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Stephanie, Megg, and Ollie are back with Tiktok's number 1 book series last year -- Fourth Wing! We discuss the world of Romantasy through both of these books -- with a lot of thoughts on how the series may progress. Got questions, comments, or want to recommend a book to us? Check out our website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.judgingbookcovers.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , or find us on social media! Find us on the web: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Tw...

Stephanie, Ollie, and Megg are back to discuss one of our favorite cozy mysteries series -- A Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery book! Murder and Mamon is the 4th book in the series, featuring the eccentric calendar crew! Want to skip to just the chatter about the book? Jump to 45 minutes in! Got questions, comments, or want to recommend a book to us? Check out our website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.judgingbookcovers...

Hello hello! We read two new books for this episode! Love is definitely in the air as we read two romance books: The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston and Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman! If you're just interested in our thoughts on the books, skip to just before minute 47! Got questions, comments, or want to recommend a book to us? Check out our website ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.judgingbookcovers.com⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Sometimes life gets in the way, but we still read The Other Black Girl, talked about it, and released our episode before the show dropped on Hulu! Next Books: The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston and Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman Got questions, comments, or want to recommend a book to us? Check out our website ⁠⁠⁠www.judgingbookcovers.com⁠⁠⁠ , or find us on social media! Find us on the we...

Are cozy fantasies our new thing? We definitely enjoyed this one!! Megg also ruins the mood by not reading enough books. Next Book: The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris! Got questions, comments, or want to recommend a book to us? Check out our website ⁠⁠www.judgingbookcovers.com⁠⁠ , or find us on social media! Find us on the web: ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠  | ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ |

We are back for a double feature this month -- because we happened to all read two of the same books in the horror genre! One we loved, while the other was just not our cup of tea. And that's okay! Join us at the end of every month, or maybe the beginning, as we discuss a new book!  Next Book: Under the Whispering Door by T. J. Klune! Got questions, comments, or want to recommend a book to us?...

Well, we stayed on topic for one episode... This month Megg, Ollie, and Stephanie read Blackmail and Babingka by Mia P Manasala, the third book in Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery! If you can't tell, we cannot get enough of this cozy mystery series. We also have experienced a month of new media, and it's just been a few weeks since we've chatted! So grab a cuppa tea or a glass of wine,...

After a year off with one cohost creating a production company, one cohost creating a baby, and one just....creating an interesting dating mess, Stephanie, Ollie, and Megg are back to talk their first book of 2023! We read What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall, where the question became: who is telling the truth?  Enjoy us actually stay mostly on topic thanks to baby time, though we d...

JBC is back with cozy mysteries! We read the second book of the Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery series - Homicide and Halo-Halo ! We talk about our love for cozy mysteries, what makes it cozy, as well as everything else we were dealing with in May.  Judging Book Covers Podcast stands with the Black Lives Matter movement, and stands against Anti-Asian Violence. Read books, educate yourselves, and...

The trio of hosts read Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell! This book promised us a space opera and romance! ...Unfortunately it fell a little short of what was promised. We had fun discussing fan fiction tropes, space operas, and queer romances! And Ollie's hate of series. Judging Book Covers Podcast stands with the Black Lives Matter movement, and stands against Anti-Asian Violence. Read books, ed...

Stephanie and Meghan welcome Ollie Brady as a permanent co-host! We start our 2022 year with a new book:  People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry! We discuss our new format, the books we've read recently, and finally, a whole cast of characters that just need THERAPY.  Judging Book Covers Podcast stands with the Black Lives Matter movement , and if you are looking for black owned bookshops, plea...

This week Stephanie and Meghan decide to join the investigation and research of the residential schools in Canada and what they have become in the current environment. The book focuses on the death of seven First Nation students and the incompetency surrounding the investigation of the death of the students. While residential schools may be a thing of the past that has been brought to everyone's a...

Meghan and Stephanie are finally back! And this time they are discussing something they love to talk about: FOOD! We read Roy Choi's memoir and cook book, which has one of the most interesting lives we have read about while also some damn good food.  Next Episode: Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga!  Judging Book Covers Podcast is now part of Certain POV Network! Please check out our sister pod...

Stephanie and Meghan take a small break this episode and rather than leave listeners without an episode, friends of the podcast Tim Lowe and Ollie Brady decided to put together an episode on the second book of  The Diviners series by Libba Bray! Here is a bonus episode with just the guys, diving back into our favorite 1920s paranormal books!  Judging Book Covers Podcast is now part of Certain POV...

This episode, Stephanie and Meg discuss VAMPIRES. Are they back? Are they even scary any more? Did  Twilight ruin vampires for good? We dive into the short story anthology  Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite to see! This collection is focused on taking the vampire mythos away from the cliche European, hetero vibe and twisting it into new and inventive ways! While some do not quite live...

Despite our inching towards summer, Stephanie and Meghan are joined by Victoria Lucia to get in the mood for some fall spooks! For this round of our Read Harder challenge, we read  Small Spaces by Katherine Arden! We talk about whether we as both 6th graders and as adults, how much we love and want to protect all three of our protagonists, and how much this book reminds us of our love for middle g...

This week Stephanie and Meg read  Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas!  First, there are some serious content warning for this book: the main character has to deal with a family who hasn't accepted that he is transgender. Major CW for misgendering, discussions of dead names, and other issues with families that only see the binary. We discuss how wonderful this magical community is, falling in love with...

This week Meg and Stephanie are joined by Network co-host Matt Limerick to discuss  If the Dress Fits  by Carla de Guzman! We loved discussing this fat positive romance that is also not based in the US! We discuss our love of these cinnamon bun characters, the way tropes are diverted, and also a healthy discussion of our love of Bucky/Winter Soldier/White Wolf! Next Book: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Th...

This week Stephanie and Meg dive into the world of fan fiction! We went with a  Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfic as it is a fandom we both know and love; however, we do not openly support Joss Whedon.  For this week, we read a short retelling of season 6: Even Death is a Shadow of Forgetting by redcheekdays! It is Stephanie's first fanfic, so come listen to see if she enjoyed it or not!  Next Book:...

To celebrate our 100th episode, we are putting aside our read harder challenge in order to read a book about the 1920s and GHOST MURDERERS! We read  The Diviners by Libba Bray, with two of our favorite all time guests, Ollie Brady and Tim Lowe! Tim dresses up in fashionable pilgrim clothes 1920s clothes and Ollie lectures Meg about her book choices!  Next Book: Buffy Fanfic! Book Riot's Read Harde...

Thank you for letting us take some time to deal with personal problems! We are back with an exciting fantasy book called  Black Sun . We are so excited to share this book with listeners! Fantasy with gods and cults and massive ships! Meghan and Stephanie discuss how good it is to see a fantasy book where women are allowed to be themselves and where queer and non-binary people are allowed to just e...

Stephanie and Meghan take a spooky turn in their reading challenges! This week we read  The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike! This Japanese book falls somewhere on the horror/gothic spectrum, and we had a blast discussing haunted apartment buildings and basements. Don't go into your basement alone at night! CW: Discussion of animal deaths, ghosts, horror  Next Book: A Desired Past: A Short Hist...

Stephanie and Meghan continue to dive into Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge! This week we read a nonfiction book about anti-racism:  Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper! This book differed from the anti-racism books we've read in the past, as it discusses primarily black women and how we need change our focus and thoughts about them.  CW: Sexual assault and rape are discussed in this episode.  Next...

Judging Book Covers kicks off our 2021 Reading Challenge: The Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge! Our first challenge up is a book that intimidates us, and we went with the recommendation of  Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro!  We talk about what intimidates us in books, did this book make us cry, whether we believe in love in this book, and clones!  Next Book: Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper  Boo...

The biggest duh ever: 2020 was a rough year. Stephanie and Meghan both had pretty big issues during the year, but chose instead to remember the good things they experienced!  This episode includes Judging Book Cover's 2020 favorite:  Books TV Shows Podcast  Music As well as a discussion of what we are doing in 2021!  We are going to be doing Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge for 2021! Check out th...