Book Pile Banter

Book Pile Banter discusses an array of books, whether Young Adult, New Adult, or Adult. Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim consider what they did or did not like about a book, occasionally get off-topic, and then bring it back to whether they would recommend the book and what other books are like the topic. It is a biweekly discussion, so you can read the book before listening!

Romantasy: The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss westerns, fantasy, and You've Got Mail.

08-20
54:20

Romantasy: Thornhedge

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss retellings, subverting the norm, and whether Thornhedge is a romantasy.

08-06
42:14

Romantasy Craze

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss what makes a book a romantasy, what they think of the developing genre as a whole, and various tidbits.

07-30
19:55

Pride Month: Dear Wendy

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss whether any representation is a good representation, who is forgotten within the story, and the issue with telling instead of showing.

07-10
01:25:04

Pride Month: Legends and Lattes

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss what makes this cozy queer fantasy enjoyable.

06-26
34:03

Pride Month: So Let Them Burn

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss what qualifies a book as a great pride representation, whether a dragon population can thrive with only 10 dragons, and whether a book should start after the war.

06-19
48:00

How Would a Book Have Pride?

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim return to pride month reflecting on how LGBTQ+ reading has changed and effected them in the last couple of years.

06-11
37:52

Starter Villain

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim return to celebrate Sarah's b-day with a book filled with villains, humor, dolphins, and- of course - cats.

05-28
46:38

Mysteries: The Only One Left

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim revisit a Riley Sager book to determine if writing gets better with practice.

05-07
51:52

Mysteries: Murder Road

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss characters, twists, and whether or not ghosts appeal to them.

04-30
58:57

Mysteries: The Forest Demands Its Due

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss how this turned out not to be a mystery, balancing sensitivity versus plot, and what they wished the book had been.

04-23
01:07:37

Dissecting Mysteries

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss what makes a mystery a mystery while Sarah realizes her pick is not one.

04-09
39:51

TransRightReadathon: Most Ardently

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim celebrate Kim's birthday with a Transgender book pick and highlight the nonprofit, Trans Youth Equality Foundation while discussing a pride and prejudice remix.

03-26
51:20

Soft Science Fiction: The Moment of Principles

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim compare this to Star Wars, the moment they found most organic, and whether it is truly soft science fiction.

03-19
01:27:07

Soft Science Fiction: Ascension

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim criticize the science, the plot, and all the details in this 2023 soft science fiction.

03-12
01:05:31

Soft Sciene Fiction: Fledgling

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim discuss the last ever book written by Octavia E Butler, whether vampires can be considered science fiction, and the desire for this to have been a series.

03-06
01:23:58

Dissecting Soft Science Fiction

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim question what really makes something a soft science fiction versus regular "hard" science fiction.

03-02
28:14

Body Horror: Negative Space

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim conclude body horror with a small press selection that has varying reactions from each of them.

02-28
01:33:19

Body Horror: Leech

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim have too many thoughts on this book and most of them are not pleasant.

02-21
01:47:19

Body Horror: Small Favors

Amberlee and Sarah begin the month of Body Horror with a light dabbling via young adults.

02-14
01:31:15

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