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September 30, 2021

September 2021 Bookclub Recap: Unravel The Dusk by Elizabeth Lim

BY SOPHIA After reading Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim last month for our book club pick (and LOVING it) we both knew that we had to finish out the duology and read Unravel the Dusk (The Blood of Stars Book II) for our September book club pick. In this month's podcast episode, we spend some time talking about how we celebrated my 36th birthday and our favorite ways to relax before jumping into book club talk - the girl chat portion of this episode is super fun so make sure to give the episode a listen! On to the book itself though ... SPOILER ALERT[...]

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July 24, 2021

July 2021 Bookclub Recap: The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy

BY SOPHIA What better way to celebrate being in the throes of summer than with the most iconic summer trilogy: The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han? For our July book club pick this month, Jensine & I decided to embark on re-reading all three of the books in this series and unlike previous months when we've read multiple books for book club, this month did NOT feel like a challenge to finish all the books. All three of these books are short, quick reads that FLY BY and we promise, will not disappoint. what we liked: Is it not every girl's[...]

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April 30, 2021

april book club recap: six of crows & crooked kingdom

BY SOPHIA Ah, April. This month there were so many things to celebrate and we spent a good chunk of our podcast girl chat discussing all the fun things we did in the month of April (especially considering how depressing last April was, we both felt like we had some make-up celebrating to do). We gabbed about Jensine's birthday, our girls' weekend away, and ALL THE THOUGHTS on the tv show Shadow & Bone on Netflix. For our book club pick, we continued in the Grishverse theme and moved onto the Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom duology by Leigh Bardugo. Thi[...]

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March 4, 2021

Feb Book Club Recap: A Court Of Silver Flames

BY SOPHIA In this month's PPG book club discussion, we read & talked about the LONG AWAITED next installment of the queen Sarah J. Maas' A Court of Thorns & Roses series - A Court of Silver Flames. I personally had this book pre-ordered in my Amazon cart and ready to arrive on release day and could NOT wait to get my hands on it to read. For those who don't know, this latest book dives into the storyline of two characters who were really side characters in the original 3 books: Nesta & Cassian. Specifically, it dives into the loveline betwee[...]

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November 20, 2020

October Book Club Recap: The Happily Ever After Playlist

BY JENSINE Source: Latest Book Crush The Happily Ever After Playlist is a sort of sequel to the fun and fabulous book, The Friend Zone, which we both loved by new author Abby Jimenez. It follows Sloane, the best friend who suffers a tragic loss in the first installment, and Jason, a musician trying to make it in the industry and also into Sloane's heart. It is hilarious and heartwarming and has an actually bumping playlist to boot. OVERALL RATING: 4.5/5 WHAT WE LIKED: Both Sophia and I really liked this story (and Jaxon lol). We raced through it be[...]

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November 19, 2020

September Book Club Recap: Midnight Sun

BY SOPHIA In our first inaugural episode of PPG Book Club, we read and discussed Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer. For those who are unfamiliar, Stephenie Meyer wrote the hit Twilight book series (that later were turned into a super successful movie franchise!) and her latest book, Midnight Sun, is a retelling of the first book of the Twilight series except retold from the perspective of the main male protagonist, Edward. We also spent some time girl-chatting about birthdays as September is my birthday month! On the podcast, we discuss all things birthda[...]