Bookish and Bubbly

In this episode of The Bookish and Bubbly Podcast, Hope and Brooke called an emergency 🚨 podcast🚨 to discuss Every Year After. We’re disappointed to say, that in our opinion, the show SUCKED. While we love Carley Fortune and Every Summer After, we were left thinking “WTF?”. Tell us in the comments what you thought! P.S. Leave a comment below and let us know what books you'd like to hear us discu...

In this episode of The Bookish and Bubbly Podcast, Brooke and Hope are back again to talk all about the Off-Campus series and the book it's based off of: The Deal by Elle Kennedy. Before we jump into it, you know we’re going to yap. We discuss sad chick flicks and drop some major movie spoilers (sorry), and then dive into the very popular subject of book adaptations. We’re in a great time to b...

In this episode of The Bookish and Bubbly Podcast, Hope and Brooke are back again with a new episode on Carley Fortune’s newest book: Our Perfect Storm. SPOILER ALERT: WE HAVE A NEW FAVORITE ROMANCE!!! Join us as we yap about all of the things we loved about this story because Carley truly pulled out all of the stops. We also talk about the Devil Wears Prada 2, as well as a monologue of what Brook...

In this episode of The Bookish and Bubbly Podcast, Brooke and Hope are back again to talk all things ACOTAR! It’s always been our favorite book series, and after Sarah J Maas’ Call Her Daddy Podcast Episode where she announced the next books, we knew it was time to dive back in! Join us as we travel through each book giving you alllllll of our thoughts. Warning: SPOILER’S AHEAD, but if you haven’t...

In this episode of The Bookish and Bubbly Podcast, Hope and Brooke are back again with another wrap up! Join us as we talk about what surprised us and blew our pants off…spoiler alert! No stinkers this month! We’re still deep into our ACOTAR re-read so of course we’re going to yap about that. We also talk about the new Verity movie, movies growing up which obviously led to HOLY passwords and sex t...

In this episode of The Bookish and Bubbly Podcast, Hope and Brooke are back to talk about Queen Abby Jimenez’s new book: The Night We Met. Spoiler alert: WE LOVEDDD IT. Hope will not accept any reviews under five stars. Before we dive into the book, we discuss… bras. We also discuss the Holy Grail line up of Saturday Night Live of Mumford and Sons and Connor Storrie, Hope fangirls over Marcus Mumf...

In this episode of The Bookish and Bubbly Podcast, Brooke and Hope are here to wrap the month up! Join us as we go through the books that surprised us, blew our pants off, or… STUNK. We’re heavy into Liz Tomforde and ACOTAR this month, so give us all your thoughts! It’s not an episode without us gabbing though, so buckle up because Brooke’s giving you her theories on Kpop Demon Hunters 2, Hope’s r...

In this episode of The Bookish and Bubbly Podcast, Hope and Brooke bring our version of March Madness: Bookish Edition. Instead of slam dunks, sweet sixteens, and OSU coming up short (Come on, Bruce!!!), we give you Magical Academy vs Fated Mates, Author vs Author, and put all of our favorite books up against each other (except Mist and Fury… that’s sacred.). Who wins? Listen to find out! We also...

In this episode of The Bookish and Bubbly Podcast, Brooke and Hope are here to break down THE Sarah J. Maas Call Her Daddy Podcast episode. First of all, Alex Cooper, you’re GOALS! (Listeners, help us get there. LOL.) Before we dive into the episode we talk about death, because we’re crazy. Brooke goes in depth into what she wants for her funeral (ahem, PARTY) plans, and then we get sad. We also d...

In this episode of the Bookish and Bubbly podcast… BROOKE’S HUSBAND IS LISTENING TO FOURTH WING. WE REPEAT. BROOKE’S HUSBAND IS LISTENING TO FOURTH WING. 🚨 Anyways, Brooke and Hope are back again with their January and February wrap up. We tell you all of our stinkers, surprises, and books that just blew our pants right off! We started out this year with a bang so get ready for lots of books to a...

In this episode of the Bookish and Bubbly podcast, Hope and Brooke are back again with a Reddit special: Am I The Asshole? Join us as we journey through stories of veganism, wedding bridesmaidzillas, weird roommates, mother in laws, and more. Drop your own “Am I the Asshole?” In the comments, we’ll let you know! 😎 P.S. Leave a comment below and let us know what books you'd like to hear us dis...

In this episode of the Bookish and Bubbly podcast, Brooke and Hope are back again to talk about giving your life a splash of WHIMSY. Speaking of whimsical, we take a small detour and talk about some things that really give us joy: crushing our kids/niece and nephew in games, books, movies…. and HEATED RIVALRY 🔥 We truly cannot get enough of Connor Storie, and Hudson Williams and will forever be f...

In this episode of the Bookish and Bubbly Podcast, Hope and Brooke are here to wrap up 2025, and look ahead to 2026. Combined, your girls read over 200 books in 2025 and are here to tell you what made the best list, and what stunk (immediately NO to anacondas, Mariana!!!). We look back at our words of the year from last year (spoiler alert: CRUSHED IT!) and pick our new words for 2026. What’s your...

In this episode of the Bookish and Bubbly podcast, Brooke and Hope are back again with.... a whole episode dedicated to our love of Marcus Mumford, and Mumford and Sons. Hope took Brooke on a field trip where we spent the night mesmerized, and obviously we're going to tell you all about it. After we get all of our Marcus feelings out, we discuss the book Rock, Paper, Scissors by Alice Feeney....

In this episode of the Bookish and Bubbly podcast, your girls ARE BACK!!! We took a much needed break and are back with a previously recorded episode on My Friends by Fredrik Backman. We start out the meeting by having a team meeting (want another hotties who have our heart ep? Comment below and let us know!) before diving into the very interesting writing style of Fredrik Backman. We wrestle with...

In this last episode of our Summer Series (we know we’re late 🤭), the bookish and bubbly podcast will discuss a summery thriller that will keep you guessing: One of the Girls by Lucy Clarke. The book was fine, but we mostly talk about Brooke’s K-Pop Demon Hunters journey (which also equals Hope’s journey), Hope’s love of Magnolia Parks (@bailey, I still love you!!) that fully consumes her life, t...

In this episode of the Bookish and Bubbly podcast, Hope and Brooke talk about a book that shows the injustices towards women…annnnnnnnnd go on a rant about how, as Beyoncé said, We (SHOULD) Run the World. We start out the episode talking about thrifting, selling clothes to Clothes Mentor for pennies, and a plea to Old Navy to stay in your lane! We then move into talking about the book, Atmosphere...

In this episode of the Bookish and bubbly podcast, Hope and Brooke are joined by BFF Megan to talk about The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren. Join us as we discuss the book for a hot second, and then talk about everything else….what we’ve been up to this summer, Brooke’s cousin writing a book (yay!!), The Nightingale movie that we’ll never see, Taylor Swift vs. Blake Lively (which obviously l...

✨ Yes, we’re still in our summer series… even though it’s halfway through September. Brooke is trying her best, okay? 😂 In this episode, we finally sit down to talk about Before We Were by Monique Medved — but honestly, the real gems are all the tangents we spiral into. We cover:💅 Vacation nails gone wrong😱 Middle school trauma flashbacks📚 Post-apocalyptic teen book nostalgia (Hunger Games, D...

Welcome back to pure bookish chaos. We kick things off with ACOTAR 6 impatience, Maasverse tangents, our dream jobs as casting directors (and bookstore van owners, obviously), plus some heated book-to-screen adaptation debates (yes, we talk Henry Cavill).Eventually we make it to our actual book club pick — Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig — but only after 40 minutes of delightful derailment. If...

It’s time for our June reading wrap-up — and we read a LOT. From the books that blew our pants off to the ones that totally flopped, we’re breaking it all down with our usual chaos and unfiltered opinions. Brooke goes on an entire tangent about Zodiac Academy (spoiler-free, don’t worry), Hope discovers some surprise favorites, and of course we crown our monthly stinkers. If you’ve ever wondered ho...

In this episode of the Bookish and Bubbly podcast, Hope and Brooke are back again with another summer series pick: Summer Fridays. Unfortunately (or fortunately 😉), we had more fun talking about the tales of our traumatizing third grade. Beginning with Hope being bullied, or being the bully(???), moving to a new school, flipping our cards to yellow, Brooke telling our classmate to shut up, and mo...

In this episode of the Bookish and Bubbly podcast, Hope and Brooke are back with a *JUNE BOOKCLUB SPECIAL*. Join us as we discuss how much we love our book club (shoutout to Leonard’s Coffee!!), talk about One Dark Window (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️), and ramble on like we usually do about how much we love our book community, performance anxiety 💩, creative minds picturing book characters, and more. 👇 Drop...

In this episode of the Bookish and Bubbly podcast, Brooke and Hope are back again to do another monthly wrap up! Hear all about the best, the worst, and the most jaw-dropping books (and there’s 27 - holy reading!). Brooke gives us an update on her furniture flipping business, Hope went on vacation and is both tan and pissed off, we read lots of books and, as always, love to talk. Grab some wine an...

It’s finally here! This week on the Bookish and Bubbly podcast, Brooke and Hope are diving into One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune - one of our most anticipated releases of the year. As the follow-up to Every Summer After - AKA one of our forever favorites - you know we had big feelings going in. We’re talking about what worked, what didn’t (hint: literally nothing. It was perfect, thank you!!!),...