Bookish Banter & Frivolous Fodder

Episode 5 of  Bookish Banter & Frivolous Fodder  is our we-swear-it-was-only-two-weeks hiatus comeback—and yes, we have updates. Nestor recaps his Chicago and New York adventures, Katie gears up for her upcoming Paris trip (very main-character energy), and somewhere in between we discuss  Wuthering Heights , impulse book buys, and Nestor proudly adding  Devout  by David Archuleta to the stack....

Episode 4 of Bookish Banter & Frivolous Fodder is our  welcome-back-from-an-accidental-hiatus  episode—and the chaos picks up right where we left it. Katie celebrates finally finishing The Butcher and the Wren, while Nestor spirals (relatably) through a full reading slump before finally landing on The Song of Achilles. In between, we detour hard into Costco observations, Katie’s latest Bridger...

Episode 3 of  Bookish Banter & Frivolous Fodder  kicks off with the internet’s most important topic: viral Dr. Pepper TikToks. From there, Katie speed-runs her way through the  Of Flesh and Bone  series and dives into murder-mystery mode with  The Butcher and the Wren , while Nestor revisits why  Remarkably Bright Creatures  still lives rent-free in his top five. Expect book talk, unhinged sid...

Welcome to Episode 2 of Bookish Banter & Frivolous Fodder—where Katie and Nestor are a little more confident, slightly more unhinged, and fully committed to the chaos. We kick things off by revisiting  very  exciting news about Heated Rivalry, with a new book coming out this September (yes, the excitement is real). From there, we dive into book-to-screen buzz with People We Meet on Vacation, u...

Welcome to episode one of  Bookish Banter & Frivolous Fodder —where Katie and Nestor hit record, test microphones, test ideas, and occasionally testing the boundaries of what our mothers would deem appropriate for the air waves. What starts as reactions to the  Stranger Things  finale quickly spirals into heated feelings about  Heated Rivalry  (yes, the book and the screen buzz), dragon-induce...