Two girls ranting and reading! New episodes every first and last Friday of the month.
We did not pick this topic because of the attack on Ukraine, but there is nothing else we would rather discuss in light of it. Here is a discussion of tyranny in all its form. Political or not. Fiction and nonfiction. History and mythology. Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick The Verso Book of Dissent The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer Creation of the Gods by Zu Zhonglin A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Join Deb and Mindy as they discuss the last few months of books and reading! It's a two-month catch-up in dark Wes Anderson, Chinese BL webnovels, and charming middle-grade novels. Honestly, the range is impeccable. Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation by Erika Krouse The Scum Villain's Self-Serving System by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù The Phantom Toolbooth by Norton Juster Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson What Happens at Night by Peter Cameron
Deb and Mindy discuss some of their fave middle-grade novels and series! Honestly, if there is anything we can take away from this episode, it might be THAT book Mindy discussed. It's wild. Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper The Guardians series by William Joyce The Woman Who Loved Reindeer Ranger's Apprentice series by John Flanagan The Best Christmas Present Ever by by Barbara Robinson
2021 comes to an end with a look towards 2022. Join Deb and Mindy as they look back on their reading year and the resolution they hope to achieve in the new year. (Honestly, it sounds like it was a weird year for webtoons.) Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com
Another month gone by with more books to talk about. Except there wasn't much reading. This is a podcast about two ladies ranting and reading, but for this episode, Deb and Mindy really amped up the ranting part. If the 20 minute rant about vampires don't convince you, then the other 20 minute rant about another book might! Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison Fantastic Tales by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
Join Deb and Mindy as they discuss their reading month! Rig oils and affairs, horror and hauntings, (not)Great British Bake-off romance, and political fantasy BL romances! What a month! Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: Sea State: A Memoir by Tabitha Lasley The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall King's Maker by Haga, Kang Ji Young
It's the last part of our three part epic Romance genre discussion! It's been a wild ride, but we've come here at last. Join us as discuss some of our favorite and memorable contemporary romances. Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: More Than a Friend by Elizabeth Winfrey Evie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes The Runaway Princess by Hester Browne From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
Another month with another reading round-up! Join Deb and Mindy as talk about their reading month. Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos Weather by Jenny Offill Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher
Deb and Mindy are back at it again! Welcome back to the second part of our three part series of ROMANCE! There are so many dukes! And Mindy gets very confused. Join us as we discuss some of our fave romance books in historical, fantasy, and classics settings! Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com
Happy two years to Not a Bookclub! Deb and Mindy are back with another Reading Round-Up episode(previously named "Whatcha read?"). Join them as they talk about graphic novels, agriculture, and sad books that were bought because the cover was pretty. Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: Hawkeye by Matt Fraction The Adventure Zone: Crystal Kingdom by the McElroys and Carey Pietsch Pastoral Song: A Farmer's Journey by James Rebank Tin Man by Sarah Winman She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Welcome back, Deb and Mindy! Welcome back friends! Readers and non-readers! This month, ROMANCE is in the air! Well, not exactly. Deb and Mindy discuss what is the romance genre. Tropes they like and don't like and what constitutes as romance. Join them as they deep dive into the genre. Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com
No new Spotlight for July and Whatcha read ep for August. We'll be back August 27th. Happy Reading!
Join Deb and Mindy as they talk about their reading month. Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: Brickmakers by Selva Almada translated by Annie McDermott Friends & Dark Shapes by Kavita Bedford Tomorrow They Don't Dare to Murder Us by Joseph Andras translated by Simon Leser The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
Since places are beginning to open up Stateside, Deb and Mindy discuss books set in places where they want to travel to! Join them as they talk about books that might or might not have anything to do with the country they want to go to, and the itineraries that were created pre-pandemic! Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne Mrs. Mike by Benedict Freedman and Nancy Freedman I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade by Diane Lee Wilson Life Along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang Gourmet Magazine Austenland by Shannon Hale
For the latest bookclub episode, Deb and Mindy discuss the last book in the Queen's Thief series by Meghan Whalen Turner, Return of the Thief. Join them as they discuss the big finale to the story of Eugenides, the characters they hated and loved, and the war with the Mede Empire! Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com
Deb and Mindy talk about their reading month! Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: Network Effect by Martha Wells Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
Deb and Mindy discuss the formative YA novels read during their teen years! Girls dressing as boys to be in a male dominated job(yes), glitter grunge(of course), and diaries of a certain Genovian princess(ALWAYS). Join them as they try to remember plots and the wild trips down memory lane. Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: The Princess Diaries Series by Meg Cabot Tamora Pierce I was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli Vivian Vande Velde Bloody Jack Series by L.A. Meyer
Not a Bookclub's bookclub book! This month Deb and Mindy read the fifth book in Meghan Whalen Turner's The Queen's Thief series: Thick as Thieves. Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com
Join Deb and Mindy as they discuss their reading month! Memoirs galore, charming love stories with reality TV settings, and fictional rockbands from the 70's! Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: Docile by K.M. Szpara Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko My Name is Selma by Selma van de Perre Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell Educated by Tara Westover
Deb and Mindy talk about the most openly unexclusive "secret" club there is: fanfiction. Join them as they take a walk down memory lane and talk about their guilty(not really) pleasure. Disclaimer: All opinions are personal with no judgement on others preferred fanfiction reading experience and tags. Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores Follow us: Instagram Twitter For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com
Deb and Mindy are back with the extra episode of the month! Join them as they discuss Not a Bookclub's bookclub book! Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Indie Bookstores For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Bookclub book: A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner
Deb and Mindy talk their recent reading month. So many audiobooks. Make sure to plan in investing for your retirement plan. The tomes of the Obamas. And cancel culture? Support AAPI Black Lives Matter Shop Local Bookshops For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com The Removed by Brandon Hobson Becoming by Michelle Obama A Promised Land by Barack Obama Invested by Danielle Town and Phil Town Early Works, 1970-1979 by Patti Smith The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Some thoughts. Stop AAPI Hate AAPI Civic Engagement Support Local Bookstores For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com.
Another month, another Not a Bookclub Bookclub book. Join Deb and Mindy as they discuss the next book in The Queen's Thief series, The King of Attolia, and the debate that ensues if Gen is to be Thief in this book or King. Stop AAPI Hate Support Local Bookstores For inquiries, notabookclub.pod@gmail.com. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
Join Deb and Mindy as they discuss their reading month! Gay romances, comedian memoirs, and royal families?! Yes!! For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: The Will Darling Adventures by K.J. Charles Survival of the Thickest by Michelle Buteau 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin Fox 8 by George Saunders Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Omid Scobie
Deb and Mindy are at it again, on the one subject they can't stop talking about... this time, they share some of their manga comfort reads. For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com. Series Discussed: Assassination Classroom, Yusei Matsui Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, Akira Amano Twittering Birds Never Fly, Yoneda Kou Hoshin Engi, Fujisaki Ryu Ace of Diamond, Yuji Terajima Your and My Secret, Morinaga Ai
Join Deb and Mindy as they discuss the second book in The Queen's Thief series The Queen of Attolia. For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
Join Deb and Mindy as they discussed what they have read recently. Thriller/mystery as a travel book, Japanese classic lit with unlikeable characters, and the last interview of one of the most mysterious tragic actresses. For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com. Books discussed: The Bishop's Bedroom by Piera Chiara Botchan by Natsume Soseki Hola Papi by John Paul Brammer Luster by Raven Leilani Marilyn Monroe: The Last Interview edited by Sady Doyle
What makes a superhero? What makes a superhero story? Come join Deb and Mindy as they debate on what is the 'Superhero' genre! *Disclaimer: they went on for a while. For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com. Books Discussed: Hero by Perry Moore The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClaren Vicious by V.E. Schwab All my Friends are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee
Welcome to Not a Bookclub's first bookclub special! Mindy wanted to talk about a book so we decided to do bookclub for the entire series. Read along or just listen to the rants and join them as they discuss the first book in The Queen's Thief series by Meghan Whalen Turner. *Correction: Pol's main job was to protect Sophos. For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com The Thief by Meghan Whalen Turner
Happy New Year, everyone!! Goodbye 2020 and hello to 2021! Welcome to the first episode of the year! Come join Deb and Mindy as they discuss the last few books read in 2020. True crime, Joseon(Korea) mysteries, and magic children coming through! For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Shop local: https://bookshop.org/ Books Discussed: We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Silence of Bones by June Hur Straight from the Hourse's Mouth by Meryum Alaoui The House in the Cerulean Sea By TJ Klune
2020 is coming to an end and what a year it has been! Come join Deb and Mindy as they reflect on their reading year. From changing reading habits to expanding genres to mindless comfort reads. How did reading and books help process this year? For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Shop local: https://bookshop.org/ Happy Holidays, everyone!
Deb and Mindy discuss their reading(or lack of reading) month! For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com. Books Discussed: Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera Teach Me by Olivia Dade Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi Missionaries by Phil Klay
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! We hope you were able to enjoy this holiday, dedicated overeating, while socially distanced! Since the holidays for gift giving is coming up, we decided to highlight some of our favorite indie bookstores in NYC! Come hear us talk about cookbook stores, secondhand wonders, and an entire bookstore dedicated to children's books. CORRECTION: Strand Bookstore's tagline is 18 miles of books; not 5 miles of books. For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com. Shop indie books at bookshop.org. Bookstores Discussed: Archestratus Books The Center for Fiction Albertine Books of Wonder Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks Housing Works Bookstore Cafe and Bar BOOKOFF Rizzoli Bookstore Powerhouse Arena Word Bookstore Three Lives & Company Strand Book Store Books Are Magic The Lit. Bar
Come join Deb and Mindy as they discuss the books that helped distract them in the last month! For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore Sex With Presidents by Eleanor Herman You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria In: A Graphic Novel by Will McPhail Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
Deb and Mindy are at it again! It's another CLAMP spotlight episode and it's a doozy. Come join them as they finish off discussing the publish works of one of the most popular manga acts in the world. Main takeaways: it's beautiful, depressing, and constantly on hiatus. Timestamps for series discussed: Legal Drug: 3:54 Chobits: 10:38 Murikuri: 20:42 xxxHolic: 21:38 Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles: 34:42 Kobato: 45:01 Gate 7: 47.18 Drug and Drop: 49:07 xxxHolic Rei/Tsubasa World Chronicles: Nirai Kanai-hen: 49:51 Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card: 52:31
Join Deb and Mindy as they discuss their reading month! (Mindy definitely had a mood this month.) Links: Black Lives Matter Register to vote For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lourde Animal Farm by George Orwell The Burning God(The Poppy War #3) by R.F. Kuang The Fire This Farm edited by Jesmyn Ward Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall Bestiary by K-Ming Chang Moms by Yeong-shin Ma Sisters by Daisy Johnson Earthling by Sayaka Murata
CLAMP!! One of the biggest names in the manga and anime world. For Deb and Mindy, CLAMP was one of the most influential story-tellers of their old adolescent lives. Come join them as they nerd out, angrily discuss on being mutually broken, and cry out in awe at the beauty of the artwork. Also, missing eyeballs. For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Links: Black Lives Matter Register to vote Justice for Breonna
Join Deb and Mindy as they discuss what they have read recently! Links: Black Lives Matter Black Owned Bookstores Register to vote For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes
Another month, another spotlight episode. Join Deb and Mindy as they discuss some of their favorite Shakespeare works! What makes Shakespeare so good? Is it actually hard to understand? What's the deal with that teenage star-crossed lover angst? TWO HOUSEHOLDS BOTH ALIKE IN DIGNITY, IN FAIR VERONA WHERE WE LAY OUR SCENE- For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com (Excessive amounts of rain can be heard in the latter half of the recording.) *Correction: The tool in Much Ado About Nothing is named Claudio, not Claudius. Such a tool.*
What happens when Deb is in a reading slump? What happens when Mindy isn't? Come join them as they discuss the books they read(or lack of books read) in the last month! For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com. Books Discussed: A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal by the Mcelroys and Carey Pietsch Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Odd Girl Out by Morangg The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
Join Deb and Mindy as they discuss books-to-films adaptions. Find out what they liked, what they were not huge fans of, and if reading the book before or after watching the movie makes a difference! CORRECTION: Far From the Madding Crowd is written by Thomas HARDY, not HARDING. For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com. Books Discussed: Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy Laura by Vera Caspary
Catch up with Deb and Mindy's reading month! Places to donate: Black Lives Matter Carrd Okra Project For inquires, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: Meaty by Samantha Irby Middlegame by Seannan McGuire False Values by Ben Aaronovitch Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
This month, Deb and Mindy discuss Black Authors in various genres. Join them as they also discuss the disparity in the publishing industry and in book awards. Links: Black Lives Matter https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Black owned independent bookstores For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu Jazz by Toni Morrison The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson Fact check: N.K. Jemisin's paid advance was $25,000 per book as oppose to the $58,000 that was mentioned. Click here for article.
We discuss the importance of awareness, the need for compassion, and owning up to our ignorance. Please see below for links for donations: Black Lives Matter ACLU National Bail Fund Network ActBlue Some book lists from bookstores: The Strand bookstore list Cafe con Libros The Lit Bar bookstore list For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com. Books Discussed: The Best American Food Writing 2019 by Samin Nosrat Ice by Anna Kavan Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command by Sean Naylor Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Come join Deb and Mindy as they talk about their favorite childhood novels! Princess, cursed girls, and children shifting into animals galore! For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnetts Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster The Royal Diaries Series Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman Amelia's Notebook by Marissa Moss Animorphs Series by K.A. Applegate
Join Deb and Mindy this week as they rant about why high fantasy books are hard, Knight's Tale vs. Ever After, and ice skating romances! For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: Blood Rites by Jim Butcher My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata
What's everyone doing in isolation? Cooking? Well in this week's episode, Deb and Mindy spotlight cookbooks! Join them as they discuss how to actually read cookbooks and if they actually use any of the recipes. For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com. Clementine in the Kitchen by Samuel V. Chamberlain Nothing Fancy by Alison Roman New Delineater Recipes Just a French Guy Cooking by Alexis Gabriel Ainouz The Food of Taiwan by Cathy Erway Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes by Robin Ha The Gourmet Cookbook: More than 1000 Recipes by Ruth Reichl
Hard times calls for light reading. Come join Deb and Mindy as they discuss their reading month filled with romance, fluff, and cats? For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: Wayside School Series by Louis Sachar Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston SPOILERS: 17:00-27:00 Well Met by Jen DeLuca Any Old Diamonds by K.J. Charles Saphie: The One-Eyed Cat by Joho Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
It's a weird and terrible time out there right now. Like everyone else, we've been trying to stave off boredom and upsetting feelings by trying to distract ourselves. We hope that in this crazy and unsure time, that hearing two girls talk about books will help in your own distraction endeavors. For inquiries, please email notabookclub.pod@gmail.com Books Discussed: Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews Tampa by Alissa Nutting (SPOILERS: 19:45-20:53) Fiasco: The American Military Adventures in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama Maurice by E.M. Forster Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
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