Let's be honest, we were all Glossier girlies at some point in the last 8 years or so. As "Boy Brow" lovers and "Cloud Paint" fanatics - we were eager to dive into what makes Glossier - glossier. It's our first dance with nonfiction - is it a thought provoking critique on the beauty industry and start up culture or perhaps just a bit of lukewarm gloss? This month we are reviewing Glossy by Marisa Meltzer, and wrapping up Season 1 of Booked on Sundays!For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. We'll see you next year for Season 2!Book blurb:At the center of the story lies Emily Weiss, the elusive former Teen Vogue “superintern” on the reality show The Hills turned Into the Gloss beauty blogger who had the vision, guts, and searing ambition needed to launch Glossier. She cannily turned every experience, every meeting into an opportunity to fuel her own personal success. Together with her expensive, signature style and singular vision for the future of consumerism, she could not be stopped. Just how did a girl from suburban Connecticut with no real job experience work her way into the bathrooms and boudoirs of the most influential names in the world and build that access into a 1.9-billion-dollar business? Is she solely responsible for its success? And why, eight years later, at the height of Glossier mania, did she step down?In Glossy, journalist and author Marisa Meltzer combines in-depth interviews with former Glossier employees, investors, and Weiss herself to bring you inside the walls of this fascinating and secretive company. From fundraising to product launches and unconventional hiring practices, Meltzer exposes the inner workings of Glossier’s culture, culminating in the story of Weiss herself. The Devil Wears Prada for the Bad Blood generation, Glossy is a gripping portrait of not just one of the most important business leaders of her generation, but also a chronicle of an era. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A book within a book within a book?? More than we signed up for, but who doesn't love a murder mystery in a quaint English town? Let the petty squabbles begin!! This month we're reviewing Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz, and boy is it a ringer. For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. We'll see you next month when we review Glossy by Marisa Meltzer!Book blurb: When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she’s intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan’s traditional formula has proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job.Conway’s latest tale has Atticus Pünd investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but the more Susan reads, the more she’s convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder. Masterful, clever, and relentlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A book that leaves you chanting for more, or swearing off all libraries?? In this month's episode we review Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs, a book about BOOKS, sisters, magic, and mayhem. Aka, a seemingly perfect October read, but is everything what it seems? NO. For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. We'll see you next month when we review Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz!Book blurb: For generations, the Kalotay family has guarded a collection of ancient and rare books. Books that let a person walk through walls or manipulate the elements—books of magic that half-sisters Joanna and Esther have been raised to revere and protect. All magic comes with a price, though, and for years the sisters have been separated. Esther has fled to a remote base in Antarctica to escape the fate that killed her own mother, and Joanna’s isolated herself in their family home in Vermont, devoting her life to the study of these cherished volumes. But after their father dies suddenly while reading a book Joanna has never seen before, the sisters must reunite to preserve their family legacy. In the process, they’ll uncover a world of magic far bigger and more dangerous than they ever imagined, and all the secrets their parents kept hidden; secrets that span centuries, continents, and even other libraries . . . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Much to Rachel Louise's chagrin, this is not a book about hot chocolate, but it IS sexy, queer, chaotic, and full of animals, so honestly, what's not to love? Find out!!! Speculate about what kind of vegetable you are, see who you agree with about the climax (eyoooo) of the book, and afterwards, let us know what YOU think the meaning of the bees was. Above all, strap on for a wild ride because Big Swiss by Jen Beagin is a rollercoaster. As a heads up for our listeners, Big Swiss mentions and details a number of difficult topics including suicide and violence. As always, take care of yourselves and disengage at any time.For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. We'll see you next month when we review Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs!Book blurb: Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss. One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss’s voice in town and they quickly become enmeshed. While Big Swiss is unaware Greta has eavesdropped on her most intimate exchanges, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and she’ll do anything to sustain the relationship… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hold on to your heads and narrowly escape the tithing festival for this month's episode! This episode marks the first of many epic fantasy reviews, and boy is there a lot to cover. Hear our thoughts on the magic system, the relationships, and the MYSTERY of it all. All this and more in this month's discussion of The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart! For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. We'll see you next month when we review Big Swiss by Jen Beagin!Book blurb: The emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire's many islands. Lin is the emperor's daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets. When her father refuses to recognize her as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering the forbidden art of bone shard magic. Yet such power carries a great cost, and when the revolution reaches the gates of the palace, Lin must decide how far she is willing to go to claim her birthright - and save her people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back from our summer vacay, and this month, it's all about games! The games we play in love, life, and on computers. Listen to get Ali's take on Sadie and Sam's relationship, Jane's insight on Sadie's resentment, Rachel Anna's admiration of realism, and Rachel Louise's strong dislike of the miscommunication trope. Hear all this and more in this month's discussion of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin!For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. We'll see you next month when we review The Bone Shard Daughter, by Andrea Stewart!Book blurb: On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This month, journey with us to New York CiTAY (you'll get it if you listen) as we dive into the mind of Edie and the wackadoodle time that is being in your twenties. A disclaimer for this one: as four white women, we obviously can't fully relate to the experience of being a young Black woman, and that's bound to affect our perspectives on the book, but one of the beauties of literature is getting to read about experiences outside your own -- and spoiler alert, boy is this book a beauty. Hear all this and more in this month's discussion of Luster by Raven Leilani. For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. We'll see you next month!Book blurb: Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties―sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage―with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren’t hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and invited into Eric’s home―though not by Eric. She becomes a hesitant ally to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. Edie may be the only Black woman young Akila knows. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This month, turn on your oblongs and hear all about our love, confusion, and devotion for a made up robot. We talk about everything under the sun (GET IT?): who we were rooting for, what made us do a double take, and ultimately, how we would rate it. Hear all this and more in this month's review of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. We'll see you next month!Book blurb: Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What would the Rachels bet away under the hill? Was she right to eat the fat? How did the clones interact with the present day?? Hear all this and more in this month's review of Fruiting Bodies by Kathryn Harlan. For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. We'll see you next month!Book blurb: In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the gothic to the uncanny as it follows characters—mostly queer, mostly women—on the precipice of change. Echoes of timeless myth and folklore reverberate through urgent narratives of discovery, appetite, and coming-of-age in a time of crisis.In “The Changeling,” two young cousins wait in dread for a new family member to arrive, convinced that he may be a dangerous supernatural creature. In “Endangered Animals,” Jane prepares to say goodbye to her almost-love while they road-trip across a country irrevocably altered by climate change. In “Take Only What Belongs to You,” a queer woman struggles with the personal history of an author she idolized, while in “Fiddler, Fool, Pair,” an anthropologist is drawn into a magical—and dangerous—gamble. In the title story, partners Agnes and Geb feast peacefully on the mushrooms that sprout from Agnes’s body—until an unwanted male guest disturbs their cloistered home. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Booked on Sundays we review The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles by Katherine Pancol. Listen to learn each of our favorite and LEAST favorite characters, our thoughts on the book within the book, how we would rate the book, and more! For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod and on tiktok @bookedonsundays. We'll see you next month!Book blurb: When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Joséphine Cortès is left in an unhappy state of affairs. The mother of two—confident, beautiful teenage Hortense and shy, babyish Zoé—is forced to maintain a stable family life while making ends meet on her meager salary as a medieval history scholar. Meanwhile, Joséphine’s charismatic sister Iris seems to have it all—a wealthy husband, gorgeous looks, and a très chic Paris address—but she dreams of bringing meaning back into her life.When Iris charms a famous publisher into offering her a lucrative deal for a twelfth-century romance, she offers her sister a deal of her own: Joséphine will write the novel and pocket all the proceeds, but the book will be published under Iris’s name. All is well—that is, until the book becomes the literary sensation of the season. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.