Month: January 2016
Episode 18 – Out of Our Comfort Zones
This week, Ann and Halle discuss reading books that take them out of their comfort zones and finish up with what they’re reading this week.
Books and other media mentioned in this episode:
Ann’s picks:
- Match Me If You Can by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
– Susan Elizabeth Phillips books - Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
– Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
– Brandon Sanderson books
– Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson - Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean
– Sarah MacLean books
Halle’s picks:
- A Peach of a Murder by Livia J. Washburn
– Fresh-Baked Mystery series by Livia J. Washburn
– Golden Girls (TV)
– Making a Murderer (TV – available on Netflix)
– Janet Evanovich books - Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo
– Kate Burkholder series by Linda Castillo - Bird Box by Josh Malerman
– The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
What We’re Reading This Week:
Bonus Episode: Out of Our Comfort Zone Assignmnets
In this short teaser, Ann and Halle assign each other books to read that are out of their comfort zones and which they’ll discuss on the next full episode.
Episode 17 – Reading Resolutions for 2016
This week, Ann and Halle talk about their reading goals for 2016 and close with what they’re reading this week.
Books and other media mentioned in this episode:
- goodreads.com
- The CW
- Book Riot Read Harder Challenge 2016
- Pop Sugar Reading Challenge 2016
- Books on the Nightstand (podcast)
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe by Ann Morgan
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- Neopolitan Novels series by Elena Ferrante
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- War and Peace (TV)
- Andrew Davies films
- Bleak House (TV)
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- Nancy Pearl
- Nancy Pearl action figure
What We’re Reading This Week:
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