Adult Book Club

Welcome to the 121st Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episode features The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin. Discussion of the book starts at the 9th minute. Spoilers are between the 38 and 1:20 minute marks. We talk about A.J., Maya, and the setting of our story to start. In spoilers we getinto the twist about Maya’s parentage and how...

Welcome to the 120th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episode features Theo of Golden by Allen Levi. Discussion of the book starts at the 8th minute. Spoilers are between the 36 and 1:31 minute marks. We discuss the character of Theo and what we think brings him to the small town of Golden. In spoilers wediscuss the shocking truth about Theo’s real...

Welcome to the 119th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episode features Betty by Tiffany McDaniel. Discussion of the book starts at the 11th minute. Spoilers are between the 43 and 1:43 minute marks. We discuss the character of Betty and her relationship with her parents and the setting of rural Ohio. In spoilers, we dive into the many traumas that...

Welcome to the 118th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episode features Katabasis by R.F. Kuang. Discussion of the book starts at the 13th minute. Spoilers are between the 51 and 1:31 minute marks. We discuss how quickly we jumped into our story and how the author presented her characters and magicsystem. In spoilers we get into our double Croatia s...

Welcome to the 117th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episode features An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson. Discussion of the book starts at the 12th minute. Spoilers are between the 44 and 1:24 minute marks. We discuss our dislike of Lennon and how she constantly attached herself to terrible men. In spoilers we talk about her relationship wit...

Welcome to the 116th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episode features Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson. Discussion of the book starts at the 12th minute. Spoilers are between the 42 and 1:18 minute marks. We discuss our dislike of Alif from the start and how he never really redeemed himself. Inspoilers we talk about our villain, magic, and our...

Welcome to the 115th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episode features Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix. Discussion of the book starts at the 15th minute. Spoilers are between the 50 and 1:37 minute marks. We discuss our characters and the setting of a 1970s house for wayward girls to start. In spoilers we discuss the witchcraft side o...

Welcome to the 114th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episode features Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse. Discussion of the book starts at the 5th minute. Spoilers are between the 32- and 59-minute marks. We discuss our characters and setting to start and how we had hoped that both would be explored deeper than they were. In spoilers we touch...

Welcome to the 113th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episode features The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang. Discussion of the book starts at the 9th minute. Spoilers are between the 48 and 1:18 minute marks. We discuss the difficulties we had trying to get into and understand the universe that Yang built. We had some confusion and learned some new p...

Welcome to the 112th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episode features The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James. Discussion of the book starts at the 14th minute. Spoilers are between the 35 and 1:06 minute marks. We discuss our two different leads and the similar setting they find themselves in 35 years apart. In spoilers we dig into the mystery of...

Welcome to the 111th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episode features Heir by Sabaa Tahir. Discussion of the book starts at the 10th minute. Spoilers are between the 41 and 1:28 minute marks. We discuss our three main characters and the setting of our story to start. In spoilers we touch on the twists and turns, the romance and how we think this b...

Welcome to the 110th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episode features The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton. Discussion of the book starts at the 12th minute. Spoilers are between the 39 and 1:18 minute marks. We discuss how the book was written, our titular characters and our main point of view to begin with. In spoilers we get into...

Welcome to the 2025 Bonus Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club with Taja and Russell. For this episode we both read a harlequin novel that we will recap for each other and give our input on it. We end the show by having some year-end trivia for what was the 2025 ABC podcast, feel free to play along. We finish with a surprise book to start 2026. Enjoy!

Welcome to the 108th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episode features Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott. Discussion of the book starts at the 3rd minute. Spoilers are between the 24 and 52 minute marks. This is a quick episode that was recorded at our group Christmas party, so there is quite a bit of background noise and special guests randomly...

Welcome to the 107th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episode features I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys. Discussion of the book starts at the 11th minute. Spoilers are between the 48 and 1:28 minute marks. We dig into what we learned about communist Romania through this historical fiction and how much it shocked us. We spend a lot of time discussi...

Welcome to the 106th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episode features Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett. Discussion of the book starts at the 12th minute. Spoilers are between the 43 and 1:21 minute marks. We quickly realized that this was the second book in a series we hadn’t read and the discussion takes off from there. In spoilers we cover th...

Welcome to the 105th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episode features Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper. Discussion of the book starts at the 9th minute. Spoilers are between the 34 and 1:20 minute marks. We dive into the fast-paced world of LA and Hollywood cover ups. Pre-spoilers it is all about our characters and the PR giant that is the Beast....

Welcome to the 104th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episode features Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang. Discussion of the book starts at the 13th minute. Spoilers are between the 48 and 1:40 minute marks. We discuss our characters; the society Wang has built inside its protective dome and how it parallels to our world. In spoilers we get into...

Welcome to the 103rd Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episodefeatures Mosquitoland by David Arnold. Discussion of the book starts at the 10th minute. Spoilers are between the 40 and 1:20 minute marks. We discuss our character Mim at length and how Arnold used her journaling to give us her entire story in an untraditional way. In spoilers we touch o...

Welcome to the 102nd Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episodefeatures The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. Discussion of the book starts at the 7th minute. Spoilers are between the 38 and 1:11 minute marks. This book sets up the trilogy by spending a lot of time with its characters, and because of that, the discussion of all of them dominates this...

Welcome to the 101st Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episodefeatures Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. Discussion of the book starts at the 15th minute. Spoilers are between the 49 and 1:13 minute marks. We discuss the characters and universe building that Ashton did and talk about the idea of anExpendable at length. In spoilers we touch on how the ending...

Welcome to the 100th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episodefeatures Modelland by Tyra Banks. Discussion of the book starts at the 9th minute. Spoilers are between the 58 and 1:28 minute marks. We talk about how upset this book made us at length. We jump all over the place as we touch onthe ridiculous amounts of stereotypes. innuendo, bad puns, an...

Welcome to the 99th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episodefeatures The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez. Discussion of the book starts at the 17th minute. Spoilers are between the 46 and 1:16 minute marks. We have a lengthy catch up after a month off full of traveling before we get into the book. We discuss how this book was presented, i...

Welcome to the 98th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episodefeatures The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. Discussion of the book starts at the 6th minute. Spoilers are between the 36 and 1:05 minute marks. We discuss our two points of view prespoilers and what we liked and didn’t like about the set up for this story. In spoilers we discuss our i...

Welcome to the 97th Episode of the ABC Pod the Adult Book Club where we drink and we read things. This episodefeatures The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne. Discussion of the book starts at the 8th minute. Spoilers are between the 36 and 1:24 minute marks. We discuss our three points of view and the world Gwynne created filled withthe remnants of dead gods. In spoilers we talk about where our sto...