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Amy and Emily spar over background noise and almost forget they are supposed to be talking about books amidst other concerns like who rolls Snoop Dogg's blunts, Justin Timberlake, the Olympics, postal fraud, and sulfite sensitivity. They finally manage to get on topic about "To Paradise" by Hanya Yanigahara, "The Fortune Men" by Nadifa Mohamed, "Hamnet" by Maggie O'Farrell and more!

Amy and Emily lament the stress of end-of-year "best of 2021" book list season and decide to move to Iceland. Emily explains why she's a tish salty about Audible's new return policy and introduces the Icelandic tradition of Jolabokaflod. Amy says the word "penis" way too many times and explains why she's not ready to read about Covid in new fiction. They cover The Sentence by Louise Erdrich, Interior Chinatown by Andrew Yu and more! 

Amy and Emily kick off Season 2 with a recap of summer happenings and an update on the Goodreads 2021 reading challenge. They consider starting a F.O.I.R. annual book award and eventually take a close look at the 2021 Booker Prize finalists. Emily gets to talk about her incurable Ferrante Fever AGAIN, and Amy reports on a candy injustice remedied.

Amy and Emily chat about what they're reading: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, Let's Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell, and Four Winds by Kristen Hannah. They also cover their love for Ann Patchett and Emily's desire to be her in another life.

 Amy and Emily chat about what they're reading: The Topeka School by Ben Learner and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab, cover their Goodreads 2020 stats, and set some reading goals for 2021.  

Amy and Emily chat about Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner and their complete ignorance and ambivalence about all things tech.  Amy further indulges Emily's Elena Ferrante obsession with some insights of her own. Emily looks into a few major literary awards and  some other popular book awards and they offer their own two cents on current and past award winners.

Amy and Emily chat about Know My Name by Chanel Miller and two novels by Britt Bennett: The Mothers and The Vanishing Half. Amy and Emily try to wrap their heads around the controversy surrounding Jeanine Cummins novel American Dirt. 

Amy and Emily chat about what they're currently reading: Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America by Adam Cohen  and The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante. Emily indulges her long-standing obsession with Elena Ferrante and the Neapolitan Novels and tries to convince Amy that her life remains incomplete until she reads them.

Amy and Emily chat about The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi and Anxious People by Fredrik Backman.  Amy and Emily gush about memoirs they love by heavy-hitting women who have real shit to say: Jane Fonda, Sally Field, and Demi Moore.