Welcome to our belated June book club! Today we're reviewing Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, a longtime favorite author of ours. We're talking the space race, complicated families, favorite side characters, and how this story compares to TJR's other books.

(00:00 - 15:32) Intro & life updates kiki

(15:33 - 27:24) Spoiler-free discussion & initial ratings

(27:24 - end) Spoiler discussion & full review

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Surprise! After our impromptu two week break we are back! We have a lot of life updates to share on this one including RiLee's recap of her time at the Electric Forest and a full Love Island debrief.

36:30 Books

• Every Summer After by Carly Fortune
• For She is Wrath by Emily Varga
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44:32 Movies

• The last repair shop
• The materialists
• Howls moving castle
• How to train your dragon

57:40 TV

• Doctor Who
• Americas sweethearts: making the dcc team
• Love island

1:16:05 Upcoming:

• We were liars
• The Ultimatum: queer love
• Perfect Match
• Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Reunion

Music and Podcasts

• FATHER FIGURE - Jon Bellion
• Virgin - Lorde
• Bbno$

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To prepare for the TV series coming out, we read the 2014 Tumblr classic We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. For one of us this was a reread, while the other got to experience that insane twist ending for the first time. Suffice it to say we went on a JOURNEY.

TIME STAMPS: (0:00) Housekeeping & life updates (10:58) 1-minute reviews and non-spoiler discussion (20:37) Full spoiler discussion begins.

RATING: 6.25 / 10

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This is a chaos episode that we pregamed with a bottle of wine, so buckle up and get ready.

Topics include:

Books:

• Carrie Soto is Back
• Invisible Women
• Lessons in Chemistry
• Bloodmarked

Movies

• Sinners
• Lilo and Stitch
• Howard (diseny+)

TV

• Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
• Below Deck Down Under
• 911/The Rookie
• 
  

TBR

• The Bear
• The Materialists
• Ballerina - John Wick
• Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
• Love and other words by Christina Lauren
• Dont Let Him In by Lisa Jewell

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Welcome to our May book club! Korean folklore, melodramatic teenagers, and the chance to change your fate are among the discussion topics for our review of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh. One of us enjoyed this book a lot less than the other, which gave us a lot to sink our teeth into as we tried to figure out why.

Rating: 5.75 / 10

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SUMMER IS HERE!!! To celebrate we've pulled together what might be our longest TBR list yet (we were VERY optimistic about our reading goals). In this episode we discuss books from every genre, nonfiction to thriller to romance and even some books we pulled out from childhood.

08:17 Anticipated reads:

• Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
• A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Bandanna
• Katabasis by RF Kuang

24:24 Summer TBR:

• Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
• People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Grams
• Blood over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang
• The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
• The Only One Left by Riley Sager
• Its all Tuberculosis by John Green
• The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haight
• It’s Not Hysteria by Karen Tang
• We were Liars by E. Lockhart
• The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden
• The Host by Stephanie Meyer

4:38 Books we recommend for summer

• Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
• Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
• Poison Study by Maria Snyder
• The Lies of Locke Lamora By Scott Lynch
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
• The Switch by Beth O’Leary
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Mrs. Nash’s Ashes by Sarah Adler
• Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Happy Hour by Marlow Granados

Summer Reads with episodes on the pod

• Fable by Adrienne Young
• Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• God of the Woods by Liz Moore

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Emily Henry's new book is here and it's got major mixed reviews, inspiring major mixed feelings in our review. Is it insta-love, or the greatest romance ever written? We talk through the arcs of our 3 main characters to figure it out, then fancast them in the end for funsies.

This episode contains full spoilers for Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry, but no spoilers for any of her other books. No spoilers for Evelyn Hugo either, despite the title.

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April was filled with research and reddit spirals for us and it shows. This might be our most varied episode yet, from horror movies to non-fiction about women's medicine we cover it all.

This is a spoiler free episode.

3:01 May Book Club

• Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

4:41 May Release Radar

• Lilo and Stitch

7:24 Books

• Wild Love by Elsie Silver
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
• Bloodmarked by Tracey Deon
• Invisible women by Caroline Criado-Perez

20:16 Music and Podcasts

• Armchair expert
• • Referenced Mary Clare Haver episode
• This podcast will kill you

27:50 Movies

• pride and prejudice
• Terminator
• John Williams: In his own words
• Thunderbolts*
• Minecraft
• Sinners
• Brandy Hellville and the cult of fast fashion

58:03 TV

• Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney
• Below Deck - Down Under
• Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding

1:08:01 Misc

• Normal Gossip (podcast)
• New music from Lorde

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