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TBR LowdownAdd These Anticipated Fall Reads to Your TBR!Fall is here, and some books are coming out that we think you should add to your TBR!
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2024-10-0845 minTBR LowdownWho’s in the Mood for Some Fall Reading?!In this week’s episode, we share some books we’ve read and enjoyed and think would be great to read this Fall season.
Highlights:
🎙 We recommend this book every year…and for GOOD reason!🎙 Naomi tells everyone again to read Brandon Taylor. JUST DO IT!🎙 Fall isn’t just for spooky books.
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2023-09-2548 minTBR LowdownWe Discuss Greek Lessons by Han KangIn this week’s episode, we discuss our May/June read Greek Lessons by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won.
Highlights:
🎙 You don’t have to be in love with a book in order to deeply appreciate it.🎙 Did the decision to have unnamed narrators make the story stronger?🎙 We chat a bit about the books we’d like to read this Fall.
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2023-09-1858 minTBR LowdownAdd these books to your Fall tbr!In this week’s episode, we share some books we think would be great to read this Fall season.
Highlights:
🎙 We chat a bit about Empire of Pain and its TV adaptation Pain Killers.🎙 Naomi is back in her sci-fi bag!🎙 Alyssa revisits an old favorite trilogy.
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2023-09-1147 minTBR LowdownWe chat with CJ Leede, author of Maeve Fly!We were so psyched to have a chat with CJ Leede, author of the debut novel Maeve Fly. If you haven’t read it, we highly recommend you get your hands on it and enjoy the wild ride that is Maeve Fly!
Highlights:
🎙 CJ has received some very weird creepy gifts.🎙 Let’s talk about being obsessed with eyeballs.🎙 CJ shares a surprise with us!
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2023-08-281h 35TBR LowdownWelcome Back and Hello Season 3!Welcome back to Season 3! We’re back from our summer break and we catch up and share what we’ve been up to.
Highlights:
🎙 Naomi shares her massive book project!
🎙 We dive deep into Bindery to see what it’s all about.
🎙 Alyssa tells us about her string of crazy weird luck.
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2023-08-211h 16TBR Lowdown[REBROADCAST] An Interview w/Charles A. Bush, author of Every Variable of UsThis is a rebroadcast interview with Charles A. Bush, debut author of Every Variable of Us.
Highlights:
🎙We share how our bookshelves are organized or not so organized
🎙Charles shares his admiration for John Green and finding his own voice
🎙The writing processes Charles has borrowed from other authors
REMINDER: Our 2023 Summer Read is Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. JOIN OUR DISCORD!
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2023-06-262h 30TBR Lowdown[REBROADCAST] We Discuss The Maleficent Seven by Cameron JohnstonThis is a rebroadcast of a book discussion we had about The Maleficent Seven by Cameron Johnston.
Highlights:
🎙 It was kinda cool to see these older villains getting back to doing villainous things.🎙 If you didn’t like Orcs before, you’ll love them after reading this book.🎙 The number of solid plot twists in this book had us shooketh!
REMINDER: Our 2023 Summer Read is Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. JOIN OUR DISCORD!
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2023-06-191h 18TBR Lowdown[REBROADCAST] We Discuss The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe HallThis is a rebroadcast of a book discussion we had about The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall.
Highlights:
🎙 Our current issues surrounding the lgbtqia+ community are not new. They’ve always existed.🎙 Having means was definitely a factor that allowed her to live life on her terms.🎙 The religious tension that played throughout the book.
REMINDER: Our 2023 Summer Read is Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. JOIN OUR DISCORD!
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2023-06-121h 18TBR Lowdown[REBROADCAST] We Discuss Giovanni’s Room, Our February Book Club PickThis is a rebroadcast of a book discussion we had about Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin.
Highlights:
🎙What was the deal with the photograph of David’s mother?🎙 There was a definite disdain for women throughout this book.🎙 Past trauma runs deep in some of these characters.
REMINDER: Our 2023 Summer Read is Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. JOIN OUR DISCORD!
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TBR LowdownWe catch-up and have a bookish chatWe both have some pretty big life transitions happening over the next few months, so we sit down and catch up on things before our lives get too hectic.
Highlights:
🎙 We provide an episode schedule update for the months of May, June, and July.
🎙 We’ve got a Discord read-along going on!
🎙 We go down the rabbit hole talking about joining other people’s read-alongs.
🎙 Naomi gives Alyssa a brief introduction to the new Lemon8 app.
REMINDER: Our 2023 Summer Read is C...
2023-05-291h 06TBR Lowdown[REBROADCAST] We Discuss Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O’ConnellThis is a rebroadcast of the discussion about the book Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell.
Just by Looking at Him is one of those books you read in a day. It’s that good and that funny. You start it and before you know it, you’re at the end.
Highlights:
🎙 We chat about disability rep in books.
🎙 Threesomes. Good or bad?
🎙 We had a good laugh running over some of the funniest lines in the book.
2023-05-291h 22TBR LowdownClassics we want to read this yearWe have so many classics on our shelves we've been talking about reading for so long, but have not even cracked one book open. So, on this episode, we put ourselves on notice and share some of the classics that are on our list!
Highlights:
🎙 Will George Eliot be a winner for Naomi?
🎙 Alyssa shares how she’s been getting through these “LitBro” books.
🎙 We chat about different translations for some classics.
🎙 We both want to read all the books by Anthony Trollope. Should we have a y...
2023-05-2251 minTBR LowdownA conversation with literary translator Tina KoverWe enjoy reading translated books. It’s a big part of our reading lives. We’ve had a strong desire to be in conversation with literary translators on the podcast, and we finally got the chance to do so.
Highlights:
🎙 From wanting to join the foreign service to becoming a literary translator.
🎙 The way translations are pitched and commissioned is quite different than how a conventional author would pitch their work.
🎙 Translators are writers. It’s more than a process.
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2023-05-151h 34TBR LowdownREBROADCAST: Interview w/ Hugh Ryan, the author of The Women's House of DetentionIn 2022, we had the pleasure of interviewing Hugh Ryan, the author of our June 2022 book club pick, The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison. This is such an important book— should be required reading for high school and college. We learned so much and had quite the experience reading about all of the women who have gone through the Women’s House of Detention.
We thought this would be a great time to rebroadcast that episode since the paperback is coming out tomorrow. We highly recommend you grab yourself a co...
2023-05-081h 54TBR Lowdown6 nonfiction books we want to read before this year endsHi Friends. Time for a new episode of TBR Lowdown:
We’ve been in possession of a few nonfiction books we have been meaning to read since 2022. We share the nonfiction books we are determined to read before this year ends.
Highlights:
🎙 We have big plans for this one particular book.🎙 Big corporate baddies…and not the good kind.🎙 There are a couple of nonfiction yearlong reading challenges happening on bookstagram.
REMINDER: Our 2023 Summer Read is Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah...
2023-04-2434 minTBR LowdownShould we be concerned about AI-narrated audiobooks in the bookish world?Hi Friends. Time for a new episode of TBR Lowdown:
There’s no doubt AI is the hot buzz around town. Every week there’s a new AI service that allows you to do more using less of your time. Recently, AI has even entered the world of audiobooks. We discuss this and its potential ramifications in this week’s episode.
Highlights:
🎙 Will other audiobook services follow Apple’s move and create their own AI narrator program?🎙 We seem to forget “Audiobooks are, and will always be, first and foremost an acce...
2023-04-171h 05TBR LowdownBurn, Rewrite, Reread - The Podcast Edition (Round 2)Hi Friends. Time for a new episode of TBR Lowdown:
We’re back for another round of Burn, Rewrite, Reread! We’d love to know what books you would’ve chosen.
Highlights:
🎙 This game always seems easy until you actually play it!🎙 The Silent Patient is significant for both of us for two different reasons.
REMINDER: Our 2023 Summer Read is Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Out from Pantheon on May 2. PRE-ORDER IT NOW!
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2023-04-1053 minTBR LowdownWe interview Emily Brandt, self-published author of Love Letters from HadesHi Friends. Time for a new episode of TBR Lowdown:
We’ve been wanting to speak with a self-publishing author to get insight into the process for quite some time. We had a wonderful conversation with Emily Brandt, the self-published author of Love Letters from Hades.
Highlights:
🎙 We rarely see Hades written in this light.
🎙 Self-publishing in Belgium is quite different than in the U.S.
🎙 Emily decided to not be Amazon exclusive.
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2023-04-031h 39TBR LowdownHas the mystery around the true identity of Elena Ferrante finally been solved?Hi Friends. Time for a new episode of TBR Lowdown:
It’s no secret the identity of Elena Ferrante is a mystery. The author has never introduced themselves to the world, so there has been a lot of speculation over the years. We watch a video by Ann Novella, who provides some pretty solid proof of Ferrante’s identity, and discuss it in this week’s episode. We also discussed the identity of Elena Ferrante back in episode 6 of season 1. Check it out at https://www.tbrlowdown.com/show-notes/s1e6.
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2023-03-271h 08TBR Lowdown[LIVE REBROADCAST] We discuss the longlists for The Women’s Prize, Carol Shields Prize, and International BookerHi Friends. Time for a new episode of TBR Lowdown:
It’s prize season and we couldn’t be more excited. In this live episode, we discuss the longlists for The Women’s Prize for Fiction, The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, and The International Booker Prize.
Highlights:
🎙 Sometimes reading a non-fiction book on a particular topic helps to enhance reading a fictional book on the same topic.🎙 The International Booker is still our favorite prize, but this new Carol Shields prize is pretty interesting.🎙 We decided to r...
2023-03-201h 58TBR LowdownReading From Our Shelves: Fantasy/Sci-fi Books We Want to FinishHi Friends. Time for a new episode of TBR Lowdown:
It’s time to get through the fantasy/sci-fi books on our shelves and see what we need to finish. Listen to find out the books we shared.
Highlights:
🎙 Malazan will definitely be our next big fantasy series read.
🎙 Alyssa tells Naomi to stop sucking her into reading literary fiction. (we’ll see how that turns out)
🎙 Naomi is having a ball reading War and Peace.
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2023-03-1354 minTBR LowdownWe Discuss Boulder by Eva Baltasar, translated from the Catalan by Julia SanchesHi Friends. Time for a new episode of TBR Lowdown:
We Discuss Boulder by Eva Baltasar, translated from the Catalan by Julia Sanches
Highlights:
🎙 What does an obsessive relationship look like?
🎙 Sometimes you want the role of an aunt, not a mother.
🎙 We debate whether or not Boulder is punk literature.
REMINDER: Our 2023 Summer Read is Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Out from Pantheon on May 2. PRE-ORDER IT NOW!
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2023-03-061h 02TBR LowdownWe Discuss Eileen by Ottessa MoshfeghHi Friends. Time for a new episode of TBR Lowdown:
We finally read Eileen and get to see what all the fuss is about.
Highlights:
🎙 But was Eileen really unhinged?
🎙 Grief takes many forms.
🎙 Eileen turned out to be the complete opposite of what we thought.
REMINDER: Our 2023 Summer Read is Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Out from Pantheon on May 2. PRE-ORDER IT NOW!
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2023-02-271h 00TBR LowdownOur Anticipated 2nd Quarter Frontlist ReleasesHi Friends. Time for a new episode of TBR Lowdown:
It’s time to take a look at the frontlist for 2nd quarter and share what we’d like to get our hands on and read.
Highlights:
🎙 The book we never knew we were going to get!
🎙 If the word Gothic is in the description, we’re sold.
🎙 Sometimes the recommendations part of the show is so hard.
REMINDER: Our 2023 Summer Read is Chain Gang All Stars by Na...
2023-02-2054 minTBR LowdownWe Discuss Belle Greene by Alexandra Lapierre, translated from the French by Tina KoverHi Friends. Time for a new episode of TBR Lowdown:
We Discuss Belle Greene by Alexandra Lapierre, translated from the French by Tina Kover.
The story of Belle da Costa Greene is nothing short of amazing. Reading about her story felt like a real adventure full of worry, excitement, hope, loss, and pride. It’s a book we highly recommend.
Highlights:
🎙 The things you could do to change your identity back in the day were unreal.
🎙 The real kicker is that it was the whole family!
🎙 Belle Green...
2023-02-1358 minTBR LowdownHoarding Books: Authors We Finally Want to ReadHi Friends. Time for a new episode of TBR Lowdown:
There are times when we latch on to an author, for whatever reason, and acquire as many books in their backlist as possible to read at some point in our reader lives. We share who those authors are in this episode.
Highlights:
🎙 We try to figure out why we latch on to certain authors and hoard their books.
🎙 Being a book thrifter is a skill!
🎙 We’re in our bookshelf fine-tuning...
2023-02-061h 00TBR LowdownWe Share Our Favorite Books from 2022!Hi Friends. Time for a new episode of TBR Lowdown:
2022 was another fantastic reading and we are so excited to share our favorites from the year.
Highlights:
🎙 This is a low-buy no-buy year.
🎙 Naomi’s revelation on audiobooks and libraries shocks Alyssa!
🎙 We’re looking for more vampire-lit recommendations that go against the vampire canon.
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2023-01-301h 22TBR LowdownWe Discuss Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield, Our December 2022 Book Club PickHi Friends. Time for a new episode of TBR Lowdown:
We Discuss Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield, Our December 2022 Book Club Pick.
Highlights:
🎙 Grief is dripping off these pages.
🎙 Was Leah even there? We have so many questions.
🎙 Who and what does The Center symbolize???
🎙 The body horror was done so well.
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2023-01-231h 00TBR LowdownReading From Our Shelves: Some Books We Want to Read This YearHi Friends. Time for a new episode of TBR Lowdown:
We share some of the books we want to read this year from our own shelves.
Highlights:
🎙 This is a low-buy no-buy year.
🎙 Naomi’s revelation on audiobooks and libraries shocks Alyssa!
🎙 We’re looking for Vampire lit recommendations.
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2023-01-161h 03TBR LowdownBack in Her Bonnet—Happy New Year + Reintroduction + What's New with TBR LowdownHi Friends. Time for a new episode of TBR Lowdown:
It’s a brand new year, so we take some time to reintroduce ourselves and share what’s new with TBR Lowdown.
Highlights:
🎙 No more monthly book picks. We have a different reading schedule.
🎙 Our #12Women12Countries reading challenge is in its second year.
🎙 TBR Lowdown has its own YouTube home now.
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2023-01-0930 minTBR LowdownA Look Back at Our 2022 Reading. What We Learned.Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We look back at our 2022 reading and chat about what we learned about ourselves and our reading habits.
Highlights:
🎙 The way we read can often shift.
🎙 We’re both learning what types of books we really enjoy reading.
🎙 Naomi has a Reader PSA for some of you.
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2022-12-1957 minTBR LowdownHow and Where to Find Your Book CommunityHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We discuss where to look to find a book community that serves your reader needs.
Highlights:
🎙 Many people still desire to be part of an in-person book club.
🎙 Naomi tells us about her social experiment of participating in reading groups on Facebook.
🎙 There are more apps for readers to join to find like-minded readers. We break them down.
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2022-12-121h 19TBR LowdownWe Discuss You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi, Our November Book Club PickHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We Discuss You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi, Our November Book Club Pick
Highlights:
🎙 Sometimes grief can bring people together.
🎙 Was Nasir manipulating Feyi?
🎙 Everyone needs a best friend like Joy.
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2022-12-0556 minTBR LowdownWe Discuss Motherthing by Ainslie HogarthHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We buddy-read and discussed Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth.
Sometimes you just need to read a book where everyone involved needs therapy and medication.
Highlights:
🎙 Motherthing looks at motherhood from many angles.
🎙 Can we talk about those mama’s boys???
🎙 There’s nothing like a well-written darkly comedic book that touches on many sensitive themes.
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2022-11-281h 01TBR LowdownWe Discuss There There by Tommy Orange, Our October Book Club PickHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We Discuss There There by Tommy Orange, Our October Book Club Pick.
This is another book we’ve been talking about reading for over a year now. It absolutely did not disappoint. This is a book everyone should read.
Highlights:
🎙 The themes in these stories were raw and often relatable.
🎙 We still have so much to learn regarding indigenous peoples and African Americans.
🎙 We have so many questions ab...
2022-11-211h 18TBR LowdownNonfiction NovemberHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We share some of the books we’d like to read during Nonfiction November.
It’s Nonfiction November and we’ve got some recommendations for you!
Highlights:
🎙 It’s hilarious seeing what books we have in common and where we diverge.
🎙 Who knew one could be so excited to read about water!?!?
🎙 Self-taught surgeon??? Yeah, there’s a book coming out that talks about this.
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2022-11-141h 18TBR LowdownWe Discuss Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel by Claire KohdaHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We buddy-read and discussed Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel by Claire Kohda.
Sometimes you read a vampire novel that actually blows you away. This tiny novel manages to shy away from the canon style and give us more meat than we ever anticipated.
Highlights:
🎙 Not all vampire novels follow the canon.
🎙 A vampire’s hunger can be more than just wanting to eat a person.
🎙 It’s a quiet book...
2022-11-071h 00TBR LowdownWinter 22/23 Frontlist Sneak PeekHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
Let’s see what’s coming out this Winter!
We’re getting a taste of what frontlist releases are coming out in the Winter. There are quite a few that have piqued our interest.
Highlights:
🎙 Re-reading a book to prep for the release of its sequel.
🎙 Alyssa is giving Grady Hendrix another spin
🎙 A couple of books gave us a heavy dose of nostalgia and we loved it!
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2022-10-311h 06TBR LowdownWe Must Read These Books by End of 2022Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We talk about the books we own that we’d really like to read by the end of the year.
The end of the year is rapidly approaching and there are a good number of books on our shelves we’d really like to read before 2023 creeps in.
Highlights:
🎙 It’s a great time to see if certain authors jive with our reading taste.
🎙 We go down another Donna Tartt rabbit...
2022-10-241h 13TBR LowdownWe Discuss The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall, Our September Book Club PickHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We discuss The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall, our September book club pick.
This is another book we’ve been talking about reading for over a year now. It absolutely did not disappoint. This is a book everyone should read.
Highlights:
🎙 Our current issues surrounding the lgbtqia+ community are not new. They’ve always existed.
🎙 Having means was definitely a factor that allowed her to live life on her terms.
2022-10-171h 18TBR LowdownWe Discuss the Latest Barnes & Noble NewsHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We talk about the latest news surrounding Barnes & Noble.
Back in August word got out that Barnes & Noble chain’s stores would only be stocking hardcovers that had proven sales records. We sat down to try to wrap our heads around this decision. Check the show notes for the Book Riot article we referenced.
Highlights:
🎙 What’s really driving this decision?
🎙 Are big bix bookstores a place for book discovery...
2022-10-101h 14TBR LowdownWhat We Read for Women in Translation Month 2022. Hits and Misses.Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We share what we read for Women in Translation month.
We look forward to Women in Translation month. It’s a great time to discover new to us authors and continue reading all around the world.
Highlights:
🎙 Naomi keeps saying she wants to reread more, but…….
🎙 We buddy read a book that we both ended up pushing pause on.
🎙 Sometimes great things happen when you give an author a second...
2022-10-031h 24TBR LowdownInterview w/ Hugh Ryan, the author of The Women's House of DetentionHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
🎙 We interview Hugh Ryan, the author of our June book club pick, The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison.
This is such an important book— should be required reading for high school and college. We learned so much and had quite the experience reading about all of the women who have gone through the Women’s House of Detention.
Highlights:
🎙 The issue of wearing pants continues to confoun...
2022-09-261h 54TBR LowdownWe Discuss Elena Knows, Our August Book Club PickHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We Discuss Elena Knows, Our August Book Club Pick.
If anyone tells you this book is just another mystery, they are wrong and you should not listen to them! Elena Knows is a short book, but man does it hit hard.
Highlights:
🎙 This book is so much more than a mystery.
🎙 The afterword was such a vital part of understanding the author and her writing.
🎙 How can we get mor...
2022-09-1953 minTBR LowdownThe Perfect Books for Book ClubsHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We give you some book recommendations that are perfect for book club discussions.
What’s worse than being part of a book club that never chooses good books? Well, we’ve got you covered. We give you some book recommendations that spur great discussion for any book club.
Highlights:
🎙 What happens when we don’t love the same book?!
🎙 We’re both still confused about how we feel about To Paradise.
2022-09-121h 08TBR LowdownWhat’s On Our Fall Frontlist Radar?Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We talk about the Fall frontlist books we’re interested in reading.
So far 2022 has been a fantastic year for new releases and the Fall releases have us drooling!
Highlights:
🎙 Sometimes Goodreads leads you to wonderful book recommendations.
🎙 Alyssa gushes over how much she loves sentient AI.
🎙 There’s nothing like getting a surprise sequel to a book!
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2022-09-051h 16TBR LowdownLet’s Talk About ARCs (Advanced Readers Copy)Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We have a chat all about ARCs (Advanced Readers Copy).
In the bookstagram and booktube communities, the topic of ARCs comes up every 3-6 months or so. We decided to sit down and have a conversation about how to get them, how we started receiving arcs, what sources are available to request and receive them, etc, etc.
Highlights:
🎙 Our journey into receiving arcs.
🎙 How to not be overwhelmed by arcs.
2022-08-291h 24TBR LowdownWe Discuss Vladimir by Julia May JonasHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We have a discussion about the book Vladimir by Julia May Jonas.
Vladimir was one of those books you read in one sitting and annotate the crap out of it because it has so many layers to peel back for discussion and thought.
Highlights:
🎙 We open the episode by giving you a little gardening talk! Where are our fellow gardeners?
🎙 The part women play in marriage is a major topic...
2022-08-221h 20TBR LowdownWe Discuss Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O’ConnellHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
🎙 We Discuss Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell
Just by Looking at Him is one of those books you read in a day. It’s that good and that funny. You start it and before you know it, you’re at the end.
Highlights:
🎙 We chat about disability rep in books.
🎙 Threesomes. Good or bad?
🎙 We had a good laugh running over some of the funniest lines...
2022-08-151h 22TBR LowdownSeason 2 Begins, Women in Translation Month + #12Women12CountriesHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
Welcome back to Season 2 of the TBR Lowdown podcast! We cannot believe we’ve made it through one year of podcasting. We’re so thankful to all who listen and support us. Thank you!
August is Women in Translation Month which pairs really nicely with our #12Women12Countries year-long reading challenge. We talk about some of the books we want to read this month, so break out your pen and paper or reading app and take notes!
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TBR LowdownMid-Year Freakout Tag [Podcast Edition]Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We’re halfway through the year, so we thought it would be fun to answer the questions from the booktube mid-year freakout tag.
Highlights:
🎙 Alyssa has a thousand books for her answers (surprise, surprise).
🎙 Who doesn’t love a mercenary with a heart?!
🎙 We have a brief discussion about reading three of Olga Tokarczuk’s books.
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2022-06-271h 03TBR LowdownSummer Frontlist Releases We're Excited to ReadHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We talk about summer frontlist books we’re excited to read.
Summer is here and there are so many interesting summer frontlist books that are coming out. We give you 21 books we are looking forward to reading. Are any of these on your radar?
Highlights:
🎙 We love a book about a serial killer.
🎙 Surprisingly, we only have one book that was on both of our lists.
🎙 We’ve got some b...
2022-06-2046 minTBR LowdownWe Discuss The Maleficent Seven, Our May Book Club PickHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We discuss our May book club pick, The Maleficent Seven by Cameron Johnston.
This was the perfect book to read for our first Grimdark book club pick.
Highlights:
🎙 It was kinda cool to see these older villains getting back to doing villainous things.
🎙 If you didn’t like Orcs before, you’ll love them after reading this book.
🎙 The number of solid plot twists in this book had us shooket...
2022-06-131h 18TBR LowdownWhat Makes a Modern Classic?Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We talk about modern classics.
We thought we’d have a conversation about Modern Classics. What actually makes a modern classic, what books are on the list currently, and what books we think have the potential to become modern classics in the future.
Highlights:
🎙 Of course we believe The Prophets will become a modern classic.
🎙 Is The Secret History really a modern classic?
🎙 We hope modern classics become more...
2022-06-0652 minTBR LowdownPopular Books Y’all Love, but We HateHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We get spicy and talk about popular books we hate.
All books can’t be winners right. Sometimes books that are not winners for us, are popular books that everybody loves. We’re all adults here, so we don’t need to tell you not to get butt-hurt if your favorite book is on our list right???? OK then. Let’s have some fun.
Highlights:
🎙 Alyssa is mad y’all love this book that...
2022-05-301h 03TBR LowdownAll About Sad Girl LitHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We talk about Sad Girl lit, what it is, and why we love reading it.
We’ve noticed an uptick in the sad girl lit discussion space and we are totally here for it. We love sad girl lit and were excited to go through our read books to give you all a few recommendations.
Highlights:
🎙 How do you define Sad Girl lit?
🎙 We have so many thoughts on My Year...
2022-05-231h 11TBR LowdownWe Discuss Battle Royale, Our April Book Club PickHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We discuss our April book club pick, Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, translated from the Japanese by Yuji Oniki.
Battle Royale has been deemed a cult classic, so we had to see what all the fuss was about. Will it meet our expectations or will it fall flat for our reading tastes?
Highlights:
🎙 We question what actually makes a book a cult classic.
🎙 Can there be too many characters in a boo...
2022-05-1657 minTBR LowdownWe Play Smash or Pass - the Book Edition!Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
In this episode, we play Smash or Pass! This is a fun little game where we choose books to read for each other.
Updates:
🎙 We’re doing a read-along for the series A Song of Ice and Fire. Join our Discord to participate.
🎙 If you are a prison librarian or know one, please email us if you’re interested in talking with us on the podcast.
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2022-05-0945 minTBR LowdownQueen's Ball Bridgerton Experience, Q1 Fav Books, Book Thrift ShoppingHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
In this episode, we went live! Alyssa visited Naomi over the weekend and much fun was had. We give you a weekend recap, chat about our favorite books from quarter one, and we share some of the books we hauled over the weekend we're excited to read.
Highlights:
🎙 We talk about attending the Queen's Ball Bridgerton Experience
🎙 Book thrift shopping at its finest.
🎙 So, we guess we're doing a read-along for A Song of Ice...
2022-05-021h 40TBR LowdownWTF YouTube?Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
In this episode, we talk about the YouTube algorithm for bookish channels and the bookstagrammer/booktuber community at large.
Wow. We had a lot to say about some of these arguments that make their way around bookstagram and booktube every single year. We also tried to figure out how the actual YouTube algorithm works.
Highlights:
🎙 People still get their knickers in a twist over book haul videos
🎙 We have a theor...
2022-04-251h 21TBR LowdownPublishing PotpourriHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
In this episode, we cover a myriad of topics. We have a chatty conversation about some of the publishing topics that have been top of mind lately.
We talk about literary prize longlists, working in publishing, the power of BookTok, Brandon Sanderson’s Kickstarter, and more.
Highlights:
🎙 We were both underwhelmed by two very buzzy books that also made book award longlists.
🎙 We try to figure out how these editorial...
2022-04-181h 26TBR LowdownWe Discuss Homegoing, Our March Book Club PickHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We discuss our March book club pick, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
Yaa Gyasi made quite the impression with her debut novel Homegoing. It is beloved by many. It is beautifully written with a dynamic story, and we are excited to discuss it and share our thoughts with the bookish world.
Highlights:
🎙 Passing makes its way to this story as well.
🎙 We are split on a particular character’s motives.
🎙 W...
2022-04-111h 07TBR LowdownA Hella Bookish ConversationHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
In this episode, we have a very bookish conversation.
We were really chatty in this episode and we cover a variety of bookish topics. Our reading lives have changed so much since getting involved in this Internet bookish space and we explore some of those changes and much more.
Highlights:
🎙 Naomi has a confession about a particular author.
🎙 We discuss what our reading life looked like as younger readers.
🎙...
2022-04-041h 34TBR LowdownBooks Coming to a Screen Near You!Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
In this episode, we chat about some of the books being adapted for the screen.
Is it us or is Hollywood gobbling up all the books to make new tv shows and movies? It seems as though there are no original screenplays (or very little) and Hollywood execs are always waiting to acquire the next great novel to adapt for the screen.
Highlights:
🎙 Naomi shares what book she has no interest in seeing an adaptation of.🎙 Alyssa wants t...
2022-03-2857 minTBR LowdownWe discuss The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du BoisHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
In this episode, we discuss The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers. The book world has been buzzing about The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, and after reading it, we now know why.
Highlights:
🎙 We both talk about getting into reading Quan Barry at the top of the show.
🎙 We were both shocked to read so much about passing in the story.
🎙 The conversation on native land as i...
2022-03-2158 minTBR LowdownWe Discuss Giovanni’s Room, Our February Book Club PickHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We discuss our February book club pick, Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin. James Baldwin is an author we’ve been wanting to read more of and Giovanni’s Room, in particular, is a book we really wanted to read as a TBR Lowdown book club pick.
Highlights:
🎙What was the deal with the photograph of David’s mother?
🎙 There was a definite disdain for women throughout this book.
🎙 Past trauma runs deep in some of these characte...
2022-03-141h 26TBR LowdownIt's National Small Press MonthHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
March is National Small Press Month and in this episode, we talk about some of the small presses we’ve found and fallen in love with over the last year. We also share some books we’d like to read from them.
Highlights:
🎙 Alyssa obsessives over one of her new favorite indie small presses.
🎙 These Violent Delights. No, not that one. The book everyone should read.
🎙 Naomi shares a confession and thought regarding the scholastic book fairs.
2022-03-071h 01TBR LowdownWe Play the 20 Questions Booktube TagHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
In this episode, we have a little fun and play the 20 Questions book tag from booktube.
Every now and then we like to grab a book tag from booktube and play it on the podcast. It's fun to see what each other's answers will be and to see where we agree and disagree.
Highlights:
🎙 Alyssa stumps Naomi on that dreaded question almost every reader hates to answer.
🎙 Where do we disagree or agree to disagree?
🎙 Alyssa loses it...
2022-02-2859 minTBR LowdownWe Discuss The Cabinet, Our January Book Club PickHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We discuss our January book club pick, The Cabinet by Un-Su Kim (translated from Korean by Sean Lin Halbert).
Highlights:
🎙We break down The Cabinet and share our favorite parts.
🎙 We give some excellent book recommendations.
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2022-02-2158 minTBR Lowdown#JanuaryinJapan Reading Wrap-upHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
In this episode, we talk about discovering #JanuaryinJapan and what we read for that challenge.
Highlights:
🎙Alyssa finds a new obsession in manga.
🎙 Naomi ventures into the world of Japanese mysteries.
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2022-02-141h 11TBR Lowdown#12Women12Countries Book Recs + BookTok ConversationHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
We’re so excited about the #12Women12Countries yearlong reading challenge we created. We thought it would be helpful to give you all some book recommendations for it. We also had an interesting conversation about BookTok and how that community is driving book sales.
Highlights:
🎙We provide some exciting book recs. Some of which we’ve already read and others we are stoked to read.
🎙 The topic of polygamy comes up and we have opinions.
🎙 We have some spicy opinions...
2022-02-071h 21TBR LowdownCan We Get ONE Definition for Dark Academia?Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
🎙 We discuss dark academia and try to find one solid definition for it.
We love reading books in the dark academia sub-genre, but we’ve found it incredibly frustrating when searching for dark academia books online. We chat about that on this episode and try to find one definition to clearly define dark academia.
Highlights:
🎙Alyssa is furious someone put Anna Karenina on a dark academia list
🎙We discuss dark academia through the aesthetic and literature lens.
🎙Alyssa breaks Naomi w...
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2022-01-2501 minTBR LowdownOur Favorite Books of 2021Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
🎙 We both had such a great reading year in 2021. Every year our reading experience gets richer and feels more fulfilling. Last year was definitely a highlight for reading and it was a joy recording this episode to share our favorite reads.
Highlights:
🎙Can you guess the one favorite book of 2021 both Alyssa and Naomi have talked about all of last year?
🎙 Translated fiction was a big hit!
🎙 Some of our TBR Lowdown book club picks even made the list.
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2022-01-241h 02TBR LowdownWe Discuss Razorblade Tears by S. A. CosbyHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
🎙 We discuss Razorblade Tears, our final book club pick of 2021.
Highlights:
🎙We chat about the new Wheel of Time series at the top of the show
🎙 Naomi hoped for a very different ending in Razorblade Tears
🎙 We share our favorite moments in the story
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2022-01-171h 00TBR LowdownMini Episode: We Announce our 2022 Reading PlansHi Friends. In this mini-episode of TBR Lowdown, we announce our reading plans for the year. We invite you to read along with us!
Take a listen to the episode to get the full breakdown.
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2022-01-1413 minTBR LowdownBacklist Books to Read in 2022Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
🎙 We love reading backlist books and in this episode, we were more than excited to share some of our favorites we think everyone should read.
Highlights:
🎙 Naomi really wants people to read Tayari Jones and P. Djeli Clark
🎙 We briefly chat about The Expanse series
🎙 Alyssa shares how much she loves City of Thieves
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2022-01-101h 08TBR LowdownOur Anticipated Reads for 2022Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
🎙 We are so excited about these books that are coming out this year. We cannot wait to read them. We plan to do a show at the end of this year to discuss whether we were able to read our anticipated reads or not and what we thought about them. That should be interesting.
Highlights:
🎙Alysssa fangirls over upcoming books from TOR
🎙 Naomi shares her most anticipated read and once again declares her love for this author
🎙 We make a pl...
2022-01-031h 14TBR LowdownRetrospective on PodcastingHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
🎙 We have a lovely discussion about our journey into podcasting.
Highlights:
🎙The ONE most important thing you need for your podcast
🎙We give a few tips for aspiring podcasters
🎙Where we chose to spend our money for the podcast
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2021-12-271h 06TBR LowdownWe Chat About End-of-Year Book ListsHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
🎙 We take a look at a couple of end-of-year book lists and discuss them.
Highlights:
🎙We’re shocked by the number of lists out there
🎙Financial Times disappointed us in so many ways
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2021-12-201h 11TBR LowdownBooks We Wish We Could Read Again for the First TimeHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
🎙 We go down memory lane and share the books we wish we could read again for the first time.
Highlights:
🎙 Alyssa gushes over Amor Towles and V.E. Schwab….again
🎙 Naomi shares books she feels are highly underrated
🎙 We talk about carving out dedicated time to read certain authors
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2021-12-131h 03TBR LowdownWe Discuss Empire of Pain w/Jess OwensHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
🎙 Jess Owens joins us to discuss our November book club pick, Empire of Pain.
Highlights:
🎙 Emotions are high as we discuss Empire of Pain.
🎙We break down the Sackler family corporate shenanigans.
🎙Once again, we venture onto the War on Drugs road. This is becoming a real theme here.
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2021-12-061h 59TBR LowdownBE RADICAL! An Interview w/Akili Nzuri from @ablackmanreading and @booksarepopcultureHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
🎙 We interview fellow bookstagrammer and podcaster Akili Nzuri from @ablackmanreading and @booksarepopculture.
Highlights:
🎙 Before becoming an educator, Akili worked in banking.
🎙Akili shares how he gets the books he wants for his students in his classroom.
🎙We delve into politics and the importance of educating the masses on local elections.
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2021-11-291h 39TBR LowdownAn Interview with Rachel Howzell Hall (author of These Toxic Things)Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
🎙 We interview mystery/crime/thriller author Rachel Howzell Hall. Her novel These Toxic Things is out now.
Highlights:
🎙Before Rachel became a writer she wanted to be a nun!
🎙Why representation matters
🎙Marketing a book during a tragic world event
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2021-11-221h 20TBR LowdownLet’s Play a Game: ReRead/ReWrite/BurnHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
🎙 We play a fun game that is an older booktube tag -- ReRead/ReWrite/Burn. This game stumped us, made us laugh, and rethink our reading choices.
We scroll through our Bookly Apps and choose three books—one book we’d reread, one book we’d rewrite, and one book we’d burn. It was definitely not easy but sure was a ton of fun to play.
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2021-11-151h 04TBR LowdownAn Interview with Charles A. Bush (author of Every Variable of Us)Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
🎙We interview debut author Charles A. Bush. His upcoming book Every Variable of Us comes out on March 1, 2022. Visit our show notes on our website to pre-order.
Highlights:
🎙We share how our bookshelves are organized or not so organized
🎙Charles shares his admiration for John Green and finding his own voice
🎙The writing processes Charles has borrowed from other authors
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2021-11-082h 30TBR LowdownNonfiction NovemberHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:
🎙We talk about nonfiction books we’re thinking about reading this month.
Highlights:
🎙We gush over the brilliance that is Isabel Wilkerson
🎙A brief rant about the war on drugs
🎙A moment for Wu Tang and their badass manager
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2021-11-011h 13TBR LowdownA Chat with Shelbey from Shelbey and the BookstoreHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown, Alyssa and Naomi:
🎙Talk with Shelbey from Shelbey and the Bookstore.
Highlights:
🎙 Shelbey’s mom is also instafamous
🎙 A moment for Teddy Pendergrass
🎙 Shelbey gives us some great book recommendations
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2021-10-252h 01TBR LowdownAuto-buy Authors We Love!Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown, Alyssa and Naomi:
🎙We play a game and choose our auto-buy authors.
Highlights:
🎙Authors we wish we’d known about earlier in life
🎙Naomi pleads with the audience to read this particular book for the one billionth time! READ IT!
🎙Books we have multiple editions of in our home libraries
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2021-10-181h 02TBR LowdownChunky Books We Read, Love, and RecommendHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown, Alyssa and Naomi:
🎙Chunky books we read, loved, and recommend.
Highlights:
🎙The most fun buddy read ever!
🎙Naomi hugs a book and for good reason
🎙Books that broke us
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2021-10-1156 minTBR LowdownAll About Banned BooksHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown, Alyssa and Naomi:
Talk about banned books.
Banned Books Week was September 26 - October 2. In this episode, we go through and discuss the Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019 list from the American Library Association.
Highlights:
🎙We chat about mental illness and the language used around it
🎙The most common topics that prompt people to challenge books
🎙Using banned books as a way to discriminate
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2021-10-041h 10TBR LowdownBookish Pet PeevesHi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown, Alyssa and Naomi:
We have so many questions and thoughts about the book community to discuss. In this episode, we talk about it all and we don’t hold back.
Highlights:
🎙Slight Book of the Month frustrations
🎙Are you team TBR or team mood read?
🎙How we really feel about booktok and reels
🎙We talk about receiving arcs and working with publishers
Books Mentioned:
📚 China Room
📚 Damnation Springs
📚 Nightbitch
📚 Sex & Vanity
2021-09-271h 02TBR LowdownYes, Ghost Daddy!Hi Friends! In this episode of TBR Lowdown, Naomi and Alyssa:
* Talk about their book options for October aka Spooky Season!
October is right around the corner and you know what that means!! SPOOKY READING SEASON! In this episode, we talk about over 20 books we’re thinking about reading in October.
Highlights:
* Naomi has a surprise with two of the books she wants to read
* Alyssa shares a book she received from a publisher that we both can’t wait to read
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2021-09-2050 minTBR LowdownWhat We Read for Women in Translation MonthHi Friends! In this episode of TBR Lowdown, we:
Talk about what we read for Women in Translation Month.
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2021-09-131h 01TBR LowdownLet's Talk ClassicsHi Friends! In this episode of TBR Lowdown, we:
* Make an argument for reading classics
* Discuss East of Eden by John Steinbeck
* Look at the Zora Canon
* Talk about reading and expanding the classics in K-12 school
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2021-09-0656 minTBR LowdownJuly Book Club Picks ChatHi Friends! In this episode of TBR Lowdown, we chat about:
Our July book club picks
Fantasy series we’re drowning in
Library books
and much more!
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2021-08-301h 04TBR LowdownBookstagram is Weird and Sometimes MessyHi Friends! In this episode of TBR Lowdown, we get a little spicy as we discuss:
- Messy people on bookstagram
- Insensitive book fandoms
We also announce our first two read-alongs.
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2021-08-231h 34TBR LowdownWhat the Algorithm?Hi Friends! In episode 2 of TBR Lowdown, we chat with Carmen of Tomes and Textiles.
We discuss:
Instagram’s latest changes
The booktok community
Content creation as a bookstagrammer/booktoker
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2021-08-161h 05TBR LowdownReading Diversely 101In episode 1 of the TBR Lowdown podcast, Naomi and Alyssa introduce themselves and share what this podcast is all about and what listeners can expect.
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