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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
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| "everyone wants to know" | 19 févr. 2025 | 01:08:07 | |
mom and emily read "everyone wants this" by Kelly Loy Gilbert! Spoiler, we accidentally had a 30 minute phone call where we discussed everything before recording... we discuss social media, our relationships to our own moms, and the importance of not having too many plotlines in your book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "dairy queen" | 05 févr. 2025 | 01:24:49 | |
mom and emily have made their way forward in time to the 2000s. we're reading dairy queen, a book about a teenage girl who runs a dairy farm and goes out for the football team. in this episode, we talk about the lack of social media and phones in this book, the master class on how to talk about the size and shape of someone's body (if you must) that catherine murdock puts on, and the joy of coming from a family that isn't quiet. tune in next week for a recent piece of YA fiction, everyone wants to know. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "up a road slowly" | 22 janv. 2025 | 01:29:22 | |
this month, emily and jane (mom!!!!!) are talking about ya fiction and how it has changed through time. in this episode, i reckon with the fact that i was reading ya as many as FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, among other things. this week, we read up a road slowly by irene hunt, and discuss having a village instead of a nuclear family, the importance of breaking cyclical family dynamics, and how publishing worked before amazon. next week, we'll move into the aughts and talk all things dairy queen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| netflix adaptation month conclusion | 18 déc. 2024 | 01:02:57 | |
kayla and tuck discuss basically everything in the world except these three books. when we do manage to talk about the books, we talk about the importance of having an editor (a common theme), the craziest plotline, and whether or not we're too old to be reading YA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "to all the boys i've loved before" | 03 déc. 2024 | 01:00:09 | |
kayla and tuck read the #1 netflix book to movie adaptation (in tuck's heart). we discuss what a breath of fresh air it is to read a book that clearly had an editor, as well as the stanford complex and noah centineo's innate lack of charm in anything besides this film. tune in next week for our netflix adaptation conclusion! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "the law of tall girls" | 13 nov. 2024 | 01:12:05 | |
this week, tuck and kayla read the inspo for the netflix movie tall girl (we think)! we discuss teachers getting fired, how CPS might have been good just this once, and the various insane things put down in ink in this book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "the kissing booth" | 30 oct. 2024 | 01:05:05 | |
womp womp womp we read another book that shoulda stayed fanfiction!! kayla is back for another month and this time we're reading netflix teen comedy adaptations. what is a cinematic masterpiece (the kissing booth) is about 400 pages too long. we discuss british-isms, weirdly chill parents, and yet another teen attending harvard. tune in next week for the rule of tall girls! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| fairy tale month conclusion | 16 oct. 2024 | 00:59:20 | |
emily and betsy finish out fairy tale month with recs, goodreads reviews, and general convos about what we like so much about re-written fairytales. asides include Lily James' blood diamond campaign and the importance of getting out of your reading comfort zone Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "the girls at the kingfisher club" | 02 oct. 2024 | 01:04:03 | |
emily and betsy are discussing our third fairy tale- the 12 dancing princesses. we read "the girls at the kingfisher club" by genevieve valentine! spoiler alert, we went three for three on liking the books for this month! we discuss strong heroines, why men keep trying to send women to asylums, and the importance of the bell curve. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "east" | 18 sept. 2024 | 00:58:13 | |
tuck and betsy read east by edith pattou for our second book in fairytale month! we discuss the purple eyed YA heroine, how refreshing it is to read a well written book, and why we might be enjoying the non-grimms fairy tales better than the grimms. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "a sorcery of thorns" | 04 sept. 2024 | 01:03:58 | |
it's the first week of fairy tale month! betsy is back and we are talking about fairy tales. this week, we read a sorcery of thorns by maggie rogerson and discussed the orphanification of women, our differing opinions on age gaps in romantasy, and the main things we like about re-written fairy tales. tune in next week for edith pattou's east. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| memoir month conclusion | 21 août 2024 | 00:58:35 | |
tuck and claire discuss all three memoirs, what we like about memoirs, goodreads reviews of the books we read this month, and recs! next month is fairy tales! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "rodham" | 31 juil. 2024 | 00:59:30 | |
this week we deviated from the prompt and read rodham by curtis sittenfeld. mostly, this was so tuck could read another curtis sittenfeld book, but we did talk about hillary clinton, do some impressions, and discuss if the sex in this book ever needed to see the light of day. tune in next week for comp con! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "educated" | 17 juil. 2024 | 00:58:56 | |
this week, tuck and claire read "educated" by tara westover! we talk about unreliable narrators (classic), empathy, and judging a book by it's cover. tune in next week when we read rodham by curtis sittenfeld! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| year of yes | 03 juil. 2024 | 00:52:26 | |
it's memoir month! tuck and claire read Shonda Rhimes' year of yes. we talk about an obsession with thinness, if motherhood should be considered a job, and our opinion on audio books. tuned in next week for tara westover's educated! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| music month conclusion | 26 juin 2024 | 01:21:42 | |
tuck and carlson are back to talk about all things music month! we talked about what we liked and didn't like, resources for finding books (listed here: smart bitches trashy books, novelist, and book page), and recs for if you want more books with themes like these. we'll be back with memoir month next week! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "roomies" | 19 juin 2024 | 01:27:40 | |
....and they were room mates..... emily and tuck take on christina lauren's roomies this week on music month. we talk about broadway, dedication to your craft, and the importance of doing even one single google search before you write a story in an industry you don't know anything about <3. tune in next week for our music month conclusion! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "kiss the girl" | 12 juin 2024 | 01:04:36 | |
tuck and carlson take on our second musically themed book of the month: kiss the girl by zoraida cordova. this is a disney hyperion book so we spend time discussing the disney book machine, things about this book that were silly and fun, and all the other things we're having fun reading. tune in next week for roomies! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "last call at the local" | 04 juin 2024 | 01:27:05 | |
it's the month of the emilys!! tuck and her friend emily are reading music-related cartoon cover romances. this week, we read last call at the local by sara grunder ruiz! spoiler alert, we like talia hibbert's disability representation much better! this book was not about music and was not meant to be listened to on audio book so tuck specifically is 0 for 2 on this week. next week we are reading "kiss the girl" (it's not gay sorry to the fans). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Mom's Month Conclusion | 22 mai 2024 | 01:16:06 | |
it's the final week of books that moms love and anna and tuck are talking all things at month-end conclusion. we are ranking our curmudgeons, talking about good reads, and spend more than a little time discussing dramione fanfiction. tune in next month for rom coms about musicians! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "lessons in chemistry" | 15 mai 2024 | 01:10:20 | |
tuck and anna are back reading another sad book about found family and an animal that adopts our main character. we talk about grief, sexism, and the importance of food in our lives! tune in next week when we conclude books that moms love month! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "remarkably bright creatures" | 08 mai 2024 | 00:59:08 | |
tuck and anna are back again to talk about books that mom's love! we are talking about beloved octopus, why these authors love to write about Scandinavians, and the importance of a pet that adopts the main character. we'll be bac next week to talk about remarkably bright creatures! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "a man called ove" | 01 mai 2024 | 01:07:56 | |
it's a new month and a new guest! tuck and anna take on books that moms love! we are starting with "a man called ove" by fredrick bachman! we love that guy (ove and fredrick!). we talk about what it takes to be a book that your mom loves, and the importance of a curmudgeon in all our lives. tune in next week for remarkably bright creatures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| PT month conclusion | 24 avr. 2024 | 00:57:47 | |
it's the end of pt month and you know what that means! tuck and lauren are talking all things pt month: the terrible medical care our main characters received, the importance of consent, and how embaressing it is that aj does recognize the female orgasm. tune in next month for books that moms love! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "ahead in the heat" | 17 avr. 2024 | 01:03:03 | |
tuck and lauren are talking about a surf story this week! we talk about the right and wrong way to introduce character depth, the importance of consent, and all the reasons this book gave us the ick. Tune in next week for the conclusion of pt month! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "how to walk away" | 10 avr. 2024 | 01:14:31 | |
tuck and lauren are back this week for a substantially more normal episode of amfaem. we're talking pt, scotland, and the importance of growing and changing! katherine center, thank you for doing your research, we are obsessed with you. never stop doing what you're doing. tune in next week for hopefully a more normal episode than reading dream runner but no promises. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "dream runner" | 03 avr. 2024 | 01:19:37 | |
it's physical therapy month! tuck and lauren read dream runner by gail mcfarland! this is the worst book we've ever read! if you want to listen to us talk about foot stuff and scary medical care, this is the book for you!! there's also some brief track and field conversation as well as the ability of an author to tell on themselves- gail mcfarland, did a gold digger steal your husband from you? tune in next week for how to walk away! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| women's right's month conclusion | 27 mars 2024 | 01:13:49 | |
it's the conclusion of women's right's month! in this episode, we rank our favorite unreliable narrator, talk about the importance of motherhood, and talk about how incredible women are. this sounds really dramatic. we also read good reads comments and talk about nicole kidman! see you all next month for physical therapy month! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "the silent patient" | 20 mars 2024 | 01:14:48 | |
it's week three of women's right's month! tuck and austin are discussing the silent patient by alex michaelides! we discuss how illegal everything that happens in this book is, alex's view on the devil's lettuce, and unreliable narrators (shocker!). asides include the enneagram, all time bad names in books, and how male therapists simply can't be trusted. tune in next week for comp con! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "big little lies" | 13 mars 2024 | 01:28:19 | |
it's episode two of women's right's month and tuck and austin are back to discuss bll. this is their second time discussing the show, as austin and tuck watched it together for the first time during covid 2020. we talk about Nicole Kidman's insane vibes, madeline martha mackenzie, and the crazy virginity plotline. trigger warning for discussion of rape and eating disorders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "gone girl" | 11 mars 2024 | 01:27:29 | |
it's women's rights month! which can only mean one thing: tuck has a man on the pod. join tuck and her friend austin as they take on the world of wealthy white women and the crimes that only they could slay at committing. we're starting with gone girl. discussions include small town MO, how amy is slaying, and ben affleck's back tattoo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| fifty shades month conclusion | 28 févr. 2024 | 01:11:03 | |
tuck and lydia are out of the trenches of fifty shades freed and back on more comfortable turf: marxism, perfect womanhood, and the mile high club. tune in this week as we finish out fifty shades month! we'll see you next week as we begin talking about women's rights with gone girl! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "fifty shades freed" | 21 févr. 2024 | 01:19:13 | |
tuck and lydia are back for another week living at escala! we venture to the mediterranean for some brief discourse on nude beaches, and then head back to seattle for a very dreary conversation about the state of Ana and Christians relationship. brief asides include colleen hoover, the word yar, and the importance of having better friends than Ana's. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "fifty shades darker" | 14 févr. 2024 | 01:24:31 | |
just like Ana and Christian, tuck and lydia got back together this week to talk about fifty shades darker. we talk about Oedipus, the insidiousness of rich person philanthropy, and the importance of actually talking to your partner instead of just screaming at each other and then immediately having crazy kinky sex. tune in next week for fifty shades freed! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "fifty shades of grey" | 07 févr. 2024 | 01:53:48 | |
welcome to tuck and lydia's red room of pain! this month we are taking on EL James' 2011 phenom: Fifty Shades of Grey. we discuss why women love to read about a man who cannot articulate why he is attracted to a woman, how it's not kidnapping if nothing bad happens to you, and Anastasia Steele being Mickey Mouse Coded. Tune in next week for Fifty Shades Darker! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| graceling month conclusion | 24 janv. 2024 | 01:10:22 | |
it's week four of graceling month and you know what that means! bailey and tuck dig in on all three books and talk about the best things to come from all of them! we also discuss these books through a feminist lens and refute some of the most frequent takes on good reads! tune in next month for 50 shades! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "bitterblue" | 17 janv. 2024 | 01:17:47 | |
tuck and bailey are back for week three of graceling month! this episode we discuss what it's like to reckon with the mortality of your favorite characters, free solo, and the importance of understanding what a charter is! trigger warnings this episode for discussions of rape and suicide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "fire" | 10 janv. 2024 | 01:21:41 | |
tuck and bailey are back this week talking about the second book in the graceling series "fire"! we talk about horses with silly names, the importance of women in court, and how it would be fun to have hair that looks like the sunset. tune in next week for book three, bitterblue! editing note: as i do not have a podcast studio, i can do nothing about the corgi running around upstairs! forgive some light thumps. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "graceling" | 03 janv. 2024 | 00:59:20 | |
bailey is back!!! we're reading tuck's favorite teen fantasy series this month, Kristin Cashore's graceling novels. we talk about survival, why mind readers are so hated, and why po is a tough name for a love interest. we'll be back next week with our two different colored eyes for the second in the series, fire! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| bodyguard month conclusion | 27 déc. 2023 | 01:00:19 | |
it's the conclusion of bodyguard (fake dating lol) month!! moe and tuck talk about why these books are good, other books that are good like these, and the importance of writing well even in a cartoon cover romance novel. tune in next month, where tuck and bailey will talking about Kristin Cashore's Graceling novels! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "the blonde identity" | 20 déc. 2023 | 01:12:56 | |
public service announcement: once again, if you are looking for tuck and moe to be haters, you will be sorely disappointed. this week, to end the reading for (fake dating) bodyguard month, we read the blonde identity by ally carter. if you loved the Ally's teen fiction, we are here to tell you that you will love this book. it felt like coming home to a dramatic jumping off a cliff with (or without) a parachute. ally carter i love you never change. we discuss how crazy it is to have an identical twin in the cia, the importance of your amnesiac to be smart, and if it's necessary for your "adult" romance to have explicit sex in it. tune in next week for the bodyguard month conclusion! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "take a hint dani brown" | 13 déc. 2023 | 01:09:37 | |
it's bodyguard month week 2! tuck and moe read "Take a Hint Dani Brown" by Talia Hibbert. Spoiler alert- if you're looking for us to be critical this episode is not for you!! we loved this book- discussions include a leading man who is an hopeless romantic, the things posh british people can get away with saying, and how it's a good thing that moe's dog did, in fact, eat her homework. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "the bodyguard" | 06 déc. 2023 | 01:20:48 | |
it's bodyguard month! tuck and her friend moe are reading all things bodyguard romance! this week starts with Katherine Center's the bodyguard. we talk about if there's such thing as too perfect a man, whether or not it's possible that anyone is being told they are plain as much as the main character in this book, and the importance of reading romance! this is the first romance book month we've had a guest who loves reading romance, so if that's your cup of tea we will see you next week for take a hint Dani Brown! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| dune conclusion | 22 nov. 2023 | 01:10:58 | |
it's our first movie-sode! sam and emily take on dune part 1, a film both of us really like. includes conversations about if timmy is a good actor, if they can stick the landing on the second film, and jimmy neutron. next month is bodyguard month! stay tuned! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "dune" part 3 | 15 nov. 2023 | 01:02:08 | |
we've done it! we've read all of dune! we talk about paul riding a worm, whether or not Alia is going to look like Renesmee in Dune II, and if Frank Herbert hates women. Tune in next week, where we'll watch Part I of Dune and compare it to the book! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "dune" part 2 | 08 nov. 2023 | 01:13:44 | |
it is week 2 of dune month and we are reading part 2 of frank herbert's dune! tuck and sam dig in on the bene gesserit, the impossibility of living on arrakis, and how lucky we are to live on a planet with big trees and big lakes! tune in next week for week three of dune month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "dune" part 1 | 02 nov. 2023 | 01:21:35 | |
it's time folks. sam is back. we are running on desert power this month and reading the science fiction classic Dune by Frank Herbert. we discuss everything that happens in part 1 (a lot), emily mispronounces every name in the book wrong by a single letter (except paul), and we discuss if paul atreides would give people as many stds as timothee chalamet. tune in next week for dune part 2! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| jane eyre conclusion | 25 oct. 2023 | 01:04:26 | |
it's comp con week!! this week we talk about all the books with jane in the title and discuss their various merits and flaws! we also give recommendations for anyone who wants to do more reading like jane eyre. Tune in next month for Dune Month with Sam! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "wide sargasso sea" | 18 oct. 2023 | 01:04:32 | |
in this weeks' episode, emily and betsy take on Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea". we talk about whether or not moving to england from the carribean could make anyone go mad, the idea of the hysterical woman, and if the repression of the victorian era made more people go crazy than was perhaps necessary. next week is comp/con, tune in for one last week on Jane Eyre! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "my plain jane" | 11 oct. 2023 | 01:09:49 | |
this week, betsy and emily read "my plain jane", a ghostly retelling of jane eyre. We discuss the rochester age gap (again), if women are allowed to go crazy if they're locked up for 15 years, and the importance of using hysteria sparingly in your book about women for women. Tune in next week for wide sargasso sea! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||