Welcome back to I Reckon I’ll Read It, a podcast where two Okie gals talk books, share recs, and don’t hold back on their mighty big opinions. Join Beccah and Summer in some good-old-fashioned book talk.
This week, we kick things off with another Reading Roundup: two books we’ve finished, two we’re currently reading, and two that are up next. Then we attempt a little book therapy to figure out what actually makes us cry in books (with… limited success), poke fun at the ever-present Oklahoma tornado stereotypes in fiction, and wrap things up with a Spotlight Segment where we confess what books we keep dodging.
Books We Mentioned:
Spur of the Moment Question: What Was the Last Book That Made You Cry?
2:30- Brimstone, Callie Hart
3:55- The Horse and His Boy, C.S. Lewis
5:10- A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
6:18- Books by Brene Brown
6:30- Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
6:55- Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid
Reading Round Up:
8:45- Elizabeth of East Hampton, Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding
18:35- The Bone Thief, Vanessa Lillie
19:00- author Lou Berney, Summer previously read The Long and Faraway Gone
29:20- Warrior Girl Unearthed, Angeline Boulley
36:15- The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion
43:10- Isabel and the Rogue, Liana De La Rosa
*Fact check, we both say “Regency” period in England, but both stories take place during the Victorian period.
50:00- Burning Daylight, Emily McIntire
56:13- The Poet Empress, Shen Tao
Spotlight Segment: Books We’ve Been Dodging
Books we’ve been “about to start” for forever
1:05:00- The Correspondent, Virginia Evans
The Backyard Bird Chronicles, Amy Tan
The Sign For Home, Blair Fell
A classic we’ve always wanted to read
1:08:50- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Books we’ve been actively avoiding
1:14:30- Beloved, Toni Morrison
Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Sula, Toni Morrison
Giovonni’s Room, James Baldwin
A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
