Aug 31, 2026 · 58 min · 22 segments
August’s Bookish Banter is here! Tune in to hear our non-pod reads from this past month, a few much-anticipated September releases and our current TV obsessions. We’re also discussing some book…
So I have a lot of books from the beginning of the month, which is exciting because most of them were good.
Everyone
knows who this is by.
Everyone knows this book.
I liked this a lot.
I don't understand why it's so polarizing, but that's the internet for you.
It has an unhinged main character and really brings the lunacy and the danger of the trad wife movement to the forefront, which I wonder if the people who hated it maybe need to look inward at their internalized misogyny.
Probably right.
That's a conversation for a different day.
Obviously, this is what the movies are based off of.
This wasn't good.
Oh.
Wasn't good.
But I needed to read it because I need to make my way through the horror staples, you know? I had so many questions and the pacing and timeline were weird.
There was a lot of exclamation points.
And there was a lot of explosive diarrhea.
Yeah.
unexplained okay so that was interesting that's a fun one and unnecessary and meanwhile i'm just trying to think about ryan reynolds while i'm reading so like why are you doing this to me and then i read pines by blake crouch okay do you remember how the main character in dark matter was like kind of douchey yes even worse in this book.
So I think that might just be Blake Crouch's MO to have a super douchey entitled main character.
All right.
Other than that, it was a great premise and I liked the sci-fi element, but I just hated every character so much.
So I went with a four, which I thought was
being
So I have a lot of books from the beginning of the month, which is exciting because most of them were good.
Everyone
knows who this is by.
Everyone knows this book.
I liked this a lot.
I don't understand why it's so polarizing, but that's the internet for you.
It has an unhinged main character and really brings the lunacy and the danger of the trad wife movement to the forefront, which I wonder if the people who hated it maybe need to look inward at their internalized misogyny.
Probably right.
That's a conversation for a different day.
Obviously, this is what the movies are based off of.
This wasn't good.
Oh.
Wasn't good.
But I needed to read it because I need to make my way through the horror staples, you know? I had so many questions and the pacing and timeline were weird.
There was a lot of exclamation points.
And there was a lot of explosive diarrhea.
Yeah.
unexplained okay so that was interesting that's a fun one and unnecessary and meanwhile i'm just trying to think about ryan reynolds while i'm reading so like why are you doing this to me and then i read pines by blake crouch okay do you remember how the main character in dark matter was like kind of douchey yes even worse in this book.
So I think that might just be Blake Crouch's MO to have a super douchey entitled main character.
All right.
Other than that, it was a great premise and I liked the sci-fi element, but I just hated every character so much.
So I went with a four, which I thought was
being
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