HeyJaredBooktails Podcast
Join Rachel and Serena every Friday to discuss this week’s book and enjoy a signature cocktail tailor-made for that read! New theme every three weeks and bonus content on Patreon. So grab your book, grab your booze... for Booktails!
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The Game by Monica Hughes (opens the original)
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📆BIRTH YEAR PICK 1: 1990 📆 Before we get into spooky season it’s time for a ✨Booktails Interlude! ✨ We are doing a two book series based on our years of birth! 🐣 First up Serena has chosen a book published in 1990, Rachel’s year of birth: The Game (first published as ‘Invitation to the Game’ by Monica Hughes. 🎲 We have just three words to sell it to you: Dystopian.Game. Survival. ♟️ And if you’re now buzzing with excitement then get ready because it’s only going to get better. Join Rachel and Se
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (opens the original)
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End of Days 4 🔥☄️🌊 This series on Booktails Podcast we are using the enduring narrative of the four horsemen of the apocalypse as our inspiration to read four books based around War, Pestilence, Famine and Death. 🏇🏇🏇🏇 And now here we are at the end of the end. It’s time for possibly the bleakest of all: famine. 🌾 Our book for this topic is Kirstin Hannah’s ‘The Four Winds’: the heart wrenching tale of a mother forced to flee her barren farm with her two children for the chance at a new life acr
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman (opens the original)
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End of Days 3 🔥☄️🌊 This series on Booktails Podcast we are using the enduring narrative of the four horsemen of the apocalypse as our inspiration to read four books based around War, Pestilence, Famine and Death. 🏇🏇🏇🏇 Today, step up to the stage Pestilence! That’s right! We’re talking locusts, demons, disease and all things plague. 🦗 And we’re travelling back to medieval Black Death times and joining a knight, a young saint and a priest on a quest to vanquish the demons plaguing France and avoi
War by Laura Thalassa (opens the original)
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End of Days 2 🔥☄️🌊 We know what everyone’s first thought is when they hear “four horsemen of the apocalypse”: sexy. 🏇🏇🏇🏇 When we found out about this Romantasy series you know we had to choose one for our end of days series. And yes before you ask, the idea of the mythical bringers of war, pestilence, famine and death as romantic heroes is DEFINITELY problematic. But maybe also camp and fun, right? ⚡️ Well, in this story Miriam’s village is ransacked and destroyed by War (yes that’s his name to
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (opens the original)
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End of Days 🔥☄️🌊 It’s the end of the world as we know it here at Booktails. 🌏 For the next few weeks we are using the enduring narrative of the four horsemen of the apocalypse as our inspiration to read four books based on War, Pestilence, Famine and Death. 🏇🏇🏇🏇 We are starting with the most brutal and mysterious of them all: Death. But what do we know of the big man with the scythe? 💀 Well, we have chosen a book with the Grim Reaper as the narrator: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. 📖 This story
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