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Zack and Devon
Devon uses a meme/book tag to offer some recommendations, mostly for some of her favorite books of last year.
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Devon talks about what she plans to read this summer and offers some backlist recommendations. Her dog, Beau, makes some noise and she shares some personal things she's been going through lately.
Latest Read:
Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Backlist Books Mentioned
The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson
New Releases Added to Summer Reading Plans
Vacation Wars by Meghan Quinn
Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayburn
A Perfect Vintage by Chelsea Fagan
Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum
You Are Here by Karin Lin-Greenburg
Reading Guides Mentioned
Sarah's Bookshelves
Modern Mrs. Darcy
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Devon shares her excitement over two recent reads and talks about book intimidation. Why do we find some books intimidating? What should we do about them? She challenges you to read an intimidating book this summer and puts one that's been hanging over her on her to read list for summer.
Latest Reads
The Switch by Beth O'Leary
Hello, Stranger by Katherine Center
Looking Forward
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
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Devon experiences Blind Date with Books from several sources and talks about which ones were successful, what she learned, and why you might try a blind date with a book yourself.
Latest Read
Luck and Last Resortsby Sarah Grunder-Ruiz
Blind Dates with Books
CrispPages&Co on Etsy
LightItUpLiterary on Etsy
Liberty Book Co (Devon's Local Indie bookstore)
York Country Friends Books on Main
Looking Forward
The Spectacular by Fiona Davis
In celebrating National Poetry Month, Devon talks about why she enjoys poetry collections and offers some suggestions for new and seasoned poetry readers. You will find many recommendations for expanding your own poetry reading.
Latest Reads
Better Than Fiction by Alexa Martin
Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey
Poetry Collections Mentioned
Set Me on Fire : A Poem for Every Feeling by Ella Risbridger
The Best American Poetry series
Life of the Party by Olivia Gatwood
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
The Book of Hours by Kevin Young
Husbandry by Matthew Dickman
Monument by Natasha Tretheway
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
When a Woman Loves a Man by David Lehman
Bicycles: Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni
A Woman without a Country by Eavan Boland
Soft Science by Franny Choi
The Wilderness. by Sandra Lim
This week Devon talks about whether book hype keeps her from reading books she is interested in and tries to figure out why it takes her so long to read certain books. She shares her frustrations of the week and can't stop her love of Abby Jimenez's Part of Your World. She adds some books to her "Gotta Read Soon" list; you know she can't call it a TBR.
Latest Reads
Villa America Liza Klaussmann
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson
Looking Forward
Yerba Buena by Nina Lacour
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Devon talks about breaking her reading slump and offers some Nonfiction Recommendations. See the website for a full list of recommendations.
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Devon talks about some nonfiction hits and misses she's been reading lately. She also delves deep into her digital TBR to read the oldest unread book on her Goodreads list. She offers some advice on reflecting on your reading tastes and how they change over time to edit, clean up and "fix" your TBRs. All this advice from a mood reader :). Latest ReadsRising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush Let Love Rule by Lenny KravitzThe Buried Giant by Kazuo IshiguroLooking ForwardTed Lasso on AppleTV+Devon@professor_reads on Instagram & Storygraph
Zack and Devon run down ALL THE BOOKS they read in January and February. And it's a lot.
Where to Find Us
Podcast Instagram: dont_read_the_synopsis
Podcast Website
Discord Community
Devon: Instagram @professor_reads
Devon’s Blog: One Part Wisdom
Zack’s Instagram: @zackary.goodreads
*Intro and Outro music "Sundown" by Joseph McDade.
This week Zack and Devon read nominees from past Goodreads Choice Awards in the Romance category. Find out what surprised them; why they undertook this challenge, and what they feel they learned from the experience. They also share a latest read and books they're looking forward to reading.
Latest Reads
Zack: Love to Loathe Youby Ali Hazelwood Devon:Catherine Houseby Elisabeth ThomasGoodreads Choice BooksZack: The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina LaurenDevon: Birthday Girl by Penelope DouglasThe Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Looking Forward
Zack: On the Rocks by Kandi Steiner Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies by Heather Fawcett
Devon: The Love of my Lifeby Rosie Walsh
Immortality: A Love Story by Dana Schwarz
Where to Find Us
Podcast Instagram: dont_read_the_synopsis
Podcast Website
Discord Community
Devon: Instagram @professor_reads
Devon’s Blog: One Part Wisdom
Zack’s Instagram: @zackary.goodreads
*Intro and Outro music "Sundown" by Joseph McDade.
Zack and Devon talk about books that include podcasts and books within books. They each read books especially for this episode and share what works and what doesn't when they read books with "mixed-up" media. They also share a recent read and books they're looking forward to reading.
Zack's Latest Reads
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Devon's Latest Reads
Something's Different by Quinn Ivins
Books on Topic
A Thousand Miles by Bridget Morrissey
Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
Sadie by Courtney Summers
I Hope You're Listening by Tom Ryan
The Night Swimby Megan Goldin
If I Disappear by Eliza Jane Brazier
The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon
Metafiction Books
If on a winter's night, a travelerby Italo Calvino
Crossings by Alex Landragin
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Looking Forward
Devon: Love and Other Flight Delays by Denise Williams
The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louiseby Colleen Oakley
Zack:
Tress of the Emerald by Brandon Sanderson
Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan
Zack and Devon share how they decide what books to read next and where they typically find book recommendations. They share their latest reads and books they're looking forward to reading soon. If you enjoy our conversation, don't forget to follow and subscribe to the podcast. Latest ReadsZack: Five Survive by Holly JacksonThe American Roommate Experiment by Elena ArmasDevon: There Are No Saints and There is No Devil by Sophie Lark Looking ForwardDevon: Until You by K. Bromberg | Feb. 23, 2023VenCo by Cherie Dimaline | Feb. 7, 2023Zack : The Float Plan by Trish Doller The Inheritance Games by Jennifer L. Barnes
Zack and Devon discuss their favorite and least favorite tropes in romance novels. Their choices might surprise you. They offer many book recommendations for a variety of tropes and talk about why tropes seem so important to romance as a genre. They also talk latest reads and the books they're looking forward to in the next few weeks.
Devon's Latest Reads
The Distant Echo by Val McDermid
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Zack's Latest Reads
Such Pretty Flowersby K.L. Cerra
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert
Looking Forward
Zack
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah
Devon
Camp Zeroby Michelle Min Sterling
The House that Whispers by Lin Thompson
Where to Find Us
Podcast Instagram: dont_read_the_synopsis
Podcast Website: https://dontreadthesynopsis.com
Discord Community: https://discord.gg/WscVUBRnAC
Devon: Instagram @professor_reads
Devon’s Blog: www.onepartwisdom.com
Zack’s Instagram: @zackary.goodreads
This week Zack and Devon talk about reading comfort zones: what they are, how they might be established, why you want to break out of them and offer some advice for reading outside your comfort zones. As usual, they share what they've been reading and what upcoming books they're looking forward to reading.
Books Mentioned
Zack’s Latest Reads
All The Feels by Oliva Dade
Ship Wrecked by Olive Dade
When You Wish Upon a Lantern by Gloria Chao
Devon’s Latest Reads
A Guide to Being Just Friends by Sophie Sullivan
Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
Looking Forward
Zack
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, Pablo Gerardo Camcho (Illustrator), Megan McDowell
Fortuna by K.J. Sutton
Devon
Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
She is a Haunting by Trang Than Tran
Other Books & Sites Mentioned
Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
The Sandman by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith (Illustrator), Mike Dringenberg (illustrator)
New York Review of Books Classics List
Where to Find Us
Podcast Instagram: dont_read_the_synopsis
Podcast Website: https://dontreadthesynopsis.com
Discord Community: https://discord.gg/WscVUBRnAC
Devon: Instagram @professor_reads
Devon’s Blog: www.onepartwisdom.com
Zack’s Instagram: @zackary.goodreads
Zack and Devon discuss their reading goals for 2023, share latest reads and talk about upcoming releases they're looking forward to.
Zack’s Latest Reads
Pines by Blake Crouch
Demon in the Wood the graphic novel by Leigh Bardugo and Illustrated by Dani Pendergast
Devon’s Latest Reads
The Sacrifice by Rin Chupeco
This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews
Looking Forward
Zack
A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley
Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni
Devon
Not Your Ex’s Hexes by April Asher
The Shadow of Perseus by Claire Heywood
Other Books Mentioned
Not the Witch You Wed by April Asher
Where to Find Us
Podcast Instagram: dont_read_the_synopsis
Podcast Website: https://dontreadthesynopsis.com
Discord Community: https://discord.gg/WscVUBRnAC
Devon: Instagram @professor_reads
Devon’s Blog: www.onepartwisdom.com
Zack’s Instagram: @zackary.goodreads
Welcome to our podcast! In today's episode we talk about what we are reading, share how our 2022 reading wrapped up, and what we are looking forward to reading soon.
Zack’s Latest Reads
The Sentence is Deathby Anthony Horowitz
Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas
Devon’s Latest Reads
Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashely Herring Blake
Meet Me in Paradiseby Libby Hubscher
Other Books Mentioned
The Word is Murderby Anthony Horowitz
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashely Herring Blake
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
More Salt than Diamond by Aline Mello
Where to Find Us
Podcast Instagram: dont_read_the_synopsis
Podcast Website
Discord Community
Devon: Instagram @professor_reads
Goodreads: professor_reads
Storygraph: professor_reads
Devon’s Blog: One Part Wisdom
Zack’s Instagram: @zackary.goodreads
Intro and Outro music "Sundown" by Joseph McDade.
Join us Jan. 19 for our first full episode.
Where to Find Us
Podcast Instagram: dont_read_the_synopsis
Podcast Website
Discord Community
Devon: Instagram @professor_reads
Goodreads: professor_reads
Storygraph: professor_reads
Devon’s Blog: One Part Wisdom
Zack’s Instagram: @zackary.goodreads
Intro and Outro music "Sundown" by Joseph McDade.