Great Feminist Book Throwdown TGFBTD

Fourth Wing, the 2023 Winner for Best Romantasy, Goodreads Choice Award aaaaaand the worst book we read in 2023. Listen, we respect the hustle, but this one wasn't for us. Still we had so many laughs, so laugh with us!

Get into the hit Crescent City series by Sarah J. Maas by listening to our hot takes about sexy fairy alphaholes and special golden girls in our episode about House of Earth and Blood.

We revisit Suzanne Collins's Panem in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes to discover the story of President Snow's descent into tyranny--with mixed results. Did we like being in a dictator's head for an entire book? Listen in to find out.

We did something a little different this episode** and wanted to share our love for Taylor Swift, the modern poet and lyricist herself, by sharing our thoughts about her most recently released *new* album, "Midnights."

Now this episode was recorded in December 2022, before her record-breaking eras tour and before her breakup with longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn. Our thoughts about her love life and our opinions of her songs have changed somewhat since we recorded, but we will always love our girl Taylor and how she's managed to move us through her music.

We're releasing this episode on the October anniversary of Midnights and as her album 1989 rereleases! If you haven't listened to her music in a while, give it a try! And we hope you enjoy this fun, informal discussion of ours.

**Note our recording setup was different than usual, so the episode will sound more echo-y and loud than we would like. Listeners with headphones, especially watch out for our first three or four draft picks, because we get especially loud then.

We're back to the Twilight story, but this time we are in our main emo man's head: Edward! Is he a better character now that we are in his perspective? The jury's out.

This book is why none of us can go for walks in the woods with our earphones in anymore. Thanks Holly.