Bookalicious Pod

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK In LaRue Part 2, the ladies discuss all their burning questions about this book, including: - How are Luc and Henry related? Is Henry just Luc with colored contacts? - If you could go back to Day 1 and live Addie's original, normal life, would you? - Why are Henry's friends jerks? - What the heck is going to happen next?!? This was *almost* going to be our shortes...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK ATTENTION: No explicit spoilers but some allusion to concepts covered in episode 2 (parts 2+ 3) The Bookalicious sisters tackle the slightly too long book of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab. Candice has vetted the book ahead of time so even though it feels a little slow she promises that it will pick up as we go. The sisters make predictions, wonder how Add...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK In this grand finale of our (second? least?) favorite childhood book, Candice and Chrissy go in circles about how much they loathed or loved this book! We need to know- Was Ijori a good for nothing flopper or a redeemed heart throb? Does the gnome-ish sense of justice (i.e., Ivi never had her comeuppance) ruin the book? Should Aza have fled into the sunset, found her gnom...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK The girls love Gail Carson Levine SO much that they continue the Gail Train and read Fairest. Things get dicey though on this latest read, though, and Fairest may fall from the ranks as #2 childhood favorite book (Ella is of course #1 forever). Some things discussed in this episode: - Is Aza really ugly? Is she Kimmy K 2.0 or is she the pale guy from The Princess Bride ?...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK Candice and Chrissy wrap up possibly the twisty-est book ending yet! Candice catches Chrissy up on the past 12 years of pop culture references, including: Young Kanye filming himself for future documentary when he makes it big (a la Evil Erin filming Evie 24/7??) Paris Hilton's abusive boarding school (inspiration for Evie's retreat center??) Chrissy, meanwhile, c...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK Candice and Chrissy continue the mystery of SABI and still have no idea who the big bad is!! That doesn't keep them from spitballing new theories and making other crazy comparisons with classics such as The Housemaid and Abducted in Plain Sight . Candi also makes a reference to Lady Whistledown which completely went over Chrissy's head, but now that she's read...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK Candice and Chrissy tackle the first six chapters of Olivia Muenter's debut novel, Such a Bad Influence. They love it so much they skip the banter and get right into it! During the author recap, we discover Candi had the same childhood as Olivia and throughout the book we have fun seeing the fingerprints of 90's life (a la no bread). We theorize who the big bad is...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK Candice and Chrissy finish up their favorite childhood book and discover it's only gotten better with age. Some topics of interest include: Does Mum Olga remind you more of Quina or of Barbara Jean ? Who's a worse father, Sir Peter or Count Olaf? Why don't Ella and Mandy run away earlier? How does Ella run not just in heels, but with only one heel?!? And, an e...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK Candice and Chrissy fangirl over their hero, Gail Carson Levine, and their favorite childhood book Ella Enchanted. We learn just what a Newberry is, discuss whether Ella was invading everyone's privacy with her fairy book and who the real villain of the story is. Mainly, though, we just gush over how much we love this book. We hope you love it too! Book cover Chrissy...

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THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK In the riveting final episode of Starter Villain, Candice and Chrissy discuss all the major plot points of the villain societies and talking dolphins. It doesn't take too long. We break some new records on our end of book games and talk about why we want to be Hera and the perils of long COVID.

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK Welcome back to Part 3 of our 4 Part series into John Scalzi's Starter Villain . No time has passed since the sisters started Part 2 & but Starter Villain's plot is finally picking up as Charlie has his first business meeting with Till (AKA Morrison). Charlie's wits are put to the test as he sniffs out the false success of nepo-babies that run the villain...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK The girlies waste no time getting into Part 2 of John Scalzi's Starter Villain. While not a lot happens in the book, aside from Charley going to Volcano Island to sit in an awkward HR powerpoint on how to be villain-y, dolphins who wish to unionize, & more cats using computers to speak, the sisters wonder why the humor looks so good on paper but seems to fall flat...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK Welcome to our inaugural episode of John Scalzi's Starter Villain. The sister's are in the same zip code as Chrissy makes her journey to her new home. Even though the girlies tested mic's for well over an hour, it was to no avail and the audio quality of this episode is not up to our usual snuff (sorry!) We take a look at some of our bookalytics, shout-out to...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK Sam and Chrissy are back with all the religious commentary of the Dawn Treader you didn't ask for! Join us as we finish the voyage (maybe our favorite book of the series??) and talk all things Eustace, sacraments, and the number 7.

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK On this very special episode, one sister is joined by one husband and one brother to discuss one of our favorite Narnia books, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader! On this episode we rank all the Narnia books, talk about our inner Eustace's, and play Get a cLewis. Sam also brings in his wisdom of Planet Narnia to talk about how this book connects with the sun. Join us next...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK In this final segment of our journey to TJ Klune's, "House in the Cerulean Sea," the girlies wrap up with the wholesome conclusion of Linus' journey to find a home. The sisters conduct their usual end of book games - Read it Like Reddit, Questions for the Author, & pilot their new rendition of book-y ratings. We give this book a 4.3 and would recomme...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK In the penultimate episode of the House by the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, the girlies are pressed for time as an unexpected event struck Candice's power grid when they were announcing MAJOR news on Bookalytics. The girlies wonder why is Charles Werner so obsessed with Arthur? Is Linus & Arthur's budding romance 'Cringe or Cute'? How does the Mayor Helen...

Candice is making a pilgrimage to the motherland these next two weeks so we're taking a quick break from Cerulean Sea to bring two special episodes. This week, listen to Candice and Chrissy answer listener questions such as, Out of the books we've read, which character would you want to be your best friend? What's the best book to movie adaptation? Which is worse for your health: Gambl...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK In this episode, CJ and CN discuss all things Cerulean Sea, including: What is a pen name, really, and can we have one? Would we be scared of Lucy? Is sin subjective? Are we team Arthur or team Linus? Plus, a special announcement about next week's episode!

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK In part two, Candice and Chrissy say hi to all their new listeners and try to play the algorithm to reach all 50 states (we're looking at you, Alaska Alaska Alaska). In the book, they discuss why Chauncy the bell-hop hopeful is their favorite, whether they would want the orphanage on their island, and start a new game called "Get a Klune," a game where Candi...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK We're starting a new book- The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune! Candice starts us off with an author bio and then we talk all things Cerulean Sea, including: Linus' Horrible Terrible, No Good Very Bad Day; are Linus and Lucy references from the Peanuts or ancient Greek Mythology?; Boss Lady Yzma and the Extremely Upper Management from Hogwarts. Plus, a bouff...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK Today's episode the girlies + Count Samlof review a beautiful short story - The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu. This short story is available for a free listen by the fabulous LeVar Burton who reads the captivating story on his pod, LeVar Burton Reads. While a beautiful story, The Paper Menagerie tackles difficult subjects such as racism, death of a parent, and wanting to...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK The siblings are in a better mood after their therapy session and they wrap up ASOUE. Candice pulls out her tin foil hat that has been seeing a lot of action recently and proposes her conspiracy theories about Mr. Poe running the mafia and how Epstein Island is actually the end of this series. We rate the book, ask Lemony Snicket questions, and play Read it like Reddit wh...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK In part two, Candice, Chrissy, and Sam practice some method acting, a term which here means "feeling as sad as the three siblings they are reading about." We map our family onto the characters in the book and we're 0/4 on mapping the same characters, but in the end, we agree our oldest brother is Count Samlof. Also in this episode: How The Marvelous Marriage...