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THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK The siblings are at it again with another book about....well siblings! We pick up with a throw-back childhood classic: Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events Book 1 - A Bad Beginning. We start off with Chrissy driving home giving Sam & Candice a Blair of Witch Project style tour of her ride home. Candice has prepared her own Bad Beginning with both interest...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK Here's the grand finale of The Housemaid! We have taken a u-turn around Mars and are heading straight for the Sun. Join us as we recap the wildness of the finals chapters of The Housemaid and play our end-of-book games such as Read it like Reddit, questions we have for Frieda, and our ratings for the book. Bonus material: Soon after we vow we won't read another Fr...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK Before Candice and Chrissy can discuss the much anticipated Housemaid finale, they must first debrief on their recent family reunion. If you want to hear all the latest news on Raccoon Island, Spirit Airlines refunds, and our new CEO Sam and his Count Olaf plans, start at the beginning. If you want to skip all the banter and bookalytics, skip to minute 22:00. In our book...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK We open up this episode with Candice breaking the news to Chrissy that Gen Z is aging like milk and is in need of Ageless by Ramona (please sponsor us). We watch a housewives clip and Candice shares her theory that Ramona Singer sold her soul for eternal youth. This leads us into our Ageless by Evelyn-Kath theory as Candice and Chrissy return to the book and uncovering th...

We begin Part 2 of the Housemaid and finally hear from Nina's perspective. We get some campy vibes and debate whether we like the "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" step-by-step guide in her chapters. We debunk some of our previous theories, hold onto some theories even stronger (⁠identity theft is not a joke⁠), and come up with new theories along the way. Join us to hear our ideas of Victim #4 and Dr...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK In Part Two Two of The House Maid, the sisters pick up with Chapter 21, but first they catch up on Chrissy's PhD journey. Chrissy share's a Simpson's clip of Bart terrorizing graduate students with promises of tenure track positions and bread crumbs. The girlies pick up with Millie as she gets tangled deeper and deeper into the Winchester's web of family d...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK **SPOILERS UP TO CHAPTER 31** The girlinas pick up their Recap with chapter 16 in Freida McFadden's best selling novel The Housemaid, but first they must waste time catching up. In post-editing magic, Candice splits up their 35 minute banter into 15 minutes with the second 15 minute segment in part 2. The girlies create a new interior decorating style dubbed - Grandpa...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK In this episode, Candice and Chrissy are so excited to discuss The Housemaid that they have 20 minutes of banter in the beginning as per usual. We discuss the elusive life of Frieda McFadden (or whatever her name is), what we would do in Millie’s shoes, who the big bad really is, and the Curious Case of CeCe Grace. Also, which sport would be the best to do if you didn’t h...

Our LAST episode of Lessons in Chemistry!! If you think you're excited, you should see us. We talk all things Fairy Godmother, Tonya Harding aka Harriet Sloane aka Miss Frask, and the spaceship in which we find ourselves in the last part of the book. Chrissy also has a new end-of-book game for the sisters to play that justifies all their thoughts on Lessons in Chemistry. See alternate book cov...

We are in the LAST conversation about our favorite book Lessons in Chemistry and the girls love it so much they don't want this series to end, so they take a whole 2 hours to go through it!! In part one, we discuss all the unbelievable happenings of Harriet, Mad, the fairy godmother, and more. Tune in next time to hear the finale of Lessons in Chemistry, along with some new games the sisters p...

The girlies are back with the penultimate episode of Lessons in Chemistry (can you BELIEVE IT?) Candice is reeling with the guilt of repurposing a Christmas Gift and we have a surprise appearance from Chrissy's Doctor-to-Be. At the end the girlies tease their next book they will be reviewing, 'The Housemaid,' by Freda McFadden. We pick up with Ms. Elizabeth Zott once again in the hot seat for sayi...

Another deep dive into Lessons in Chemistry! Candice and Chrissy talk about COVID cruises, super-genius Mad Zott, and Elizabeth's super-human ability to cook dinner, answer listener questions, and have manifestos all in her 30 minute show.

Chrissy returns from her cruise sabbatical and the girls are back at it with Lessons in Chemistry! Candice wants to know all about Chrissy's trip but ends up only learning about the day before the cruise because the girls talk too much and focus on every detail. On brand. Things have taken a turn for the better with Elizabeth Zott and Candice and Chrissy are no longer depressed when discussing...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK The (four infinity stones, Heads of Hogwarts, Pevensie children, etc.) are all together for the first time! On what may be the best episode of Bookalicious, the siblings choose high school superlatives for each other and decide who's in and who's out on the pod (spoiler: Jordan won ownership rights to the pod back in Elantris so he gets to decide). Despite Sam&#39...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK Another siblings falls off the pod-wagon and it's down to two infinity stones. After a harrowing escapade of nailing down a podding block during the holidays, Candice & Sam connect on a Friday afternoon The duo spend time catching up on the holidays, discuss their own and their partner's holiday dysfunction, & say hello to their new listener in Arizona (hi...

THIS IS NOT AN AUDIO BOOK Chrissy is still cruising around the world while the rest of the siblings meet up to discuss one of their favorite childhood book, The Lion the Witch & The Wardrobe, the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis. Candice does her best to muster up a Bookalytics segment but finds that Chrissy is the secret sauce that makes Bookalytics fun. The siblings judge t...

Big bummer for Lessons in Chemistry this week - we are OUT OF EPISODES! It's not even Christmas & we've eaten through all of our winter rations :( We will be back next week with a 3 part mini-series on The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe. We will be reading till one of the siblings runs away (not sure the chapter but that general area) If you are CRAVING more Bookalicious, we have just wrapped our E...

In a brief 27 hours, the Bookalicious girlies wrapped up Season 1 - Elantris. Elantris is now a space ship at cruising altitude. Raoden decides to hit 'continue' on his Elantris journ and save the world while Hrathen faces every high schooler's nightmare: professing your love to your crush for them to ask who you are. After postulating for 8 months about Aiden's purpose, we find out that Chrissy's...

Time Stamps: Chapter 21 Minute 13 Chapter 22 Minute Chapter 23 Minute 50 Candice is on double duty as Chrissy is eyes deep studying for finals. Only an hour of time has passed since Episode 7 but the Bookalicious pod keeps racking up listens, getting another THREE listens since Part 7. The total is 317 listens, thanks to all our LOYAL FANS! Wishing for the happy days of Elantris, the girls trudge...

Time Stamps: Bookalytics Minute 16 Chapter 58 Minute 23 Chapter 59 Chapter 60 Chapter 61 The 3 Infinity Stones are back at it & are committed to finishing Elantris, a journey that has taken the girlies nearly 8 months to do. While it has been 1 week since episode 16 has been published, it has been well over 6 weeks since the siblings last go together to pod. Bringing in the eldest infinity sto...

Time Stamps: Bookalytics starts at minute 16 Chapter 19 starts at minute 24 Chapter 20 starts at 53 minutes Candice & Chrissy are back on the Lesson in Chemistry grind. Justice is swift as Candice gets punked by a Podcaster eHarmony add disguises themselves as a listener email. The sisters ask the tough hitting questions: "How quickly would you go through your space rations if you were an...

This is the second part of our episode with our 2nd guest of the show, our brother Sam! This brother has read the book and brings some hot takes to the pod and introduces a new game called "Is this bad writing?" where his answer is always yes. The book (and podcast) goes off the rails and turns into a spaceship as we close out Part 2 and begin Part 3. Sanderson takes a page from the Book...

The girlies start off with THEIR FIRST READER MAIL! This is not a drill folks...or is it? After reading their delightful email from Brooke, the sisters discuss why they started the pod and make mention of the ever-elusive mini-series they did on The Fault in Our Stars. We skip bookalytics this episode as no time has passed since Episode 5 in recording time, which means there is more time to muscle...

You read that right, folks- One chapter. In one hour. That's all we got through. We're splitting this recording into a two-parter. You can catch the second half next week when we go through Ch 54-57 on turbo speed with our special guest. In this episode, Candice and Chrissy have their 2nd guest of the show, their brother Sam! This brother has read the book and brings some hot takes to the pod and...

The girlies are back at it with a quick 80 minute mini-episode on Lessons in Chemistry. They start off by wasting time discussing the days of the week. They find the riveting finding that Sunday is the day between Saturday & Monday and is considered the first day of the week in US but the last day of the week in Czech. We find out that Chrissy is a masochist (she has to have some bad quality) and...