Bring Your Own: A Bookish Podcast for Romance Readers

This week we share our summer reading plans and goals as well as the books we think ecerything should be reading this season! Follow us on instagram @BringYourOwnPod  Follow Brandi @Brandos. Books  Follow Kendra  @Kendra. Readz  Follow Kayla  @Kaylas. Bookshelf  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

This week we tackle tier-ranking popular Friends to Lovers books that our listeners submitted! Follow us on Instagram @BringYourOwnPod  Follow Brandi @Brandos. Books Follow Kendra  @Kendra. Readz Follow Kayla  @Kaylas. Bookshelf  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we take turns reading 1 star reviews of our favorite books! Follow us on instagram @BringYourOwnPod Follow Brandi @Brandos. BooksFollow Kendra  @Kendra. Readz Follow Kayla  @Kaylas. Bookshelf  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features MAJOR Spoilers for Magnolia Parks: Into The Dark by Jessa Hastings! Proceed with caution!   Our beloved friend Kimmy from @kimmybookss is back to recap the recent Magnolia Parks Universe installment, Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark by Jessa Hastings. We talk in detail about the best, most jaw-dropping and tear-inducing moments, while stating our hopes for the rest of the series...

Part two of airing out our listener's unpopular bookish opinions! We discuss if we agree or disagree with your hot takes on narrators, book couples, tropes and more! Follow us on instagram @BringYourOwnPod Follow Brandi @Brandos. BooksFollow Kendra  @Kendra. ReadzFollow Kayla  @Kaylas. Bookshelf [ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy L...

Join us as we take turns revealing our first and favorite books of authors our listeners submitted! We then share books that we think are underrated, overrated, and perfectly rated! Follow us on instagram @BringYourOwnPod Follow Brandi @Brandos. Books Follow Kendra  @Kendra. ReadzFollow Kayla  @Kaylas. Bookshelf  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcirc...

Next in our Author Spotlight Series: #1 New York Times Bestselling author Abby Jimenez! We rank her characters and couples, have a spoiler-filled chat about her four recent novels, and end off with some trivia questions!    Time Stamps:  9:00  -- non spoiler chat  SPOILERS:  30:54 -- Life's Too Short  41:30 -- Part of Your World 53:04 -- Yours Truly 1:05:11 -- Just For The Summer    Follow us on i...

Author Giana Darling (@gianadarlingauthor) is here for a fun bookish game night! We play three mini bookish games while Giana dishes about her latest releases and what's to come! Follow us on instagram @BringYourOwnPod  Follow Brandi @Brandos. BooksFollow Kendra  @Kendra. ReadzFollow Kayla  @Kaylas. Bookshelf Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.c...

This week we're forced to work together and tier-rank popular fake-dating romance books. Spoiler Alert: We fight! Follow us on instagram @BringYourOwnPodFollow Brandi @Brandos. BooksFollow Kendra @Kendra. ReadzFollow Kayla @Kaylas. Bookshelf Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...

This week we recap our time at the Sweetgrass, a romance book signing  that took place in Charleston, South Carolina in March of 2024.  We also share our personal Q1 reading journeys and which books are in the running for our top reads of the year so far.   Follow us on instagram @BringYourOwnPod   Follow Brandi @Brandos. Books  Follow Kendra  @Kendra. Readz  Follow Kayla  @Kaylas. Bookshelf  Adve...

This week we take turns imagining some of our favorite books as movies! Brandi pitches Elissa Sussman's "Funny You Should Ask", Kayla  does "Check & Mate" by Ali Hazelwood, and Kendra takes on "Ready or Not" by Cara Bastone. We fancast each book, and share are overall creative visions. Follow us on instagram @BringYourOwnPod  Follow Brandi @Brandos. Books Follow Kendra  @Kendra. ReadzFollow Kayla...

It’s Draft Day! This week we each take turns drafting different romance books, book boyfriends, and book girlfriends to our respective teams.  Follow @BringYourOwnPod to see our teams! Follow Brandi @Brandos. Books  Follow Kendra  @Kendra. Readz Follow Kayla  @Kaylas. Bookshelf Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your...

Author Hannah Bonam-Young(@authorhannahby)  is back for an epic bookish game night! We play three mini games while Hannah walks us through what life has been like re-releasing her Next Series with a traditional publisher. Follow us on instagram @BringYourOwnPod  Follow Brandi @Brandos. BooksFollow Kendra  @Kendra. ReadzFollow Kayla  @Kaylas. Bookshelf  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/...

This week we air out our listener's unpopular bookish opinions! We discuss if we agree or disagree with your hot takes on 3rd act break ups, book ratings, and more! Huge shoutout to everyone who submitted as we couldn't get get through them all. Follow us on instagram @BringYourOwnPodFollow Brandi @Brandos. BooksFollow Kendra  @Kendra. ReadzFollow Kayla  @Kaylas. Bookshelf  Advertising Inquiries:...

Welcome to a brand new season of Bring Your Own! To kick off season 3 we're sharing  our 2024 reading in's and out's alongside our bookish goals for the year. A new season also means new book recs! We each provide three books that everyone should have on their TBRs this year. Follow us on instagram @BringYourOwnPod Follow Brandi @Brandos. BooksFollow Kendra  @Kendra. ReadzFollow Kayla  @Kaylas. Bo...

This week we reveal our individual Top 10 Books of The Year Lists! We take turns counting down from 10 sharing why these books stood out to us in 2023, and list our honorable mentions as well! Follow us on instagram @BringYourOwnPod Follow Brandi @Brandos. BooksFollow Kendra  @Kendra. ReadzFollow Kayla  @Kaylas. Bookshelf  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https...

In honor of the holiday season, we each read a Holiday Romance Novella to share with each another! Full of vampires, tentacles, and elves, we each take take turns recapping our holiday romances in extreme (and at times uncomfortable) detail. MAJOR SPOILERS for the following Holiday Romances: - Haunted Holiday: A Vampire Romance by Mandy M. Roth - Tinsel & Tentacles by Kate McDarris - Seduced by Sa...

Court is back in session as the Lovelight Farms series by B.K. Borison takes the stand. Major spoilers for all three books in the series (Lovelight Farms, In the Weeds, and Mixed Signals). This week Brandi and Kayla (the defense) talk about why Lovelight Farms is a series they always recommend to people, while Kendra (the prosecution) lays out all the reasons why the series wasn't for her. Follow...

SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE MAGNOLIA PARKS UNIVERSE SERIES BY JESSA HASTINGS! IF YOU HAVE NOT READ MAGNOLIA PARKS, DAISY HAITES, MP: THE LONG WAY HOME, & DH: THE GREAT UNDOING YOU WILL BE SPOILED FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES. THIS IS YOUR FIRST WARNING! This week we're joined by the one and only Kimmy from @kimmybookss to recap the Magnolia Parks Universe by Jessa Hastings. We reveal our favorite characters,...

SPOILERS FOR LOVE REDESIGNED START AT: ~31:12This week Lauren Asher is here to discuss her latest release Love Redesigned (Lakefront Billionaires #1). We chat about what goes into starting a new romance series, how life as an author has changed since dropping her first book and what goes into producing your own audiobooks. Lauren also gives us a sneak peak at what to expect from the next book in t...

Its Game Night! This Week we compete against one another while playing three bookish-themed mini games. Games include a Quote Challenge, Guess Who, and Name a Book based off a Trope. Play along and help determine the winner by the end of the episode! Follow us on instagram @BringYourOwnPod  Follow Brandi @Brandos. Books Follow Kendra  @Kendra. Readz Follow Kayla  @Kaylas. Bookshelf  Advertising In...

This week we're joined by our bookish bestie Selina (@bookish.sel) to recap the Fallen Men Series by Giana Darling. We take turns sharing our favorite books, couples, characters, spicy scenes and more in a hilarious spoiler-filled discussion. For more of the amazing Selina follow her on instagram! @bookish.sel  Follow us on instagram @BringYourOwnPod  Follow Brandi @Brandos. Books Follow Kendra  @...

In honor of Halloween, we each read a Monster Romance to share with one another! Not a single moment is spared as we take turns recapping each book in excruciating detail from the incredible (and weird) monster smut to the plot points that made our jaws drop. MAJOR SPOILERS for the following Monster Romances: - Love, Laugh, Lich by Kate Prior- Sweet Berries by C.M. Nascosta  - The Gargoyle's Capti...

This week we each take turns building our own romance books! We list out which tropes we'd include, how steamy they'd be, and share our dream fan casts. If you could build your perfect romance novel what would it include? Let us know on our instagram @BringYourOwnPod   Follow Brandi @Brandos. BooksFollow Kendra  @Kendra. ReadzFollow Kayla  @Kaylas. Bookshelf  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcirc...

This week Elsie Silver drops by the pod to talk all things Chestnut Springs, how she crafts near perfect smut scenes, and what readers can expect from her latest release, Hopeless. She also give us a sneak peek at what's to come after the Chestnut Springs series and plays a fun "Who Said It?" game with us! Follow @BringYourOwnPod for more fun bookish content!  Follow Brandi @Brandos. BooksFollow K...