Oct 5, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 21 segments
It’s time for September’s Bookish Banter! Tune in to hear our non-pod reads from this past month, a ton of book news and our current TV obsessions. Suggestions for future episodes? Email us!…
I have a decent amount of books.
Yeah.
Um-
It looked like you had a, a good reading month.
Yeah.
I had a little slump at the beginning there, but then I got back into it.
So I think this one might have been last month, but it was after we recorded.
Yes.
This was just a fun thriller.
It's about this high school beauty pageant in a southern town, but all the moms of the pageant girls went to high school together, so they have, like, all this unresolved drama and stuff.
It did feel a little young, despite most of them being moms-
Hmm
...
but, like, because they were still fighting like high schoolers, you know?
Yeah.
Um, and it was a little predictable, but I still just enjoyed, like, the ride getting there.
It was, like, a good twisty thriller, you know what I mean?
Which is fine.
That's sometimes-
Yeah
... all you need.
Like, sometime- like my...
The stakes aren't that high, and I love that.
[laughs]
I have a decent amount of books.
Yeah.
Um-
It looked like you had a, a good reading month.
Yeah.
I had a little slump at the beginning there, but then I got back into it.
So I think this one might have been last month, but it was after we recorded.
Yes.
This was just a fun thriller.
It's about this high school beauty pageant in a southern town, but all the moms of the pageant girls went to high school together, so they have, like, all this unresolved drama and stuff.
It did feel a little young, despite most of them being moms-
Hmm
...
but, like, because they were still fighting like high schoolers, you know?
Yeah.
Um, and it was a little predictable, but I still just enjoyed, like, the ride getting there.
It was, like, a good twisty thriller, you know what I mean?
Which is fine.
That's sometimes-
Yeah
... all you need.
Like, sometime- like my...
The stakes aren't that high, and I love that.
[laughs]
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.