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. 3d ago

    Ep. 166: Readers Are Coming Out of Their Little Caves ⛰️

    Books mentioned, in order: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan The Axeman’s Carnival by Catherine Chidgey Pet by Catherine Chidgey I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson Chasing Homer by László Krasznahorkai, translated by John Batki Ishmael by Daniel Quinn Moby Dick by Herman Melville Moss’d in Space by Rebecca Thorne Moss Effect by Rebecca Thorne Hollywood, Ending by John Green Foundation by Isaac Asimov Five Little Indians by Michelle Good Links mentioned: https://shelleyparkerchan.com/historical-figures/ https://youtu.be/fyXVdMgWPh4  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

  2. Oct 7

    Ep. 165: And The Award Goes To... Readers! 🏆

    Plus, Pam has a rant. Books mentioned, in order:  The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow Inkheart by Cornelia Funke That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You by Elyse Myers Witch Hat Atelier: Vol 1 by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Polybius by Collin Armstrong The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel Life Out of Order by Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger As You Wake Break the Shell by Becky Chambers To Be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers Our Infinite and Inevitable Ends by A. D. Suit The Dragonfly Gambit by A. D. Suit The Iron Garden Sutra by A. D. Suit An End in Itself by Terry Fallis Albatross by Terry Fallis Links mentioned: Tattooist of Auschwitz review https://www.auschwitz.org/gfx/auschwitz/userfiles/_public/memoria/en/pdf/memoria14en.pdf Gifford Prize https://www.thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/ Giller Prize https://gillerprize.ca/  National Book Award https://www.nationalbook.org/  Kirkus Prize https://www.kirkusreviews.com/prize/  Novel Prize https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/  Booker Prize https://thebookerprizes.com/  Atwood Gibson Prize https://www.writerstrust.com/awards/atwood-gibson-writers-trust-fiction-prize  Hugo Prize https://www.thehugoawards.org/  55 Canadian fiction books https://www.cbc.ca/books/55-canadian-fiction-books-we-re-excited-about-this-fall-9.7295667 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

  3. Sep 23

    Ep. 164: Dark Academia? For Fall? Groundbreaking. 🍂

    Books mentioned, in order: Heart the Lover by Lily King Writers and Lovers by Lily King Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal el-Mohtar The River Has Roots by Amal el-Mohtar This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Charity and Sylvia by Tillie Walden On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Mystery Play by Elizabeth Kostova And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan Yume by Sifton Tracey Anipare Theo of Golden by Allen Levi Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand The Anthem by Ayn Rand The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Links mentioned:  HRCYED - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm--qS8neH8 Charity and Sylvia - https://www.charityandsylvia.com/ 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

  4. Sep 9

    Ep. 163: Where is the Sparkle?! ✨

    Books mentioned, in order: The Dream Thieves: The Graphic Novel by Maggie Stiefvater, adapted and illustrated by Sas Milledge The Wolves of Mercy Falls by Maggie Stiefvater The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater Julius Julius by Aurora Stewart de Peña The Feast by Margaret Kennedy The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Mystery Play by Elizabeth Kostova The Odyssey by Homer Duplex by Mike Nagel Culdesac by Mike Nagel Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal el-Mohtar Charity and Sylvia by Tillie Walden Heart the Lover by Lily King Euphoria by Lily King Writers and Loves by Lily King The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski 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

  5. Aug 26

    Ep. 162: Home Again Home Again Jiggity Jig 🏡

    Books mentioned, in order: The Odyssey by Homer The Iliad by Homer Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Story Girl by Lucy Maud Montgomery Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson, translated by Damion Searls Charity and Sylvia by Tillie Walden Duplex by Mike Nagel Culdesac by Mike Nagel Yume by Sifton Tracey Anipare The Group by Mary McCarthy  Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry  Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy The Huntress by Kate Quinn The Feast by Margaret Kennedy  Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir https://www.charityandsylvia.com/ 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

  6. Aug 12

    Ep. 161: A Book Haul of Titles We've Never Heard Of 👂

    Books mentioned in order: Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon Bride + Mate by Ali Hazelwood The Huntress by Kate Quinn The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges Ruth by Kate Riley My Favourite Thing is Monsters: Volume 1 by Emil Ferris Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed, tr. by Deena Mohamed Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson, translated by Damion Searls Indelicacy by Amina Cain The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector Carrion Crow by Heather Parry The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor Chasing Homer by László Krasznahorkai, translated by John Batki The Odyssey by Homer translated by EV and DCH Rieu She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar Slewfoot by Brom Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim LinksL https://hrcyed.my.canva.site/hrcyed-3-0/ Emily Wilson’s review of The Odyssey https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man  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

  7. Jul 29

    Ep. 160: We're Stamp Collectors Now 💌

    Books mentioned, in order: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth Canon by Paige Lewis Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan The Princess Bride by William Goldman Guards Guards by Terry Pratchett Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski My Favourite Thing is Monsters: Volume 1 by Emil Ferris The Huntress by Kate Quinn Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Links: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-age/687618/  https://duckstamp.com/art-contest/ https://www.instagram.com/p/DayCUUFkdTG/?img_index=1 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

  8. Jul 15

    Ep. 159: Mid-Year Reading Update and Vibe Goaling 😎

    Books mentioned, in order: A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher Hemlock and Silver by T Kingfisher A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher Paladin’s Grace by T Kingfisher Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo The Frequency of Living Things by Nick Fuller Googins The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth  Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski The Pencil by Henry Petroski Links referenced: https://youtu.be/nm--qS8neH8 https://hrcyed.my.canva.site/hrcyed-3-0/ 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

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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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