3 Book Girls

Shona joins us for a foursome this week to celebrate Texas turning blue! Actually she planned to be on this week anyway but that sure sounds freaking awesome doesn't it? A discussion of tasty balls and 4 excellent book reviews are in this week's show! This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger American Nightmare by Kelly McWilliams Look What the Cat Dragged in by Jason Rekulak The Pinnacle by Abir Mukherjee

Your favorite snarky readers are back to reading non-spooky books again! What kind of joy is lurking the books this week? A Founding Mother by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie Understory by Chloe Benjimin Lanny by Max Porter

A makeup brush is a disguise for a what? Frightening vegetables for Halloween and other scary crap plus 3 horror novels reviewed make for a perfect combination! Stay buried by Jennifer McMahon The Hill in the Dark Grove by Liam Higginson Howls from the Wreckage Edited by Christopher O'Halloren

October reads can get pretty dark, so we like to add a little humor before we scare the crap out of you! Three nightmare inducing books are on the menu this week. Maggie's Grave by David Sodergren The Sixth Nik by Daniel Krauss Saint Delilah by Isabelle Spotts

We always default to talk of candy this time of year, but in true book girl fashion some of it is obscene. Do we have good books? Um, yes! Sometimes I Scare Myself by Jeneva Rose The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig Crone by Keith Rossen

Welcome to the first week of spooky month! Martha returned from Italy with stories of phalluses, and Voni and Pat are willing to put up with her ramblings. Of course there are 3 spectacular horror recommendations lurking within this episode! Play Nice by Rachel Harrison Burn Line by Jonathan Sims A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-Young

Martha is still on vacation (she'll be back next week). The good news is that we have Taylor filling in. The bad news is that technical difficulties resulted in our losing a lot of her sections, so you can only hear her during the first part of the podcast, and all we have for her book review is a name mention. That also means this week's edition is shorter than usual. Apologies for the mishap, and we'd like to say it won't happen again, but technology being what it is ... we can't promise. This week's books are: It Came From Neverland by Cynthia Pelayo Ararat by Christopher Golden (name mention only, no review) A Good Person by Kirsten King

Martha is on vacation, but Fara and Phyllis are here, so the fun continues -- and we get to talk about 4 books this week : Eleanor by Alice Loxton Theo of Golden by Allen Levi Jack of Hearts (book 1 of the Shilling and Florin series) by Kate Haley It's Hard to Be an Animal by Robert Isaacs

Weird food, how to drive like a Republican, and of course, books! This week we review: Priest by Sierra Simone Vagabond by Tim Curry The Infinite State by Richard Swan

It's amazing the filthy things you find in small town Wyoming convenience stores. Vacation aside, we reviewed some interesting books this week. Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir Black Bag by Luke Kennard Food Person by Adam D. Roberts