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In episode 51 of Fully Booked, I go through some scary truths of book content creation that have come up over the course of hosting the pod 😨🎙️📚 (not to mention my scary bad impression of a certain character 🤦🏻♀️)
timestamps:
(00:26) intro + DOB/costume of the day
(06:43) do i still enjoy reading?
(07:43) moving from passion to output mindset
(10:37) playing the comparison game & reader burnout
(15:25) stunted content growth
(18:22) outro
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In episode 50 of Fully Booked, I give you some (mostly) cozy fall book recs as well as what's on my current fall tbr 🍂🎃
timestamps:
(00:26) intro + DOB of the day
(05:21) You Again
(06:40) When Harry Met Sally spoilers endl
(07:47) The City Baker's Guide to Country Living
(10:02) The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
(12:37) Home Before Dark
(14:33) Divine Rivals
(16:45) A River Enchanted
(18:23) Starling House
(19:24) The Ex Hex
(20:36) A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
(22:20) Dead Romantics
(24:38) The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
(26:18) outro
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In episode 49 of Fully Booked, I talk about the 13 books I read in the dead of summer 🥵⚾️💍🌊
timestamps:
(00:26) intro + meeting two of my fav romance authors
(04:25) DOB of the day
(06:13) July stats
(07:20) The Honeymoon Crashers
(09:08) Daring Greatly
(11:00) Mile High
(13:44) MP Into The Dark
(16:21) Atmosphere
(19:03) Caught Up
(23:48) August stats
(24:05) Play Along
(27:37) This One Summer
(31:15) Rewind It Back
(35:59) Wild Reverence
(40:27) The Perks of Being a Wallflower
(44:34) Taste
(47:57) outro
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In episode 48 of Fully Booked, I talk about five of RM's favourite books that I picked up over the past few months (basically been working on this since the start of the year 😳) 🇰🇷📚👾
timestamps:
(00:26) intro
(02:21) i want to die but i want to eat tteokboki
(04:52) The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
(09:52) Almond
(14:49) Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
(16:37) Human Acts
(18:53) outro
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In episode 47 of Fully Booked, I talk about all the latest bookish updates, releases, and adaptations for the rest of 2025 🚨📰📓
timestamps:
(00:26) intro + meeting June Hur
(02:43) Katabasis + DOB of the day
(05:13) September releases
(10:40) HP spoilers
(11:40) protocol for traditionally published fanfic
(13:08) rest of September releases
(15:00) October releases
(19:36) November releases
(21:57) December releases (my most anticipated!)
(24:54) ACOTAR 6??
(26:28) Off Campus TV series
(27:19) The Love Hypothesis x Reylo crossover
(28:54) Every Summer After TV show
(30:43) TSITP theories
(32:20) Project Hail Mary movie
(33:49) outro
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In episode 46 of Fully Booked, I had five friends recommend me one of their favourite books and (almost) read them all 👩🏻🤝👩🏾📚🌟
(00:26) intro
(02:08) Where The Crawdads Sing
(06:52) 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
(09:25) How To Tell The Truth
(12:27) The Wyrd Sisters
(13:32) A Song to Drown Rivers
(20:22) outro + announcement
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In episode 45 of Fully Booked, I sum up all the series I'm in the middle of and want (or don't?) want to start 📚🔢🤔
timestamps:
(00:26) intro + DOB of the day
(09:00) quick series tracker tour
(11:22) series I'm in the middle of
(22:31) series I need to start
(32:56) series I DNF'd
(35:01) interconnected standalones
(48:31) outro
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In episode 44 of Fully Booked, I discuss some different points and observations on why males don't read as much in general and don't read fiction 🏀🎮👨🏼🏫
timestamps:
(00:26) intro + stats
(02:34) males prefer group activities
(05:19) males in the book content creation space
(07:35) gender climate in the publishing industry
(09:01) non-fiction for learning and as a personality
(11:17) conclusion + outro
Link to original Life on Books episode
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In episode 43 of Fully Booked, I go over the 10 books that I completed in June as well as some road trip "adventures" 💯👀🚗
timestamps:
(00:26) intro + road trip adventure
(06:42) monthly highlights
(09:10) The Great Undoing
(12:24) It's A Love Story
(17:44) Sounds Like Love
(22:19) The Right Move
(27:55) Allegiant
(31:21) The Tenant
(33:12) DNF
(34:25) best vs. worst pick
(35:47) outro
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In episode 42 of Fully Booked, I go through the goals that I set at the beginning of the year and if I've hit or missed the mark, as well as what and how much I've read so far in 2025 🔖❓🎯
timestamps:
(00:26) highlight reel of my reading journey + DOB of the day
(05:33) monthly & yearly stats
(10:16ll) goal + action review
(17:54) favourite book
(20:21) biggest disappointment
(21:47) biggest surprise
(22:59) new favourite author
(27:26) anticipated releases for rest of 2025
(32:26) need to read by end of 2025
(35:08) outro
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In episode 41 of Fully Booked, I chat about a few of my recent favs that would make great movies or TV shows 🎬📺 (and wishing some of these could come to fruition in 2026 🤩)
timestamps:
(00:26) intro + DOB of the day
(05:50) Magnolia Parks
(12:36) Inheritance Games
(16:00) None of This is True
(17:30) The Favourites
(21:42) Great Big Beautiful Life
(24:13) TJR's Hollywood series
(26:20) Divine Rivals
(28:47) outro
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In episode 40 of Fully Booked, I play This or That and go through all my bookish favourites 📗🩷🎧
timestamps:
(00:26) intro + building community
(03:19) one vs. multiple books
(04:36) hard vs. paperbacks
(05:28) physical vs. e-books
(05:58) audiobooks vs. book playlists
(07:10) one vs. multiple POV
(07:56) first vs. third person
(09:35) fantasy vs. contemporary
(10:47) friends vs. enemies to lovers
(11:07) morning vs. nighttime reading
(11:43) tea vs. coffee!
(12:50) fiction vs. non-fiction
(13:52) library vs. bookstore
(16:07) music vs. silence
(16:59) bookmark vs. dog-earring
(18:09) over vs. under 500 pages
(19:05) standalone vs. series
(20:12) beach vs. cozy winter read
(21:32) outro
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In episode 39 of Fully Booked, I talk about all the books I read during the May showers (idk what happened to April...) ☔️🏡⚔
timestamps:
(00:26) intro
(04:16) monthly highlights
(07:03) Promise Me Sunshine
(11:42) 10 Words to Live By
(13:16) Insurgent
(15:18) best vs. worst pick
(19:10) outro
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In episode 38 of Fully Booked, I discuss the joys of entering the summer season and the six books I hope to read this summer ☀️🏖️🕶️
timestamps:
(00:26) intro & outdoor reading
(02:11) One Golden Summer
(03:15) Middle of the Night
(06:08) The Wedding People
(08:41) Sounds Like Love
(09:39) 28 Summers
(11:33) Firefly Lane
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In episode 37 of Fully Booked, I cover some books being released mid-2025 as well as some recent book adaptation updates (some very recent!) 📰📘🎬
timestamps:
(00:26) intro + DOB of the day
(04:43) May releases
(09:03) June releases
(10:56) July releases
(13:33) August releases
(15:29) SYRM series continuation
(16:40) Em Hen adaptations
(17:57) CoHo adaptations
(19:43) other book adaptations
(24:27) outro
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In episode 36 of Fully Booked, I discuss a topic that is still hot in 2025 and the effects that tropification is having on books and the publishing industry 📱📝🛏️
timestamps:
(01:08) reddit post on tropification
(03:13) origins and marketing aspect
(05:31) why people like tropes
(07:45) series hype and let-down
(09:08) contrived storylines
(11:06) authors getting lost
(12:54) future of romance books and conclusion
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In episode 35 of Fully Booked, I talk about all the books I read in April 🌊🧺🍓
timestamps:
(00:26) intro
(03:42) monthly highlights
(07:56) Say You'll Remember Me
(14:23) Daisy Haites
(18:38) The Let Them Theory
(21:44) The Strawberry Patch Pancake House
(24:22) The Love Haters
(29:18) The Long Way Home
(34:07) DNFs
(36:27) best vs. worst pick
(38:25) outro
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In episode 34 of Fully Booked, I talk about why I am nowhere close to having a home library as well as go through every single book on my physical TBR 👩🏻🏫🪟📚
timestamps:
(00:26) intro + DOB of the day
(04:22) why i don't own a lot of books
(08:37) every physical book i own
(09:21) books i've already read
(11:05) every book on my physical tbr
(44:07) number of books i own/outro
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In episode 33 of Fully Booked, I took and read as many unpopular bookish opinions I could find and read them all 💭🤨
Original IG posts: @knightlyreadings, @1989bookavenue (part 5, 6, and other opinions)
timestamps:
(00:26) intro + DOB of the day
(04:42) e-readers vs. paperbacks
(07:12) discreet covers
(08:54) third act breakup
(11:07) closed door vs. spicy
(11:58) love triangles
(13:57) rating DNFs
(16:04) special editions
(17:52) epilogues
(19:38) series vs. standalones
(22:06) breaking the spine
(23:55) categorizing vs. plot
(25:34) SJM
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In episode 32 of Fully Booked, I go through every author that I've read 2+ books and choose my best and worst picks 💯🙅🏻♀️
Jaime's video: https://youtu.be/LLetC9A0xQs?si=vZcyBJgE6GakoIxR
timestamps:
(00:26) intro + DOB of the day
(06:11) Sarah Adams
(08:28) Taylor Adams
(09:28) Fredrik Backman
(11:31) Jennifer Lynn Barnes
(12:45) Suzanne Collins
(15:07) Carley Fortune
(16:43) Laurie Gilmore
(17:49) John Green
(19:52) Jenny Han
(22:11) Emily Henry
(24:14) Colleen Hoover
(25:57) Abby Jimenez
(27:34) Christina Lauren
(28:59) Frieda McFadden
(30:55) Annabel Monaghan
(32:48) Lynn Painter
(34:35) Ashley Poston
(36:28) TJR
(38:56) Riley Sager
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