BOOK CLUB IS BACK...ish! In this first installment of Backlist Book Club, Michael and Jill chat all about the 2021 novel The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams!
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S3 Ep10: Middle Grade Matters, Part 2
Michael and Jill revisit a favorite genre of writing: the middle-grade novel! What makes a good middle-grade novel? When are you too old for middle-grade novels? Hear them chat all about it, plus hear their middle-grade recs at the end!
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S3 Ep9: Plot Twists
What makes a memorable plot twist? In this episode, Michael and Jill chat about the best fictional surprises they've read in books, plus one real-life plot twist Michael would like to forget (spoiler alert: old stucco and rain after nine decades don't mix!)
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S3 Ep8: To DNF or Not to DNF
So you're reading a book, and you're not loving it. Do you keep on reading it or do you DNF it? In this episode, Jill and Michael chat about DNFing (or "did not finish") books. Do they DNF? When do they choose to DNF? And what books have they DNF'd or wished they'd DNF'd? Listen to find out!
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S3 Ep7: Family Dynamics In Fiction
The Kindest Lie. The Daughters of Erietown. Revival Season. Red at the Bone. We've read countless books together over the last three seasons, and many of them have this similar thread: complicated family dynamics. In this episode, we chat all about family in fiction, the good, the bad, and the ugly!
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