I know, I know! Y’all have missed us and we have been MIA! Honestly, the podcast has been cursed over the last little while. First we had a podcast audio disaster, which we hoped and believed we could come back from, but wow, we could not. So we lost that podcast (argh) and then had some health and family issues, mostly on the side of me, Gin Jenny, that put us on a bit of a podcast hiatus. Nevertheless, we persisted! Eventually! And here we are back with a short episode just to catch y’all up on what we’ve been…
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Break out the red wine and, unrelatedly, the pumpkin spice everythings! It’s autumn in the sense that both of us Jennies have now experienced weather that is cooler than 80 degrees, and we are celebrating! We’re kicking off our Three Musketeers readalong in this podcast (chapters 1-7), updating you on the results of our summer book preview, and previewing some books we can’t wait to read in the fall season. Then we wrap up with a review of Eric Gansworth’s unexpectedly sad YA novel Give Me Some Truth. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or…
Leave a CommentSomehow it is October, and though many months of the year have passed, we are ever more convinced that linear time is a collective hallucination. We hope that you are experiencing Autumn, and we welcome in the settingsiest time of year by chatting about our thoughts on book settings. (I am opposed to them, and Whiskey Jenny is in favor.) In this podcast, we welcome the marvelous Ashley Wells, whom we do love but whom I invited to the podcast to punish her for forcing me to read this goddamn Irish book. She made us a game!!! We haven’t had…
Leave a CommentWe are back after an unscheduled hiatus to commence the 2019 Hatening, wherein I Haten Whiskey Jenny incredibly successfully — even more successfully, if you can believe such a thing, as the year I forced her to read The Easter Parade. But it’s all in good fun, as mainly we are just really elated to be back podcasting together. We missed it! And you! You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go! Episode 122 I say this in the podcast, but please accept content warnings for…
Leave a CommentLet the bells ring out the news that Whiskey Jenny read a book where the protagonist tells a whole bunch of lies to everyone else in the book all the time and she didn’t hate it. Gin Jenny is very excited because it feels like this opens up new worlds of book reading. This episode, we’re chatting about book slumps and how terrible they are but also how to end them; and then we review Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey, a book that both of us liked even though one of us usually doesn’t like books about lying liars.…
Leave a CommentUnexpectedly, the Jennys are not a fan of the Lord of the Rings appendices. I feel like I remembered them being more interesting (and less racist) than it turns out they are?? Anyway, we’re chatting about the appendices, and despite all the boredom there are several truly shocking revelations. Bonus Episode 9 Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast, and friend me (Gin Jenny) and Whiskey Jenny on Goodreads. If you like what we do, support us on Patreon. Or if you wish, you can find us on iTunes (and if you enjoy the podcast, give us a good…
Leave a CommentI decided to start having hope on Wednesdays, and by actual total coincidence, this podcast is specifically about books that give us hope. HOPE SYNERGY. This week we’re chatting about Whiskey Jenny’s incredibly food-related accomplishments, the books that make us feel hopeful, and Lauren Wilkinson’s Cold War spy thriller American Spy. (Short review: Not enough spying.) You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go! Episode 120 Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around. 0:59 – What we’re reading 3:41 – What we’re…
Leave a CommentIt’s our second-ever group podcast, and we are punchy, and also we’re using a brand new microphone and we, meaning I, meaning Gin Jenny, did not calibrate it altogether correctly perhaps. Slash, there was a loud train in the background. So. We are talking at length about A Hope Divided, which is Robert Repino’s first romance novel and Whiskey Jenny’s first Alyssa Cole novel, and we had a grand old time. We hope you will forgive the imperfections in the sound quality. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with…
Leave a CommentIt’s podcast time! We wrap up our read of Lord of the Rings, chat about our most anticipated books for summer, and review Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress. (Trigger warning for brief, non-graphic discussion of child sex abuse.) You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go! Episode 119 Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around. 1:26 – What we’re reading 3:09 – What we’re listening to 5:30 – Lord of the Rings Readalong – Return of the King (conclusion!) 24:32…
Leave a CommentHappy Wednesday, friends! It’s a Reading the End / Spectology crossover event, so we’re talking about crossover books: the books that straddle the boundary between speculative and literary fiction. We welcome Spectology’s Adrian Ryan to chat about our genre-crossing faves, then review Karen Lord’s The Best of All Possible Worlds. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go! Episode 117 Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around. 1:18 – What we’re reading 6:33 – What we’re playing 11:14 – SEA OR…
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