Reading With Celebrities: Recent Episodes
Reading With Celebrities
Two friends read and review selections from celebrity book clubs so you can find the one that fits you best!
Tifani and Lindsey discuss overlaps between what they're reading and what they're listening to. Happy Reading!
Tifani and Lindsey discover how similar their tastes in 90's movies are. Happy Reading!
The exciting conclusion to Lindsey and Tifani's discussion on The Rock Eaters by Brenda Peynado. Happy Reading!
Lindsey and Tifani discuss the first eight stories in The Rock Eaters by Brenda Peynado. Happy Reading!
Lindsey and Tifani announce the winners for this year's Golden Bookmark Awards. Happy Reading!
Lindsey and Tifani discuss Outlawed by Anna North. Happy Reading!Trigger Warnings: Mentions of miscarriage, stillbirth, and sexual violence
Lindsey discovers Goodreads Giveaways. Happy Reading!
Trigger Warning: In this episode we discuss grooming and sexual assault.
Tifani and Lindsey attempt to remember what they discussed during the lost episode. Happy Reading!
Trigger Warning: Brief mentions of suicide
Lindsey and Tifani discuss The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon. Happy Reading!
Tifani and Lindsey discuss everything from library holds to Spotify deleting an episode. Happy Reading!
Bet you thought you'd seen the last of us. Tifani and Lindsey are back at it again with the season 3 premier. Happy Reading!
The trailer for our third season is here! Who is the next celebrity? What are the next three books? Listen to find out.... Happy Reading!
Tifani and Lindsey discuss their thoughts on Reese's Hello Sunshine book club and give small updates before the break. Happy Reading!
Tifani and Lindsey discuss this season's final book: Conviction by Denise Mina. Happy Reading!
Tifani and Lindsey highlight some frequently challenged books and books by Indigenous authors. Happy Reading!
Autumn has arrived, but summer weather refuses to leave. Lindsey and Tifani hope their TBR lists can bring in some cooler weather. Happy Reading!
The buddy read discussion on Bad Summer People has arrived! There's also some talk on Vanderpump Rules and technical difficulties. Happy Reading!
Lindsey and Tifani discuss The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott. Happy Reading!
TW: Mentions of sexual assault
Lindsey and Tifani discuss The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward. Happy Reading!
TW: Mentions of suicide and pregnancy loss
Lindsey and Tifani discuss the library's hold system and when to warn people about haunted puppets. Happy Reading!
Tifani talks about how she spent her summer break and Lindsey nods along. Happy Reading!
Lindsey and Tifani discuss From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke. Happy Reading!
Welcome to our 100th episode! Get to know Lindsey and Tifani a little bit better this episode. Happy Reading!
Tifani and Lindsey sync up their vacation schedules and discuss going to the movies. And some books. Happy Reading!
Lindsey's poor audio quality pales in comparison to her rant on exclusive elite liberal arts colleges. Happy Reading!
Lindsey has finally finished Remarkably Bright Creatures and Tifani has finally gotten into VPR. Happy Reading!
Lindsey and Tifani discuss Happiness: A Memoir: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After by Heather Harpham. Happy Reading!
Tifani and Lindsey honor Black History Month by highlighting Black authors and some of their books. Happy Reading!
Tifani and Lindsey discuss what it means to be a feminist and a cannibal. Happy Reading!
Tifani and Lindsey discuss The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams. Happy Reading!
Another boring check-in, another few dozen books put on hold at the library. Happy Reading!
Tifani and Lindsey plan how to accomplish their 2023 reading goals. Also, Lindsey makes a big announcement. Happy Reading!
2023 is here! Tifani and Lindsey discuss the books they received for Christmas. Happy Reading!
We are taking Christmas off, so this is our last episode of 2022! Happy Holidays and Happy Reading!
Due to some technical issues, this episode is back with some good ol' fashioned low quality audio. No worries, though! Tifani and Lindsey still deliver some high quality content. Happy Reading!
Tifani and Lindsey discuss several books, including Jennette McCurdy's memoir. Happy Reading!
Tifani and Lindsey discuss a spooky list they found on Buzzfeed and other things. Happy Reading!
It's spooky time! Tifani discusses her favorite book of the year (so far) and Lindsey revamps her entire Fall TBR. Happy Reading!
TW: Mentions of self-harm
Tifani and Lindsey discuss Seven Days in June. Happy Reading!
Tifani and Lindsey manage to make their way through their Fall TBR lists despite recording so late (before 9 pm). Happy Reading!
Tifani and Lindsey talked about everything last week, so there was nothing to really discuss now.
Summer is mostly over and Lindsey and Tifani are back, baby! How many books did they read? Do they remember how to record an episode? Listen and find out. Happy Reading!
The trailer for season two is finally here! Listen to hear the next celebrity book club and the first three books. Happy Reading!
Tifani and Lindsey wrap-up their thoughts on Oprah's original book club, then give a quick check-in before going on summer break. Happy Reading!
Guess who didn't finish Tara Road! That's right, Lindsey. Here's a brief check-in instead. Happy Reading!
Tifani and Lindsey briefly discuss books and then Tifani blind reacts to all of the current Formula 1 drivers. Happy Reading!
This week's episode is the discussion on Light in August by William Faulkner. Happy Reading!
Can you believe we've made 50 episodes? Neither can we! We are joined by a very special guest to discuss Beartown and much more. Happy Reading!
Tifani and Lindsey have fallen into a reading slump and attempt to solve the mystery of the missing book. Happy Reading!
We discuss major spoilers for The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by TJR. Lindsey also reminds Tifani that she promised us a 24 hour read-a-thon. Happy Reading!
It's our discussion on Pearl Cleage's What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day. Happy Reading!
Welcome to the first Golden Bookmark Awards! No one slaps anybody, but there are technical difficulties. Happy Reading!
After recording a different episode that failed to save properly, Lindsey and Tifani discuss major spoilers for Confessions by Kanae Minato. Happy Reading!
This week's check-in is all about podcast spoilers, the personalities of catfish, and queso. Happy Reading!
TW: Discussions of grooming and sexual abuse/assault. Lindsey discusses My Dark Vanessa and Tifani gives a podcast recommendation. Happy Reading!
We discuss our eighth book from Oprah's book club: A Tale of Two Cities. Happy Reading!
We discuss the Olympics, give our Super Bowl predictions, and discuss where we are on our 2022 TBRs. Happy Reading!
On today's check-in we discuss Top Chef and upcoming book-to-movie/TV shows adaptations. Happy Reading!
Lindsey and Tifani discuss Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Happy Reading!
We check-in on some check-ins and Trisha Paytas makes an appearance? Not really. Happy Reading!
More books! More audiobooks! Tifani gets scared by a picture on Instagram! Happy Reading!
Our first 2022 check-in! We go over what books we've read already this year and what else we're up to. Happy Reading!
Our first episode of 2022 is here! We discuss (rant?) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and announce the next three books from Oprah's Book Club. Happy Reading!
Merry Christmas, Listeners! We reveal the books we were gifted for Christmas. Happy Holidays and Happy Reading!
Our last episode before Christmas! We discuss the ever popular Popsugar Reading Challenge for 2022 and Lindsey's smelly trip to the library book sale. Happy Reading!
We discuss our favorite out of Oprah's Book Club (so far): Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende. Happy Reading!
Lindsey and Tifani mostly talk about their friend Becka (who's totally real and doesn't live in Canada) and her reading suggestions. There's also probably some technical difficulties. Happy Reading!
Spooky time is over! Tifani discusses The Joy Luck Club and Lindsey is on the lookout for a nerdy fantasy book. Happy Reading!
It's spooky time, fellow readers! We reminisce over some of our favorite Halloween costumes and give three recommendations that are perfect for Halloween! Happy reading!
Today we bring you the very sleepy discussion on Sue Miller's While I Was Gone. Happy Reading!
Our 20th episode! Even though we are in our thirties we discuss 20 books to read before you're 20! Also, Tifani FINALLY started Cruel Summer. Happy Reading!
(Apologies for the poor audio quality!)
It's officially Banned Book Week so we discuss the top 10 most recently challenged books here in America! Happy Reading!
Just a regular check-in for you this week! Lindsey goes on several rants and reveals her unpopular Gone Girl opinion. Tifani says she'll watch Cruel Summer at some point, probably when she's 80. We also discuss books (sort of). Happy reading!
(Trigger warning: Discussion of suicide)
We did it! Hooray! We discuss the final two parts of Anna Karenina. Were Tifani's predictions correct? Did we find ourselves identifying with Levin? Listen to find out! Also listen to hear the next three books in our journey through Oprah's Book Club. Happy reading!
The weather is cooling down! Or just getting less hot. Today we name our Fall (Autumn, if you're fancy) TBR lists. Happy reading!
We're in the homestretch with the terrible folks in Anna Karenina! This episode we discuss parts five and six and come to the conclusion that Levin would be the WORST party host. Happy reading!
Lucky number 13! School is back in session, so we talk about our favorite books we read in our younger years. Happy reading!
Let's go hunt some bears and file for bitter divorces! Or you could just listen to us discuss the third and fourth parts of Anna Karenina. That's probably easier. Happy reading!
Tifani is in Canton, Ohio for the NFL Hall of Fame Induction and Lindsey just didn't finish the reading assignment, so...come and listen to us discuss The Girls by Emma Cline instead! It's just a quick discussion about the Manson Family cult and skeevy lawyers. Happy Reading!
Celebrate our tenth episode with us! Tifani counts down her top 10 books left on her 2021 TBR and Lindsey gives us her top 10 Stephen King books. As always, happy reading!
We are discussing the first two parts of the Greatest Novel Ever Written (and our third pick from Oprah's Book Club): Anna Karenina! Has Oprah redeemed herself? Will we be able to properly pronounce any Russian in the book? Listen and find out! Happy reading!
Today we give our best and worst books of 2021 thus far. Let us know if you agree or disagree! Happy (or not so happy?) reading!
It's finally here! The discussion to The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter! Happy reading!
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Lindsey didn't finish the book in time, so instead we decide to debut our new cover art! We get a book recommendation from the artist and choose books from our Goodreads TBR lists. Happy reading!
Last check in before our discussion on The Heart is a Lonely Hunter! Will we finish the book in time? Probably. Also, spoiler alert, we are the woman in the window. We discuss what makes a good summer read and the adverse affects of salt water on paperbacks. Happy reading!
Welcome back! Tifani recaps her trip to Cincinnati and sounds like a robot when her audio glitches. We do another quick check-in and are fully prepared for The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter to be a sad book. Happy reading!
Back at it again with a weekly check-in! We give our summer TBR lists, because is there anything better than laying on the beach or by the pool with a good book?
Books mentioned:
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Circe - Madeline Miller
The Girls - Emma Cline
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander
Beartown - Fredrik Backman
The Woman in the Window - A.J. Finn
4th of July - James Patterson
Close to Home - Robert Dugoni
1st to Die - James Patterson
My Sister’s Grave - Robert Dugoni
The first of (hopefully) many discussion episodes is here! We give our thoughts on our first book from Oprah's Book Club: The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds.
Welcome to the first official episode of Reading With Celebrities! We do a quick check-in on our progress with The Rapture of Canaan and then hit you with what we are reading, watching, and listening to! We also discuss how not to check out a book at the library and do our best to ignore the toddler trying to break down a door. Happy reading!
Books mentioned: I'll Be Gone in the Dark - Michelle McNamara Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid Circe - Madeline Miller Dear Girls - Ali Wong Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand The Hunting Party - Lucy Foley Final Girls - Riley Sager The Shining Girls - Lauren Beukes Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered - Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
We are kicking things off with the OG of celebrity book clubs herself: Oprah! We announce the first three books chosen from the original run of Oprah's book club.