My Wife Likes Books

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Welcome to My Wife Likes Books, a podcast about all things books for anyone who enjoys reading or loves the sounds of our voices! We will be reading and reviewing a chapter every fortnight, and invite you to read along with us. Our first book is A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. Your hosts are Sarah Berry, Sallie Chedburn and Sophie Bishop. Want to support the show? Buy us a coffee | Follow us on instagram | Join our Fable book club Sarah is on Fable, Pagebound and Storygraph Sophie is on Fable and Storygraph Sallie is on Fable Show music adapted from “What A Wonderful Day” by Shane Ivers (silvermansound.com) and licensed under creative commons BY 4.0 Artwork by Keith Kilpin Produced and edited by Oscar Rogers

  1. Episode 1

    Is Fourth Wing Worth the Hype? Our Rebecca Yarros Verdict

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Is Fourth Wing worth the hype? Sallie says it's the most fun you can have with a war college and a dragon. Sophie thinks it never lets up. Sarah likes that the dragons talk. We put Rebecca Yarros's romantasy juggernaut on the altar for The Offering, and we're doing it on the day her Fourth Wing short story collection, Threshing Day, is published. Season 2 starts with a proper catch-up. Sophie read 13 books in August, Sallie got told to read a horror and a romance, and Sarah had a five-star read she never wants to think about again.Books and authors mentioned Fourth Wing and Threshing Day, Rebecca YarrosA Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (our Season 2 readalong)The Poppy War and Yellowface, R.F. KuangIron Widow, Xiran Jay ZhaoAssassin's Apprentice, Robin HobbThe Correspondent, Virginia EvansGreta & Valdin, Rebecca K. ReillyLean Fall Stand, Jon McGregorSorrow and Bliss, Meg MasonReally Good, Actually, Monica HeiseyGreen Dot, Madeleine GrayMy Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa MoshfeghWool, Hugh HoweyNevermoor, Jessica TownsendCome and hang out with us Tell us your Fourth Wing verdict by DM on Instagram or TikTok (@mywifelikesbooks). Send a voice note and we might play it on the show. Find every book we discuss on our Bookshop.org store support the show on Buy Me a Coffee, and join the conversation on Fable. ☕ Buy Me a Coffee 📚 Fable Produced by Oscar Rogers. Show music adapted from "What a Wonderful Day" by Shane Ivers (silvermansound.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Artwork by Keith Kilpin

    Is Fourth Wing Worth the Hype? Our Rebecca Yarros Verdict

  2. Episode 2

    ACOTAR Chapters 1-5: How Do You Pronounce Feyre?

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! We read a book! There's thoughts. Some notes. Critiques! Can we say sinisterism? Is A Court of Thorns and Roses just The Hunger Games with fae? Sophie, our first-time ACOTAR reader, can't unsee it. Sarah and Sallie are rereading and have spotted the seeds Sarah J. Maas planted for book two. In our first Season 2 readalong episode, we go through chapters 1-5: a starving hunter, a very large cat wolf with horns, and a crossing into Prythian. Spoilers for chapters 1-5 only. We won't spoil anything from later in the series. We also settle how to pronounce Feyre and Prythian (we think), and we disagree about whether Feyre is any fun to spend time with. Books and authors mentioned A Court of Thorns and Roses and A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. MaasThrone of Glass and Crescent City, Sarah J. MaasThe Hunger Games, Suzanne CollinsFourth Wing, Rebecca YarrosAssassin's Apprentice, Robin HobbA Game of Thrones, George R.R. MartinA Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara (our Season 1 readalong)Next readalong episode: everything up to and including chapter 16, out in two weeks. Our regular episode lands next week. Find every book we discuss on our Bookshop.org store support the show on Buy Me a Coffee, and join the conversation on Fable. ☕ Buy Me a Coffee 📚 Fable

    ACOTAR Chapters 1-5: How Do You Pronounce Feyre?

  3. Episode 3

    Dust Jackets: Venerate or Sacrifice? (Plus Is Katabasis Really Romantasy?)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Find every book we discuss on our Bookshop.org store support the show on Buy Me a Coffee, and join the conversation on Fable. ☕ Buy Me a Coffee 📚 Fable Sarah hates dust jackets so much she bins them the day she buys a hardback. She brings them to The Offering expecting an easy sacrifice — and faces a surprise. Sophie turns up with evidence (a hot-pink surprise under the Dungeon Crawler Carl jacket), while Sallie makes the case for the flap as a built-in bookmark that tracks your progress. Oscar chips in with the price tag on a first-edition Great Gatsby jacket, and Sarah compares the whole thing to buying suede shoes that need a protective spray. Before that, Sarah’s halfway through The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett and seeing faces in her bathroom downlights. Sophie’s back from Keswick with a stack of discounted hardbacks — Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling and Douglas Stuart’s John of John among them. Sallie’s listening to R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis on audio, which sparks a debate about what actually makes a book romantasy. We’re live at The Book Cellar on Stokes Croft, Bristol on 26 October to celebrate the new ACOTAR book. Tickets have sold out, but we’ll be streaming on Instagram and TikTok from around 9:30pm. Next week: A Court of Thorns and Roses, chapters 6–16. Full list of books mentioned: The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels – Janice HallettThe Appeal – Janice HallettThe Difference Engine – William Gibson and Bruce SterlingThe Gallows Pole – Benjamin MyersKatabasis – R.F. KuangBabel – R.F. KuangCarl’s Doomsday Scenario – Matt DinnimanDungeon Crawler Carl – Matt DinnimanLondon Falling – Patrick Radden KeefeEmpire of Pain – Patrick Radden KeefeSay Nothing – Patrick Radden KeefeThe Snakehead – Patrick Radden KeefeAgrippa — Robert HarrisConclave – Robert HarrisJohn of John – Douglas StuartShuggie Bain – Douglas StuartAny Human Heart – William BoydDemon Copperhead – Barbara KingsolverOh William! – Elizabeth StroutWe Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley JacksonThe Haunting of Hill House - Shirley JacksonLove in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García MárquezThe Great Gatsby – F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Complete Works of Arthur Conan Doyle - Arthur Conan DoyleFourth Wing – Rebecca YarrosA Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J. MaasA Court of Splintered Harmony - Sarah J. Maas

    Dust Jackets: Venerate or Sacrifice? (Plus Is Katabasis Really Romantasy?)

  4. Episode 4

    Is ACOTAR Secretly a Gay Book? (A Court of Thorns and Roses Readalong, Chapters 6–16)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Find every book we discuss on our Bookshop.org store support the show on Buy Me a Coffee, and join the conversation on Fable. ☕ Buy Me a Coffee 📚 Fable Feyre’s arrived in Prythian, and she isn’t winning Sophie over. On her first read, Soph’s finding the pace a slog and Feyre a petulant head to be stuck in — and she’s firmly on Team Tamlin, who has, after all, just lost his friend to Feyre’s arrow. Sarah reads all that hostility as trauma and finds Feyre much better company once she knows her family’s safe. Sallie’s surprised by how much she dislikes her on a reread. Along the way we try to pin down what Tamlin actually looks like in beast mode (current best guess: the animated Beast with Mr Tumnus’s horns). Sophie makes the case that ACOTAR is a deeply camp book, and we get serious about Feyre’s illiteracy — could a heroine who struggles to read be part of why this series has pulled so many people into reading? Sarah also explains why the readalong has her thinking about capping how many books she reads a year. We’re live at The Bookcellar on Stokes Croft, Bristol on 26 October to celebrate the new ACOTAR book. Tickets have sold out, but we’ll be streaming on Instagram and TikTok from around 9:30pm. If you run a Bristol book club, Sarah has a strong recommendation involving wine matched to whatever you’re reading. Next week: an Offering episode. In two weeks: ACOTAR up to and including chapter 31. ⚠️ Spoilers for A Court of Thorns and Roses up to chapter 16. Some gory descriptions. Books discussed A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J. MaasA Court of Mist and Fury – Sarah J. MaasA Court of Splintered Harmony – Sarah J. MaasTwilight – Stephenie MeyerThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. LewisFourth Wing – Rebecca YarrosA Little Life – Hanya YanagiharaPiranesi – Susanna ClarkeOddbody - Rose Keating

    Is ACOTAR Secretly a Gay Book? (A Court of Thorns and Roses Readalong, Chapters 6–16)

  5. Episode 5

    We Sacrifice Goodreads (and Sallie Uninstalls It Live)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Soph brings Goodreads to the altar this week — 20 years old, 150 million users, owned by Amazon since 2013, and barely updated since launch. Sallie downloads it for the first time to give it a fair hearing, Sarah defends the one feature she can't get anywhere else, and the verdict ends with a live uninstall. Sarah also puts Pagebound forward for veneration. Before that, Sarah's 80% through Ben Pester's The Expansion Project, a surreal workplace horror about a daughter who vanishes on Bring Your Daughter to Work Day. Sallie's losing patience with R.F. Kuang's Katabasis after a late cast change, which prompts Sarah's hottest take yet on Kuang. Soph finds £35 on a forgotten Waterstones gift card, reports back on her dust jacket survey, and recommends Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Next week we're back in A Court of Thorns and Roses — read up to and including chapter 31. Join our Fable book club to share your thoughts between episodes.

    We Sacrifice Goodreads (and Sallie Uninstalls It Live)
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Welcome to My Wife Likes Books, a podcast about all things books for anyone who enjoys reading or loves the sounds of our voices! We will be reading and reviewing a chapter every fortnight, and invite you to read along with us. Our first book is A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. Your hosts are Sarah Berry, Sallie Chedburn and Sophie Bishop. Want to support the show? Buy us a coffee | Follow us on instagram | Join our Fable book club Sarah is on Fable, Pagebound and Storygraph Sophie is on Fable and Storygraph Sallie is on Fable Show music adapted from “What A Wonderful Day” by Shane Ivers (silvermansound.com) and licensed under creative commons BY 4.0 Artwork by Keith Kilpin Produced and edited by Oscar Rogers

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  • Episodes
    20
  • Seasons
    2
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