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Happy Halloween! 🎃 This week we're reading "The Shining" by Stephen King. This is the last in our SPOOKY Halloween series and we decided to go out with a bang. Join us as we channel Jack Torrance and slowly descend into madness.

This week we're reading "The Family Man" by Amy Cross. Halloween month rolls along with another horror classic. This one is actually pretty fucked up and kind of upsetting, so to offset the depravity of it all, we spend a lot of time NOT reading the book. You know, just like every other episode.

This week we're reading "Hickory Dickory Dead" by Cheryl Bradshaw. The third installment in our Halloween series, this one isn't that spooky but is very sexually liberating. Seventy year old Maisie Fezziwig stumbles upon a grisly murder scene right after a night of ravenous love-making with one in a series of geriatric gentleman callers. While most would report this to the police and wash their ha...

This week we're reading "Fat Vampire 2" by Johnny B. Truant. What better time of year to catch up with our old sad-sack friend the FAT VAMPIRE than Halloween? Our hero is still fat and still a vampire, only this time he's mired in red tape, trying to navigate the confusing bureaucracy of the Vampire underworld. Spooky stuff!

This week we're kicking off an entire month of SPOOKY ebooks, just in time for Halloween. We're easing into it with "Moorehead Manor" by David McMullen-Sullivan, a YA novel about three teens who end up trapped in a haunted house. Kids will love this tale of suicide, infant death, and turn of the century medical horror.

Welcome to the Amazon Book Club CLASSICS EDITION, where we butcher books that we have no business reading. This week we're reading "The Old Man and the Sea" by the one and only Ernest Hemingway. You may know him as Mariel Hemingway's grandfather but believe it or not, he also had a knack for writing!

This week we're reading "Murder, Mayhem and Mama" by Christie Craig. HOT DAMN, this one's a thriller. Murder? Check. Mayhem? You bet. Mama? Well, frankly... not enough. Could have used more Mama. Here's a writing tip for you: Go heavy on Mama. If you think it's enough, it's not. Take whatever you have and double it. Can't have too much Mama.

This week we're reading "The Thought Readers" by Dima Zales and Anna Zaires. That's right, two authors for the price of one! These two brainiacs put their heads together and popped out this literary masterpiece - the story of a man named Darren who can freeze time and, instead of robbing banks, uses his power to read diaries and cheat at cards. Lots of Taco Bell talk in this one, if that's your th...

This week we're reading "Mr. Pizza" by J.F Pandolfi. This one is a period piece! Join us as we take a trip back to a real American golden age: 1973. Tony Piza is a simple Italian boy from the neighborhood who takes a gap year before law school and, through a series of madcap mixem-ups, ends up teaching at the local Catholic school. Imagine a "School of Rock" scenario but, instead of learning about...

This week we're reading "The Fixer" by Rex Carpenter. JC Bannister is a FIXER... the kind of guy who FIXES things that need FIXING. Capiche? You catch my drift? Real dirty stuff. You don't wanna know. And don't ask, either. You'll just have to listen and find out who the FIXER is FIXING to FIX. He kills people!

This week we're reading "The Tycoon's Revenge" by Melody Anne. A tale as old as time itself - a beautiful billionaire and a simple pauper have a romantic tryst resulting in a BASTARD SON raised in the lap of luxury, unbeknownst to the father. But wait, what's this? The billionaire lost her riches? And the pauper has become a SILICON VALLEY SUCCESS? My, how the tables have turned! Anyway, we spend...

This week we're reading "Sit...Stay...Beg" by Roxanne St. Claire. Love romance? Who doesn't? Love dogs? You must! Join us as we delve into an unlikely love story between a young hot-shot journalist and a reclusive billionaire who rescues dogs. A billionaire with a conscience?? Might want to file this one under SCIENCE FICTION! Folks, it's a free podcast.

This week we're reading "Dying For Dinner Rolls" by Lois Lavrisa. A couple of middle aged gossips try and solve a string of murders around town while neglecting friends, family, and work. Despite making zero progress, they manage to discover themselves along the way. Also there are NO dinner rolls in this book; if you've come for the rolls, look elsewhere.

This week we're reading "Fat Vampire" by Johnny B. Truant. That's right, FAT VAMPIRE. If you've had your fill of svelte, sexy vampires with their glistening skin and their charming bad boy attitudes, just wait until you meet Reggie. Not only is he a portly klutz, he's got the power to grow a full goatee in a matter of seconds. This one is an instant classic!

This week we're reading "The Last Orchard" by James Hunt. Charlie Decker's got it all - a family, an orchard, an anger management problem. Everything a man could need. That is, until the POWER GOES OUT. Follow along helplessly as society collapses around Charlie, who doesn't handle it all that well. Will our hero live long enough to see another bountiful harvest of apples?

This week we're reading "Oath of Office" by Jack Mars. The DEEP STATE is at it again, folks! Luke Stone, hot shot FBI agent and certified loose-cannon, will stop at NOTHING to take down a group of mysterious terrorists hell-bent on destroying America. Break out the stars and stripes and crack a Budweiser, it's time to soak up some good old fashioned, morally ambiguous patriotism.

This week we're apparently reading "The Remnant Keeper" by Robert Scott-Norton. None of us remember recording this episode and yet, it exists. Listen to us presumably riff on a few pages of this, uh, novel? Memoir? Travel guide? This is our best episode yet, or perhaps our worst. Let's find out together.

This week we're reading "A Robot Named Clunk" by Simon Haynes. Join us as we take an adventure through the stars with the rogue but law-abiding adventurer HAL SPACEJOCK and his annoying robot nemesis, CLUNK. Come for the fast paced escapade through the cosmos, stay for the extended scene of Hal bartering for new boots.

This week we're reading "Wyne and Dine" by Donna Michaels, a hot and heavy romance sure to make everyone uncomfortable. Will our two star-crossed lovers defeat the odds and end up together? Well, yeah, of course. But we can still enjoy the JOURNEY.

This week we're joined by special guest Cat Leth! We're reading "Dark City" by Catherine Lee, a good old fashioned murder mystery with a TWIST - everyone is Australian!

It's our 20th episode! This week we're breaking all the rules and reading a Choose Your Own Adventure series. Join us as we celebrate this totally arbitrary milestone!

This week we're reading "Saved" by Angel Payne. We went into this thinking it was a good Christian book, but God had other plans. This book is grade-A smut, and boy did it make us uncomfortable. If you listen close, you can hear us blush.

This week we're reading "Vengeance: Debt Collector 2" by Jon Mills. Our first sequel! Jack Winchester is back and, much like Austin, ready to take on the mob. Will our intrepid antihero prevail? Will Fat Vito fit him with a new pair of cement boots? Will Jack's poor girlfriend finally wise up and leave him? Will these God forsaken DEBTS finally be COLLECTED?

This week we're reading "Trapped" by Douglas Richards. This is the only podcast where three adult men don't realize they're reading a children's book until halfway through. And that's the Amazon Book Club Guarantee.

This week we're reading "Mirror Mirror" by Anthony M. Strong, the harrowing tale of a man who dumpster dives a haunted mirror and ends up with more than he bargained for. Is a free mirror really free if you end up paying the ULTIMATE PRICE???