1 MAY 2024 · In this episode, Hallie shares her Independent Bookstore Day haul, and Pam has Hallie choose her first read of May.  Books mentioned, in order:  Search by Michelle Huneven Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy Sun House by David James Duncan  Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson Off the Record by Camryn Garrett Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

24 APR 2024 · In this episode, Hallie has returned from Boston with five finished titles. Plus, Pam has a book acquisition! Books mentioned, in order: The Boston Massacre: A Family History by Serena Zabin Attachments by Rainbow Rowell Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin Love and Other Disasters by Anita Kelly Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa translated by Stephen Snyder Annie Bot by Sierra Greer Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro Clear by Carys Davies Killer Instinct by S.E. Green The Colony by Audrey Magee  Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood Emma by Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

17 APR 2024 · In this episode, Pam and Hallie celebrate National Poetry Month! Books mentioned, in order: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler Other Minds: the Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger The Odyssey by Homer Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel The Boston Massacre: A Family History by Serena Zabin Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwan Bo-Reum Legends and Lattes by by Travis Baldree What You Are Looking For Is In the Library by Michiko Aoyama The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa translated by Stephen Snyder Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler Piglet by Lottie Hazell Sociopath by Patric Gagne I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater Mrs. Death Misses Death by Salena Godden In Ascension by Martin MacInnes Sister Golden Calf by Colleen Burner Pam’s Poem: https://allpoetry.com/Do-Not-Go-Gentle-Into-That-Good-Night Hallie’s Poem: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8505739-Lament-by-Rainer-Maria-Rilke Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

10 APR 2024 · In this episode, we give a check in three months into the year on how our 2024 Reading Resolutions are going.  Books mentioned, in order: The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li Bunny by Mona Awad My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy Educated by Tara Westover The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield Emma by Jane Austen The Boston Massacre: A Family History by Serena Zabin Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwan Bo-Reum What You Are Looking For Is In the Library by Michiko Aoyama Icarus by K Ancrum Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi Private Rites by Julia Armfield Sheine lende by Darcie Little Badger Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix Tidal Creatures by Seanan McGuire  Middlegame by Seanan McGuire  Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire  Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell Attachments by Rainbow Rowell Landline by Rainbow Rowell Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell Atomic Habits by James Clear Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

3 APR 2024 · Hallie reflects on her Luck of the Libby month and Pam shares how she skiied down a mountain on her wedding day! Books mentioned, in order: Untamed by Glennon Doyle Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree Bookshops and Bone Dust by Travis Baldree The Wolves of Mercy Falls by Maggie Stiefvater Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler Other Minds: the Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith Emma by Jane Austen Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Sociopath by Patric Gagne The Boston Massacre by Serena Zabin Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford Washington by Ron Chernow How to get new releases on Libby: https://help.libbyapp.com/en-us/6260.htm Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

27 MAR 2024 · We read a total of nine books in this episode, and Pam has two books to haul! Books mentioned, in order: Icarus by K. Ancrum Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum Greenwood by Michael Christie Never by Jessa Hastings Magnolia Parks series by Jessa Hastings Peter Pan by JM Barrie Darling by K. Ancrum What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter What Feasts At Night by T Kingfisher Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by Barbara Demick Atomic Habits by James Clear Love Beyond Body, Space & Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology by Hope Nicholson Charlotte’s Web by EB White Aednan: An Epic by Linnea Axelsson The Odyssey by Homer Yellowface by RF Kuang The Poppy War by RF Kuang Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by RF Kuang The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullaly and Nick Offerman Untamed by Glennon Doyle Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Emma by Austen  Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino Story from the anthology: https://galli-books.co.uk/2018/05/01/ne-le-by-darcie-little-badger/ Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

20 MAR 2024 · Hallie had no finished books this week :( But never fear, Pam had two! Books mentioned, in order:  Pew by Catherine Lacey Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M Valente Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger Wolves of Mercy Falls by Maggie Stiefvater A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski  Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by Barbara Demick Greenwood by Michael Christie The Overstory by Richard Powers Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin The Miniscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Ian Reid What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds by Merlin Sheldrake The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

13 MAR 2024 · Hallie gives an update on her chaotic Luck-of-the-Libby reading and Pam has a small library haul.  Books mentioned, in order: Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin Piglet by Lottie Hazell Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon  The Private Lives of Trees: A Novel by Alejandro Zambra Pew by Catherine Lacey Biography of X by Catherine Lacey This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Middlegame by Seanan McGuire Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by Barbara Demick Greenwood by Michael Christie The Overstory by Richard Powers Love Beyond Body, Space and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology edited by Hope Nicholson The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline Venco by Cherie Dimaline Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin Poor Things by Alasdair Gray The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino  Erasure by Percival Everett Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann Nimona by MD Stevenson https://medium.com/@yuriminamide0509/two-books-to-read-before-watching-studio-ghiblis-the-boy-and-the-heron-f9a8146533fe Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

6 MAR 2024 · Hallie's Luck of the Libby is off to a hectic start and Pam is enjoying an audiobook with a You've Got Mail-esq plot. Books mentioned, in order: Biography of X by Catherine Lacey Sister Golden Calf by Colleen Burner The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Matilda by Roald Dahl The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osborne A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle The Book of Ayn by Lexi Freiman Anthem by Ayn Rand The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America by Steven Inskeep Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin Piglet by Lottie Hazell Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

28 FEB 2024 · Hallie has a small book haul from Oregon and Pam teases the next book she may read. Books mentioned, in order: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Celestial Harmonies by Peter Esterhazy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Whimsy by Shannon McLeod Sister Golden Calf by Colleen Burner Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield Biography of X by Catherine Lacey Libby Awards: https://www.libbylife.com/2024-02-09-announcing-the-finalists-for-the-first-annual-libby-book-awards-aka-the-libbys Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart