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July Bookish: Currents Reads + Q&A

It's July bookish time!!
In this episode we reintroduce ourselves for our new listeners, announce our July book club pick (28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand), and chat about our currents reads: Sinners Anonymous by Somme Sketcher for Saanya and Lost In Beirut: A True Story of Love, Loss and War by Ashe Stevens and Magdalena for Sehrish! Of course Sehrish has a serious one lol. 
We hope you enjoy and read along with us for our July book club episode :)

Summer In The City By Alex Aster

Welcome to our June book club episode where we discuss the romcom book of the summer: Summer In The City by Alex Aster!
We of course give you a summary before chatting about the book, giving our Hollywood adaptation thoughts, and divulging our personal and Goodreads ratings. If you're going on vacation and need a fun beach read, we highly recommend this one! Parker Warren will have our hearts until another book boyfriend can dethrone him. Enjoy!

June Bookish: Book To Screen Adaptations, Mariana Zapata & Ghosts

Welcome back to our June bookish episode! We hope you’re enjoying your beach reads this summer 🌊🐚
We are discussing part two of book to tv/movie adaptations (there are just too many these days lol), our June book of the month (Summer In The City by Alex Aster), current reads, and weirdly…ghosts! This is definitely our most tangent heavy episode yet. We hope you enjoy!
 
Timestamps:
June book announcement: 9:35
Current reads: 13:45
Part two of book to tv/movie adaptations: 28:00

Great Big Beautiful Life By Emily Henry

Welcome BACK to our book club episode!! We are discussing one of our favorite author's newest book: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry!
We go through the usual- the summary, overall thoughts, discussion questions, Hollywood adaptations, and of course, our ratings. We also discuss our current favorite shows (The Handmaids Tale & Sirens), Hailey Bieber's new billionaire status, and weirdly Saanya's current reddit obsession.
Let us know how you liked the book and what your rating is! Enjoy :)

May Bookish: Book To Screen Adaptations, Current Reads & MET Gala

Welcome to our bookish episode for the month of May!!
Today we're announcing our May book club pick: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (duh lol), we hope you read along! We also give our thoughts on the new release King Of Envy by Ana Huang, her previous book King Of Wrath, break down our part one of book to tv/movie adaptions (part two is coming next month), and chat about the MET gala!
 
Book to tv/movie adaptations mentioned:
-The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3
-Colleen Hoover's Verity
-Colleen Hoover's Regretting You
-Colleen Hoover's Reminders Of Him
-A Good Girls Guide To Murder season 2
-Capote's Women/Capote vs. The Swans

This Book Will Bury Me By Ashley Winstead

Welcome to our April book club episode! We are discussing This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead and let me tell you we are patting ourselves on the back because we sure picked a WINNER!! This thriller is seriously so good and I'll be screaming it from the rooftops. It's the perfect book for any true crime lover.
We give a brief synopsis, our overall thoughts, discuss some questions we drummed up, do our Hollywood adaption section, and of course give our ratings (spoiler alert they are very high lol). Oh and we also had to discuss the light hearted romances we will be reading after this darkkk book!
Thank you so much for listening and we hope you enjoy :)

April Bookish: Current Reads, Handmaid's Tale, and White Lotus

Happy Spring and welcome to April bookish!! We attempted to do a quickie episode but of course we continued to yap.
We announce our April book of the month, This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead. The author confirmed it’s inspired by the 2022 Idaho murders, and we are equally spooked and so ready for this thriller.
Current reads: Saanya is diving into The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren, and Sehrish has finally escaped her book slump with The Briar Club by Kate Quinn.
We all know the book is (almost) always better than the Hollywood adaptation, but Saanya will report back once she reads The Handmaid’s Tale. And if you’re doomscrolling TikTok like Sehrish, you’re probably deep in White Lotus theories—and yes, we’re all obsessed with Chloe’s yacht look.
We hope you enjoy!

Beautiful Ugly By Alice Feeney

Welcome to our March book club episode! We are discussing Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney, a new thriller that was just released this past January. We share a short summary, our overall thoughts on the book, go through discussion questions, cast our perfect Hollywood adaption, and of course give our final ratings for the book! 
We were surprisingly on separate sides of the spectrum of whether or not we liked this book lol, and have heard a lot of polarizing rumblings on bookstagram and booktok as well, so we would love to know what you all think! Did you enjoy it or despise it?
Enjoy the episode!

Bookish: Most Anticipated 2025 New Releases

It's time for our March bookish episode!
Today we're discussing: our March book of the month pick (Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney), a kindle colorsoft review, Paris recap, Tinx's Hotter in the Hamptons TV adaptation, and our most anticipated new 2025 spring book releases!! Enjoy!

Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

February Book Club: Deep End by Ali Hazelwood! ❤️
For our February book club, we’re diving (& swimming lol) into Ali Hazelwood’s newest release, Deep End! We promised a romance-filled month, and this book definitely delivered. We weren’t expecting this level of spice, but we had plenty to discuss—especially when it came to Scarlett and Lukas’ redeeming qualities. And of course, we couldn’t resist casting our Hollywood picks for the characters!
Do you agree with our low ratings? Or completely disagree? Let us know! And as always, thanks for reading along with us this month.
P.S. This episode drops on Saanya’s birthday, so you know it’s a special one! 🎉