Unofficial Book Club Podcast

As Women & Girls There’s So Much We Are Not Allowed to Be with Mindy McGinnis

In this episode author Mindy McGinnis joins me to discuss her dark thrillers The Female of the Species, The Initial Insult and The Last Laugh along with all her other amazing books. Mindy talks all things writing and the stories she creates!
 
https://www.mindymcginnis.com
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Her new book Under This Red Rock comes out March 2024!
Cover Artist: @coreybrickleyillustration
 
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A Scientist Who Loves Fantasy with Claudio

In this episode Claudio joins me again to discuss his relationship to reading, and his love for fantasy! 
 
Books Listed in this episode: 
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri 
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
SYLO by D. J. MacHale
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
The Stormlight Archive Brandon Sanderson 
George R. R. Martin
The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Murtagh by Christopher Paolini
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
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Science is Kind of like the Magic of Our World with Claudio

In this episode  Claudio joins me to discuss his PHD work in Germany and reminisce on our childhood and how it shaped us in adulthood. 
 
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Our How to Live Manual is Fiction with Kris and Maddie

In this episode TikTok sensations Kris and Maddie join me again to discuss all their favorite books and their plans for future endeavors in the bookish world!
 
Books Discussed on this Episode:
The Way of Kings by
Dark Age by Pierce Brown
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas,
Manacled by SenLinYu
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Masters of Death by Olivie Blake
Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story by Olivie Blake
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
Dune by Frank Herbert
Five Survive by Holly Jackson
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
A Fire Endless: A Novel by Rebecca Ross
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
Spells for Forgetting: A Novel by Adrienne Young 
SYLO by D. J. MacHale
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Sign Here by Claudia Lux
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Happiness is the Place Where there is No Time with Kris and Maddie

In this anniversary episode BookTok sensations Kristen and Maddie join me to discuss the importance of being yourself and valuing your time and what makes you happy!
 
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I Didn’t Read Harry Potter Until I Was 23 with Kayla

In this episode Kayla joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and the difficulty in finding time to read as an adult. She shares what its like to read popular childhood books for the first time in her 20’s!
 
Books Discussed on this Episode:
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
Magic Tree House Books by Mary Pope Osborne
Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Outlawed by Anna North
Sign Here by Claudia Lux
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
All We Can Save edited by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson 
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
Men, Women, and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover
Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning by Sarah Weinman
The Night Swim by Megan Goldin
All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks
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I Don’t Spend Time with Anyone I Don’t Like with Kayla

In this episode my friend Kayla joins me to discuss the importance of friendship, poetry and loving yourself. 
 
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If a Book Is Too Big I Wont Read it with Amandine Rafael

In this episode my friend Amandine Rafael joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading, which includes always reading the last page of a book first!
Books Discussed in this episode:
Dan Brown Books
The Art of DuckTales by Kenneth Plume
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Jack Ryan Books 
The Flight Attendant By Chris Bohjalian
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers can teach us about success by Kevin Dutton 
Hysterical: Why We Need to Talk About Women, Hormones, and Mental Health by Eleanor Morgan 
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
La Peste by Albert Camus 
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune 
Happy Place by Emily Henry 
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Verity by Colleen Hoover
The Winds of Winter by George R. R. Martin
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones  by James Clear
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I Like a Challenge with Amandine Rafael

In this episode my friend Amandine Rafael joins me to discuss her journey from Luxembourg to Washington DC. What its like to pick up your life and move across an ocean?
 
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Unwrapped Part 2 with Dr. Kendra Washington-Bass and Kelly Peaks Horner

In this episode co-authors of Unwrapped: The Pursuit of Justice for Women Educators, Dr. Kendra Washington-Bass and Kelly Peaks Horner join me again to discuss their book!
Go out and get your copy of Unwrapped: The Pursuit of Justice for Women Educators
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