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As the title suggests, I’m keen to hear what are some of your favourite bookish podcasts.
I’ve been an avid listener of the What Should I Read Next podcast. I love hearing about the reading lives of other readers and always get such wonderful book recs to add to my tbr from it.
I’d love to discover other bookish podcasts out there. Do you have a favourite to recommend?
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Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
Amanda Leduc
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I’m looking for vampire romance books (more slow burn) Vampire MMC x Human/Witch FMC
I already read: 🧛 Night of House 🧛 Land of Shadow 🧛 Loving a Vampire is Total Chaos (romcom) 🧛 A Dowry of Blood 🧛 Court of the Vampire Queen
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Tea and Sympathetic Magic (Teacup Magic, #1)
Tansy Rayner Roberts
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so i'm unsure whether this is a me thing since many of the reviews don't seem to mention it much but i just can't get over how frustrating this first person present narration is? sure, we get a lot of intimate and personal information from the characters themselves but the writing is just so boring and unoriginal?
someone please tell me either the story and suspense picks up or the writing starts to get better because i kind of need to read this (potential comp title for future manuscript query) and i genuinely don't know if i can make it through at this point 😭
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An Impossible Impostor (Veronica Speedwell, #7)
Deanna Raybourn
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari
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Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Fareed Zakaria
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A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue
Dean Jobb
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Lost Wax: Essays (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction)
Jericho Parms
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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
Heather Fawcett
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There is something about the idea of restoring an overgrown cottage that satisfies a very particular itch in my brain. Probably the same reason I love Stardew Valley.
I really enjoyed the variety of species without the text getting too technical, and that the book engages with difficult topics without ever really making the reader feel unsafe. I'm so glad for the extra push the Fall Readalong gave me to read this book!
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What the heck is soda bread and why have I never heard of it?