Happy August, readers! This month, we wanted a light beach read to help us make it through these remaining dog days of summer. Instead, we got a wild And Then There Were None-inspired murder fest where a man gets boiled alive in a hot tub. Fun.
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Happy July! It’s a chattier chat than usual as we dig into some book news from around Twitter and the business pages.

Angie Thomas kicks off Twitter controversy by … asking not to be tagged in reviews?
Microsoft shut down its ebook service,

This is the last time we talk about this book and this author. That’s a promise.
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We’re celebrating the little guys (well, gals, tbh) this episode as we discuss your favorite indie authors.
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Hey, readers! We embrace our inner conspiracy theorists with our latest read, American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson. It’s got everything you’d expect from a spy novel: Cold War politics, assassination attempts, missing sisters and a white dude nam

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We’ve got another chat for you. This time, we wanted to know if y’all reread books and why. Before we get to that, however, we chat about that messy author who got in trouble for snitching, BookRiot’s unusually bad romance

We get back to our literary fiction roots and read Oyinkan Braithwaite’s debut novel, My Sister, the Serial Killer. This book has it all: love triangles, jealousy and, cake. Surprisingly, not a whole lot of murder. Listen in as we try to figure out

This is our most scandalous episode yet. We discuss the month’s biggest controversies and OMG! moments, including #RITAsSoWhite, #BagelGate and Shangela.
Who exactly is RITA and what’s her problem? Why aren’t authors of color getting th

Bring the lemon and sugar, ’cause we got the tea.
This month, we read Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi and we couldn’t help but notice how similar this book is to Avatar: The Last Airbender. A pair of plucky but poor siblings — one