Russell Reads with the Rach(a)els

By: Russell Carter Rachel Timm Rachael Miller
  • Summary

  • Russell, Rachel, and Rachael discuss their favorite books, the library, and, without keeping their feet as Bilbo Baggins so wisely suggested, wherever they might be swept off to.

    © 2025 Russell Reads with the Rach(a)els
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Episodes
  • Found family, insta-love, and Bigfoot
    Feb 1 2025

    Russell, Rachel, and Rachael discuss our next challenge, love stories and go on an important tangent about 90's teen movies.

    Books we discuss include:

    • “The Princess Bride” by William Goldman
    • “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare
    • “The House in the Cerulean Sea” by TJ Klune
    • “The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife” by Anna Johnston
    • “The Weight of the Stars” by K. Ancrum
    • “A Novel Love Story” by Ashley Poston
    • “The List” by Robert Whitlow
    • “The Girl Behind the Red Rope” Ted Dekker, Rachelle Dekker
    • “Voyage of the Damned” by Frances White
    • “All Stories Are Love Stories” by Elizabeth Percer
    • “Book of Days” by James L. Rubart
    • “Monster” by Frank Peretti
    • “The One” by John Marrs
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    32 mins
  • Books Bring People Together...Even Libraries and Bookstores
    Jan 15 2025

    Russell, Rachel, and Rachael chat with our guest Catherine Carter, owner of The Dog-Eared Page bookstore and teahouse. We discuss the deep and abiding friendship between libraries and bookstores, books about rabbits, and so much more.

    Books we discuss include:

    • “House of Leaves” by Mark Z. Danielewski
    • “Manacled” by SenLinYu
    • “Fifty Shades of Grey” by E.L. James
    • “After” by Anna Todd
    • “Quicksilver” by Callie Hart
    • “Harry Potter” series by J.K. Rowling
    • “Dragon Rider” and “Inkheart” by Cornelia Funke
    • “The Silence of the Lambs” by Thomas Harris
    • “The Lord of the Rings” series by J.R.R. Tolkien
    • “Jaws” by Peter Benchley
    • “The Empyrean” series by Rebecca Yarros
    • “Watership Down” by Richard Adams
    • “Christopher Bunny” by Jane Werner Watson, Richard Scarry
    • “Bunnicula” by Deborah Howe
    • “The Velveteen Rabbit” by Margery Williams Bianco
    • “The World of Beatrix Potter” series by Beatrix Potter
    • "Bunny Trouble" by Hans Wilhelm
    • “The Sea of Trolls” by Nancy Farmer
    • “Hello Beautiful” by Ann Napolitano
    • “Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe” by Heather Webber
    • “Book Lovers” by Emily Henry
    • “A Court of Thorns and Roses” and others by Sarah J. Maas


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    33 mins
  • Everyone has a story
    Jan 1 2025

    Russell, Rachel, and Rachael discuss our January challenge, Memoirs and Autobiographies, and new Rachael lore just dropped.

    Books we discuss include:

    • “Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood” by Gary Paulsen
    • “Sonny Boy” by Al Pacino
    • “Greenlights” by Matthew McConaughey
    • “Pageboy” by Elliot Page
    • “Officer Clemmons” by Dr. Francois S. Clemmons
    • “Sociopath” by Patric Gagne
    • “Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood” by Trevor Noah
    • “Educated” by Tara Westover
    • “Just as I Am” by Cicely Tyson
    • “The Twenty-Ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra” by Alex Messenger
    • “Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir” by Natasha Trethewey
    • “The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book” by Wendy Welch
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    24 mins

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