Reading & Ranting

Are you an enemies to lovers girly? Or perhaps grumpy sunshine tickles your fancy? Is found family your comfort trope?   In today’s episode, Karly & Mia are offering their recommendations for books that fit various popular tropes. Sometimes recommendations based on trope rather than personal reviews are way more helpful -- so this is basically the TBR (to be read) list they’ve curated from Boo...

“For every Nesta out there - climb the mountain.” Sarah J. Maas wrote this on the dedication page of A Court of Silver Flames, and truer words have never been spoken. Today Karly & Mia are diving into why this book and Nesta’s journey means so much to them. They’ll also be discussing how they relate to Bryce Quinlan’s from Crescent City, including but not limited to eating takeout noodles and...

Surprise bonus episode! We know absolutely no one asked for it, but you can get to know your favorite book podcast co-hosts a little better with today’s bonus episode. Karly & Mia will be asking each other extremely important questions, ranging from their astrology birth charts, a classic FMK (F*ck, Marry, Kill) game, and what Hogwarts House they would be in. We’re open books so submit additio...

We’ve all had that one book character growing up that resonated with us more than anything (refer to Mia wearing the Katniss Everdeen braid to middle school every day for a year). In today’s episode, Karly & Mia will discuss the book characters that shaped them as the women they are today and how they related to their journeys. Special shoutout to Hermione Granger, Elizabeth Bennett, and Jo Ma...

A dragon without its rider is a tragedy, a rider without their dragon is dead. Welcome to the Fourth Wing. *internally screams*    In today’s episode, Karly & Mia will be discussing this year’s hottest new read, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. If you were a Daenerys Targaryen fangirl, or love the magical school trope, you will be obsessed with this book about a war college for dragon riders. Of...

Who needs a real boyfriend when you have a a fictional boyfriend and a vibrator? This is the question Mia and Karly have been asking for the last year, and now they want to get into it with you. For the record, a 500 page slow burn basically just shows how important foreplay is IRL. They’ll also rant about how casual sex changes after college, why every girl should own a vibrator, and why men will...

We know you’ve been waiting for this one besties. In today’s episode, Mia and Karly will explain the absolute CHOKEHOLD Sarah J. Maas, author of the A Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, and Crescent City series, has on their lives. While reading a five book fantasy smut series in 48 hours may not sound healthy, they’ll discuss why ACOTAR is behind their mental instability and why Fae men...

Follow along with coworkers Mia and Karly as the duo dives into their reading journeys. First, they’ll begin where it all started, as childhood gifted readers whose hobbies later escalated into an adult reading obsession (with smut books of course). Outside of their reading identities, Karly & Mia will discuss the complicated hell of being in your early 20s and how to rediscover your identity...