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Happy first podcast anniversary to all of you, our listeners!!  This week, we dive into how our reading habits and interests have changed over the last year. Follow us on Instagram: Gare @gareindeedreads Kate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouch Books We Talked About Taylor Jenkins Reid Midnight Is the Darkest Hour The Trap Bright Young Women The New One Check Out Author Social Media Packages Check out t...

This week, we talk about our absolute favorite tropes in books! Follow us on Instagram: Gare @gareindeedreads Kate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouch Books We Talked About The Last Housewife They Never Learn Midnight Is The Darkest Hour Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? White Ivy Lay Your Body Down Never Saw Me Coming Necessary Evils Series Bright Young Women Unsub Series The Trap The Lies I Tell Pretty T...

This week, we talk with R.J. Jacobs about his new thriller This Is How We End Things!   We of course dive into some of our favorite subjects: dark academia and cold weather. Follow us on Instagram: Gare @gareindeedreads Kate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouch R.J. @rjjacobs75   This is How We End Things Synopsis Campus is empty, a winter storm is blowing in, and someone is lurking in the shadows, waiti...

This week, we talk about our favorite voices in thrillers! Follow us on Instagram: Gare @gareindeedreads Kate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouch Books We Talked About It Takes Monsters Kill For Love Blood Sugar Luckiest Girl Alive The Kind Worth Killing Gone Girl Strange Sally Diamond Tell Me Everything   Check Out Author Social Media Packages Check out the Bookwild Community on Patreon Check Out My St...

This week, we talk about our last, current and next reads! Follow us on Instagram: Gare @gareindeedreads Kate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouch Books We Talked About This Is How We End Things Like a Sister The Taken Ones If You See Me Say My Name The Other Black Girl Bleed   TV Shows We Talked About Alert Yellowjackets The Bear Check Out Author Social Media Packages Check out the Bookwild Community on...

On this episode, I talk with Yasmin Angoe about the final installment in her Nena Knight series It Ends With Knight. It Ends With Knight Synopsis In this thrilling conclusion of the Nena Knight series, the trained assassin will have to confront the ghosts of her past…before she becomes one herself. Until his untimely death, Nena’s mentor was the backbone of the Tribe. With his leadership position...

Kate shares some of her favorite TV shows she's been watching lately! TV Shows Kate Talked About Cruel Summer Silo The Crowded Room Hijack The Other Two Check Out Author Social Media Packages Check out the Bookwild Community on Patreon Check Out My Stories Are My Religion Substack Get Bookwild Merch Follow @imbookwild on Instagram Other Co-hosts On Instagram: Gare Billings @gareindeedreads Steph L...

This week, we answer a Bookstagram challenge from @duttonbooks  What was the last book that... Made you stay up all night You think everyone should read Inspired you to get into a new genre Made you cry for hours You Couldn't stop thinking about Follow us on Instagram: Gare @gareindeedreads Kate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouch Books We Talked About I’m Not Done With You Yet The Flash Girls The Murde...

This week, Gare and I talk with May Cobb about her summer thriller A Likeable Woman! Follow us on Instagram: Gare @gareindeedreads Kate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouch May Cobb @may_cobb Books We Talked About A Likeable Woman I'm Not Done With You Yet A Friend in the Dark Check Out Author Social Media Packages Check out the Bookwild Community on Patreon Check Out My Stories Are My Religion Substack...

This week, we talk about fall thrillers you should pre-order! Follow us on Instagram: Gare @gareindeedreads Kate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouch Books We Talked About Bright Young Women Midnight Is The Darkest Hour Shadowheart The Helsinki Affair The Flash Girls Necessary People The Futures When I’m Dead Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen The Taken Ones The Traitor Blood Sisters This Is How We End...

This week, I talk to Kimberly Giarratano about her noir PI mystery Death of a Dancing Queen . Follow Kimberly on Instagram Death of a Dancing Queen Synopsis After her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, Billie Levine revamped her grandfather’s private investigation firm and set up shop in the corner booth of her favorite North Jersey deli hoping the free pickles and flexible hours would allow her to t...

This week, Gare and I chat with Elizabeth Keenan and Greg Wands, the writing duo behind the pseudonym E.G. Scott!  We get into our shared love for bleak endings, our thoughts on the direction of true crime docs and podcasts, what we've been reading and watching, and tons more! Follow us on Instagram: Gare @gareindeedreads Kate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouch E.G. Scott @e.g.scottwrites Books We Talk...

This week, I talk with Amy Suiter Clarke about her newest psychological thriller Lay Your Body Down .  Follow Amy on Instagram Lay Your Body Down Synopsis A young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown, where a radical evangelical pastor has poisoned everyone’s minds—and may be covering up a murder. After Del Walker fled her small hometown and its cult-like church, she vowed to never return...

This week, Gare and I make a new best friend in Halley Sutton, author of The Hurricane Blonde out August 8, 2023!  We dive into everything from Hollywood's treatment of women to the inherent perfection of Taco Bell.   Follow us on Instagram: Gare @gareindeedreads Kate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouch Halley @halleysutton25 Check Out Author Social Media Packages Check out the Bookwild Community on Pat...

This week, I talk with Shari Lapena about her newest domestic thriller Everyone Here Is Lying . Follow Shari on Instagram Check out her website Everyone Here Is Lying Synopsis William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficul...

This week, we share 5 books we recently added to our TBRs, and all of the dogs make appearances. Follow us on Instagram: Gare @gareindeedreads Kate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouch Books We Talked About Blood Oranges Don’t Let Her Stay Tomorrow I Become a Woman The Pledge Strange Sally Diamond Everyone Here Is Lying The Marriage Counselor Night Will Find You We Are All The Same in the Dark Redemption...

This week, we talk with Amy Engel about her newest thriller I Did It For You, out July 25! Follow us on Instagram: Gare @gareindeedreads Kate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouch Amy @amyengelauthor Check Out Author Social Media Packages Check out the Bookwild Community on Patreon Check Out My Stories Are My Religion Substack Get Bookwild Merch Follow @imbookwild on Instagram Other Co-hosts On Instagram:...

This week, I talk with Crystal Smith Paul about her stunning debut novel Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?   We discuss the pitfalls of fame, the demands for transparency and the allure of Hollywood, as well as how Crystal's time as a journalist and in film school affected the writing process of her first book.   Follow Crystal on Instagram or check out her website Did You Hear About Kitty Karr Synop...

On this episode, Kate talks to Josh Winning about his new horror-suspense Burn the Negative. Check out the synopsis: Arriving in L.A. to visit the set of a new streaming horror series, journalist Laura Warren witnesses a man jumping from a bridge, landing right behind her car. Here we go, she thinks. It’s started. Because the series she’s reporting on is a remake of a ’90s horror flick. A cursed ’...

This week, we talk about our favorite books we read in the first 6 months of 2023! Follow us on Instagram: Gare @gareindeedreads Kate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouch Books We Talked About All the Dangerous Things The Shards Carrie Soto is Back Stone Cold Fox Never Saw Me Coming How I’ll Kill You Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? Kismet The Push Don’t Forget the Girl Lay Your Body Down Bright Young Wome...

This week, we talk about some of our most memorable reading experiences. Follow us on Instagram: Gare @gareindeedreads Kate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouch Books We Talked About The Girl on the Train Gone Girl Save the Cat Writes a Novel Taylor Jackson Series The Silent Patient The Snow Garden Verity Into the Black Nowhere Ninth House Hell Bent The Trap Daisy Darker The Long and Faraway Gone Dark Ma...

Thanks to @caratbrlist on Instagram for this week's topic: what to read if you are as obsessed with Cruel Summer as we are. Follow us on Instagram: Gare @gareindeedreads Kate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouch Books We Talked About All The Missing Girls That Night You Will Know Me The Night Shift The Night She Disappeared A Flicker in the Dark Pretty Things The Girls Are All So Nice Here Everything You...

This week, Riley Sager joins us to talk about his new thriller, out June 20, The Only One Left. Follow us on Instagram: Gare @gareindeedreads Kate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouch Riley Sager @riley.sager   Books We Talked About The Only One Left The Last Word Check Out Author Social Media Packages Check out the Bookwild Community on Patreon Check Out My Stories Are My Religion Substack Get Bookwild...

This week, I talk to one of my favorite authors, Ashley Audrain, who wrote The Push and The Whispers .  On this episode, we talk specifically about the inspiration and themes of The Whispers, and dive into what draws Ashley to write about the visceral, unflinching parts of motherhood most of us would rather not talk about.   You can follow Ashley on Instagram and Goodreads And you can follow me on...

This week, we share our most scandalous reads for those of you who are caught up in the drama of #Scandoval who want more shadiness in your life! Follow us on Instagram: Gare @gareindeedreads Kate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouch Books We Talked About Books We Talked About The Whispers The Favorite Sister Made For Love Dysfunctional More Than You’ll Ever Know Her Pretty Face Stone Cold Fox Don’t Forg...