Bring Your Own: A Bookish Podcast

This week we air out our listener's unpopular bookish opinions! We discuss if we agree or disagree with your hot takes on 3rd act break ups, book ratings, and more! Huge shoutout to everyone who submitted as we couldn't get get through them all.


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Welcome to a brand new season of Bring Your Own! To kick off season 3 we're sharing  our 2024 reading in's and out's alongside our bookish goals for the year. A new season also means new book recs! We each provide three books that everyone should have on their TBRs this year.

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This week we reveal our individual Top 10 Books of The Year Lists! We take turns counting down from 10 sharing why these books stood out to us in 2023, and list our honorable mentions as well!

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In honor of the holiday season, we each read a Holiday Romance Novella to share with each another!
Full of vampires, tentacles, and elves, we each take take turns recapping our holiday romances in extreme (and at times uncomfortable) detail.

MAJOR SPOILERS for the following Holiday Romances:
- Haunted Holiday: A Vampire Romance by Mandy M. Roth
- Tinsel & Tentacles by Kate McDarris
- Seduced by Santa's Elves by Melanie Nyx


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Court is back in session as the Lovelight Farms series by B.K. Borison takes the stand. Major spoilers for all three books in the series (Lovelight Farms, In the Weeds, and Mixed Signals).

This week Brandi and Kayla (the defense) talk about why Lovelight Farms is a series they always recommend to people, while Kendra (the prosecution) lays out all the reasons why the series wasn't for her.

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SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE MAGNOLIA PARKS UNIVERSE SERIES BY JESSA HASTINGS! IF YOU HAVE NOT READ MAGNOLIA PARKS, DAISY HAITES, MP: THE LONG WAY HOME, & DH: THE GREAT UNDOING YOU WILL BE SPOILED FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES. THIS IS YOUR FIRST WARNING!

This week we're joined by the one and only Kimmy from @kimmybookss to recap the Magnolia Parks Universe by Jessa Hastings. We reveal our favorite characters, the scenes that will stick with us for the rest of our lives, and bond over all the pain the series has caused us. We couldn't talk about this series without spoiling everything so we spoil everything!

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SPOILERS FOR LOVE REDESIGNED START AT: ~31:12

This week Lauren Asher is here to discuss her latest release Love Redesigned (Lakefront Billionaires #1). We chat about what goes into starting a new romance series, how life as an author has changed since dropping her first book and what goes into producing your own audiobooks.

Lauren also gives us a sneak peak at what to expect from the next book in the Lakefront Billionaires series and plays a fun “Most Likely To…” game involving all of her characters.

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Its Game Night! This Week we compete against one another while playing three bookish-themed mini games. Games include a Quote Challenge, Guess Who, and Name a Book based off a Trope. Play along and help determine the winner by the end of the episode!

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This week we're joined by our bookish bestie Selina (@bookish.sel) to recap the Fallen Men Series by Giana Darling. We take turns sharing our favorite books, couples, characters, spicy scenes and more in a hilarious spoiler-filled discussion.

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In honor of Halloween, we each read a Monster Romance to share with one another!
Not a single moment is spared as we take turns recapping each book in excruciating detail from the incredible (and weird) monster smut to the plot points that made our jaws drop.

MAJOR SPOILERS for the following Monster Romances:
- Love, Laugh, Lich by Kate Prior
- Sweet Berries by C.M. Nascosta  
- The Gargoyle's Captive by Kate Robert

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This week we each take turns building our own romance books! We list out which tropes we'd include, how steamy they'd be, and share our dream fan casts.

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This week Elsie Silver drops by the pod to talk all things Chestnut Springs, how she crafts near perfect smut scenes, and what readers can expect from her latest release, Hopeless. She also give us a sneak peek at what's to come after the Chestnut Springs series and plays a fun "Who Said It?" game with us!

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Happy Fall! This week we're chatting all about Fantasy and Romantasy books! We share our fantasy starter packs, favorite fantasy couples, and hand out tons of recommendations along the way. We also (Kendra vs. Kayla and Brandi) get in a little spoiler-filled tussle over the Belladonna series by Adalyn Grace (25:22 - 29:45 if you want to skip).

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Spoilers for the Right Move start at ~27:13

This week Liz Tomforde (@liztomforde.author) is here! We chat all about the Windy City series, her life as an IRL flight attendant for a professional hockey team, and what readers can expect from her upcoming novel, Caught Up! (Windy City #3)

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This week the men of BYO stop by the pod for a fun couples quiz! Hosted by Kendra, Brandi's boyfriend Daniel and Kayla's husband Jared take turns answering bookish questions about their partners. (Spoiler alert: they each struggle a lot)

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This week Hannah Bonam-Young (@authorhannahby) drops by! We chat all about her hit summer novel, Out on A Limb, how she got started in the world of indie publishing with The Next Series, and where to find a man who will treat you right (hint: it involves dice)!

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Court is now in session; beware of MAJOR spoilers for How To Fake It in Hollywood starting at ~14:30

This week How To Fake it in Hollywood by Ava Wilder is on trial as the first installment of Defend a Book takes place. Brandi and Kayla (the prosecution) express why this book was a miss for them, while Kendra (the defense) explains why HTFFIH is one of her favorite books of the year.

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Mazey Eddings stops by the pod! We fangirl over her adult contemporary romance series “A Brush With Love” (which everyone should read, btw!), discuss neurodiverse joy, sex positivity, and how the heck Mazey managed to break into publishing while being a full-time dental student. Mazey also spills all the tea on her newest release, “Tilly In Technicolor” & tells us what readers can expect from her upcoming 2024 sapphic romance, “Late Bloomer”!

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Welcome to season 2! We're kicking things off this season by discussing our summer 2023 reading journeys. Find out our top reads of the season, the books that disappointed us the most, which new authors we're obsessed with, and more!

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This week we recap our time at Book Bonanza 2023. Taking place in Grapevine, Texas over the course of two days, we go over our favorite moments from the book signing, reveal all the authors we got to meet, and discuss that crazy wristband situation. Great for anyone who is curious into how book signings work and may want to attend the convention next year!