Bookalicious Pod

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...

In this episode, the ladies talk so much about memes that they become one. They emulate the half-drawn-horse meme by going into intense detail on the first two chapters and warp-speeding through the last two so they can finish Elantris before the end of time. Sarene is still sporting her Carmelita Spatz wig but now she's becoming our favorite character as everyone else keeps getting worse. We have...

The girlies show off their procrastination skills by doing their darndest to not discuss the very depressing chapters that chronicle Elizabeth Zott's life. They start off by welcoming their new listeners from around the US - thanks for listening (please leave us a 5 star review). Bookalicious hits a pivotal moment in this this episode by hosting their first non-familial guest! The girlies make...

The girls are back at it with another action-packed episode on Elantris. As always, the sisters need to waste time in the beginning. The listeners get to see behind the curtain of Bookalicious operations as they officially dub their analytics segment Bookalytics which they coined on the spot. It turns out all of our listeners skipped Episode 2 of Elantris. The girlies recommend all of their listen...

After spending more than one (1!!) hour on Chapter 8, the ladies warp speed through Ch 9-11. Chrissy is triggered by the Catholic boys home and both Candice and Chrissy are depressed by the end of Ch 11. BUT their spirits are lifted when they remember their first and most beautifully written review! The book keeps getting sad, so cheer us up by leaving a 5-star review on Spotify or writing us all...

In this episode we have our very first guest, our brother Jordan! This is his first introduction to both Bookalicious and Elantris so he has some fresh takes on all the goings-ons in Arelon. We identify our favorite listener as our UK listener who made our pod officially international. Little do we realize this listener never returns to the pod. The siblings make a bet on how many chapters they wi...

ATTENTION: SPOILER for Chapter 11! Candice is recovering from a cold so the sisters no longer sound like one person podding alone. The girlies learn that there is no better coattail to ride than Taylor Swifts. In Bookalytics, we find that Bookalicious is WORLD WIDE with up to 1 listener across 7 countries. Chrissy correctly identifies our target audience - Slow Readers of TikTok, and Candice commi...

Chrissy and Candice discuss their thin hair and needs for argon oil and Chrissy's lack of amino acids from her years of being a macroni & cheese only vegetarian. The girlies decide to start a new segment called Book-alytics where they waste time looking at their audience stats and find out they have been wasting marketing dollars sending ads to Mercury. A new tenant of Bookalicious is esta...

We begin Lessons in Chemistry but first spend too much time trying to learn all the American history we missed in school. Candice goes rogue and calls out all the groups of people who are obsessed with their hobby - crossfit, keto, vegans, and Swifties. Candice is now in witness protection hiding from Taylor Swifts army We round the episode out with Calvin giving Pikachu Face on sex discrimination...

In this episode, Candice and Chrissy discover listening analytics on Spotify and get a little obsessed on who's listening to our episodes (besides us, of course). We discuss the end of Ioden, how we feel about Sarene marrying her grandpa, and what Hrathen has missed on his 5 day retreat to Elantris. Thanks for joining our club!

After a deep dive into all things Barbie, Candice and Chrissy get back to Elantris. We debate whether Roial is Sugar Daddy Ken, who gets the ick stamp, and all of the drama that unfolds during the Arelon eclipse party. (Elantris conversation starts at 21:10) Cupcake/ice-cream emoji 🍨🍨 Quality content from the Barbie banter: Pregnant Midge with a baby where her organs should be Pregnant Midge, Wa...