Hate Read Podcast

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to a return to Maritime Mondays! Yes, we are taking a short break from our Warrior Cats to board the Titanic. And you'll never believe what ELSE may be happening on this ship. Y'know, besides the whole tragic iceberg situation. Join us next week for the start of a new unit on Choose Your Own Adventure novels! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

The Cat Who Could Read Backward by Lillian Jackson Braun by Anna and Em

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday episode! This week, we are reading the last book in the fourth Warriors arc. The fourth cat is revealed (and lol). The clans come together to fight a common enemy. The Dark Forest launches their attack. There are definitely no plot holes or flimsy explanations here. Join us next week for the next book in Em's furry sleuth unit! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week, we're wrapping up our unit on modern mythology with the first book in an urban fantasy that is just… real horny. It's also just one big fight, so please don't expect a lot of structure from this episode. ALSO also, we definitely know his name is Beck Bennett. Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! Recommended Reading: Empress of All Seasons by Emiko Jean Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel The Grim Reaper's Lawyer by Mea Monique Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday episode of Shelf Aware! This week, the arc seems to continue being very meh. Familiar faces make their big return. Dovewing is peer-pressured into a relationship. We go back down into the tunnels. And of course, WindClan is acting out again. Will this all come together in a satisfying conclusion in a couple books? Hard to say. Join us next week for the last book in our modern mythology unit! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week we're starting a new cozy mystery unit about furry sleuths. We started with a book told from the dog's POV, which sounds like a really great idea at first, but becomes very frustrating when the dog solves the mystery in the first third of the story and we have to wait for the humans to catch up for another 200 or so pages. Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! Recommended Reading: The Keeper by Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, Marco Finnegan After Lambana by Eliza Victoria, Mervin Malonzo A Man's Skin by Hubert and Zanzim The Foxglove King by Hannah Whitten Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! This week, we're once again returning to the mountain and the Tribe of Rushing Water for some vague reason. Paws become warriors. Jayfeather does another time slip. But is any of it good? Join us next week for a brand new unit on furry sleuths! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

City of the Plague God by Sarwat Chadda by Anna and Em

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday episode of Shelf Aware! Things are not well with the clans. Everyone is divided and suspicious of each other. There is relationship drama all over the place, cats getting together and breaking up left and right. And we finally get a POV from a cat in a different clan. Thrilling. Join us next week for the next book in our modern mythology unit! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan by Anna and Em

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! The plot thickens as the Dark Forest cats start to meddle in the politics of the Clan cats. Firestar is behaving in a very un-Firestar manner. Dovepaw and Ivypaw are growing further apart. Also featuring a fancasting of the prophecy cats. Join us next week for the conclusion to our dystopian unit! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of Shelf Aware! This week, we're starting a new unit on modern mythology brought to us by our friend Hannah. Thank you, Hannah! No goofs here, this book was actually super good. Go read it! Recommended Reading: Shipwrecked by Olivia Dade A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark King of Wrath by Ana Huang Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Warriors: The Fourth Apprentice by Erin Hunter by Anna and Em

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to a… kind of Meow Meow Monday? This week, we're reading a classic dystopian novel about a man who crash lands on Mars and comes across a civilization of Cat People that are addicted to eating leaves and being lazy. You know a book is gonna be a good when the author himself says he views it as a failure!! Join us next week for an ACTUAL Meow Meow Monday. Recommended Reading: Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Fumbled by Alexa Martin Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to a special Mafia Monday episode of Shelf Aware! This week, we're wrapping up our mafia romance unit (again?) with a Gordon Korman recommended to us by Brad. Thanks Brad! We've got starcrossed lovers, Jimmy da Rat, and Buca di Beppo, all the classic hallmarks of the genre. Join us next week for another book in our dystopia unit! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week, we're wrapping up our unit on mafia romances with a book that turned out to be a little spicier than we intended. Did we finally find an example of the genre we enjoy? Or should we just stick with our shifter romances? Recommended Reading: Queer mafia romances I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Join us next week for…. Another mafia romance?? Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! This week, we're wrapping up another series of Warriors books, and wow, did this one go places. The relationship drama of the last arc has finally paid off. StarClan is fighting StarClan. And Ashfur's murder is solved. Join us next week for the final book in our Mafia romance unit! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week, we're starting a new unit with a book that both Anna and Em have read before. Is this a first for the podcast? We've got a Not Like Other Girls girl, a possibly geriatric love interest, and the terrible boy-next-door with an inferiority complex. So nostalgic! Join us next week for the last book in the Power of Three series! Recommended Reading: Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J. Tuli A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! This week, we're starting the new year off right with an absolute banger of a book. It would be easier to say what DOESN'T happen in this book than what does. We get time travel, we get political intrigue, we get romance, mystery, action. Finally, so much time with the warrior cats is paying off. Join us next week for the first book in Anna's new unit! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to a very special holiday episode of Shelf Aware. That's right, we're here for our fourth year of reading the book series the worst Christmas song in the world is based on. What will be the religious moral of this story? And will the shoes be mentioned? We are taking a week off next week, but join us in the new year for our next Meow Meow Monday! Recommend Reading: Moon Called by Patricia Briggs Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz