Welcome back, Literary Slimmers, to another episode of Shelf Aware! This week, we're discussing the sexy, sci-fi romp, Electra Rex by April C. Griffiths! Join us as we discuss new methods of identity theft, the sisterhood of the traveling horny pants, and our thoughts on garbage girls and medical science fiction. 

Join us next week for another Morph Monday.

A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube channel: youtube.com/fretwiz.

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Electra Rex by April C. Griffiths

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of Shelf Aware! This week, we're starting a new listener slubmitted unit on prehistoric fiction with the much beloved book, The Clan of the Cave Bear. Also included: discussion on the novelization of agrotourism; how Neanderthals were telepathic, I guess?; and content warnings galore. We go over an extensive list at the beginning of the episode.

Join us next week for another Morph Monday!

Recommended Reading:
K-Pop Confidential by Stephen Lee
The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Durst
The Unbroken by C.L. Clark

A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube channel: youtube.com/fretwiz.

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The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of Shelf Aware! This week, we're reading the second book in Em's unit, Rebecca. Which is one of Anna's favorite books of all time. No pressure, Em, but we'll have to cancel the podcast if you don't like this one. 

Join us next week for another Morph Monday!

Recommended Reading:
I'll Be the One by Lyla Lee
The Body in the Garden by Katharine Schellman
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Sterling
Ravenswood series by Talia Hibbert
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of Shelf Aware. This week, we're starting a bit of a grabbag unit, full of one-off slubmissions from our listeners. We're kicking off the unit with return author, Nicholas Sparks, and his book Every Breath, about two almost middle-aged people who meet at a beach and fall in love in the span of 48 hours. 

Don't forget that next week, there won't be an update, but you can spend your Monday morning thinking about or listening to your favorite Shelf Aware moments while Em takes a break from editing. 

Or you could check out our 2022 reading challenge on Twitter or Storygraph!

Recommended Reading:
The Alpha's Warlock by Eliot Grayson (again!)
Love and Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

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Every Breath by Nicholas Sparks

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of Shelf Aware. This week, we're reading another book in Anna's movie novelization unit: Braveheart, a movie neither Anna nor Em have seen! Despite the Gary Stu and historical inaccuracies, was this a good book? And who would you recast as William Wallace?

Next week, we're starting a brand new YA series before getting into our next lengthy middle-grade series. We'll be covering The Golden Compass, the first book in the His Dark Materials series! 

And don't forget to check out our 2022 reading challenge on Twitter and Storygraph.

Recommended Reading:
And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed
Persephone: Hades' Torment by Allison Shaw
The Mindfuck series by S.T. Abby
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

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Braveheart by Randall Wallace

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday episode! This week, we've got new names for our main characters, and some feuding BFFs. Not to mention, a lot of concerns about age differences in Warrior Cat romances. 

Join us next week for the first book in a new unit on novels based on TTRPGs! Also, as always, join us in our 2022 Reading Challenge on either Twitter or Storygraph! 

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Warriors: Fire and Ice by Erin Hunter

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! This week, we're on book three of the Warrior Cats series, and things are starting to pick up (or Stockholm syndrome is setting in, either one). This book is full of intrigue, betrayals, and, of course, SECRETS. But only one cat seems to be interested in tracking them all down…

Join us next week for the second book in our unit on clean romances! And don't forget, you can still join in on our 2022 reading challenge on Twitter or Storygraph! 

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Warriors: Forest of Secrets by Erin Hunter

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week, we're continuing our unit on "clean" romances with a 1979 chores book that takes place on the Canadian frontier. Topics up for discussion include a background on the genre, an extremely annoying main character, and the popularity of Lean Cuisines in the 1800s. 

Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday. And don't forget, you can still join in on our 2022 reading challenge on Twitter or Storygraph! 

Recommended Reading:
Marshmallow and Jordan by Alina Chau
A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley
To the Sky Kingdom by Tang Qi

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Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! This week we're discussing who should voice the completely hypothetical fully-casted Warrior Cats audiobook. Also, we learn a lot about the shipping preferences of this fandom. Also also, Our Flag Means Death season 2 when???

Join us next week for the second book in our ttrpg book unit. And join our 2022 reading challenge on Twitter and Storygraph!

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Warriors: Rising Storm by Erin Hunter

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! This week, we are talking about the final book in the first Warrior Cats arc. Fireheart is now the leader of ThunderClan. TigerStar is out there causing more mischief. And we meet a new clan?? Also, will this book be amazing enough to propel us to read more Warriors books? 

Join us next week for the last book in our TTRPG unit. And even though half the year is up, you can still join our 2022 reading challenge. Details are on our Twitter! 

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Warriors: The Darkest Hour by Erin Hunter

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! This week, we're starting the second series of Warrior Cats books, The New Prophecy. We've got new cats, but the same problems. Something's threatening the forest. Cats still can't understand prophecies. Also, is there a Cat Hell?

Join us next week for a brand new unit with a book Em swore she would never read. 

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Warriors: Midnight by Erin Hunter

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! This week, we've got relationship drama, chores, and lots of badgers. Also featuring a lot more questions about what happens when cats die and go to StarClan. StarClan book when?? 

Join us next week for a brand new unit about very sad girls!

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Warriors: Starlight by Erin Hunter

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week we're continuing our listener/friend slubmitted unit on sad girls with a classic sad girl novel. We also discuss high school reading assignments and the literary canon, but maybe it's more entertaining than it sounds. 
Please excuse Anna's still slightly sick voice. 😔

Look for Anna's guest episode on All the Good Dogs! And join us next week for the first book in Em's new unit on YA horror. 

Recommended Reading:
DISNEY DREAMLIGHT VALLEY
Notes of a Crocodile Qiu Miaojin
Battle Royal by Lucy Parker
Tomorrow by Damien Dibben

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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! We're starting a brand new listener slubmission unit on mafia/mob romances (thank you, Charlie!) with a book that… well, let's just say this one had a lot of problems with this one. At least we can only go up from here, right? Maybe? 😬 

Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! 

Recommended Reading:
Pathfinder: Kingmaker has taken over our lives
Rent a Boyfriend by Gloria Chao
The Verifiers by Jane Pek

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The Kiss Thief by L.J. Shen

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week we're wrapping up our unit on YA horror with a book we both actually loved. We've got a haunted house, difficult step siblings, and a ton of facts about bedbugs. Like, so many bedbug facts. Do not read if you have a fear of bedbugs. 

Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! 

Recommended Reading:
The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco
The Tea Dragon Society by K. O'Neill 

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White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week, we're reading the second book in our mafia romance unit. We've got another forced marriage to a teenager, but hey, at least the age gap is smaller this time. 

Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday!

Recommended Reading:
A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall
Bindle Punk Bruja by Desideria Mesa

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Bound by Honor by Cora Reilly

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week, we're starting a new unit with a book that both Anna and Em have read before. Is this a first for the podcast? We've got a Not Like Other Girls girl, a possibly geriatric love interest, and the terrible boy-next-door with an inferiority complex. So nostalgic! 

Join us next week for the last book in the Power of Three series! 

Recommended Reading:
Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J. Tuli 
A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

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The Selection by Kiera Cass

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! This week, we're wrapping up another series of Warriors books, and wow, did this one go places. The relationship drama of the last arc has finally paid off. StarClan is fighting StarClan. And Ashfur's murder is solved. 

Join us next week for the final book in our Mafia romance unit! 

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Warriors:  Sunrise by Erin Hunter

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of Shelf Aware! This week, we're starting a new unit on modern mythology brought to us by our friend Hannah. Thank you, Hannah! No goofs here, this book was actually super good. Go read it!

Recommended Reading:
Shipwrecked by Olivia Dade
A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark 
King of Wrath by Ana Huang

Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! 

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Lore by Alexandra Bracken

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday episode of Shelf Aware! Things are not well with the clans. Everyone is divided and suspicious of each other. There is relationship drama all over the place, cats getting together and breaking up left and right. And we finally get a POV from a cat in a different clan. Thrilling.

Join us next week for the next book in our modern mythology unit!

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Warriors: Night Whispers by Erin Hunter

Warriors: Leafpool's Wish by Erin Hunter

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! We're finally back from our summer break, and we've got a brand new unit for you! Ladies being cool, stylish, and powerful in The Big City. We're starting with a book that, quite honestly, made a much better movie. Go watch it. After listening to this episode, obvs. 

Recommended Reading:
The Devil Wears Tartan by Katia Rose
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill by Rowenna Miller
Not All Himbos Wear Capes by C. Rochelle
Witch King by Martha Wells

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Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz


The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (Part Two)

Piñata by Leopoldo Gout

The Christmas Secret by Donna VanLiere

Warriors: Thunder Rising by Erin Hunter

Irish Thoroughbred by Nora Roberts

Warriors: The First Battle

Stars of Fortune by Nora Roberts

Warriors: The Blazing Star by Erin Hunter

New Moon by Stephanie Meyer

Warriors: A Forest Divided by Erin Hunter

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

Trigger Warning: Sexual assault, abusive relationships, teenage pregnancy, attempted suicide, postpartum depression.

Who doesn’t love a little fear mongering in the form of a fake teenager’s diary? Anna & Em trudge through the fictional account Annie’s abusive relationship and subsequent pregnancy. It was such a yummy, nummy book. #GoodTimeSlime

A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube channel: youtube.com/fretwiz.

Rather Be Reading:
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison

Have a terrible book you’d love to hear us complain about? Want to call us a couple of duh heads? Willing to share your own diary?
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Episode 9: Annie's Baby by Beatrice Sparks

Welcome to a special rewind episode of HateRead! Anna & Em have recorded a few episodes where they revisit books they read (and hated) throughout various points of their childhood and see if their feelings remain the same. Today, Anna revisits a book she was forced to read too many times as a kid, Little House in the Big Woods. Listen along as they discuss the hardships of living with Old Man Shovelhands, the merits of having blonde hair, and whether or not people knew what animals were in the 1800s.

A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube channel: youtube.com/fretwiz.

Rather Be Reading:
Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
American Girl books
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Tell us what books you hated from your childhood! 
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Episode 13: Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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 answered and more.

A special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! You can check out his YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/fretwiz.

Send us your Animorphs series theories!
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Animorphs: The Invasion by K.A. Applegate

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of Shelf Aware, the podcast where we delve into books outside our comfort zones. This fortnight, we’re starting a brand new unit on the survival genre. First up: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, a book Anna last read in elementary school. Is it still just as boring as she remembers? 

We’ll be back next Monday with another Animorphs book!

Reading Recommendations:
Huntress by Malinda Lo
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube channel: youtube.com/fretwiz.

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Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of Shelf Aware, the podcast where we delve into books outside our comfort zone. This week, we’re starting Em’s new sadsack unit on the most depressing trope ever: The One Where the Animal Dies. We’re kicking off the unit by discussing the classic bestseller, The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Getting real Little House flashbacks with this one.

Join us next week for another Morph Monday!

Recommended Reading:

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube channel: youtube.com/fretwiz.

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The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of Shelf Aware, the podcast where we delve into books outside our comfort zone. This week, we're reading another of those sad sack books where the animal dies, and this time it's a big yellow dog. We're reading the classic, Old Yeller, a book that made us question the existence of The Yearling fanfiction. 

Join us next week for another Morph Monday.

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Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Morph Monday episode of Shelf Aware! This week, we’re discussing the 23rd book in the Animorphs series, The Pretender. Finally! A Tobias POV! Full of angst and self-doubt and romance. It’s everything we wanted and more - K.A. Applegate drops a huge lore moment on us, and we were not prepared. 

Join us next week for the first book in Anna’s new unit. We’re doing it. We’re reading Midnight Sun. :( 

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Animorphs: The Pretender by K.A. Applegate

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of Shelf Aware, the podcast where we delve into books outside our comfort zone. And this week, we’re finally here to discuss the almost 700 page teenage romance involving sparkly, brooding Edward, and lol-I’m-so-clumsy Bella. That’s right. We read Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer, the first book in Anna’s new unit on parallel novels. Hope you’re ready for this experience. 

Join us next week for another Morph Monday!

Recommended reading:
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

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Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of Shelf Aware! This week, we’re starting a new unit on garbage girls! After a lengthy discussion on what makes a garbage boy in the Spinning Silver episode, we wanted to see if the trope could be gender swapped. We asked listeners for some suggestions, and you all delivered! Thank you! Our first book we’re covering for the unit is Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. Does Eleanor qualify for the trope? And how did Anna actually manage to read such a sad book in the first place? 

Join us next week for another Morph Monday!

Recommended Reading: 
Invisible Chains by Michelle Renee Lane
The Fold of the Air series by Holly Black

A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube channel: youtube.com/fretwiz.

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Some blogs/essays about ND representation: https://penchant.blog/2019/08/19/eleanor-oliphants-story-and-why-it-doesnt-belong-to-the-author-who-wrote-it/
https://paperfury.com/how-to-tell-book-good-autism-rep/
https://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/publishers-must-change-story-around-neurodiversity-1192864

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