Fully-Booked: Literary Podcast

What goes better with the start of the summer season than a great thriller? Bring them to the beach, or pack them for a week at the lake house, thrillers and suspense novels provide the perfect summer escape. They have the power to captivate a reader and give them a thrill, all at a safe distance. Suburban murders, illicit affairs, and hard boiled detectives-we’ll be talking about all of these and...

What goes better with the start of the summer season than a great thriller? Bring them to the beach, or pack them for a week at the lake house, thrillers and suspense novels provide the perfect summer escape. They have the power to captivate a reader and give them a thrill, all at a safe distance. Suburban murders, illicit affairs, and hard boiled detectives-we’ll be talking about all of these and...

What goes better with the start of the summer season than a great thriller? Bring them to the beach, or pack them for a week at the lake house, thrillers and suspense novels provide the perfect summer escape. They have the power to captivate a reader and give them a thrill, all at a safe distance. Suburban murders, illicit affairs, and hard boiled detectives-we’ll be talking about all of these and...

It’s a selfish month here at Fully Booked, because we’re talking about one of our favourites: Young Adult Fantasy . Throughout the month of May, we’ll be talking about the genre that keeps on giving. Arguably one of the most popular – at least according to the world of social media – YA fantasy continues to dominate bookshelves across the world. We’re tackling themes, popularity, and some lesser-k...

It’s a selfish month here at Fully Booked, because we’re talking about one of our favourites: Young Adult Fantasy . Throughout the month of May, we’ll be talking about the genre that keeps on giving. Arguably one of the most popular- at least according to the world of social media – YA fantasy continues to dominate bookshelves across the world. We’re tackling themes, popularity, and some lesser-kn...

It’s a selfish month here at Fully Booked, because we’re talking about one of our favourites: Young Adult Fantasy. Throughout the month of May, we’ll be talking about the genre that keeps on giving. Arguably one of the most popular-at least according to the world of social media-YA fantasy continues to dominate bookshelves across the world. We’re tackling themes, popularity, and some lesser known...

It’s a selfish month here at Fully Booked, because we’re talking about one of our favourites: Young Adult Fantasy. Throughout the month of May, we’ll be talking about the genre that keeps on giving. Arguably one of the most popular-at least according to the world of social media-YA fantasy continues to dominate bookshelves across the world. We’re tackling themes, popularity, and some lesser known...

It’s a time of Easter, new beginnings and Canadian Literature! This month, we’re talking about the best that the Great White North has to offer to the world of books. Whether you know it or not, Canadians continue to contribute incredible stories to the world of literature to this day. It’s high time that we celebrate the authors, characters, and tales that our nation has to offer. Come along and...

It’s a time of Easter, new beginnings and Canadian Literature! This month, we’re talking about the best that the Great White North has to offer to the world of books. Whether you know it or not, Canadians continue to contribute incredible stories to the world of literature to this day. It’s high time that we celebrate the authors, characters, and tales that our nation has to offer. Come along and...

It’s a time of Easter, new beginnings and Canadian Literature! This week, we’re taking a look at the common themes and tropes of Canadian Literature, and how it differs from its American counterpart. We’re a different country with different things on our minds, which one clearly sees reflected in the stories that we produce. Join us, and learn a little more about what Canadian Literature has to of...

It’s a time of Easter, new beginnings and Canadian Literature! This month, we’re talking about the best that the Great White North has to offer to the world of books. Whether you know it or not, Canadians continue to contribute incredible stories to the world of literature to this day. It’s high time that we celebrate the authors, characters, and tales that our nation has to offer. Come along and...

It’s March! Winter is ever so slowly on its way out, and Women’s History Month is in. Throughout the entire month we’ll be talking about the impact that women have had in the literary world, be they authors, characters or readers themselves. Female characters in literature have a storied history, one that unfortunately is rife with misrepresentation. In the majority of classic-and unfortunately mo...

It’s March! Winter is ever so slowly on its way out, and Women’s History Month is in. Throughout the entire month we’ll be talking about the impact that women have had in the literary world, be they authors, characters or readers themselves. Taking a deep dive into lasting family relationships, this week we’re talking about Greta Gerwig’s much beloved adaptation of Little Women. Featuring a fresh...

It’s March! Winter is ever so slowly on its way out, and Women’s History Month is in. Throughout the entire month we’ll be talking about the impact that women have had in the literary world, be they authors, characters or readers themselves. Women have been a driving force of the literary world for longer than we think. Through the use of aliases and careful planning, female authors blazed a path...

It’s March! Winter is ever so slowly on its way out, and Women’s History Month is in. Throughout the entire month we’ll be talking about the impact that women have had in the literary world, be they authors, characters or readers themselves. In 2017, two journalists from The New York Times began investigating claims of sexual harassment within the upper echelon of Hollywood. The story they would u...

As February is Black History Month, we wanted to take an opportunity to highlight the Black literary community and its many incredible contributions to the world of reading. Back in the days when computers were people and not machines, a group of women kept NASA running without receiving the credit they deserved. This week, we’re talking about the 2016 adaptation of Hidden Figures, the story of th...

It’s February and love is in the air, which can only mean one thing. For a portion of the month, we’re talking romance! The good, but also the bad and downright ugly of it all. The romance genre has many layers to it, and we’ll be dissecting and analyzing the facets of arguably the most consistently best selling genre of books that there is. We kick off by tackling the age-old trope of the “domine...

It’s February and love is in the air, which can only mean one thing. For a portion of the month we’re talking romance! The good, but also the bad and downright ugly of it all. The romance genre has many layers to it, and we’ll be dissecting and analyzing the facets of arguably the most consistently best selling genre of books that there is. We’re kicking things off with quite the doozy, and diving...