Your hosts are still recuperating from last week's shop-a-thon, so enjoy this low-key episode about Covid, roof maintenance, vet visits, and the quirks and issues with southern romantic fiction.

On a long anticipated episode, Thomas and Elizabeth hit the road to Atlanta for an all-out book shop-a-thon. Join your hosts as they struggle to beat the heat, grapple with world-class arthouse cinema, and come out the other side with their sanities (and wallets) intact. Get ready to journey along "The Broken Spine!"

Elizabeth & Thomas hit the hard streets of Clawville in this episode's visual novel-based reading challenge. There's also talk of phones, cats, moms, and some big plans for the near future!

After cabin retreats, bird attacks, and some good old fashioned spring cleaning, we return with a new episode discussing Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. This tees us up surprisingly well for further discussions of an impending Mother's Day episode, as well as a recent hit Kung Fu film!

Summer may be a ways off yet, but we're in the road-trip spirit on YWAM this week, discussing Amor Towles latest novel as well as television adaptations, engrossing puzzle games, and more!

This week we're discussing Ukrainian author Oksana Zabuzhko's 2014 short-story collection. Rounding things out is a healthy side of video game talk and musings about the declining relevance of an Oscars telecast in the internet age.

Our hosts reminisce on their school days while discussing Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed historical fiction series. There's also romantic space dragons, because come on, you know what show this is by now.

While big game launches loom over more mundane affairs, there's still the great new work from acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead to keep our heads in the page, not to mention sprawling sci-fi romances and Hungarian lit-fic.

This week we jack into the metaverse for a discussion of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Other books discussed include Kira Jane Buxton's Feral Creatures and the Maze of Shadows series by Kathryn Ann Kingsley.

As the winds of winter abate, your hosts take a dive into virtual reality fiction with Jason Segel & Kirsten Miller's young adult sci-fi novel. There's also some health updates and a fearsome serial killer series begging for an adaptation.