UNspoiled! Book Club!

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If you'd like to get this show early AND ad-free, or if you’d like to suggest a book and be a co-host, please go to https://www.patreon.com/unspoiled and become a patron! You can also join on the free tier and get updates on events and schedule changes! Thank you so much to Bernadette for commissioning this episode!  This book was a sweet and fun little wish-fulfillment for me, because the idea of...

If you'd like to get this show early AND ad-free, or if you’d like to suggest a book and be a co-host, please go to https://www.patreon.com/unspoiled and become a patron! You can also join on the free tier and get updates on events and schedule changes! Join me and Stacie as we talk about this oh-so-90s book about patterns, trends, fads, and super annoying co-workers. We've got offices, we've got...

If you'd like to get this show early AND ad-free, or if you’d like to suggest a book and be a co-host, please go to https://www.patreon.com/unspoiled  and become a patron! You can also join on the free tier and get updates on events and schedule changes! Thank you so much to Patricia for joining me and introducing me to the mad, magical world of Nursery Crimes! I had such a great time reading this...

If you'd like to get this show early AND ad-free, or if you’d like to suggest a book and be a co-host, please go to https://www.patreon.com/unspoiled and become a patron! You can also join on the free tier and get updates on events and schedule changes! Thank you so much to Stacie for joining me on this episode!  This book was a very compelling read and especially interesting as a precursor to the...

If you'd like to get this show early AND ad-free, or if you’d like to suggest a book and be a co-host, please go to https://www.patreon.com/unspoiled and become a patron! You can also join on the free tier and get updates on events and schedule changes! It's time to discuss the wonderful, wild ride of Project Hail Mary with long-time listener Alex Irwin! This was so much fun, both to read and to r...

If you'd like to get this show early AND ad-free, or if you’d like to suggest a book and be a co-host, please go to https://www.patreon.com/unspoiled and become a patron! You can also join on the free tier and get updates on events and schedule changes! Thank you so much to Kimberly for suggesting this book and for joining me on this episode! And also, thank you to everyone who voted for this book...

If you'd like to get this show early AND ad-free, or if you’d like to suggest a book and be a co-host, please go to https://www.patreon.com/unspoiled and become a patron! You can also join on the free tier and get updates on events and schedule changes! Eeeeeee I'm so excited, y'all! It's time for the very first [successful] listener-cohosted Book Club episode! Cindy chose Jason Pargin's book for...

Hey friends! The UNspoiled! Book Club feed is mostly dead except for the very special time of year when Overdue has me on as a guest! Join us as we talk about Cackle by Rachel Harrison, and let me know what you think if you've read the book!

Greetings my ghouls and goblins, it's time for the spooky seasonal read with the boys from Overdue! Their delightful podcast (about the books that you've been meaning to read) invites me on in or around Spooktober to talk about a book they've been thinking of covering, and I was delighted to get to read an installment from yet another goofy teen vampire series. Was the book good? No. Was it fun? A...

Hey everyone! I'm here with a surprise bit of book coverage with my favorite pair of boy reviewers, Craig and Andrew from Overdue! You can check out their show here! https://overduepodcast.com/ This episode, we talk about the YA novel Eragon, in which the plot is so derivative that we use the wrong names by accident several times. Craig is much more on board than Andrew and I were, but I am fairly...

Hey there, you gorgeous creatures! I'm here with the final episode of UNspoiled! Book Club, and I'm delighted to be wrapping things up with the wonderful gents from Overdue, Craig and Andrew. If you'd like to listen to more of them (and you should, they're great) you can find them at www.overduepodcast.com This episode we're talking about James And The Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl, and man I forgot...

Thanks so much to Candace for agreeing to cover this absolutely bananas book with me. I cannot emphasize enough how unlike anything I've read this book is in terms of its scope and tone. While there are certain things it has in common with His Dark Materials, it's far more adult, dark, and feminist. I hope you enjoy the coverage, and I will see you in late October with James And The Giant Peach!

Hey there, lovely people! RoShawn was super sick but bravely met with me for this episode anyway, and I'm so glad. I loved this book, and I can't believe that I hadn't read it already considering all of the boxes it ticked in my "favorite things" column: talking animals, Edwardian clothing, english countryside, cozy homes, funny low-stakes hijinks. It's got it all! This is a book I see myself goin...

I just want to warn you all that about 5 minutes from the end of this episode, tragedy strikes and RoShawn's internet goes down. She wound up being without internet for almost three hours, and thankfull got it back just in time to record UNsober with me that evening. This book was a rough one. I can see the appeal, and the way RoShawn talks about her connections with some of the folktales before d...

Thank you so much to Bitches for joining me on this episode, and bearing with me while I work out some very tough personal shit that came up as a result of this book hitting on some really familiar and uncomfortable themes. If you haven't read this book, you're doing yourself a disservice. It's not just about personal experiences of characters whom we get to know and care about (in most cases, any...

Hey there lovelies! Miles and I are here to talk about Childhood favorite A Wrinkle In Time, a book we had both loved but not revisited for at least a decade. How did it hold up? In truth, it held up GREAT. There's shockingly few problematic elements for a book written when this was and under the particular scrutiny that our generation is prone to use when examining works of fiction. The story is...

Sooooooo funny story about this one. I got the audiobook AND the kindle version, but relied on the audiobook because I had a packed week and it was easier to listen while I took care of chores and housework. UNFORTUNATELY, it turns out that the version I listened to was abridged, and this fact was not included in the title nor was there even a full-length version available at all to alert me of th...

Hey folks! So, unfortunately I had a bit of a hiccup with the person who was supposed to guest-host this episode. They had a personal emergency and forgot to let me know they wouldn't be available, so I was sitting in front on my camera with Crowdcast turned on when I found out. I decided to go on and record by my lonesome, and I think it still went pretty well. This book was a little less whimsic...

Hey all you lovely people! I am finally here with the episode for this month's Book Club, and Jaime is going to talk about it with me! The Time Traveler's Wife falls under the heading of "books I had heard of a million times but had no interest in" and I'm happy to say that I enjoyed it despite my crotchetiness. Niffenegger comes up with a really wild idea for this book: what if time travel wasn't...

Many thanks to Jaime for joining me for this episode of UNspoiled! Book Club: Childhood Favorites! I'm personally excited about revisiting this book, and I was able to zero in on a really good audiobook version which I was going to link to, but now Audible says isn't available. :( It was Kate Reading, in case it comes back! This book wasn't an easy one for Jaime who usually doesn't warm to period...

Hey everyone! Candace joined me for this episode, and this time around I actually did watch the film that came out based on the book before recording, so there's going to be some references to that in this episode. Forgive me! I have to confess that while Candace and I talk about a lot of different issues we had with this book, I still had a great time listening to the audiobook. If you have the i...

Hey everyone! It's time for the next Childhood Favorite, this month hosted by Gena Radcliffe fof Kill BY Kill Podcast! Gena, like me, loved these books as a child, and unlike me, went on to become a fan of the TV show as well. I only saw a few minutes of one ep and decided it was not for me, and you won't believe what Gena tells me happens in the final episode (unless you've seen it in which case,...

Hey everyone! Candace and I are here to discuss Children Of Blood And Bone, an epic fantasy novel that centers a black woman and is in a country populated by black people. It's really unusual and really emotional and I highly recommend it. The story follows Zelie, a young woman born of meji parents with magical ability, who all lost their abilities for unknown reasons and have had to live as slave...