Shelf Aware Podcast

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to a special Slummer Reading episode of HateRead. Join us as we discuss the fourth book in K.A. Applegate's popular 90s series, Animorphs. Who will be our most valuable morph? What were the most morbid moments in the books? Why don't the children just run around touching ever animal they see, instead of just one or two per book? All of these questions will be answe...

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to a special Slummer Reading episode of HateRead. Join us as we discuss the third book in K.A. Applegate's popular 90s series, Animorphs. Who will be our most valuable morph? What were the most morbid moments in the books? Why don't the children just run around touching ever animal they see, instead of just one or two per book? All of these questions will be answer...

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to a special Slummer Reading episode of HateRead. Join us as we discuss the second book in K.A. Applegate's popular 90s series, Animorphs. Who will be our most valuable morph? What were the most morbid moments in the books? Why don't the children just run around touching ever animal they see, instead of just one or two per book? All of these questions will be answe...

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to a special Slummer Reading episode of HateRead. Join us as we discuss the very first book in K.A. Applegate's popular 90s series, Animorphs. Who will be our most valuable morph? What were the most morbid moments in the books? Why don't the children just run around touching ever animal they see, instead of just one or two per book? All of these questions will be a...

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to one last episode of HateRead! Join us as we discuss our favorites and least favorites, as well as a bunch of other superlatives that Em made up to help us reflect on the 39 books we read. And don't worry! We'll be back with another episode next fortnight with our Slummer Reading Project. After that, we'll be relaunching with a new name. For more information, che...

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TW: Discussions of sexual assault and the loss of a child. Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of HateRead! This fortnight, we read a pretty boring book with a completely bonkers ending. Join us we discuss the world’s worst camping trip, the pitfalls of falling in love with your cult leader, and how garbo of a husband Tom is in Hannah Richell’s The Shadow Year. Rather Be Reading: T...

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of HateRead! This fortnight, we read The DaVinci Code if The DaVinci Code was even dumber and full of more terrible sex scenes. Join us we discuss Mr. and Mrs. Chucklefuck’s stupid hunt for stupid arts. Rather Be Reading: Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out...

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of HateRead: A Podcast About Reading: Hosted by Anna and Em. This fortnight, we’re reading a dystopian YA novel written by Kylie and Kendall Jenner, Elizabeth Killmond-Roman, and Maya Sloan, and it’s probably as good as you’re imagining. Join us as we discuss AIResses, singing zingers, and loose women. A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our...

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of HateRead! This fortnight, we’re tackling our second underwhelming thriller in a row. We’re talking questionable psychological studies, a sketched out Miss Farts, and very disappointing character motives in the book An Anonymous Girl. A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube channel: youtube.com/fretwiz. Ra...

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of HateRead! This fortnight, we tackled a book that was certainly not good, but we didn’t exactly hate it (don’t worry, we still found plenty to shit on). Join us as we discuss the Saybrook heiresses and their complete inability to solve a mystery. And don’t forget your #2 pencils! A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check ou...

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of HateRead. In this episode, Anna & Em make a righteous move as they set out to read and discuss a book that involves a cat man, an idiot teenaged girl, and their senseless romance. Oh yeah, and boatloads of racism. We say this a lot, but this time it really does feel like we’ve hit a new low with this book. Rather Be Reading: Wool by Hugh Howey...

TW: Miscarriages, underaged relationships, physical abuse. Welcome back, Literary Slummers! We wish we could travel back in time to a period before we ever read this awful book. We’re here to discuss a whopper of an inappropriate relationship, our disbelief that this book was billed as a romance, and what time traveler responsibilities should entail. A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our th...

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, and prepare yourselves for the most Action Pact episode yet. This fortnight, we read Moon People by Dale M. Courtney, sent to us from listener Emily, and boy… was this a journey. Join us as discuss David, the astrology professor, how telescopes work, Red Lobster, and more. A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube channel: youtu...

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to a book that no one really asked for: the sequel to Pride and Prejudice where Mr. Darcy is a vampyre. Join Anna & Em as they discuss the disappointing lack of hot, vampire sex, the never ending wedding tour, whether or not they would decide to become a vampire if the option ever arose, and how much this book… bites. (Eh? Ehhhh?) A very special thank you to Ben Co...

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to our second holiday episode of 2018. Santa heard that Anna hated the song Christmas Shoes with a fiery passion, and decided to punish us both for being such mean, hateful readers all year long. He found something much worse than coal: the novelization of said Christmas song. Will Anna & Em be able to overcome this challenge and discover the true meaning of Christ...

Ding dong, Literary Lovers, welcome to GushRead, the podcast where we “challenge” each other to read books we absolutely adore. This fortnight, we revisit a book that Em wasn’t so sure about in the past, but, spoiler alert, turns out she was just being a dumb. Join us as we discuss the holiday classic Hogfather, in which Death has to pretend to be Discworld’s version of Santa. Holiday hijinks ensu...

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! Do you like overly explained narratives, casual sexism, and the glorification of anti-social assholes? Then have we got a book for you. We hated this one so much that Em had to leave about 30 minutes of discussion on the cutting room floor (bless you, Em). Tune in as we attempt to sort out the plot from the exposition in Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. This fortn...

[Please excuse our sniffles and slightly altered voices - we’re both dealing with allergies, ugh.] You know what really didn’t need to be made? An adaptation of Romeo and Juliet in which the two leads are immortal beings fighting for opposite sides in the war of good versus evil, wherein the side of good wants soulmates to fall in love with each other, and evil wants the soulmates to kill each oth...

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This fortnight we have another special rewind episode full of paranormal teenage hormones, 90s nostalgia, and a few extremely inappropriate romantic relationships. Join us as we discuss the werewolves and meat boys in Annette Curtis Klaus' Blood and Chocolate! A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube channel: youtube.com/fretwi...

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This fornight, we tackled our first Nicholas Sparks book, and wow, was it an experience. We had a lot of expectations going into this one. Some of them were met in hilarious and unnecessary ways. Others... well, let's just say it made for a good HateRead. Come along with us on this journey of creepy stalking and unsatisfying romance as we discuss Nicholas Sparks' 1...

We're back on our search for the Holy Grail of bad books, as we reread Dan Brown's most famous work. From weaponized peanuts to sex cults, there's plenty of secrets to uncover this week. But will we be able to answer the ultimate question: Do we still hate this book? A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube channel: youtube.com/fretwiz. Rather be reading this...

TW: Body horror, self harm This week, Anna challenges Em to read our spookiest story yet, as we head deep into the jungles of Mexico with Scott Smith's The Ruins. We'll experience all the horrors of drunk tourists, sad handjobs, and of course, very scary plants. Come get creeped out with us on this fortnight's episode! A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube...

Anna's back, and we're reading the only book to spend a mere 23 hours on the New York Times Best Seller list. But what did it do to deserve such treatment? Is it really as bad as people say, or are the negative reviews a response to the bad press? And what the hell is Carrot Top doing in this book? All that and more on this episode of Hate Read. A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme s...

It's an episode full of horrors here on hate read. Ghosts! Murders! Revenge! All of those will be briefly discussed and set aside for the greatest horror of all: teenage love triangles! It's a classic case of marketing gone awry, as we dive into a book which promised us spooky mayhem, only to emerge from the other side unspooked and entirely mayhemless. This fortnight, Em was joined by special gue...