The Poet and the Reader

Hi! After an unplanned hiatus, we are back! We apologize for the radio silence, life hit us both a little too hard in bad and in great ways. But we hope you have all been well, and in this episode we go over a few of the books we have made our way through so far this year. Thank you for listening!

In this one, we really didn't learn our lesson and have once again battled our favorite books of 2023. It was torture! We hope you enjoy listening to us struggle D:

In this episode, Vina shares the most random astrology story and then we eventually get into our hopes and dreams for 2024

Happy New Year! We are back and feeling ✨ brand new ✨ with a crisp and clean sound thanks to P&T Knitwear's podcast studio! In this one, we go over our 2023 reading stats and more. Thanks for listening!

In this short one, we find out which of us guessed the most winners of the GR awards!

In this one, we vent heavily over the audacity of the Goodreads Choice Awards. Forget our usual format, we got a lot to say and we mean it with our whole chest! Let us know what you think of this year's nominees.

In this one we share our latest reads and the Latinx titles we hope to read by the end of 2023. Thanks for listening!

We're back! We have so many last reads to fill you in on and we each share a bit about our separate trips to DC to see our queens

In this one, we share some pretty amazing recent reads and dive into a midyear reading check in! Thanks as always for tuning in ❤️

In this one we discuss another buddy read (!!!), and Chanice shares her experience with NYC's Pride Bookstore Crawl. We hope you enjoy!

In this one, we chat about buddy reading one of our most anticipated books of 2023 and Vina shares her Portland book haul!

In this one, we bring you up to date on all the great and not so great books we've read so far. Let us know if you decide to pick any of these up ❤️

In this one, we rant quite a bit about Love is Blind - did you watch this insane season?? Once we get back on track, Chanice shares her poetry haul from The Strand and Vina shares her meeting one of her fave authors, Gabrielle Zevin!

Hi, welcome back! We are so sorry for this unintentional hiatus - we had some technical and scheduling conflicts. We are excited to be back to update you on our last six reads. Let us know what you think of these titles, too! We appreciate your patience and continued support

In this one, we are finally back to update you on our latest reads and to share our surprising reading goals! Let us know what your goal is too

In this one, we remain toxicas and battle our fave books of 2022 for the second half of the year. Also lots of reading updates! We hope you enjoy ☺️

In this episode, we share our stats and wrap up our 2022 reading year! Thanks as always for tuning in ❤️

In this one we share our last reads of 2022 and our last book purchases! Thanks for listening this year, we really appreciate you and hope that it was a great reading year for you too!

In this one, get our live reaction to the Goodreads Choice Award winners!

In this one, we take turns predicting the winners in each category of the Goodreads Choice Awards. Winner will get French toast and a book from the loser

In this one, we get heated and cuckoo over the Goodreads nominees. Let us know who you have voted for!

In this one, we share recommendations based on our zodiac signs! Let us know if you would like for us to recommends books based on your sign. As always, thank you for listening!

In this one, Vina shocks the pod with three last reads !!! And we both share spooky and thrilling reads for the season. Thanks for tuning in!

In this one, we update you on our Latinx reads so far and we share the finalists of the National Book Award! As always thank you for listening!

In this one, we promised to simply touch base and keep it short but as usual we go on tangents

In this one, we touch base on how we are doing with our TBR Latinx pile. We also discuss each title nominated in the fiction and poetry longlist of the National Book Award! As always thanks for listening!

In this episode, we briefly address our previous episode on TJR but not for long because LATINX HERITAGE MONTH IS HERE! We are so excited for the books we will be reading. Let us know what you plan to read too!

In this episode, we are coming to you from Connecticut! We drove over for Taylor Jenkins Reid's book launch and obviously visited a bookstore and library! Let us know what you think, we're happy to keep the conversation going!

In this episode, we decided it was a good idea to battle our favorite books for the first 6 months of 2022. Cue violence

In this one, we have a very special returning guest - Julissa! Since we mention her in every episode and some of you have asked for her to come back - we delivered! We share diverse titles currently on our TBR pile. We hope you enjoy the episode and let us know what you think!

In this one, we catch you up on our recent reads and Vina shares her bookstore experience in Phoenix. We hope you enjoy this episode and as always we love to hear your feedback!

In this one, Vina shares her bookstore crawl experience and Chanice tells us which five books are in her Pride TBR! We hope you enjoy the episode and as always we love to hear your feedback.

In this one, we catch you up after an unintentional hiatus and we summarize what we've read for the first half of 2022. We hope you enjoy it and as always we love to hear your feedback.

In this one, we find out who has read a ton since our last episode and who really hasn't

In this one, we catch you up on the books we've read and share our most anticipated women debut titles in honor of Women's History Month! We hope you enjoy it and as always we love to get your feedback!

In this one, we visited some of NYC's black-owned bookstores! You all voted for this to be our topic and we were more than happy to deliver! We hope you enjoy it and as always we love to get your feedback!

In this one, we start off with a quick recap of the books we've read in January, followed by a few useful reading habits that any reader can apply to make reading a consistent habit!

Happy New Year! Thanks for tuning in to another episode! In this one, we share if we met our 2021 goals and wrap up our year. We also share what we hope to achieve in 2022! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok: @poetandreader

In this episode, we share our time shopping at Barnes & Noble - which we haven't done together in over a decade! We share our book hauls, one of us is bigger that the other... And we thank you all for listening to our podcast in 2021! We look forward to recording more episodes for you next year! Let us know what you think and thanks as always for tuning in! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok: @poetandreader

In this short, bonus episode we share our live reaction to the Goodreads Award winners! Tune in for our shock, excitement, and slight disappointment. As always let us know what you think! Did your picks win? Follow us on Instagram and TikTok: @poetandreader

In this episode, we are sharing our thoughts on this year's Goodreads Choice Awards - the good, the bad, the 'who the heck is picking these books', and more. We also lock in our predictions for the winners, keep an eye out for another episode on Monday when we will record our reaction to the winners. Let us know what you think and thanks as always for tuning in! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok: @poetandreader

In this episode, we are so excited to introduce you all to one of our dearest friends, Julissa! She shares with us how her reading year is going and we do the Moody Book Tag together. It's a lot of fun and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did :) Let us know what you think and thanks as always for tuning in! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok: @poetandreader

WE'RE BACK!!! We are so sorry for the radio silence but we are back with you to celebrate Latinx Heritage Month! In this episode, we update you on our last and current reads, and we recommend Latinx books that you might not have heard of! Let us know what you think and thanks as always for tuning in! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok: @poetandreader

In this episode, we tell you all about the book village we found in upstate New York! And of course, we share our latest reads and recommendations. Let us know what you think and thanks as always for tuning in! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok: @poetandreader

In this episode, we discuss the book to movie/tv adaptations that we love and the ones that we are excitedly waiting for! Let us know what you think and thanks as always for tuning in! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok: @poetandreader

In this episode, we update you in our last and current reads. We also do the mid-year wrap up tag in which we share the best and most disappointing reads of 2021 so far! Let us know what you think and thanks as always for tuning in! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok: @poetandreader

In this episode, we update you in our last, current, and next reads. The main topic is a celebration of Pride books and we share LGBTQ+ books we strongly recommend that you add to your TBR right now! Let us know what you think and thanks as always for tuning in! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok: @poetandreader

In this episode, we update you in what we have finished reading, what we hope to read next, and we share our thoughts on Shadow & Bone (the Netflix show AND the first book in the series). Please beware that we don't hold back on spoilers!! Let us know what you think and thanks for tuning in! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok: @poetandreader

In this episode, we discuss some book tea ☕️ (book world is messy right now) and we update you on some new favorite books we've read. Chanice also shares a poem inspired by the cover of Dealing in Dreams which you all voted on! Let us know what you think! Thanks for tuning in! Follow us on Instagram @poetandreader

In this episode we chat about what we've read since our last episode and then we dive into who we are, how we met, and our younger reading years. Let us know what you think! Thanks for tuning in! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok: @poetandreader

In this episode we will be doing a reading wrap up, talking about Chanice's writing process, our journeys in publishing as latinas, and sharing the women writers who have shaped us as readers. Let us know what you think! Thanks for tuning in! Follow us on Instagram @poetandreader