Booked All Night

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 Everything is fine! Can't you see that everything is fine? Our deep dive into Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games Series continues as we jump into Catching Fire. Join Jess, Katy, and Julia as they discuss worldbuilding, characterization through action, whether or not Katniss is a complete idiot, the fact that Gale sucks, just how much they'd love to see how a rebel...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 It's an extra-special Watch-Along Episode of Booked All Night! Join the entire BAN team as they hold their discussion live along the first Hunger Games film (film supplied separately), touching on the practicalities of adaptation, the opportunities provided by change in medium, whether or not it actually looks like a cornucopia, and much, much more! Support the show Sup...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 Our dive into The Hunger Games continues with that age-old debate: which boy is the right boy? Is there a right boy? Is our hatred of the one boy due to his behavior now, or our knowledge of his later behavior? If there are teenage boys, then why is there none of the hormonally-driven physiology and behavior that we all know comes with being a teenage boy? Or girl, for that...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 It's her first kill, of course it's going to change her... (but what about all of the kills before this one?)  Jess and Julia continue our dive into Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games , touching on emotion and emotionality in YA fiction, the significance of kissing without a hygiene regimen, real-life experience with concussion and illness, whether or not tribu...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 This week we're joined by Brittany Ranew, author of Lion of Fire, to talk about the nature of destiny, magical subway systems, and how enraged we all become when someone interrupts our writing time.  BookShop Every purchase on the site financially supports independent bookstores. RedBubble Bringing more creativity into the world. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 The Games have begun in our reread of Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games , and we're still absolutely stuck on Peeta's amazing cake decorating skills. As they make their way through the second third of the book, Jess and Julia discuss the potential for less than savory motives among the folks in the Games' support staff, whether or not the first half of t...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 We volunteer! It's the first episode of our official reread of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and there's so much we're picking out now that we know where the series goes. Jess, Katy, and Julia discuss catalysts of revolution, whether or not Katniss is on the spectrum, the potential state of elder care in District 12, the evolution of teen lit, and much...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 Two ramblers enter a podcast recording and NO ONE CAN STOP THEM . This week, Jess and special guest Olivia Danson talk about THE DARKEST GLASS , gothic horror, young adult literature conventions, why it's all Florida's fault, and more.  We even had questions from the members of The Pillow Fort (our free-to-join Discord server).  *Special note from Jess: FROM is on...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 Ready your cannons, tributes: We're officially starting our countdown to the Sunrise on the Reaping film with a complete reread of The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins. And what better way to start than to forget characters' names, discuss traumatic memories, and start a counter for every time someone says "Katna and Penis" instead of "Katniss...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 Henry's been here before so this interview is pure chaos. How much chaos you ask? Well, the book is about some Eldritch prom night horrors having their own nightly fun, the questions are about snacks, disco balls, and flamingos, and it's a little over an hour long.  You love it. We love it. Don't forget to buy it on our BookShop. BookShop Every purchase on the...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 You want context for the title? TOO BAD! You're going to have to listen to our interview with Julee Balko. We talked about Square Hearts, the importance of seeing yourself in media, and who the best Muppet is.  BookShop Every purchase on the site financially supports independent bookstores. RedBubble Bringing more creativity into the world. Disclaimer: This post contain...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 Hot takes? More like hot wings. Carmela Dutra stopped by to talked about HOT WINGS AND HOMICIDE the sequel to A MURDER MOST FOWL, a cozy murder mystery series centered around twins who run a hot wings food truck. We played SPACE EM OR EMBRACE EM and BRING YOUR OWN BOOK. BookShop Every purchase on the site financially supports independent bookstores. RedBubble Bringing more c...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 April 11th was the 3rd annual South Jersey Children's Book Festival. We don't read much kidlit here at the pod anymore but it's all still Jess's favorite. Check the links below and show these authors and illustrators some love! Veronica Mang Tracey Baptiste Pooja Makhijani Jonathan Stutzman Artie Bennet Anne Lambelet BookShop Every purchase on the site fi...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 We finished Katabasis . Tears were shed. Screams were uttered. Angsty text messages were exchanged. One could say that we had strong feelings about it. Along the road to discussing a well-crafted ending, Jess and Maggie examine what it means to tackle the writing of grief and frustration, the normalization of immigrant culture, Jess's obsession with floppy hats, and jus...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 Disaster strikes when Katy's bookmark gets put back in the wrong place, so Jess has to hardcore recap Part 2 of R. F. Kuang's Katabasis (with a snooty "ahhh" sound, we've learned). But in the process, they still discuss a ton of crafting notes, realistic communication of abuse and suicidal ideation, the lies we tell ourselves to get through bad situa...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 It's official. Hell is a college campus. Join Jess and Maggie on a descent to the underworld that keeps calling them out personally. Along the way, they visit the measure of unreliable narrators (or is it unreliable perception?), far too much Mellville, the benefit of writing friends over lovers, an incredible amount of philosophy, and our love of the Only One Bed trope...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 What an amazing interview we had complete with technical issues and games that tortured our guest, Anastasia Arellano. BETWEEN THE SHADOWS doesn't come out until 2027 but you can pre-order it here . Camp Wildflower is a summer camp for delinquent teens run by renowned psychologist Alistair Monk. And something is very amiss here. Skylar Murphy and Olympia “Ollie” Hamilto...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 This week, Julia interviewed Kelly Preston about her book DEMON TO YOUR RIGHT. Technical high jinx were had all around but we've done our best to clean it up. And of course, we tortured Kelly with a few games, and asked some outrageous questions. BookShop Every purchase on the site financially supports independent bookstores. RedBubble Bringing more creativity into the...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 We're joined this week by Michael J Brooks, author of the WARS OF THE NEW HUMANITY series. We talked about the importance of the theme of UNlearning and where dystopia fits in today's literary and political landscape.  BookShop Every purchase on the site financially supports independent bookstores. RedBubble Bringing more creativity into the world. Disclaimer: This...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 This week we're joined by Kim Barden who just finished her Finding Ever After Series joins us for a talk about the bittersweet moment of finishing her sweeping fantasy, Bring Your Own Book, and Space Em or Embrace Em. And yes, we tortured her with the options.  BUY IT HERE Once Upon a Time meets Grimms dark fairytales in this tale about vengeance, curses and love. Eveli...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 Joining us this week is Ashley Peters, author of the dystopian novel IN STASIS. We played Never Have I Ever Spoiled My Own Book and Literary Would You Rather--plus we totally geeked out over quote books and the sheer trauma of academia. IN STASIS ( BUY IT ON BOOKSHOP ) "In Stasis" is a lyrical, slow-burn survival novel that invites you to explore a dualityof worlds...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 🌶️Heads up listeners! Ruan Willow is a spicy romance author and we did talk about all sorts of sex related themes, tropes, and cliches. If this isn't your jam, we totally understand and we will see you next week. Find Ruan on Instagram @RuanWillowAuthor and DM her to enter the giveaway! And vote for her books in the Golden Pigtails ! This document confirms the download...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 The funny thing about horror is that it's all about the images that you conjure up for yourself (but don't worry, the bedsheet will protect you!). Debut author Elle G. Keating joins us to talk about nightmares, her recently-released first book Don't Wake Up and current WIP, the road to getting published, and the subjectivity of horror as a genre in this unexpe...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 We're joined this week by Allie Lasky, sports lover and sports romance author. We talked about sportsball, we talked mental health, we talked about putting brie and some jam into a croissant as a snack, we decided Gonzo is a hockey player, and we might have spoiled something spicy. BookShop Every purchase on the site financially supports independent bookstores. RedBubbl...

📚Send us Fan Mail! 💖 We were joined by Briana N Cox to talk about her horror novel INDIGENT .  Live-in handyman Xavier seems to be the only one who notices. Or cares. After a chance encounter with the culprit, he is left infected with something terrifying, thrust into a surreal nightmare of starvation and consumption that is all too familiar. Succumbing to his infection, Xavier is drawn into the...