HeyJaredEscape with Me Bookclub
Come with us as we evade reality and escape into a new book. From mystery to romance to speculative fiction, we read books from all different kinds of books and love to get together and talk about these books.
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Love Hina 4-6 - Nostalgia vs First Time (opens the original)
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Episode 186 - Love Hina Vol. 4-6 by Ken Akamatsu We're back with Love Hina! For James, this series is a core memory. He first read Love Hina in high school, and it was one of his first manga series. For Sam, it's a completely different experience: she's been watching anime and reading manga for more than two decades, but this is her first time actually reading Love Hina. So what happens when one person revisits a formative favorite and the other comes to it with years of anime and manga experien
Princess of Thieves - We Were Robbed! (opens the original)
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Episode 185 - Princess of Thieves by Mari Mancusi Once again, we have read a Disney Twisted Tales book that was published in the UK and Australia. And once again: WE WERE ROBBED! Seriously, it will never stop baffling us that some of the best books in the Disney Twisted Tales series aren't published in the United States. Sam and Kaitlyn dive into Princess of Thieves by Mari Mancusi and this isn't just another enjoyable entry in the series. This book is FIVE STARS. It may even be one of our favor
Divergent - Why Is It Being Rewritten (opens the original)
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Episode 184 - Divergent by Veronica Roth Two readers. Two different experiences. And one very important question: Was Divergent actually done dirty by being compared to The Hunger Games? Danielle read Divergent when it originally came out. Sam is reading it for the first time, and together they're digging into one of the biggest YA dystopian series of the 2010s. We talk about why comparing Divergent to The Hunger Games can actually be a disservice to the book, how the movie adaptation helped dra
The People of Sparks - City of Ember Sees the Light (opens the original)
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Episode 183 -The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau What happens when the book you remember loving as a kid has to live up to the original? Sam and Keira are heading back to the world of City of Ember with The People of Sparks, the second book in Jeanne DuPrau's series. Both of them read City of Ember as kids, but their journeys stopped in very different places. Sam went on to read the first three books, while Keira stopped after Book 1. So this isn't quite a reread for either of them. For Sam, i
Murder in Mesopotamia - The Anti-Hastings Club Gets a Vacation (opens the original)
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Episode 182 - Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie The Anti-Hastings Club gets a much-needed break this week. Sam and Hannah are back with Agatha Christie, but Murder in Mesopotamia gives us something we don't always get in these episodes: a different narrator. And Sam is particularly excited because this mystery takes us into the world of ancient Mesopotamia, one of her favorite historical subjects. Set at an archaeological excavation in Iraq, the book brings together a suspicious group of
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