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 tackle the very important issue of which books feel like August before Beccah experiences the literary equivalent of an identity crisis after enjoying several of her least favorite tropes. Summer continues her deep dive into the world of Sarah J. Maas to prepare for the upcoming book release in October. To wrap things up, we end with a Spotlight Segment exploring high school reading lists, while we, the obvious experts, decide what we think should stay, what should go, and what we'd assign instead.
Books We Mentioned:
2:40- Spur of the Moment Question: If the month of August was a book genre, what would it be?
7:25- Reading Round Up:
7:40- Finlay Donovan is Killing It, Elle Cosimano
14:30- Wells Ranch series by Bailey Hannah, specifically: Love Wells Kept
16:50- Rebel Blue Ranch series, Lyla Sage
17:05- Chestnut Springs series, Elsie Silver
18:40- Safe Haven, Nicholas Sparks
23:45- Resisting the Alien Rider, Ursa Da
26:00- The Vow, Movie (incorrectly cited as a Nicholas Sparks novel, whoops!)
32:30- Crescent City Series, Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
Throne of Glass Series, Sarah J. Maas
42:00- Adversary to the Villain, Hannah Nicole Maehrer
47:43- Excavations, Kate Myers
51:28- Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters, Rick Riordan
51:55: Invisible Women, Caroline Criado Perez
Spotlight Segment- High School Reading Lists Revisited
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare
Macbeth, Shakespeare
Hamlet, Shakespeare
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Firekeepers Daughter, Angeline Boulley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon
