Hate Read Podcast

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! This week, we've got intrigue, battles, and possibly an invincible cat? Also, a new player enters the game, the sun goes out, and we're reminded that feral cats don't know shit about science. Join us next week for everyone's favorite time of year… that's right, it's Christmas Shoes season once again. Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week, we're reading the second book in our mafia romance unit. We've got another forced marriage to a teenager, but hey, at least the age gap is smaller this time. Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! Recommended Reading: A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall Bindle Punk Bruja by Desideria Mesa 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, our cats are headed back to the mountains to spread the good word of the Warrior Code to the poor, uneducated cats of the world. Truly, this is ThunderClan's burden. Also make sure to subscribe to our totally real and very secret Patreon to read the first chapter of Double Mulan: The Warriors Fanfic today! Join us next week for the second 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 wrapping up our unit on YA horror with a book we both actually loved. We've got a haunted house, difficult step siblings, and a ton of facts about bedbugs. Like, so many bedbug facts. Do not read if you have a fear of bedbugs. Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! Recommended Reading: The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco The Tea Dragon Society by K. O'Neill Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Warriors: Dark River by Erin Hunter by Anna and Em

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! We're starting a brand new listener slubmission unit on mafia/mob romances (thank you, Charlie!) with a book that… well, let's just say this one had a lot of problems with this one. At least we can only go up from here, right? Maybe?

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! We’re finally back with another Meow Meow Monday episode. We’ve got a new series of Warriors books with a whole new generation of cats to follow. But don’t worry, we still have all of our old favorites: Firestar, Tigerstar, and fucking Spottedleaf making another fucking comeback. Where will this new arc take us? Join us next week for the first book in a new unit on mafia romances! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Happy Halloween, Literary Slummers! This week, we have a classically spooky YA horror book about a haunted house, an EXTREMELY small town, and really awkward sexual tension between step-siblings. Join us next week as we FINALLY return with a Meow Meow Monday! Recommended Reading: Dwellers by Eliza Victoria Potion Permit Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to our final Maritime Monday episode. That's right, we're wrapping up the Dive series and saying goodbye to our scuba teens. Will they steal the treasure out from Cutter's nose? Will Star recover from the bends? How many ghost sharks will feature? The answers may surprise and disappoint. Join us next week for the next book in our YA horror 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 sad girl unit with a listener slubmitted author (thanks, Bryn!) We've got a quirky girl medical illustrator and a bad boy graffiti felon navigating a relationship with lots of sad things in both their back stories. We've got banter, we've got bad relationships with parents, we've got consensual stalking. #JustSadGirlThings Recommended Reading: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez Jessica Darling series by Megan McCafferty Join us next week for the finale in the Dive series! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Maritime Monday! We're continuing our journey to the depths with the second book in The Dive series. Our teenaged treasure hunters are starting to get in over their heads. There's ghost sharks, sentient museums, and a surprisingly dark ending to this middle grade book. Join us next week for the final book in our sad girls unit! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week we're kicking off a new spooky unit on YA horror with a book Em read as a kid and did not care for. Have her thoughts changed returning to the book as an adult? Look for Anna's guest episode on All the Good Dogs! And join us next week for another Maritime Monday. Recommended Reading: Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia A Howl: An Indigenous Anthology of Wolves, Werewolves, and Rougarou DISNEY DREAMLIGHT VALLEY Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week we're continuing our listener/friend slubmitted unit on sad girls with a classic sad girl novel. We also discuss high school reading assignments and the literary canon, but maybe it's more entertaining than it sounds. Please excuse Anna's still slightly sick voice.

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to a special Maritime Monday episode of Shelf Aware! This week, Anna and Em are *diving* into a short middle-grade series to give us a little break from the Warrior Cats. We've got 13-year-olds doing an internship with a prestigious marine biology institute. Of course. Very realistic. Also, treasure. Join us next week for the next book in our sad girl unit, and then back to our regularly scheduled programming. Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Warriors: Sunset by Erin Hunter by Anna and Em

Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of Shelf Aware! This week, we're wrapping up our unit on domestic thrillers. Anna finally realizes why she doesn't like the genre (better late than never). The main character has no self-preservation whatsoever. So! Many! Twists!! Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! Recommended Reading: When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole The Appeal by Janice Hallett Caraval by Stephanie Garber 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, we've got a chores book full of cat relationship drama, yay. We also talk a lot (like, way too long) about IF the cats were actually people, who would be the hottest? Please, don't analyze our thoughts too closely. Join us next week for the last book in our domestic thriller 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 brand new listener slubmitted unit on sad girl books. We're diving into a YA contemporary featuring classic teen issues such as: teen pregnancy, a strained relationship with your parents, a boyfriend who is pressuring you for sex, and an ex-boyfriend who comes to your house every Friday night and pouts on your couch because you parents are BFFs and have weekly Friday night movie nights and he doesn't have enough of a social life to come up with alternate plans. Recommend Reading: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyeme That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming Bear & Breakfast Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! 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've got relationship drama, chores, and lots of badgers. Also featuring a lot more questions about what happens when cats die and go to StarClan. StarClan book when?? Join us next week for a brand new unit about very sad girls! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz

Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week, we're continuing our unit on domestic thrillers with a classic YA thriller that is one of the most disturbing books we have read in a while. And make you stick around to the end of the episode to find out some of what happens in the rest of this series. It's a wild ride. Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! Recommended Reading: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill Yerba Buena by Nina LeCour Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz Sources: https://www.mysteryandsuspense.com/what-is-a-domestic-thriller/ http://juliacrouch.co.uk/blog/genre-bender