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Spooky Season Recommendations: Horror Books, Scary Movies & Binge-Worthy TV Shows | Cookie Bookie Club 🎃Looking for the perfect spooky season watchlist or your next creepy read? The Cookie Bookie Club is here with our favorite Halloween recommendations, from psychological thrillers and horror novels to supernatural TV shows, true crime documentaries, and classic scary movies!In this special Halloween episode, three generations share the books, movies, and TV shows that have kept us up at night (and a few that are perfect for scaredy-cats, too!).📚 Spooky Books: We're talking The Silent Patient, The Reformatory, Don't Let the Forest In, The Housemaid, Stephen King, Freida McFadden, and more. Whether you love paranormal horror, twisty psychological thrillers, or cozy witchy reads, there's something for every reader.📺 Scary TV Shows & True Crime: From The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, FROM, and Stranger Things to The Vampire Diaries, True Blood, and terrifying true crime stories, we're sharing our favorite shows for Halloween binge-watching.🎬 Halloween Movies: We revisit horror classics like Friday the 13th, Scream, and Final Destination, along with favorites like Get Out, Disturbia, and War of the Worlds.Along the way, we share our earliest scary movie memories, , and reveal the comfort shows and movies we turn to when we've officially scared ourselves enough.And because it's the Cookie Bookie Club, expect plenty of family banter, hilarious interruptions, a chocolate malt delivery, and some questionable childhood babysitting decisions.Grab your favorite fall treat, get cozy under a blanket (Mom insists it's necessary for survival), and join us for an hour of spooky recommendations, laughter, and Halloween fun! 🍪📖Perfect for fans of: Halloween book recommendations, horror books, psychological thrillers, scary movies, supernatural TV shows, true crime documentaries, spooky season reading lists, and cozy fall entertainment.

Welcome Cookie Bookies! Today we are talking all things witchy and Practical Magic-SPOILERS ahead for the book (The Book of Magic) and movies. We also hear a great story from mom where she was caught (literally) with her pants down-just like Sandra Bullock in the movie-he he. Mom also adds a new saying to our toolbox and we will be expecting all listeners to say "It's a piece of piss" at some point in the near future-even if just in your head. Does Practical Magic 2 capture the magic of the original—or is the book where the real spell is cast? Join the Cookie Bookie Club as we compare Alice Hoffman’s The Book of Magic with its movie adaptation, starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.We talk cozy fall nostalgia, the Owens sisters, new romance, and whether the sequel’s special effects and product placement distracted from the magic. Sandra shares why the book earned a whole-cookie rating, including the missing characters, deeper family stories, and magical libraries she wished had made it to the screen.Along the way, we share family wedding laughs, imagine our own witchy powers, and reflect on aging and beauty. Then we catch up on our current reads, Dolly Parton’s Storyteller, plant-based cooking, and the latest Survivor drama—with a little Amazing Race and Dollywood chatter, too.Spoiler warning: Includes spoilers for The Book of Magic, Practical Magic 2, and the Survivor episodes discussed.Timestamps:00:00 — Welcome & introducing Practical Magic 202:04 — Original-movie nostalgia, fashion & the returning aunts05:40 — Family wedding recap & a failed Irish exit10:53 — Midnight margaritas & the original movie’s iconic moments13:49 — Movie reviews vs. our family favorites17:22 — Why Practical Magic’s sisterhood means so much to us18:19 — Sequel sister dynamics & Mom’s unforgettable spa story23:04 — First impressions: visuals, atmosphere & special effects26:33 — Product placement that broke the spell27:14 — Sally’s new love interest & missing book characters31:03 — Sandra’s whole-cookie book rating31:52 — Protecting your children: sheltering vs. sharing the truth35:08 — A spooky thrift-store encounter & choosing our magical powers38:53 — Book vs. movie: missing storylines, magical libraries & family gifts44:03 — Final movie thoughts & midnight margarita wedding plans45:29 — Aging, beauty standards & our reactions to the cast52:32 — Current reads: The Reformatory, Boom Town & Theo of Golden55:34 — Dolly Parton’s Storyteller audiobook1:00:52 — PlantYou’s Quickies cookbook & flexible plant-based eating1:02:32 — Survivor reactions, favorite players & wild moments1:10:01 — The Amazing Race: could we handle the challenges?1:13:01 — Dollywood rides & dreams of going back1:13:35 — Wrapping up & Chicago Marathon chatter

Spooky season is officially here! 🍂📚 In this episode of Cookie Bookie Club, we’re wrapping up our September reads, sharing what we’ve been watching, and talking about the books, movies, and TV shows we can’t stop thinking about.We chat about our recent reads, including The Perfect Marriage, The Wild Beneath, and Dolly Parton’s Songteller: My Life in Lyrics — which earns a full cookie for Dolly Parton! We’re talking favorite characters, surprising plot twists, books about writers and storytelling, and the reads that worked for us (and the ones we wish we’d finished in time to discuss).Then we move from the bookshelf to the screen with Verity, Practical Magic, Survivor, The Traitors, and more of what we’ve been watching lately. We discuss what makes a great story on the page versus the screen, memorable characters, binge-worthy television, and why some stories keep us thinking long after they’re over.Plus, we catch up on life, recent adventures, the official start of spooky season, and what we’re planning to read and watch next.If you love book recommendations, reading wrap-ups, thriller and mystery books, movies based on books, cozy fall reading, Survivor, The Traitors, Practical Magic, Dolly Parton, and conversations about books and pop culture, grab a cookie and join the club! 🍪📖Books & topics mentioned: The Perfect Marriage, The Wild Beneath, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton, books about writers, favorite authors, September reading wrap-up, October TBRs, character development, plot twists, and storytelling.Watching: Verity, Practical Magic, Survivor, The Traitors, and more of our current TV and movie favorites.

When a trip around the block can be dramatic for The Cookie Bookie mom, imagine what can happen on an entire trip to Paris! From a departure which sounds more like an SNL script than real life, to illness and fights with gravity, mom truly is always teaching us how to have a good time in the midst of chaos. We hope you enjoy her stories and may it inspire you to either be more prepared the next time you vacation or take the punches as they come.

What did we read in August? 📚🍪 In this episode of Cookie Bookie Club, we’re wrapping up our August reads—the books we loved enough to eat the whole cookie and some that we tasted and didn't enjoy as much.We chat about some of our August books, including The Burning Side by Sarah Damoff, Buckeye, Calamity Club, Marriage at Sea, The Unknown, and more. But it wouldn’t be Cookie Bookie Club without a few detours! Mom is back from France, so we get to see her amazing fashion accessory she brought back with her. We also catch up on what we’re watching lately, share the TV shows that have us hooked, and talk about what’s next on our reading lists.If you love monthly reading wrap-ups, book reviews, book recommendations, contemporary fiction, literary fiction, book club picks, mother-daughter podcasts, cozy conversations, TV recommendations, or just chatting about books with friends, grab a cookie and join the club!