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. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. MAR 11

    Ep. 149: TOAD-ally Overwhelmed With Library Holds 🐸

    Books mentioned, in order: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel The Incandescent by Emily Tesh The Hitch by Sara Levine Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Muscle Man by Jordan Castro Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta Piransei by Susanna Clarke Still Life by AS Byatt Possession by AS Byatt Villette by Charlotte Bronte 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

  6. MAR 4

    Ep. 148: Hallie Sows Chaos in a Company Book Club 😈

    Books mentioned, in order: In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Tom Lake by Ann Patchett The Fox and the Devil by Kiersten White Mind Games by Kiersten White Dracula by Bram Stoker Lucy Undying by Kiersten White Killing Eve: Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke The Hitch by Sara Levine Automatic Noodle by Anna Lee Newitz Goblin poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market 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

    38 min

  7. FEB 25

    Ep. 147: Pam’s Silver Medal for the Library Hold List 🥈

    Books mentioned, in order: Middlegame by Seanan McGuire The Favorites by Layne Fargo Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Landline by Rainbow Rowell Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell George Falls Through Time by Ryan Collett The Wanderers by Meg Howrey Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke 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 Or, send us both a message at mostlyfictionalpod@gmail.com

    50 min

  8. FEB 18

    Ep. 146: Feeling Evil and Diabolical About Our Reading 💖

    Books mentioned, in order: Animal Friends of Pica Pau 3 by Yan Schenkel Moby Dick by Herman Melville Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Middlegame by Seanan McGuire The Favorites by Layne Fargo Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Landline by Rainbow Rowell HRCYED 2.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzS1f5gbt60 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

    38 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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  • Creator
    Mostly Fictional Podcast
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    153
  • Rating
    Clean
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