Hate Read Podcast

Apologies for the audio issues! Anna is moving stuff around in her house and her normal recording space has been taken over. An eccentric aunt casts a spell on her mousy niece that makes her more assertive and sexier. Pretty much the rest of the book unfolds the way you’d imagine, but with an extra dose of Hate (PEE PEE TOILET) from Anna&Em. Join us this fortnight for a magical romp through Hocus Pocus by Teresa Roblin. A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube channel: youtube.com/fretwiz. Rather Be Reading: The Cainsville Series by Kelley Armstrong The Ancient Magus’ Bride by Kore Yamazaki Have a terrible book suggestion for us? Email: hatereadcast @ gmail Twitter: @hatereadcast, @emnoteliza, @amdeebee

Trigger Warning: Sexual assault, abusive relationships, teenage pregnancy, attempted suicide, postpartum depression. Who doesn’t love a little fear mongering in the form of a fake teenager’s diary? Anna & Em trudge through the fictional account Annie’s abusive relationship and subsequent pregnancy. It was such a yummy, nummy book. #GoodTimeSlime A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube channel: youtube.com/fretwiz. Rather Be Reading: The Mothers by Brit Bennett Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison Have a terrible book you’d love to hear us complain about? Want to call us a couple of duh heads? Willing to share your own diary? Email: hatereadcast @ gmail Twitter: @hatereadcast, @emnoteliza, @amdeebee

We come from the land of ice and snow, from the garbage sea where the Wailers flow… Ok, so that was bad, but this episode of the podcast is pretty good! This fortnight, the sci-fi YA dystopian novel Frozen by Melissa de la Cruz is up for discussion. Come and be dazzled by Em’s in-depth knowledge of the casino industry and Anna’s theories on panda bear prowess in the future. A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube channel: youtube.com/fretwiz. Rather Be Reading: The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen The Cruel Prince by Holly Black Have a really bad book you’d love to hear us complain about? Email: hatereadcast @ gmail Twitter: @hatereadcast, @emnoteliza, @amdeebee

This fortnight, Anna & Em discuss the One-Direction-based-fanfiction-turned-published-novel Nothing More by Anna Todd! Listen in to find out more about their embarrassing fanfiction habits and unseemly knowledge of Harry Potter trivia! A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube channel: youtube.com/fretwiz. Rather Be Reading: Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Meg Cabot’s newer works Anything by Sophie Kinsella As always, we would love your HateRead suggestions, as well as any steamy fanfics you’ve come across recently! Email: hatereadcast @ gmail Twitter: @hatereadcast, @emnoteliza, @amdeebee

Trigger Warning: Eating disorders. So, we’re a little bit behind on our holiday special, but we love Christmas so much we don’t care. This fortnight, Anna & Em discuss the novel that inspired the movie Christmas With the Kranks: Skipping Christmas by John Grisham. Apparently some people are just hateful. A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube channel: youtube.com/fretwiz. Rather Be Reading: The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore Hogfather by Terry Pratchett Please tell us where this book is supposed to take place: Email: hatereadcast @ gmail Twitter: @hatereadcast, @emnoteliza, @amdeebee

Trigger Warning: Lots of discussion about sex, including some discussion of underaged sex and issues of consent. Are you ready for a sexy, sexy episode about sexy, sexy vampires and sexy, sexy werewolves, wereleopards, werelions, wererats, and were-every-other-animal-that-ever-existed? Anna and Em take a nostalgic trip back to a series they hoped to never revisit. Welcome to Kiss the Dead by Laurell K. Hamilton, book 21 in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series. Send us your terrible book suggestions and your very detailed synopsis of the entire Anita Blake series! Email: hatereadcast @gmail Twitter: @hatereadcast, @emnoteliza, @amdeebee

Take one Harvard scholar with a sense of honor and one cat ghost, and what do you get? One big hot mess of a cozy mystery. This fortnight, Anna and Em grow increasingly frustrated with one woman’s inability to use basic common sense in Clea Simon’s Shades of Grey. Feel free to reach out to us with your terrible book suggestions or any information you have on turning .jpgs into .xcl files! Email: hatereadcast @ gmail Twitter: @hatereadcast, @emnoteliza, @amdeebee

Trigger Warning: Discussion about sexual assault and consent. So apparently the host of The Bachelor, Chris Harrison, wrote a romance novel. A novel full of unsent letters, horrible career and life choices, and questionable sexual consent. Take a journey to Austin, TX with Anna and Em as they try their hardest to not strangle Leigh and Jake, the world’s stupidest couple. Welcome to The Perfect Letter by Chris Harrison! Things Mentioned in Podcast: Sweet Home Alabama: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256415/ The Notebook: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15931.The_Notebook Send us your terrible book suggestions! Email: hatereadcast @ gmail Twitter: @hatereadcast, @emnoteliza, @amdeebee

Trigger Warning: Very brief discussion on the main character’s suicidal thoughts. Another fortnight, another terrible book! Join Anna and Em as they discuss Mary-Sue telepaths, cow terminology, the best way to convince people that you have psychic abilities (hint: it’s not forcing people to throw up. That’s just rude), and how this book could have possibly won a Hugo award. It’s time for some classic science fiction with the 1954 serialized novel They’d Rather Be Right by Mark Clifton. P.S. If anyone knows anything about that Scientology conspiracy, get in touch. Wikipedia Article on the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They%27d_Rather_Be_Right Drop us a line! Email: hatereadcast @ gmail Twitter: @hatereadcast, @emnoteliza, @amdeebee

This fortnight, Anna and Em tackle the infamously bad Antigua: Land of Fairies, Wizards and Heroes. Together they attempt to unpack the mysteries of Antigua: why are there so many characters? Are the Ellis' actual aliens trying to understand Earth culture? And what the hell is a miniwad?