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James and Melissa discuss Yulin Kuang's How to End a Love Story, touching on forgiveness, genre, and how everything is just fanfiction. Notes: trigger warning for suicide of a loved one, and spiciness alert for lots of heterosexual intercourse.
Join us next month for Natalie Sue's I Hope This Finds You Well.
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James and Melissa discuss Emily Henry’s Funny Story through themes of communication, community, and compromise.
Join us next month for Yulin Kuang's How to End a Love Story (spiciness alert for lots of heterosexual intercourse.)
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James and Melissa discuss Andrew Joseph White’s The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, talking about systems of power, resistance, and the use of violence in this book's (warning!) very graphic imagery.
Join us next month when we return to lighter themes with Emily Henry's 2024 summer read, Funny Story.
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Melissa and James discuss Elissa Sussman’s Once more with Feeling, touching on Broadway, Britney, Barbie, and more.
Join us next month when we read The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White.
Meanwhile, check out Melissa’s cameo in the SF Chronicle’s feature on SF’s best karaoke bars. Very on-brand.
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Melissa and James discuss Goodreads Choice Awards Young Adult Fiction winner of 2023, Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood, through themes of caretaking, identities, and genre.
Join us next month when we read Once More with Feeling by Elissa Sussman.
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James and Melissa discuss Britney Spears’ memoir The Woman in Me through themes of power, faith, and connection.
Join us next month when we read the Goodreads Choice Awards Young Adult Fiction winner of 2023, Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood.
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Melissa and James discuss Alexis Hall’s 10 Things That Never Happened through themes of capitalism, management styles, and nachos.
Join us next month when we read this year’s hottest memoir, The Woman in Me by Britney Spears.
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Melissa and James discuss R. F. Kuang's Yellowface through themes of authorship, ambition, and what we owe (or don’t) to our communities.
Join us next month when we read Alexis Hall’s new holiday romance, 10 Things That Never Happened.
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James and Melissa discuss Curtis Sittenfeld’s Romantic Comedy through themes of identity, author credibility, and, unfortunately, the Manosphere.
Join us next month when we read Yellowface by R. F. Kuang.
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Melissa and James read Talia Hibbert’s Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute through themes of personal narratives, voice, and self-actualization.
Join us next month when we read Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld.
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Melissa and James read Emily Henry’s Happy Place through themes of purpose, friendship, and the metaphor of pottery.
Join us next month when we read Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert.
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Melissa and James read Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt through themes of community, identity, and an unexpected case for Universal Basic Income.
Join us next month when we read Happy Place by Emily Henry.
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Melissa and James read Goodreads Choice Awards 2022 Best Debut Novel winner, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, through themes of feminism, impact, and letting children be children (or not).
Join us next month when we read Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.
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Melissa and James read Dana Schwartz's Anatomy: A Love Story, touching on gender and class, education, and vampire-adjacent plot points.
Join us next month for Goodreads Choice Awards 2022 Best Debut Novel winner, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.
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Melissa and James read Sabaa Tahir's All My Rage, through themes of memory, imagination, justice, and salvation.
Join us next month for another Goodreads Choice Best YA Fiction finalist, Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz.
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Melissa and James read Lynn Painter's The Do-Over just in time (okay, five weeks early) for Valentine's Day, discussing life lessons, favorite movies, and trying to figure out what "main character" actually means.
Join us next month for Goodreads Choice Best YA Fiction finalist, All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir.
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James and Melissa read Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me through themes of self-actualization, parents and grandparents, and smashing capitalism (or not).
Join us next month for an early Valentine’s Day special,The Do-Over by Lynn Painter.
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James and Melissa read Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us, discussing personal responsibility, traditional gender roles, and why this book so popular.
Trigger warning for domestic abuse.
Join us next month Alison Cochrun's Kiss Her Once for Me, a tribute to James' newly-embraced love of the holiday romcom.
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James and Melissa read She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick through themes of want-versus-need, female friendships, and whether "becoming your true self" is a real thing.
Join us next month for Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us (trigger warning for domestic abuse).
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