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. From there, we establish (officially) that we are each other’s other half of a book best friend necklace, reflect on the lines from books that have stuck with us, and watch Beccah engage in some extremely normal, definitely-not-parasocial reading choices based on her celebrity crush (Hudson Williams, if you’re listening… we can explain). And finally, we wrap things up with a Spotlight Segment answering a listener question about DNFing books – especially when it comes to book club picks.
Books We Mentioned:
Mary Oliver poetry
Pablo Neruda poetry
Spur of the Moment Question: What are examples of writing that has stuck with you?
4:00- Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
5:00- Twilight, Stephanie Meyer
5:40- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
5:50- Moby Dick, Herman Melville
6:00- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Reading Round Up:
9:00- The Paradise Problem, Christina Lauren
16:45- Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan
17:20- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins
27:20- Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins
31:00- Good People, Patmeena Sabit
32:00- God of the Woods, Liz Moore
40:04- The Hounding, Xenobe Purvis
41:04- Angie Kim, Celeste Ng
42:30- One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand, Luigi Parandello
48:00- The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
51:00- The Courage to be Disliked, Ichiro Kashmir
58:00- The Bridge Kingdom, Danielle L Jenson
1:02:20- Quicksilver, Brimstone, Callie Hart
1:02:50- Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
1:03:00- A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
1:03:45- Tehrangeles, Porochista Khakpour
Spotlight Segment-DNFing
1:13:40- The People We Keep, Allison Larkin
1:15:50- North Woods, Daniel Mason
1:16:00- Married to the Alien Cowboy, Ursa Dax
1:28:00- The Hunting Wives, May Cobb
1:34:00- The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Beth Brower
1:36:30- How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix
