Mostly Fictional

Mostly Fictional Podcast
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In this podcast, readers Pam and Hallie share their thoughts on the books of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

  1. 16h ago

    Ep. 157: Arrrrre You Prepared For How Many Books Pam Finished? 🏴‍☠️

    Will Hallie ever finish a book again? Plus, Pam is on the verge of multiple BINGOs. Books mentioned in order: The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff Some People by Parini Shroff Vicious by V.E. Schwab Vengeful by V.E. Schwab The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas, illustrated by Sara Pig Wife by Abbey Luck Ballad for Sophie by Felipe Melo and Juan Cavia The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth Sakina’s Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag translated by Srinath Perur The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje translated by David McKay Nice Try, Jane Sinner by Lianne OELKE Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart Or, send us both a message at mostlyfictionalpod@gmail.com

    54 min

  2. Jun 10

    Ep. 156: Pam Read So Much She Created an Eighth Continent? 🌐

    Books mentioned, in order: Shady Hollow by Juneau Black Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson The princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi Pool House by Mary H.K. Choi Storybook Ending by Moira Macdonald 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff  The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Oseman Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector The Remembered Soldier by Anjaat Danje, translated by David McKay Review of Portrait of a Thief https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3830163145 Video about Amanda Lovelace poetry https://youtu.be/msL425_IJEM The Orange by Wendy Cope https://www.best-poems.net/wendy-cope/the-orange.html Receipt From the Bookshop https://katieclapham.substack.com/p/receipt-from-the-bookshop-146 Why to have more unread books https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/why-our-house-is-a-library  Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart Or, send us both a message at mostlyfictionalpod@gmail.com

    47 min

  3. May 27

    Ep. 155: Ahoy! Pam's Birthday Book Haul 🥳

    Books mentioned, in order: The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman The Art of Vanishing by Morgan Pager Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia This Kingdom Will not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Game of Thrones by George RR Martin Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros  How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett The Radiant Dark by Alexandra Oliva Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang  Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty The Incandescent by Emily Tesh TikTok mentioned: https://www.tiktok.com/@girl_on_couch/video/7363742421588512043?lang=en Pirate Wonders Readathon Announcement and Rules:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD47gfpqVSg https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CUxGnQKMLT1AtkHs75vKrT7cC317yXPYC4MVm6QDwPU/edit?usp=sharing Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart Or, send us both a message at mostlyfictionalpod@gmail.com

    58 min

  4. May 13

    Ep. 154: Reading Books That Are Hot Online 🔥

    Hallie reads a hot title, and Pam continues a hot series. Look at us, so hip with the book world.  Books mentioned, in order: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke The Hitch by Sara Levine Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe Portrait of a Thief by Grace D Li The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector, translated from Portuguese by Benjamin Moser  Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King Readathon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYdI2DpVcSE Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart Or, send us both a message at mostlyfictionalpod@gmail.com

    37 min

  5. Apr 29

    Ep. 153: A Very Series-us Episode 📚

    Books mentioned, in order: Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire Across Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire Typhoon by Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett Heather Fawcett's Substack: https://heatherfawcett.substack.com/p/the-books-i-read-to-write-emily-wilde Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart Or, send us both a message at mostlyfictionalpod@gmail.com

    42 min

  6. Apr 15

    Ep. 152: Join Us In Our Boat of ARCs 🛳️

    Books mentioned, in order:  Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately by Alicia Cook A Bit Much: Poems by Lyndsay Rush Medium Rare by A Natasha Joukovsky  Portrait of a Mirror by A Natasha Joukovsky  The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey The Gatepost by Tim Weed The Afterlife Project by Time Weed Break Room by Miye Lee, translated by Sandy Joosun Lee The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee The Fisherman by John Langan Zorrie by Laird Hunt Bunny by Mona Awad In the House In the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days by Jessie Sylva We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart Or, send us both a message at mostlyfictionalpod@gmail.com

    48 min

  7. Apr 1

    Ep. 151: Pam Gets In Trouble at the Book Store 🫣

    Books mentioned, in order: Villette by Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Mate by Ali Hazelwood Bride by Ali Hazelwood Hot for Slayer by Ali Hazelwood The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta Piranesi by Susanna Clarke The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Metallic Realms by Lincoln Michel The Pallbearers Club by Paul G. Tremblay Le journal d’Aurélie Laflamme by India Desjardins Out of the Loop by Katie Siegel On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle The Gatepost by Tim Weed The Afterlife Project by Tim Weed Medium Rare by A. Natasha Joukovsky  Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart Or, send us both a message at mostlyfictionalpod@gmail.com

    43 min

  8. Mar 18

    Ep. 150: Dueling Book Clubs ⚔️

    Books mentioned, in order: Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time edited by Hope Nicholson Out There by Kate Folk Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead Muscle Man by Jordan Castro Dracula by Bram Stoker Villette by Charlotte Brontë God of the Woods by Liz Moore Memoir of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt The Radiant Dark by Alexandra Oliva Arrival by Ted Chiang Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Links referenced: https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/book-month-club-inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Month  https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/meet-the-canada-reads-2026-contenders-9.7040200  Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart Or, send us both a message at mostlyfictionalpod@gmail.com

    42 min
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In this podcast, readers Pam and Hallie share their thoughts on the books of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

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    Mostly Fictional Podcast
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
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