by renata | December 18, 2023 · 12:00 pm
Once again, we’ve managed to sneak in a few good books this year! Here are our favorite books we read in 2023 (regardless of publication year. Long live backlist titles!)
Footnotes: Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2023 (featuring Renata’s picks for middle grade and YA!)
Coming up next: A January hiatus. Happy New Year! We’ll see you in February!
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Tagged as Bests, Blythe Roberson, Chuck Tingle, Colin Dickey, Craig DiLouie, Emily Carroll, Hanif Abdurriqib, Helena Greer, Kate Alice Marshall, M. T. Anderson, Martha Wells, Moniquill Blackgoose, Nghi Vo, Robin Wall Kimmerer, T. Kingfisher
by renata | February 27, 2023 · 12:00 pm
Here’s what we suggest instead of/in addition to reading The Last Boyfriend by Nora Roberts. Listen to the podcast to hear us talk about some of these titles in more depth!
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by renata | December 19, 2022 · 12:00 pm
Another year has come and gone, and yet we’re still here, talking about books! For a treat, here are some good ones.
Footnotes: Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2022 (featuring Renata’s picks for middle grade and YA!)
Coming up next: A January hiatus. Happy New Year! We’ll see you in February!
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by renata | December 20, 2021 · 12:00 pm
Another year has come and gone, and Kait and Renata are here to make lemonade out of the lemons of 2021. We each picked our top 6 books of the year and discussed some other highlights of the year.
Footnotes: The Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2021, featuring Renata’s picks for best middle grade and young adult novels
Taylor Swift
Legends of Tomorrow
Ted Lasso
The West Wing
Fast & Furious: Highway Heist Game
Wingspan
Coming up next: A January hiatus. Happy New Year! We’ll see you in February!
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by renata | January 20, 2020 · 12:00 pm
Tune in to our Bests & Worsts of 2019 episodes to hear us discuss these titles and read excerpts from our favorites! Please note:
- We counted things that we read in 2019, regardless of publication year.
- We didn’t count anything that we read specifically for this podcast, so our worst books are aside from those.
- For that reason, we picked top 5 favorites and only 1 least favorite–we have this whole podcast to talk about bad books, so for these episodes we’re choosing to focus on the positive!
- Some of our “worsts” are really just “least best.” Listen to the podcast to hear more detail!
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