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Happy New Year, Should-Heads! We've missed you and each other but we're back now and we're excited to tell you the books we can't wait to read this year.  And look for a special mini episode next week where we review all the books we loved in 2021. Yes we realize we are doing this out of order. No, we're not sorry. 

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Currently reading:

Julia: Beach Read (Emily Henry)
Kelly:  Kiss and Tell (Adib Khorram)
Rachael:  The Sentence (Louise Erdrich) and How to Be Perfect (Michael Schur)


Most Anticipated:

Kathy: Bee Merry (Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone), The Weight of Blood (Tiffany D. Jackson), Love in the Time of Serial Killers (Alicia Thompson), Six Ways to Write a Love Letter (Jackson Pearce) and By the Book (Jasmine Guillory)

Julia:
Again, Rachel (Marian Keyes), The Impossible Us (Sarah Lotz), Light Years From Home (Mike Chen), One Italian Summer (Rebecca Serle) and Acts of Violet (Margarita Montimore)

Kelly: A Night to Die For (Lisa Schroeder), The Weight of Blood (Tiffany D. Jackson), Consider the Octopus (Nora Raleigh Baskin and Gae Polisner), Horror Hotel (Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren) and A Girl's Guide to Love and Magic (Debbie Rigaud).

Rachael: The Christie Affair (Nina de Gremont), Hook, Line, and Sinker (Tessa Bailey), Sea of Tranquility (Emily St. John Mandel), The Summer Place (Jennifer Weiner) and One Night on the Island (Josie Silver)


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Merry Christmas Eve Should-heads! This year our gift to you is our annual crossover episode with our friends at Movies and a Meal. We watched three different Little Women adaptations, rated, and debated them. We discuss the important subjects such as, why is Laurie such a little twerp all the time? Is everyone just cool with the professor being SO much older than Jo in the 1994 version? And and will Kelly and Julia ever speak to each other again after that knock-down, drag out Marmee debate? You'll have to listen to find out. 

Happy Holidays to you all. We are so grateful for your love and support of the podcast this year. We'll be back in 2022 for our year in review, and what we're looking forward to in the New Year. 

Until then...You're Welcome.

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We've got a festive episode for you today, Should-Heads! We discuss our favorite Christmas movies and the books they remind us of. It's definitely going to get you in a holiday frame of mind. Grab some hot chocolate and your favorite cookies and let's get started.

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Currently reading: 

Julia: One Day in December (Josie Silver) and So This is Christmas (Tracy Andreen)

Kelly:  The Holiday Swap (Maggie Knox)

Rachael: The Holiday Swap (Maggie Knox) and A Season for Second Chances (Jenny Bayliss)

Book news:

Anne Rice died: https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/12/entertainment/anne-rice-obit/index.html 

Reading Rainbow is coming back: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reading-rainbow-live-returns/ 

Recent acquisitions:

Julia: Holiday Swap (Maggie Knox), Razorblade Tears (SA Cosby), But You Seem So Happy (Kimberly Harrington), The Matzah Ball (Jean Meltzer), So This is Christmas (Tracy Andreen) and Just Haven't Met You Yet (Sophie Cousens)

Kelly: The Holiday Swap (Maggie Knox), A Flicker in the Dark (Stacy Willingham), Malibu Rising (Taylor Jenkins Reid), The Whisper Man (Alex North) and Call Us What We Carry (Amanda Gorman)

Rachael: None

Pairings:

Julia: It's a Wonderful Life and Dark Matter (Blake Crouch), Christmas Every Day and In a Holidaze (Christina Lauren) and The Family Stone and Grownups (Marian Keyes)

Kelly: Krampus and Secret Santa (Andrew Shaffer), Miracle on 34th Street and House in the Cerulean Sea (TJ Klune) and While You Were Sleeping and One for the Money/Stephanie Plum series (Janet Evanovich)

Rachael: Frosty the Snowman and The Snow Child (Eowyn Ivey), Love Actually and Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) and The Family Man and The Two Lives of Lydia Bird (Josie Silver)

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We're here to talk about historical fiction today, Should-heads! It's one of Rachael's favorite genres and we've got a bunch of great picks for you. Also, since we've been gone for a bit, our "recent acquisitions" are a little bit out of control. 

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Currently reading: 

Julia: Beasts of a Little Land (Juhea Kim) 

Kelly: The Last Days of Jack Sparks (Jason Arnapp) 

Rachael: Hogfather (Terry Pratchett) and Always, In December (Emily Stone)

Book News: 

Alice Sebold:  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59485586 

Malcolm X Cell Prison Library:  https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/25/metro/prison-advocate-macarthur-genius-turns-what-may-be-malcolm-xs-former-cell-into-library-place-hope/?p1=BGSearch_Overlay_Results 

PRH Book Data: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/articles/2021-year-in-books/ 

Recs:

Julia: The Family (Naomi Krupitsky), The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett) and Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)

Kelly: Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Malinda Lo), City of Girls (Elizabeth Gilbert) and The Orphan Collector (Ellen Marie Wiseman)

Rachael: Plantagenet and Tudor novels (Philippa Gregory), The Great Alone (Kristin Hannah) and Beyond the Point (Claire Gibson)

Bonus picks: Your House Will Pay (Steph Cha) and The Orphan Train (Christina Baker Kline)

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We're here to talk about our favorite celebrity memoirs! Topics include what makes a great one (SPOILER: it's gossip) and who we wish would write a tell-all book. We've got some great choices and all of our TBRs have significantly grown.

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Currently reading: 

Julia: The House in the Cerulean Sea (TJ Klune)  and Yes & I Love You (Roni Loren) 
Kelly: You Can't Be Serious (Kal Penn) 
Rachael: The Matzah Ball (Jean Meltzer)

Book News: 

Audiobooks:
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/87762-ai-comes-to-audiobooks.html

PRH to get S&S? https://www.reuters.com/business/us-justice-dept-files-lawsuit-block-penguin-random-house-purchase-simon-schuster-2021-11-02/

Amazon price fixing lawsuit: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/87777-lawyers-argue-that-e-book-price-fixing-case-against-amazon-big-five-publishers-should-proceed.html 

Celeb Memoirs:

Kristine: Open Book (Jessica Simpson), Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (Mindy Kaling), Redefining Realness (Janet Mock) and Down the Rabbit Hole (Holly Madison)

Julia: Will (Will Smith), This is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare (Gabourey Sidibe) and Where Am I Now (Mara Wilson)

Kelly: Little Sister: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood (Lana Wood) and This Will All Be Over Soon (Cecily Strong)

Rachael: I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are (Rachel Bloom), Shout (Laurie Halse Anderson), Garlic and Sapphires (Ruth Reichl), I'm Talking as Fast as I Can (Lauren Graham), Hungry Heart (Jennifer Weiner) and Over the Top (Jonathan Van Ness)

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As the holidays approach, we know many will be hitting the road to see friends, family, and maybe an enemy or two. Pass the time on your road trip with an audio book, and we've got some great suggestions from Uncle Danny and Aunt Amy, two experts of both audio books and long road trips.

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You Should Watch: The Second Season of the Babysitters Club! (with guest Alysia Lee) 

Should-Heads, have you watched the new season of the Babysitters Club yet? If not, we definitely recommend it. We do a deep dive into the season and its themes, plus we chat about personality quizzes, growing up, friendships and grief. 

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The year's practically almost over, Should-heads. We may not have done very well on our October reading, but we're hoping to finish the year strong. Also? The last two months are full of amazing book releases. (We would also do a joint recommendation for Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult, releasing at the end of November.)

Currently reading: 

Julia: So Many Beginnings (Bethany C. Morrow), Always, in December (Emily Stone) and Graceling (Kristin Cashore)
Kelly: Bad Girls Never Say Die (Jennifer Mathieu)
Rachael: Tara Road (Maeve Binchy), Girlie Drinks (Mallory O'Meara) and The Barefoot Sisters (Lucy Letcher and Susan Letcher)

Book News: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2021/10/26/school-districts-under-investigation-by-texas-house-over-books-curriculum/ 

Recent acquisitions: 

Julia: none  
Kelly: The Orphan Collector (Ellen Marie Wiseman) and Monsters, Makeup and Effects (Heather Wixson)
Rachael: The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven (Nathaniel Ian Miller)

Most Anticipated:

Julia: Will (Will Smith), Noor (Nnedi Okorafor), Sex Cult Nun (Faith Jones), Beasts of a Little Land (Juhea Kim) and The Big Reveal (Jen Larsen)

Kelly: Into the Bloodred Woods (Martha Brockenbrough), The Collective (Allison Gaylin), The Surrogate (Toni Halleen), Murder Book (Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell) and Spin Me Right Round (David Valdes)

Rachael: Just Haven't Met You Yet (Sophie Cousens), Graceling: The Graphic Novel (Kristin Cashore and Gareth Hinds) The Sentence (Louise Erdrich), Pride, Prejudice and Peril (Katie Oliver) and Daughter of the Sea (Elisabeth Hobbes)

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Hi, Should-Heads! It's the Halloween season, and you know what that means: Kelly is talking nonstop about all things horror (even more than usual). Join us on a Stockholm syndrome ride from here to November 1.

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Hi, Should-Heads! It's the Halloween season, and you know what that means: Kelly is talking nonstop about all things horror (even more than usual). Join us on a Stockholm syndrome ride from here to November 1.

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