Book Bits & Chill

September did NOT go according to plan...Emily got taken out by a book hangover, Cassie let Libby completely take over her reading life, and somehow we still finished 15 books between us. We’re catching up on everything we read in September, the 5 stars, the surprises, the books we kept putting off for absolutely no reason, and then attempting to build our October TBRs. And apparently October means dark academia, romantasy, werewolves, 1,000-page books and immediately abandoning the TBR we JU...

Should you read Threshing Day by Rebecca Yarros now or wait for book 4? Spoiler free verdict first, then full spoilers. Threshing Day isn't book 4. It's a collection of 13 threshing stories from your favorite Empyrean series characters and their dragons. We break down what the point of a novella even is, why Rebecca released this one now, and whether you need it before Fourth Wing book 4. Plus: audiobook vs the GraphicAudio version (out Oct 13), and whether to read it now or after ACOTAR 6. ...

The Love Hypothesis movie just dropped on Prime Video and we have one very important question: WHERE WAS THE YEARNING? This week Book Bits Club is breaking down the full adaptation of Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis, what the movie got right, what it completely changed from the book, and whether Adam Carlson survived the jump from BookTok boyfriend to on-screen boyfriend. We get into the missing fake-dating tension, the Chapter 16 of it all, why the entire conference storyline had us spir...

Mafia boss, morally gray villain, or a beast in a mansion: why do we love book boyfriends we'd run from in real life? Cassie and Emily start with a real Reddit request for a mafia romance where the FMC has no idea the MMC is in the mob, and he refuses to let her walk away once she finds out. Then they get into what makes a love interest unhinged in a fun way versus too far. In this episode: The Aristotle theory that fiction lets us feel big, dangerous things with zero real stakesWhat unhinged...

Remember when reading used to feel like the most exciting thing in the world? Staying up way too late for one more chapter, fighting for the next library book, and fully believing you might stumble into a magical world someday? So...when did we stop having that much fun? This week on Book Bits & Chill, we're doing a full READING RESET. We're talking about why so many adults fall out of love with reading, what childhood readers knew that we somehow forgot, and how to actually find that fee...