Entomed

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a writer & a school psychologist talk about books. #deathbybooks #entomed #entomedinbooks

Episodes

  1. 11 FEB

    All About Love: Our Favorite Books About Love

    Entomed takes on love! But don't be deceived, this isn't a list of romance books. In this episode we each pick five books we recommennd that feature love in a variety of ways. And yes, we ever so briefly get on a tangent to discuss the latest Bridgerton episodes. #booksaboutlove #lovebooks #entomedinbooks #booktok Books mentioned in this Episode: The Barn - Wright Thompson The Trees - Percival Everett Caste - Isabel Wilkerson The Safekeep - Yael Van Der Wouden A House with Good Bones - T. Kingfisher This is How it Always Is - Laurie Frankel The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin By Night in Chile - Roberto Bolaño The Otherwhere Post - Emily J. Taylor Barracoon - Zora Neale Hurston Trust - Hernan Diaz Becoming - Michelle Obama Funny Story - Emily Henry Just Last Night - Mhairi McFarlane Eleanor and Park - Rainbow Rowell Gifted and Talented - Olivia Blake Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller If We Were Villains- M.L Rio The Ones We’re Meant to Find - Joan He The River Has Roots - Amal El-Mohtar I Wish You All the Best - Mason Deaver Heart the Lover - Lily King If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin

    47 min

  2. 21 JAN

    Deep Dive: Between Earth and Sky Trilogy by Rebecca Roanhorse

    Join us as we talk all things "Between Earth and Sky," one of our favorite fantasy trilogies of the last ten years! Books Mentioned in this Episode: - The Vegetarian - Han King - The Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping - Sangu Mandana - The Magician of Tiger Castle - Louis Sachar - Holes - Louis Sachar - The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern - Storyland - Amy Jeffs - Cat Country - Lao She - A Far Better Thing - H.G. Parry - The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune - Under the Whispering Door - TJ Klune Between Earth and Sky - Rebecca Roanhorse - Black Sun - 2020 - Fevered Star - Mirrored Heaven - 2024 The Broken Earth Trilogy - N.K. Jemison - The Fifth Season - The Broken Sky - The Obelisk Gate The Daevabad Trilogy - S.A. Chakraborty - City of Brass - Kingdom of Copper - Empire of Gold -Gods of Jade and Shadow - Silvia Moreno Garcia -Malinalli - Veronica Chapa

    39 min

  3. 11 JAN

    Our Top 5 Favorite Reads of 2025

    Entomed looks back at their reading statistics for 2025 and highlights each of there five favorite books. - #2025readingwrapped #2025favoritereads #entomed #bookrecommendations - - Books mentions in this episode: How to Lose a Lord in 10 Days - Sophie Irwin Mirrored Heavens - Rebecca Roanhorse Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood Holiday Romance - Catherine Walsh Snowed In - Catherine Walsh Not Quite Dead Yet - Holly Jackson A Good Girls Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson The Unfinished Harold Hughes - Richard Ayoade A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping - Sangu Mandana Rejection - Tony Tulathimutte Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett Hungerstone - Kat Dunn Damsel - Elana K. Arnold Orbital - Samantha Harvey Patron Saints of Nothing - Randy Ribay The Bee Sting - Paul Murray Beautyland - Marie-Helene Bertino Shadow Hunter Series - Infernal Devices - Cassandra Clare We - Yevgeny Zamyatin translated by Bela Sheyavich The Glorious Heresies - Lisa McInerney Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb This Other Eden - Paul Harding (won the Pulitzer Prize for “Tinkers") On Beauty - Zadie Smith Life Hacks for Little Alien - Alice Franklin Someone You Can Build a Nest In - John Wiswell

    50 min

  4. 28/12/2025

    100 Years of Dystopian Literature - Part I

    Join as we count down through one hundred years of dystopian literature beginning and the 2020s and working our way down with a book recommendation from each decade. In this episode we discuss "The Land of Milk and Honey," "Station Eleven," "Oryx and Crake," "I Who Have Never Known Men," and "Dawn." . . #dystopianfiction #dystopianliterature #entomed #entomedinbooks #octaviabutler #margaretatwood Books Mentioned in this Episode: —What’s on our Night Stand- Dawn - Octavia Butler - (1987) Canticle For Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959) Femina - Janina Ramirez (2022) Storyland - Amy Jeffs (2022) Black Sun - Rebecca Roanhorse (2020) Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood (2003) Mirrored Heavens- Rebecca Roanhorse (2024) —Magical Bowl of Book Prompts Six Crimson Cranes - Elizabeth Lim (2021) The Unfinished Harold Hughes - Richard Ayoade (2024) Ayoade on Top - Richard Ayoade (2019) —Main Episode Topic The Land of Milk and Honey - C. Pam Zhang (2023) How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu (2022) Station Eleven - Emily St. Mandel (2014) I Cheerfully Refuse - Leif Enger (2024) The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemison (2014) Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood (2003) I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman (1995) The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa (19) Dawn - Octavia Butler - (1987) Fledgling- Octavia Butler - (2005) Count Zero - William Gibson - (1986) The Ark Sakura - Kobe Abe - (1984) V is for Vendetta - (1982-1985)

    49 min

  5. 14/12/2025

    Comfort Reads for Long Winter Nights

    The days are short, the nights are long and many of are reaching for things that bring us comfort. Paige and I are here to bring you the books we reach for when we need comfort. From fantasy books The House in the Cerulean Sea, Wild Reverence, to Intermezzo & The Anthropocene Reviewed. #entomedinbooks #comfortreads #winterreads #whattoreadnext #decemberreading #entomed #johngreen #sallyrooney #tjklune #cozyreading #cozyreads #rebeccaross Books mentioned in this episode: Red Rising - Pierce Brown - 2014 Black Sun - Rebecca Roanhoarse - 2020 The Murder of Mr. Wickham - Claudia Gray - 2022 Pride and Premeditation - Tirzah Price - 2021 Everything is Tuberculosis - John Green - 2025 Bookshops & Bonedust - Travis Balder - 2023 Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales - Heather Fawcett - 2025 Women Race & Class- Angela Davis - 1981 Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Davis - 2015 Nelson Mandela: Portrait of an Extraordinary Man - Richard Stengel - 2012 Becoming Michele Obama - Michele Obama - 2018 A Day in the Life of Abed Salama - Nathan Thrall - 2023 The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune - 2020 Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings - Joy Harjo - 2015 House of Belonging - David Whyte - 1997 Fireborne - Rosaria Munda - 2019 The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green- 2021 Intermezzo - Sally Rooney - 2024 The Bodyguard - Katherine Center - 2022 Crown Duel - Sherwood Smith - 1997 Wren to the Rescue - Sherwood Smith - 1990 Wild Reverence - Rebecca Ross - 2025 Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine - 1997 The Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb - 1995-2017 Stolen Heir-Holly Black-2023 Prisoner's Throne- Holly Black-2024

    42 min

  6. 17/11/2025

    Must Be the Season of the Witch Lit

    Paige powers through a cold so we can talk to you about our favorite books featuring witches. We start with a prompt from our magical bowl of books and discuss reads that had a slow start but were worth the pay off and then the rest is all witches. Witches from mythology, Feminism of the 90s, and best YA witch books. Books Mentioned in this Episode: An Ember in the Ashes - Sabaa Tahir Son of the Morning - Akwaeke Emezi Tilt - Emma Patee Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife - Francesca Wade Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Overstory - Richard Powers Prophet Song - Paul LynchCirce - Madeline Miller The Witch and the Tsar - Olesya Salnikova Gilmore The Witch’s Heart - Genevieve Gornichec Nettle & Bone - T. Kingfisher A Sorceress Comes to Call - T. Kingfisher The Goose Girl - Shannon Hale The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Sangu Mandanna Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor All our Hidden Gifts - Caroline O’Donoghue The Invocations - Krystal Sutherland The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman

    41 min

  7. 19/10/2025

    Haunted Houses and other Horror Books for Spooky Season

    Join us this week as we get ready for Halloween with a focus on the Horror genre. After winding through vampire stories, haunted houses, and scary nuns, we settle in for discussion on "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" by Shirley Jackson and "Model Home" by Rivers Solomon. There will be spoilers on our main two books. Books listed in this episode: * The Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping - Sangu Mandanna - pub. 2025 * Colored Television - Danzy Senna - pub. 2024 * Beautyland - Marie-Helene Bertino - pub. 2024 * Life Hacks for Little Aliens - Alice Franklin - pub. 2025 * Earthlings - Sayaka Murata - pub. in Japan 2019 - 2020 English * Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham - pub. 2025 * Hungerstone - Kat Dunn - 2025 * Wild Reverence - Rebecca Ross - 2025 * Cassandra Clare’s books * Martin the Warrior - Brian Jacques - 1993 * The Starving Saints - Caitlin Starling - pub 2025 * The Unworthy - Agustina Bazterrica - pub. 2023 in Argentina, 2025 in English * Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia - pub 2020 * We Have always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson -pub 1962 * Model Home - Rivers Solomon - 2024 * Sorrowland - Rivers Solomon - 2021 * An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon - 2017 * She is a Haunting - Trang Thanh Tran - 2023 * White Smoke - Tiffany D. Jackson - 2021 * One Thousand and One Nights- author and publication unknown * The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allen Poe - 1839 * Fledgling - Octavia Butler - 2005

    55 min

  8. 12/10/2025

    YA Fantasy We Can't Stop Thinking About

    In the first full episode of Entomed, we take on our favorite Young Adult Fantasy novels. Join us to talk sexy elves, hopeful dystopian, and everyone's favorite death. Books mentioned in this episode: * The Addicted Series - Krista Ritchie * Lord of Shadows - Cassandra Clare * Queen of Air and Darkness - Cassandra Clare * We Hunt the Flame - Hafsah Faizal * Death of the Author - Nnedi Okorafor * A Protest History of the United States - Gloria J. Browne-Marshall * Learn French with Paul Noble * Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid * God of the Woods - Liz Moore * Little Thieves - Margaret Owen * The City of Brass - S. A. Chakraborty * The Cruel Prince - Holly Black * The Stolen Heir - Holly Black * Strange the Dreamer - Laini Taylor * The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline * Scythe - Neal Shusterman

    44 min
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a writer & a school psychologist talk about books. #deathbybooks #entomed #entomedinbooks

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  • Creator
    Brenda & Paige
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    8
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