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tuck and lauren are back this week for a substantially more normal episode of amfaem. we're talking pt, scotland, and the importance of growing and changing! katherine center, thank you for doing your research, we are obsessed with you. never stop doing what you're doing. tune in next week for hopefully a more normal episode than reading dream runner but no promises. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...

it's physical therapy month! tuck and lauren read dream runner by gail mcfarland! this is the worst book we've ever read! if you want to listen to us talk about foot stuff and scary medical care, this is the book for you!! there's also some brief track and field conversation as well as the ability of an author to tell on themselves- gail mcfarland, did a gold digger steal your husband from you? tu...

it's the conclusion of women's right's month! in this episode, we rank our favorite unreliable narrator, talk about the importance of motherhood, and talk about how incredible women are. this sounds really dramatic. we also read good reads comments and talk about nicole kidman! see you all next month for physical therapy month! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

it's week three of women's right's month! tuck and austin are discussing the silent patient by alex michaelides! we discuss how illegal everything that happens in this book is, alex's view on the devil's lettuce, and unreliable narrators (shocker!). asides include the enneagram, all time bad names in books, and how male therapists simply can't be trusted. tune in next week for comp con! Hosted on...

it's episode two of women's right's month and tuck and austin are back to discuss bll. this is their second time discussing the show, as austin and tuck watched it together for the first time during covid 2020. we talk about Nicole Kidman's insane vibes, madeline martha mackenzie, and the crazy virginity plotline. trigger warning for discussion of rape and eating disorders. Hosted on Acast. See ac...

it's women's rights month! which can only mean one thing: tuck has a man on the pod. join tuck and her friend austin as they take on the world of wealthy white women and the crimes that only they could slay at committing. we're starting with gone girl. discussions include small town MO, how amy is slaying, and ben affleck's back tattoo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

tuck and lydia are out of the trenches of fifty shades freed and back on more comfortable turf: marxism, perfect womanhood, and the mile high club. tune in this week as we finish out fifty shades month! we'll see you next week as we begin talking about women's rights with gone girl! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

tuck and lydia are back for another week living at escala! we venture to the mediterranean for some brief discourse on nude beaches, and then head back to seattle for a very dreary conversation about the state of Ana and Christians relationship. brief asides include colleen hoover, the word yar, and the importance of having better friends than Ana's. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

just like Ana and Christian, tuck and lydia got back together this week to talk about fifty shades darker. we talk about Oedipus, the insidiousness of rich person philanthropy, and the importance of actually talking to your partner instead of just screaming at each other and then immediately having crazy kinky sex. tune in next week for fifty shades freed! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

welcome to tuck and lydia's red room of pain! this month we are taking on EL James' 2011 phenom: Fifty Shades of Grey. we discuss why women love to read about a man who cannot articulate why he is attracted to a woman, how it's not kidnapping if nothing bad happens to you, and Anastasia Steele being Mickey Mouse Coded. Tune in next week for Fifty Shades Darker! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

it's week four of graceling month and you know what that means! bailey and tuck dig in on all three books and talk about the best things to come from all of them! we also discuss these books through a feminist lens and refute some of the most frequent takes on good reads! tune in next month for 50 shades! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

tuck and bailey are back for week three of graceling month! this episode we discuss what it's like to reckon with the mortality of your favorite characters, free solo, and the importance of understanding what a charter is! trigger warnings this episode for discussions of rape and suicide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

tuck and bailey are back this week talking about the second book in the graceling series "fire"! we talk about horses with silly names, the importance of women in court, and how it would be fun to have hair that looks like the sunset. tune in next week for book three, bitterblue! editing note: as i do not have a podcast studio, i can do nothing about the corgi running around upstairs! forgive some...

bailey is back!!! we're reading tuck's favorite teen fantasy series this month, Kristin Cashore's graceling novels. we talk about survival, why mind readers are so hated, and why po is a tough name for a love interest. we'll be back next week with our two different colored eyes for the second in the series, fire! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

it's the conclusion of bodyguard (fake dating lol) month!! moe and tuck talk about why these books are good, other books that are good like these, and the importance of writing well even in a cartoon cover romance novel. tune in next month, where tuck and bailey will talking about Kristin Cashore's Graceling novels! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

public service announcement: once again, if you are looking for tuck and moe to be haters, you will be sorely disappointed. this week, to end the reading for (fake dating) bodyguard month, we read the blonde identity by ally carter. if you loved the Ally's teen fiction, we are here to tell you that you will love this book. it felt like coming home to a dramatic jumping off a cliff with (or without...

it's bodyguard month week 2! tuck and moe read "Take a Hint Dani Brown" by Talia Hibbert. Spoiler alert- if you're looking for us to be critical this episode is not for you!! we loved this book- discussions include a leading man who is an hopeless romantic, the things posh british people can get away with saying, and how it's a good thing that moe's dog did, in fact, eat her homework. Hosted on Ac...

it's bodyguard month! tuck and her friend moe are reading all things bodyguard romance! this week starts with Katherine Center's the bodyguard. we talk about if there's such thing as too perfect a man, whether or not it's possible that anyone is being told they are plain as much as the main character in this book, and the importance of reading romance! this is the first romance book month we've ha...

it's our first movie-sode! sam and emily take on dune part 1, a film both of us really like. includes conversations about if timmy is a good actor, if they can stick the landing on the second film, and jimmy neutron. next month is bodyguard month! stay tuned! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

we've done it! we've read all of dune! we talk about paul riding a worm, whether or not Alia is going to look like Renesmee in Dune II, and if Frank Herbert hates women. Tune in next week, where we'll watch Part I of Dune and compare it to the book! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

it is week 2 of dune month and we are reading part 2 of frank herbert's dune! tuck and sam dig in on the bene gesserit, the impossibility of living on arrakis, and how lucky we are to live on a planet with big trees and big lakes! tune in next week for week three of dune month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

it's time folks. sam is back. we are running on desert power this month and reading the science fiction classic Dune by Frank Herbert. we discuss everything that happens in part 1 (a lot), emily mispronounces every name in the book wrong by a single letter (except paul), and we discuss if paul atreides would give people as many stds as timothee chalamet. tune in next week for dune part 2! Hosted o...

it's comp con week!! this week we talk about all the books with jane in the title and discuss their various merits and flaws! we also give recommendations for anyone who wants to do more reading like jane eyre. Tune in next month for Dune Month with Sam! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

in this weeks' episode, emily and betsy take on Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea". we talk about whether or not moving to england from the carribean could make anyone go mad, the idea of the hysterical woman, and if the repression of the victorian era made more people go crazy than was perhaps necessary. next week is comp/con, tune in for one last week on Jane Eyre! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...

this week, betsy and emily read "my plain jane", a ghostly retelling of jane eyre. We discuss the rochester age gap (again), if women are allowed to go crazy if they're locked up for 15 years, and the importance of using hysteria sparingly in your book about women for women. Tune in next week for wide sargasso sea! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.