What Do You Think About Books?: Recent Episodes

What Do You Think About Books?

Two teenagers read a YA book and then discuss it.

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We discuss Rule of Wolves,Book 2 in the King of Scars duology, by Leigh Bardugo. Missed the upload date again! Wow, Evan. Just wow. 

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We discuss King of Scars, Book 1 in the King of Scars duology, by Leigh Bardugo. Apologies for the skipped episode! Evan had graduation stuff to deal with, and Dana was busy with soccer. We've made up for it with an extra long episode. Hope you enjoy it!

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We discuss Crooked Kingdom, Book 2 in the Six of Crows Duology. Evan has been watching a bit too much OSP. See if you can spot all the "so, yeah"s.

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We discuss Six of Crows, book 1 in the Six of Crows duology by Leigh Bardugo. We also talk about the  new Netflix show Shadow and Bone a bit, but if you haven't watched it, you should be fine. It's the 1st Anniversary of What do You Think about Books?Thanks to all you folks who have stuck with us through this year. It certainly has been an interesting one. 

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We discuss We Unleash the Merciless Stormby Tehlor Kay Mejia.
Also, watch the Shadow and Bone Netflix series.
it good.
it very good.

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We discuss We Set the Dark on Fireby Tehlor Kay Mejia. This one is actually a normal length! Huzzah!

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We discuss Winterkeep, book 4 in the Graceling Realm (series?) by Kristen Cashore. Dana and Willow wish Evan a happy birthday!

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We discuss Fire, book 3 in the Graceling Realm (series?) by Kristin Cashore. I have to say, it was pretty fire.

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We discuss Bitterblue, book 2 in the Graceling Realm series, by Kristin Cashore. Sorry about the terrible audio quality - we had to record virtually this time, and our virtual recording setup is less than ideal.

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We discuss Graceling (Book 1 in the Graceling Realm series) by Kristin Cashore. Blah-bla-dee-blah-dee-bla.

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We discuss The Raven King,the fourth book in the Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater. Evan's valentine is his microphone.

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We discuss Blue Lily, Lily Blue,the third book in the Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater. BlUe LiLy, LILY BLUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEE
QUEENS AND KIIIIINGS, SWORDS AND THIIIIIIIIIIINGSSS Blue lily, lily bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuue

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We discuss The Dream Thieves(Book 2 in the Raven Cycle) by Maggie Stiefvater. Disclaimer: Evan has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to romantic relationships. He has never been in one before.

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We discuss The Raven Boys, book 1 in the Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (Pronounced Steve-Otter.) We're still figuring out our new microphone, so we're sorry about the poor audio quality.

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We discuss the Flavia de Luce story The Curious Case of the Copper Corpseby Alan Bradley.

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We discuss the tenth Flavia de Luce mystery, The Golden Tresses of the Dead,by Alan Bradley

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We discuss The Grave's a Fine and Private Place,the ninth Flavia de Luce mystery, by Alan Bradley. 

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We discuss the eighth Flavia de Luce mystery, Thrice the Brinded Cat hath Mew'd,by Alan Bradley. Christmas wrapping string.

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We discuss the seventh Flavia (Pronounced Flay-via) de Luce mystery, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust.

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We discuss The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Book 6 in the Flavia de Luce series) by Alan Bradley

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We discuss Speaking from Among the Bones (the fifth Flavia de Luce mystery) by Alan Bradley. And that's what I think about books!

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We discuss I am Half Sick of Shadows (the fourth book in the Flavia de Luce series), by Alan Bradley.

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We discuss A Red Herring Without Mustard (the third Flavia de Luce mystery) by Alan Bradley. Again, sorry about Dana's audio quality. 

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We discuss The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia deLuce, Book 2). Oof, what an unfortunate title...

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We discuss The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie  (Flavia de Luce, book 1) by Alan Bradley. Sorry for the subpar audio quality - we had to do the podcast remotely, and it didn't work quite as well as last time.

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We discuss Into the Still Blue (Book 2 in the Under the Never Sky trilogy). 
List of Flavia De Luce books:

  1. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
  2. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
  3. A Red Herring Without Mustard
  4. I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
  5. Speaking From Among the Bones
  6. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
  7. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
  8. Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
  9. The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
  10. The Golden Tresses of the Dead
  11. (Novella): The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse

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This is three and a half minutes of Evan ranting. It was too bad to leave in the podcast but to funny to not share with the world. Enjoy.

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We discuss Through the Ever Night by Veronica Rossi. We had to cut a large part of this episode out due to complete ineptitude on Evan's part to make good analogies. It will be uploaded as a bonus episode at the same time as this episode. Happy Friday the 13th, everyone!

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We discuss Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi. This was our first (and hopefully only) episode that we're recording remotely, so the audio quality on Dana's end isn't the best, and there was a bunch of intermittent background noise. Sorry about that.

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We discuss parts 4 and 5 of The Toll (Book 3 in the Arc of a Scythe). Points of discussion include non-fanservice-y endings, fast vs. slow books (again), and how this is Evan's perfect book. To read fanfiction on this series, go here: https://www.fanfiction.net/book/Arc-of-a-Scythe/

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We discuss The Toll (Book 3 in the Arc of a Scythe). We have notes now.

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We discuss Thunderhead (Book 2 in the Arc of a Scythe).

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We discuss the book Scythe (Book 1 in the Arc of a Scythe) by Neal Shusterman.

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We discuss The Winner's Kiss (Book 3 in The Winner's Trilogy). We're going to start uploading bonus episodes (not on any kind of schedule) about various things, so keep an eye out!

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We discuss The Winner's Crime (Book 2 in The Winner's Trilogy.) 

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We discuss The Winner's Curse (Book 1 in the Winner's trilogy) by Marie Rutkoski. Now we have bloopers at the beginning! We can't do the word search. Sorry about that.

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We discuss Ruin and Rising (Book 3 in the Shadow and Bone trilogy) by Leigh Bardugo. Unfortunately, we had some technical difficulties and could not link to the word search, but we will put it in the description of the next podcast.

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We discuss Siege and Storm (Book 2 in the Shadow and Bone trilogy) by Leigh Bardugo. Willow couldn't join us today - she had some important TV watching to get to. I apologize for the assorted bird/wind noises - we currently have to record outside because of the coronavirus.

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THIS EPISODE IS NOT VERY GOOD. WE WERE STILL FIGURING THINGS OUT. PLEASE DON'T LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE FIRST - START AT EPISODE 4.
We discuss the book Shadow and Bone (Book 1 in the Shadow and Bone trilogy) by Leigh Bardugo.