Death by a Thousand Books

Grab your purple glitter gel pens, swifties 💜🏰🎆☔️🦸🏻‍♂️✨ We’re here to tell you everything you need to know about the Speak Now era🫶🏻 From being released in 2010 to being stolen from the vault and saved in 2023 (shoutout Taylor Lautner & Joey King!!!) Speak Now has been through an incredible journey. It’s the album that raised most of us swifties and got us through our first heartbreak...

“It is the best day ever! So was yesterday, and so is tomorrow, and every day from now until forever!” That is becauseee we’re doing a crossover episode that is completely unmatched by any other! The fact that The Man isn’t on the Barbie soundtrack is honestly a crime. This song and movie represent each other perfectly in the world of double standards for women in society. To set the record straig...

If you need proof that Jenny Han & Taylor Swift are in kahoots with each other, this episode will only break the surface. If you have been with us for a while, you know that we live for Jenny Han & The Summer I Turned Pretty on this podcast; but, we are taking these episodes back to our PK & LJ era. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is the story of Lara Jean, who has never openly admit...

If asked to choose between the Death by a Thousands Cuts bridge OR the Cruel Summer bridge, which one do you choose? We think the better question is: how do you choose? These are the kind of thoughts we have going into this episode. If DBATB had to pick it’s favorite era, Lover would steal the entire show (the name of this podcast is literally inspired by this album). We knew it was the first albu...

Calling all nerds to tune in on this episode.🤓 Leave it to us to somehow tie neuroscience with the Reputation era. This episode is going to be a very interesting one. Love on The Brain is extremely nerdy but if we can still follow the story, then so can you. It’s your typical enemies to lovers plotline with copious amounts of scientific terminology and a bonus trope: cats. It’s giving girl boss &...

Back in our Midnights era as we talk about Adam & Olive’s love story - our new favorite grumpy x sunshine couple!!! We are in our fake dating era lately and Hazelwood is the mastermind behind the trope. This episode is for all our scientific girlies If you’re not into the biology trope, you can still easily follow along with these books; there might just be a couple jokes that go over your hea...

Wowowowow, if there were ever a moment for an emergency episode…it’s right now🤯 We just have to talk about the season 2 trailer for The Summer I Turned Pretty immediately. So many clips, so many emotions, so many thoughts!!! From the opening hairshake, the infinity necklace, the tears - this trailer did not disappoint. We watched the entire thing about fifty times in 0.5 speed so that we could re...

It’s been a long time coming… Friends to lovers AND fake dating AND a sports romance? Yes please, sign us up!!! This book is fun and light, perfect for a younger audience of readers. With that being said, there is a lot for us to say reading it as 25 year olds - but don’t let that deter you from reading it💚 In this episode, we are turning Bree & Nathan’s relationship into the wild love story...

Happy Place has little something for everyone: an intense soulmates, second chance love trope, a story of friendships and growing up, a melancholy feeling of losing someone that was once your everything, and that only breaks the surface of what this book is about. What we thought was going to be a fun, fluffy romance turned out to be gut wrenching, desperate and heartbreaking. It makes you laugh,...

This episode is part three of three in the Summer I Turned Pretty series and probably the most controversial ending to be discussed. By this point in the series, we’ve all taken sides - Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah. You made it through the first two books and you have to complete the series regardless of how you feel. So in the end, you’re either let down and hate them entirely OR you’re happy wit...

This episode is part two of three in the Summer I Turned Pretty series. If you haven’t listened to episode 7, it is highly recommended before listening to this episode. At first read, this entire series is super cheesy and childish. It’s Not Summer Without You is honestly really annoying at times. Sure it’s not for everyone. For book lovers out there like us that see this series for more than a YA...

This episode is part one of three in the Summer I Turned Pretty series - sponsored by the Jenny Han fans that read this book before Noah Centineo stole our hearts in the Netflix original, To All The Boys I Loved Before.   We’re talking circa 2009 - just three years after Taylor Swift’s Debut album. For the swifties that have been fans since Tim McGraw and Our Song , this is your time to tune in. T...

Now entering the Rep era of Death by a Thousand Books podcast. Four episodes of fun, light hearted romance novels - now here we are giving you our take on an incredibly dark & twisted book called Verity by Colleen Hoover. It’s a perfect example of how there’s a Taylor Swift song for any book you throw in our direction. You’d think it’d be hard to find a song for a murder/mystery/thriller but t...

Forget beach reads, we want lake reads. Currently planning our next trip to Canada to live out our Carley Fortune dreams, especially after finishing her second novel, Meet Me at the Lake . Told in our favorite style of alternating timelines, this book is a love story of how one single day turned strangers into lovers. Will & Fernie work through the aftermath of their meeting 10 years later, on...

Okay lovers, this one is for you.💗Booktok made us read this one, and we are pretty damn glad they did. It’s always hard jumping into a book from booktok or bookstagram because the expectation is already set so high by so many other people. Icebreaker by Hannah Grace may have set a new high standard for romance novels in our world. Reading this book felt like listening to Lover (the album) for the...

If you’re a sucker for the Folklore love triangle between Betty, James & Augustine, then we have a book for you. Without giving any spoilers, this book is told from the future (like Cardigan) but also references past points in time (like Betty and August). So we are getting different glimpses of the same story from multiple perspectives that are all leading up to the same moment in the end. Th...

Who’s your favorite Taylor Swift ex to hate? If the answer is John Mayer, you’re correct. However, if the answer is Jake Gylenhaal, then we have a book for you. This is the first book from Colleen Hoover’s collection that is up for discussion but it will certainly not be the last time you hear her name on this podcast. She has always said that It Ends with Us holds a special place in her heart. Yo...

Continuing on the trend of our favorite Taylor Swift exes, this one’s for our Taylor Lautner girlies. If you dated Taylor Swift in her peak pop country years, you knew it was almost guaranteed she wrote a song about you. However, how you treated her in that relationship determined what kind of song you got in return. The song featured in this episode is an apology to a former lover, something that...