I’m very pleased to welcome Jodie from Witty & Sarcastic Book Club to talk about what happened on our blogs last year, the books that stood out to us, as well as some hopes and goals for 2025–and very vague reading plans. We ramble a bit about some other things, too.
I hope you enjoy this.
The audio on my end is a wonky (and maybe hard to listen to) at the beginning, but it settles down after a little bit (but is still too loud compared to Jodie’s). Will go back to my old microphone next time.
Show Notes
Blogs/Websites we mentioned:
Peat Long’s Blog: https://peatlong.wordpress.com/
The Orangutan Librarian: https://theorangutanlibrarian.wordpress.com/
Pages Unbound: https://pagesunbound.wordpress.com/
Read Christie 2025: https://www.agathachristie.com/news/2025/read-christie-2025
Bookshop Pages, we’d appreciate you using one or all of these:
Behind the Pages Bookshop Page: https://bookshop.org/shop/BehindthePages
Witty and Sarcastic Book Picks: https://bookshop.org/shop/WittyandSarcasticBookPicks
HC’s Bookshop Page: https://bookshop.org/shop/irresponsiblereader
Particular Books We Mentioned:
The Root of Hope by Ricardo Victoria
God Ascended: An Archives of Evelium Tale by Jeffrey Speight
Dragons of Fate by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke
Buddy the Knight and The Queen of Sorrow by Peter David
The Half Killed by Quenby Olson
Camelot Shadow by Sean Gibson
The Part about the Dragon Was (Mostly) True by Sean Gibson
The Lotus Empire by Tasha Suri
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
The Star and the Strange Moon by Constance Sayers
Tales of Mystery: Dead for a Spell
Play of Shadows by Sebastien de Castell
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
The Last Shield by Cameron Johnston
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Martian by Andy Weir
No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister
The Mercy Chair by M.W. Craven
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Michael Ward
Whisper in the Wind by Luke Arnold
The Last Soul Among Wolves by Melissa Caruso
The Final Vow by M.W. Craven
The Legendary Mo Seto by A. Y. Chan
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
wittysarcasticbookclub
Thank you for letting me chat books with you! It was fun!
HCNewton
I had a great time, too. I appreciate you making time for this.