by renata | December 20, 2021 · 12:00 pm
Another year has come and gone, and Kait and Renata are here to make lemonade out of the lemons of 2021. We each picked our top 6 books of the year and discussed some other highlights of the year.
Footnotes: The Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2021, featuring Renata’s picks for best middle grade and young adult novels
Taylor Swift
Legends of Tomorrow
Ted Lasso
The West Wing
Fast & Furious: Highway Heist Game
Wingspan
Coming up next: A January hiatus. Happy New Year! We’ll see you in February!
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Tagged as Albert Monteys, Alison Cochrun, Bests, Elissa Washuta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Isabel Wilkerson, John Green, Kate Alice Marshall, Kurt Vonnegut, Rax King, Rebecca Mahoney, Ryan Douglass, Ryan North, Stephen Graham Jones, T. Kingfisher
by renata | January 14, 2019 · 12:00 pm
Tune in to our Bests & Worsts of 2018 episodes to hear us discuss these titles and read excerpts from our favorites! Please note:
- We counted things that we read in 2018, regardless of publication year.
- We didn’t count anything that we read specifically for this podcast, so our worst books are aside from those.
- For that reason, we picked top 5 favorites and only 1 least favorite–we have this whole podcast to talk about bad books, so for these episodes we’re choosing to focus on the positive!
- Some of our “worsts” are really just “least best.” Listen to the podcast to hear more detail!
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Tagged as 2018, Alitha Martinez, Anne T. Donahue, Barbara Kingsolver, Bests, Carey Pietsch, Carly Usdin, Clint McElroy, Edgar Cantero, Griffin McElroy, Hanif Abdurraqib, Ijeoma Oluo, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Jenn St-Onge, Joe Eisma, Jonathan Hennessey, Joy San, Justin Greenwood, Justin McElroy, Kelly Thompson, Maggie Thrash, Meredith Goldstein, Michelle McNamara, Nina Vakueva, Nora Roberts, Parker Posey, Paul Tremblay, Pere Perez, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Tee Franklin, Tommy Orange, Travis McElroy, Ursula K. LeGuin, Vera Brosgol, Victor LaValle, Worsts
