Josephine Angelini, Aileen Calderon, Alisa Hilfinger, Lauren Sanchez
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*Trigger warning: The beginning of this episode starts off with a politically charged conversation about the Supreme Court and the recent overturning of Roe v Wade. But we eventually do talk about books. ** Also, this is our last episode befor
Alisa’s daughter Ella, and Lauren’s daughter Ana gave us a list of YA titles we hadn’t read yet. Aileen read We Were Liars by E. Lockheart, a thriller with a blow-your-mind twist at the end. Though classified as YA, we all felt like this book
This week we read books that hovered somewhere in the beach read category, yet much more challenging and satisfying than the run-of-the-mill sand and surf fluff. Aileen read The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller, a story of summer, secrets,
This week on Fiction Between Friends we have a special guest, New York Times bestselling author, Beth Revis! We talk about her new book The Princess and the Scoundrel, coming out August 16, 2022, and her serial novel Museum of Magic that is out
This week the gang reads historical fiction. Alisa and Aileen are old pros at this sub-genre while Josie and Lauren are more like dabblers. Ironically, almost all of the picks were in the WW2 category while Josie was the odd duck who traveled b
Ever wonder how your favorite book becomes a movie or a TV show? Well, wonder no longer because we have brought in a bona-fide filmmaker to explain it.Lauren couldn’t be with us, but we had our first guest speaker, Barbara Stepansky on in her p
This week on Fiction Between Friends, anything goes! It was the “What’s on Your Nightstand?” episode. Aileen read Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld. A modern re-telling of Pride and Prejudice. Lauren swung for the fences and read a book in Spanish
We talked about it, and we’ve decided that the pandemic is over. For now at least. And we wanted to celebrate by talking about what helped get us through it. Each other, of course, but also what we read.Aileen talked about how much she loved re
This week we all read books that were set in our neck of the woods. New England!Aileen starts us off with On Beauty by Zadie Smith. Lauren covers The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe. Josie read The Secret History by Donna T
We felt like we needed to lighten up a bit, so this week we read books that made us laugh. Lauren read an old favorite, One for the Money by Janet Evanovich. Alisa read Faking It by Jennifer Cruise. Aileen read The Humans by Matt Hague. And Jo
Aileen had always wanted an excuse to read Nora Ephron, so she read Heartburn by Nora Ephron. Lauren got her sweet tooth fix with an old copy of Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. Alisa read A River Runs Through It by Norman McClain,
Happy (early) Valentine’s Day! Lauren read The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon. Fun, vivacious dialogue and tons of red hot lovin’. Aileen had a much more PG rated read with The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, about a quirky, schedule-obsessed
Aileen is a huge Stephen King fan and has been for as long as we can remember. This week she picked a book of his for each of us to read. Aileen read one of King’s more recent books, Billie Summers. A crime thriller that’s something of a depart
Right now in our country there are towns, cities, and states making lists of books that certain people want banned from schools and libraries, and we are absolutely horrified by this. So, each one of us pick an AMAZING book that is on one of th
Our final episode of the season! We'll be off for three weeks and then be back January 10 for Season 2.Things get quite steamy in this episode, as Aileen warms us up with Jennifer Weiner’s, Big Summer. Then Lauren goes full romance with Robyn
We tried something a little different for this episode and chose to partner up and cover two books instead of four. Aileen and Lauren read Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-t
We read books recommended by Lauren, our in-house librarian, who is still out of commission, and it’s unanimous. She’s a book whisperer.Aileen read and thoroughly enjoyed Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal a lively, sexy, an
Unfortunately, Lauren couldn’t make it, but the remaining gang soldiers on without her and discusses captivity and survival stories. Aileen re-read Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews and found that her opinion of this once beloved book had c
We chose to go dark on this one, all except for Lauren who went with some lighter fare because sometimes you read what the book gods send your way and you don't ask any questions. Aileen tips off the book talk with her pick, The Chocolate War b
What is it about certain books that brings us back, again and again? Why re-read at all, considering there are so many great books waiting on our TBR lists? Well, this week we break down our favorite re-reads.Aileen dusts off her old copy of A
Since this is a podcast celebrating books and friends we thought it was important for our second episode to cover books centered around friendships.We discuss Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells, Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the
Since this is our very first episode we thought it would be appropriate to make the theme for this one, "Books that made us fall in love with reading".We cover Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, Ramo
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