In the Mood For: A Bookish Podcast

Look at us, giving lots of non-romance recommendations for spooky szn! Media mentioned: Role Playing, Cathy Yardley Game Misconduct, Ari Baron How to End a Love Story, Yulin Kuang Nobody Wants This (Netflix Show) How Did This Get Made (Podcast) The Wedding Hex, Sarah Blue She is a Haunting, Trang Thanh Tran There’s Someone Inside Your House, Stephanie Perkins Scream Queens (TV Show) The Ashes and...

This week we dip our toes in the AI discourse and try to figure out how if at all AI can exist in the book world.  Books mentioned: Rain of Shadows and Endings, Melissa K Roerich Mindf*ck series by Butcher and Blackbird, Brynne Weaver Wisteria, Adalyn Grace ACOTAR slander The Wingman, Stephanie Archer A Love Most Fatal, Kath Richards Phantasma, Kaylie Smith The Secret History, Donna Tartt The Gold...

The ever-so-delightful Caitlin of @cbg_reads joins Shani & Mary to chat everything RARE24 from September. Books mentioned: A Love Most Fatal, Kath Richards Cash, Jessica Peterson Fire Line, Maggie Gates Phantasma, Kaylie Smith Tryst Six Venom, Penelope Douglas Five Brothers, Penelope Douglas If It Makes You Happy, Julie Olivia Compound Fracture, Andrew Joseph White American Kingpin, Nick Bilton  

Mary and Bonnie recap the latest author drama!

Bonnie and Mary catch up on all things It Ends With Us movie drama from production to marketing.    

Moof of @moo_foutdaway returns to the pod to chat about Sinners & Stardust 2024 in Boston!

Bonnie and Mary are fresh off SteamyLit 2024 and we dive in for our second annual (??) recap of how the convention went down this year. 

We're back babyyyy! Mary read most of QB Tyler's backlist, Shani walks us through why people had such negative reactions to the FMC in Liz Tomforde's ‘Play Along’, and Bonnie dives into Dukes of Ruin. Books mentioned: QB Tyler Princes of Legacy, Angel & Sam A Dance Macabre, Naomi Loud The Ex Vows, Jessica Joyce Business Casual, BK Borison Not Another Love Song, Julie Soto The Inheritance Games Awa...

We catch up after a loooong break. Little chitchat about ApollyCon but more importantly Shani & Bonnie have a favorite book of the year!

We had to talk about it, okay? Charlsa of @justforkit joins us to share about her influencer experience at Readers Take Denver and Shani and Mary proceed to say "oh my god" and "that's insane" approximately 80,000 times. Books mentioned: Take Me Apart - Brea Alepou The Hunt - Nichole Greene Sovereign - Raya Morris Edwards Princes of Carnage - Eva Ashwood Learn Your Lesson - Kandi Steiner Just One...

Kierra Lewis is back on our FYPs and no one is happy about it, and we're all apparently addicted to porn?? Books mentioned: Wild Love, Elsie Silver Lakes Hockey series, Sloane St James Leather & Lark, Brynne Weaver Paris: The Memoir, Paris Hilton Never, Jessa Hastings The Never King, Nikki St. Crowe Powerless, Elsie Silver Powerless, Lauren Roberts Kingdom of the Cursed, Kerri Maniscalco Throne of...

We have dipped our toes into Threads and if you thought Twitter was a hellscape... don't look into bookthreads! Books / TV mentioned: My Roommate is a Vampire, Jenna Levine Sex, Lies & Sensibility, Nikki Payne Bridgerton series Coach & Blitz by Devney Perry Check & Mate, Ali Hazelwood Not In Love, Ali Hazelwood Honey & Spice, Bolu Babalola The Friendship Study, Ruby Barrett Love and Other Conspira...

BookTwitter is a scary place most of the time but this parody page from the Darkest Corner of the Heart cracked us up even if it was poorly labeled as a joke. Come giggle with us!  You can email us at inthemoodforpod@gmail.com and find us on Instagram and TikTok at @inthemoodfor_pod

We were going to have a mini episode but you can't keep us from blabbing. This week we talked about the Olive & June Colleen Hoover collab and new books in March.  Books mentioned: On The Line, Naomi Loud Flawless, Elsie Silver Revive Me, JL Seegars That Sik Luv, Jescie Hall Hockey Gods series by S. Massery The Summer We Fell, Elizabeth O’Roark This Could Be Us, Kennedy Ryan Always Be My Duchess,...

We gave a man a microphone and the world didn't become a worse place because of it. Seasoned romance reader (he's read 2) Mr Shanireads joins us to chat about reading in general and makes a case for Bonnie to read Brandon Sanderson. You can email us at inthemoodforpod@gmail.com and find us on Instagram and TikTok at @inthemoodfor_pod

SteamyLit special edition of Ali Hazelwood's Bride kicked up a lot of opinions and obviously we had to discuss! Don't worry we're also incapable of not talking about Magnolia Parks. You can email us at inthemoodforpod@gmail.com and find us on Instagram and TikTok at @inthemoodfor_pod

Take a drink every time we say we hate BJ. This week we chitchat Magnolia Parks Universe now that Bonnie has also jumped in with both feet. You can email us at inthemoodforpod@gmail.com and find us on Instagram and TikTok at @inthemoodfor_pod

SenLinYu's Manacled got a trad pickup and we speculate wildly on how the iconic Dramione gets transformed into a trad pub book. We've also been gluing ourselves to the TV watching  true crime, True Detective season 4 and ... Heart? of? Dixie?  You can email us at inthemoodforpod@gmail.com and find us on Instagram and TikTok at @inthemoodfor_pod  

Happy Valentine's Day! We have a special treat for all you loves: a dramatic reading of Chuck Tingle's classic Turned Gay by the Living Alpha Diner.  You can email us at inthemoodforpod@gmail.com and find us on Instagram and TikTok at @inthemoodfor_pod

Surprise, double episodes this week! We just had to get together for a roundup on authors doing things on the internet. Chuck Tingle remains our unproblematic king, though.  NOTE: During the episode we refer to author Xiran Jay Zhao by the incorrect pronouns and would like to apologize: they use they/them and it was an oversight on our part to not check before recording.  You can email us at inthe...

Time to make it official: we are Nikki Sloan stans through and through. Guess which of her books is our favorite? It's not the one you think...! You can email us at inthemoodforpod@gmail.com and find us on Instagram and TikTok at @inthemoodfor_pod

This week it's a sleepy gals catch up: Mary reports back on her audiobook adventure, Shani reads non-fiction and Bonnie got a great present from her husband! Books mentioned: Raiders of the Lost Heart The Lyrics, Paul McCartney The Wager, David Grann Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr Bride, Ali Hazelwood The Redemption (Book 4), Nikki Sloane The Temptation (Book 5), Nikki Sloane Wild Love, Elsie Si...

This week Shani & Mary get into reader etiquette in online spaces and we parse out the details behind the St. Martin's Press Marketing Boycott. Check out @readersforaccountability for all organizing info! You can email us at inthemoodforpod@gmail.com and find us on Instagram and TikTok at @inthemoodfor_pod

Happy New Year! This week we talk about what's in and what's out for 2024 for us and the bookish community. The usual chaos of this pod is IN, just so we're setting listener expectations... You can email us at inthemoodforpod@gmail.com and find us on Instagram and TikTok at @inthemoodfor_pod  

Happy New Year besties! For this mini we give ourselves full-body cringe talking about reader Facebook groups and bookish thirst trappers with Krystal from @leelovesbooks_. You can always email us at inthemoodforpod@gmail.com and find us on TT and Instagram at @inthemoodfor_pod