St. James)

Rachael: The Diamond Eye (Kate Quinn), Peach Blossom Spring (Melissa Fu) and Tell Me an Ending (Jo Harkin)

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Hello, Should-Heads! We're so happy to share that there will be a second year for Tis the Damn Readathon! Rachael's even going to be co-hosting the 24-hour readathon. https://twitter.com/damnreadathon  

And we've got some help for you for the prompts! (We'll also be sharing more recommendations on our Twitter and Instagram accounts, and probably also dropping some throughout upcoming episodes.) 

Read a Memoir (Kelly picked Will by Will Smith; Julia and Rachael have already read it and love it.)

Read a Book That Intimidates You (Julia picked The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers.

If This Was A Movie (Kelly picked Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie)

Read a Book With Red on the Cover (Rachael picked The Sentence by Louise Erdrich)

Read a Book With a Number in the Title (Rachael picked The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin)

Read a Book That's Been Recommended (Rachael picked Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley)

Read a Five Star Prediction (Kelly picked The Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle)

Read a Book Written By Two Authors (Julia picked Oh my God, What a Complete Aisling by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen)

Read a Mystery of Thriller (Julia picked The Maid by Nita Prose)

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Hey Should-Heads! It's February and love is in the air. But since you probably don't need any help looking for great romance novels, here are some of our favorite love stories that...well, aren't romances. 

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Links Mentioned: 

Pachinko adaptation! https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/tv/pachinko-tv-adaptation-min-jin-lee-apple-tv-release-date-plot-trailer-2902269 

Tis the Damn Readathon YEAR TWO! https://twitter.com/damnreadathon

Related episodes: 

British Books: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1101233/episodes/8056184 

Honey Girl book club: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1101233/episodes/8663910 

Currently Reading:

Julia: Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling

Kelly: The Golden Couple

Rachael: Legends and Lattes (Travis Baldree)

Overdue Book: Happiness For Beginners

Recent Acquisitions:

Julia: Rachel’s Holiday, Admissions, Belgravia, The Maid
Kelly: galleys of The House Across the Lake and By the Book (Jasmine Guillory), plus I Must Betray You and Don't Cry For Me, The Violence and Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy & Healthy (S. A. Bradley)
Rachael: Friends and Strangers, The Water Dancer, Our Little World, Yerba Buena, The Christie Affair 

Non-Romance Love Stories: 

Julia: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, Always in December, The House in the Cerulean Sea

Kelly: Maybe in Another Life, Honey Girl, The Unnamed

Rachael: The Last Chance Library, The Deep, A Man Called Ove

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Hey Should-Heads! We're so excited to have Adib Khorram back on the show! We loved his Darius the Greatduology and were very excited when we heard about Kiss & Tell. We discuss all three; Kiss & Tell comes out March 22.
RELATED EPISODE: our first interview with Adib Khorram

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Hey Should-Heads! We've got so many great books to look forward to! We've rounded up our favorite ones; let us know if we missed anything.

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Links Mentioned: 

New Celeste Ng: https://lithub.com/theres-a-new-celeste-ng-novel-coming-this-fall/ 

Books lost at sea: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/29/1076664011/due-to-a-shipping-container-incident-every-copy-of-2-cookbooks-were-lost-at-sea#:~:text=When%2065%20shipping%20containers%20slipped,Dinner%20In%20One%3A%20Exceptional%20%26%20Easy 

Currently Reading:

Julia: Dating Dr. Dil

Kelly: Horrid

Rachael: between books

Overdue Book: Random Family

Recent Acquisitions:

Julia: Tell the Machine Goodnight (Katie Wiliams), The Last Cuentista (Donna Barba Higuera), Flying Solo (Linda Holmes), Miss Me With That (Rachel Lindsay), Light Years From Home (Mike Chen)

Kelly:  Tell the Machine Goodnight (Katie Williams), The Last Cuentista (Donna Barba Higuera), The Roughest Draft (Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka), The Magnolia Palace (Fionaa Davis), Devil House (John Darnielle), The Overnight Guest (Heather Gudenkauf), The Accomplice (Lisa Lutz), The Lies I Tell (Julie Clark), Please Join Us (Catherine McKenzie) and Doomsday Mother (John Glatt)

Rachael: still on book buying ban

Most Anticipated: 

Julia: Again Rachel, The Life You Left Behind and The School of Mirrors

Kelly: Catch Her When She Falls, Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman, The Arc and Echo

Rachael: Legends and Lattes (Travis Baldree), One Night on the Island, The Family Chao, All the Right Reasons (Bethany Mangle)

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Hey Should-Heads! There's something special about finding a new author. It's like getting in on the ground floor of something amazing. Here are three of our favorite debuts!

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Debut novel recommendations:

Julia: Queen of Hearts (Kimmery Martin)

Kelly: Firekeeper's Daughter (Angeline Boulley) 

Rachael: Bean Trees (Barbara Kingsolver)

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Hey Should-Heads! We're here with recommendations with antiracist books. With the latest round of voting rights challenges and library censorship, it's a good time to remember that this is an ongoing fight and not something where you read one book and you've learned everything there is to know. Look for (most of) the books mentioned in this episode on Libro.fm by using our affiliate link. When you buy using this link, you are supporting the podcast! AND if you use our code WHATYOUSHOULDREAD at checkout you can get your first two books for the price of one. Check out our recommendations here.

RELATED EPISODES:
Books By Black Authors; Speculative Fiction; Romances By Black Authors; More Books By Black Authors

 Currently Reading:
Julia: We are Satellites; What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat 
Kelly: None Shall Sleep 
Rachael: Beasts of a Little Land 

Our Antiracist Book Recommendations:
Julia: The Sum of Us; The Antiracist
Kelly: The Awakening of Malcolm X ; Ain't Burned All the Bright 
Rachael: Eloquent Rage; The New Jim Crow    

Next book club pick: Firekeeper's Daughter, by Angeline Boullay

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Hey Should-Heads! It's part 2 of our yearly round up episodes and this week we're discussing our faves from 2021 (remember 2021? Seems so long ago!)

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2021 Favorites:

Kathy:  The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid), All These Bodies (Kendare Blake), If the Shoe Fits (Julie Murphy), Mouth Full of Forevers (Clementine von Radics) and Five Little Indians (Michelle Good)

Julia: Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir), Meet Me In Another Life (Catriona Silvey), It’s Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake (Claire Christian), Always in December (Emily Stone) and Skye Falling (Mia McKenzie)

Kelly: Under the Whispering Door (TJ Klune), Wish You Were Here (Jodi Picoult), Call Us What We Carry (Amanda Gorman), Into the Bloodred Woods (Martha Brockenbrough) and In the Wild Light (Jeff Zentner)

Rachael: Wish You Were Here (Jodi Picoult), Concrete Rose (Angie Thomas), The House in the Cerulean Sea (TJ Klune), The Snow Child (Eowyn Ivey) and Winterkeep (Kristin Cashore)

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