Stay ConnectedBookTok is a podcast book club with your new best friends! Follow along with us as we read sections of books and chat about them each week. Hosted by Katie Chaney and Erica Bailey, new episodes drop every week on Sunday nights.
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Happy holiday weekend!! For this one-off special episode, we are talking allll about Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman. This book sure seems like the book of the summer and you KNOW we have thoughts. Spoilers abound!
Next week, we start reading our next book club read - The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill. For the first week, we are reading chapters 1-9. The first episode comes out on July 17th!
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Other books and articles mentioned in this episode:
Chris Evans: American Marvel (GQ Article)
The Club by Ellery Lloyd
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score
Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
This is the last episode about Writers & Lovers by Lily King! Next week, we will have a special, one-off episode about Funny You Should Ask, the buzziest romance book of the summer!
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Other books mentioned in this episode:
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Annie and the Wolves by Andromeda Romano-Lax
My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
We cannot decide if Casey is the most sympathetic character or the least... you decide! Next week, we are finishing the book, can't wait to see how this all wraps up.
In this episode, we also announce our next book club read - The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill. We start reading on July 10th!
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Other books mentioned in this episode:
California Blood at Gettysburg by Mig Gallagher
The Club by Ellery Lloyd
What You’re Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score
My Body by Emily Ratajowski
Bunny by Mona Awad
Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur
HELLO FRIENDS AND LOVERS, we are back with part two of Writers & Lovers by Lily King. We are feeling marginally better in this episode! Next week, we are reading pages 170-250. See you then <3 <3 <3
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Other books mentioned in this episode:
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Mosfegh
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
The Club by Ellery Lloyd
Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann
Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza
So We Meet Again by Suzanne Park
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
We're back baby! This is the first episode about Writers and Lovers by Lily King. Erica keeps wanting to call this book "Friends and Lovers" and... fair. In this section, we have lots of friends and lots of lovers and lots of in between possible lovers? Erica and Katie are both sick in this episode sadly, sorry about the sniffles! Next week, we are reading pages 86-169.
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Other books mentioned in this episode:
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
In this special episode, we read Girl on the Train in one day and record as we go! Spoilers are OUT THERE. We have .... feelings ......
Next week, we start reading our next book club read: Writers and Lovers by Lily King
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Other books mentioned in this episode:
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
This book was a real whirlwind! In this episode, we wrap up the end of Honor by Thrity Umrigar! In the second half of the episode, Sri from @browngirlbookshelf joins us to talk more about the themes of this book.
Our next bookclub read is Writers and Lovers by Lily King! Grab your copy, we start reading on 5/22
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Other books mentioned in this episode:
The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara
Mirror Made of Rain by Naheed Phiroze Patel
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Anxious People by Fredrick Backman
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis
this episode is about the third section of Honor by Thrity Umrigar and our hearts were broken then mended then broken then mended again in this section! next week, we are finally (hopefully??) going to find out what happens in this court case because we are FINISHING the book!
We also announced our NEXT book club read: Writers and Lovers by Lily King! we hope you'll join us.
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Other books mentioned in this episode:
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
Probably Ruby by Lisa Bird-Wilson
This love story has us feeling a lot of feelings. Next week, we are reading chapters 20-31 of Honor by Thrity Umrigar!
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Other books mentioned in this episode:
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
A Woman is No Man by Etaf Frum
Sooley by John Grisham
Live Laugh Kidnap by Gabby Noone
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
We are BACK baby! This episode covers the first section of Honor by Thrity Umrigar. Next week, we are reading chapters 9-19!
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Other books mentioned in this episode:
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Sooley by John Grisham
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
Stay and Fight by Madeline Fitch
Educated by Tara Westover
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
Milk Fed by Melissa Febos
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Haruki Murakami (author)
Verity by Colleen Hoover
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
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