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In this bonus podcast episode, Tamara, Classy, Casey, and Lexy are playing a card game!!! Grab a drink and join us for the shenanigans. 

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Welcome to this months #BuddyRead episode. What's a Buddy Read? Co-host Classy and I select a title that we'll either read, listen to, or a combination of both. Afterwards we come together to chat about it on the podcast! This is a candid and spoiler-filled convo.  We talk about this book during a live chat at in the Shelf Addiction Official Facebook group, so you'll want to join us there!
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In this episode, we're discussing His & Hers, by Alice Feeney. Both Classy and I listened to the audiobook version. Be sure to check out the video version of this pod and watch the After Show on Patreon.

​​Check out previous Buddy Read titles here!

Thanks for joining us for the podcast discussion of this past Sunday's episodes from The Walking Dead Universe!  If you're looking for a full scene by scene style recap, you won't find that here.  Be sure to watch the episodes before listening. We're reviewing a bit, recapping a bit, and reacting a lot...basically discussing the episode highs and lows in our unique style! Spoilers ahead, you've been warned! Enjoy.

Fear The Walking Dead S6 E2 | Welcome to the Club
World Beyond S1 E3 | The Consequences of Truth

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Thanks for joining us for the podcast discussion of this past Sunday's episodes from The Walking Dead Universe!  If you're looking for a full scene by scene style recap, you won't find that here.  Be sure to watch the episodes before listening. We're reviewing a bit, recapping a bit, and reacting a lot...basically discussing the episode highs and lows in our unique style! Spoilers ahead, you've been warned! Enjoy.

Fear The Walking Dead S6 E1 | The End is The Beginning
World Beyond S1 E2 | The Blaze of Gory​

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I have a nitpick of sorts. If you've regularly listen to the Buddy Reads series on the podcast, I'm sure you've heard me complaining to my co-host Classy about this subject once in a while. Since I've been increasing the amount of thrillers and mysteries that I've been reading, I've noticed a lot of mislabeling of the genre on these two types of books. Thrillers and Mysteries. From both readers and publishers. I thought it'd be fun to start a conversation about it. 

Thriller and mystery are of course high level genres, there are many sub-genres in both categories. For example Psychological Thriller or Cozy Mystery. There are lots more, so when considering Thriller vs Mystery in this post, I'm just looking at the broad, high level classification.

I'll share some definitions I've found then let's chat. Why do these genres to get so interchangeably used?  Can a book be both a thriller and mystery at the same time?

What makes a story a thriller?

A thriller is a fast-paced novel full of conflict, tension, suspense, unexpected twists, and high stakes. Every single scene and element in a thriller is meant to propel the action forward, test the characters, and take the readers on a roller coaster ride that will leave them on the edge of their seats.

Source: https://blog.reedsy.com/how-to-write-a-thriller/

Updates!!! So yea, 9 days into Blogtober and I've decided to only update for this event when I feel like it! I may have been more than a little aggressive thinking I could do this everyday for 31 days. Life gets in the way sometimes. Yep, gotta go with the flow! ​Several personal family things have surfaced recently and I have to redirect my energy. So with that said, I can't commit to doing this daily.

Now onto today's topic. What's on your weekend reading list?  I will be sampling the first 10% of a few Buddy Read books up for consideration. I can't share those just yet, but both seem good so far. I also am starting on the next 3 Bloggers, 1 Series read-along title, of which is also a book I'm not yet able to share! Don't worry, you'll be in the loop soon enough. I lastly really need to finish loading up my TBR jar so I can go ahead and select my next read!

What are you reading this weekend? Anything spooky or thrilling? Please do share, I always need titles to add to my to that never-ending TBR list! Lastly, please leet me know if there are any topics you'd like me to cover during the month of October. I'm open to suggestions.