Once Upon a Time Zone: A Bookish Podcast

Time to reflect on our reading year so far! How are we doing with our reading goals? What books have hit, missed & what are we looking forward to for the rest of the year? Hope you enjoy this one :)

Books Discussed:
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me - Ilona Andrews
The Dark Mirror - Samantha Shannon
Red Rising - Pierce Brown
The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien
The Bright Years - Sarah Damoff
The Burning Side - Sarah Damoff
The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson
Us Against You - Fredrik Backman
Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman
Neverthorn - Shannon Mayer
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
11/22/63 - Stephen King
The Ballad of Falling Dragons - Sarah A Parker
Into the Blue - Emma Brodie
Jade City - Fonda Lee
Yesteryear - Caro Claire Burke
No Matter What - Cara Bastone
Rhythm of War - Brandon Sanderson
The Diviners - Libba Bray
Recursion - Blake Crouch
Shield of Sparrows - Devney Perry
The Last Contract of Isako - Fonda Lee
Daughter of No Worlds - Carissa Broadbent
Chain of Gold - Cassandra Clare
The Road of Bones - Demi Winters
A Stage Set for Villains - Shannon J Spann
Burn of the Everflame - Penn Cole
The Knave and the Moon - Rachel Gillig
Taipei Story - RF Kuang
Victorious - VE Schwab
Dead Beat - Leigh Bardugo
The Sixth Faction - Veronica Roth
American Hagwon - Min Jin Lee

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(00:00) intro & current reads
(11:22) freya's europe tripe!
(16:41) how we're doing with our reading goals
(27:21) fable reading stats
(32:34) mid year book tags
(32:50) books we immediately want to reread
(36:51) new favourite authors
(39:42) most frustrating characters
(42:04) a book that should have been shorter
(44:07) a book that should have been longer
(46:21) series we want to read this year
(48:59) character most likely to start a podcast
(51:08) ranking our book club reads so far
(54:56) most anticipated reads for the rest of the year

One year later, have our reading tastes changed? We are re-creating our very first episode in celebration of 1 year of the podcast!!! Thank you SO MUCH for being here 💖

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Books Discussed:
The Jasad Crown - Sara Hashem
Golden Son - Pierce Brown
Summer Island - Kristin Hannah
Blue Sisters - Coco Mellors
Cleopatra and Frankenstein - Coco Mellors
This Is How You Lose the Time War - Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar
Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson
A Song to Drown Rivers - Ann Liang
The Correspondent - Virginia Evans
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
Five Survive - Holly Jackson
The Only One Left - Riley Sagar
The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
My Friends - Fredrik Backman
The Good Parts - Evann Normandin
Recursion - Blake Crouch
Starside - Alex Aster
Small These Like These - Claire Keegan
Broken Country - Clare Leslie Hall
The Hating Game - Sally Thorne
Not in Love - Ali Hazelwood
It Happened One Summer - Tessa Bailey
Main Characters - Bobby Palmer
The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
Caraval - Stephanie Garber

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(00:00) intro & current reads
(15:57) what we expect this time
(18:01) taking the quiz
(59:43) our final results!

Let's wrap up our June reading month & talk about what we're looking forward to in July!

Books Discussed:
Daughter of No Worlds - Carissa Broadbent
The Someday Garden - Ashley Poston
Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
Elodie and the Dark Lord - Ashley Poston
Rhythm of War - Brandon Sanderson
Golden Son - Pierce Brown
Liar of Dreams - Libba Bray
The Wretched Divine - Adalyn Grace
The Young Will Remember - Eve J Chung
Into the Blue - Emma Brodie
The Ballad of Falling Dragons - Sarah A Parker
The Dark Mirror - Samantha Shannon
The Burning God - RF Kuang
The Divorce - Freida McFadden
Summer Island - Kristin Hannah
Yesteryear - Caro Claire Burke
The Butcher's Masquerade - Matt Dinniman
Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman
The Hollow Gods - AJ Vrana
The Shippers - Katherine Center
Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It - Brooke Averick
Morning Star - Pierce Brown
Honey - Imani Thompson
Best Offer Wins - Marisa Kashino
Red Rising - Pierce Brown
The Poppy War - RF Kuang
The Road of Bones - Demi Winters
This Woven Kingdom - Tahereh Mafi
Chain of Gold - Cassandra Clare
Vicious - VE Schwab
Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo
The Winged Game - Sophie Kim
The Mash Up - Laura Marie Meyers
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt - Ben Reeves
The Good Parts - Evann Normandin

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(00:00) intro & current reads
(08:13) LOTR casting update!
(10:49) ashley poston is writing FANTASY!
(12:57) dallas cowboys cheerleaders debrief
(20:06) freya's june highlights
(27:25) jaime's june highlights
(36:20) freya's june lows
(41:32) jaime's june lows
(46:50) freya's july lookaheads
(51:56) jaime's july lookaheads
(55:05) july book releases

We're back with our dual season TBRs! This time, our Summer and Winter TBRs as long distance book besties from Canada & Australia!

Books Discussed:
To Dream in Darkness - Ann Liang
Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson
Golden Son - Pierce Brown
The Bright Years - Sarah Damoff
Every Summer After (Every Year After) - Carley Fortune
Light Wielder - Rachel Schneider
The Poppy War & The Dragon Republic - RF Kuang
The Wretched Divine - Adalyn Grace
Summer Island - Kristin Hannah
The Diviners - Libba Bray
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil - VE Schwab
Belladonna - Adalyn Grace
The Wolf King - Lauren Palphreyman
Yesteryear - Caro Claire Burke
Wind and Truth - Brandon Sanderson
The Good Parts - Evann Normandin
The Someday Garden - Ashley Poston
Heart the Lover - Lilly King
The Burning Side - Sarah Damoff
Main Characters - Bobby Palmer
Lost Lambs - Madeline Cash
Mad Mabel - Sally Hepworth
Best Offer Wins - Marisa Kashino
Good Joy, Bad Joy - Mikki Brammer
Daughters of No Worlds - Carissa Broadbent
Pool House - Mary HK Choi
Honey - Imani Thompson
One and Only - Maureen Goo
Day of Now - Miranda Reason
Nymph - Sofia Montrone
Shadow Reaper - Lynette Noni
Scythe - Neal Shusterman

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(00:00) intro & current reads
(11:18) every year after debrief
(23:15) light wielder reviews
(24:45) spring and fall tbr recap
(36:21) summer tbr 1
(39:15) winter tbr 1
(42:26) summer tbr 2
(44:05) winter tbr 2
(46:33) summer tbr 3
(49:03) winter tbr 3
(51:43) summer tbr 4
(54:05) winter tbr 4
(56:03) summer tbr 5
(57:56) winter tbr 5

We LOVE book bestie Madison Kait, and we also love books that make us cry. So this was just the PERFECT time to chat about how emotional we got over fiction. Hope you enjoy this episode!

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Books Discussed:
Tropesick - Lauren Okie
The Wretched Divine - Adalyn Grace
The Shippers - Katherine Center
Into the Blue - Emma Brodie
Destiny's Edge - ML Wang
Alchemised - SenLinYu
Jade Legacy - Fonda Lee
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
The Burning God - RF Kuang
Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Ballad of Falling Dragons - Sarah A Parker
Say You'll Remember Me - Abby Jimenez
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
My Friends - Fredrik Backman
Onyx Storm - Rebecca Yarros
Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - VE Schwab
Red Rising - Pierce Brown
A Court of Wings and Ruin (ACOTAR) - Sarah J Maas

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(00:00) intro & current reads
(09:01) ML Wang's surprise book release?!
(11:18) what were our BIGGEST book cries of all time?
(20:43) how hard did these books make us cry?
(20:54) the ballad of falling dragons
(24:32) alchemised
(28:38) say you'll remember me
(30:28) project hail mary
(32:00) my friends
(36:02) madison's annotating system
(40:03) onyx storm
(46:19) crooked kingdom
(50:23) what were the first books that made us cry?
(52:47) the invisible life of addie larue
(56:16) acowar