Jaz & Sharn spent January dabbling with The Storygraph & they discuss the triumphs and tribulations of using this exciting new platform with Kerry from @linesiunderline. Part 1 of 2.

In today’s episode, we are joined by the lovely Lois to talk about our first book club pick: The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun. This eco-thriller is translated from Korean and follows a woman who works at a company specialising in ‘disaster tourism packages’.  Content warnings for discussions of sexual assault/harrasment in reference to the book. Book club discussion starts at 23:31 Our overall thoughts and ratings Do we get frustrated with Yona’s apathetic tone? Discussion about sexual harassment working in an all-male office, and the ‘Angry Black Woman’ stereotype Do we think the tone of the book changed at all during translation? Was it weird to read about travel and tourism during Covid? What did we think of the ironic ending? Find us: Our Instagram: @brewsandreviewspodcast Jaz: @travelsinfiction Sharn: @caffeineandcommas Lois’ Insta: @LochanReads Mentioned: The Little Contemporary Corner Netflix show: Dark Tourist Books mentioned:  The Disaster Tourist - Yun Ko-Eun Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel Wilder Girls - Rory Powers The Billionaire Murders - Kevin Donovan The Shadows - Alex North Out of the Woods - Luke Turner Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde The Stonewall Reader Pie in the Sky - Remy Lai An Ordinary Wonder - Buki Papillon Dark Matter - Blake Crouch The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi The Midnight Library - Matt Haig The Girls I’ve Been - Tess Sharpe How to Pronounce Knife - Souvankham Thammavongsa Adventures of a Young Naturalist - David Attenborough The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang Happy - Fearne Cotton

In today’s episode, Jaz and Sharn are talking about all things book covers! From the popular trends they’ve noticed, to movie book covers, to sprayed edges and printed stickers on books, we *cover* it all. See what we did there? 👀 Our Instagram: @brewsandreviewspodcast Jaz: @travelsinfiction Sharn: @caffeineandcommas People and things mentioned:  Khadija Mbowe: ‘Race-baiting, queer-baiting, colorism, featurism, and performative diversity’ Guardian article: Why are UK and US book covers different? MPRnews article: UK vs US book covers Books mentioned: The Other F Word - Angie Manfredi Eight Perfect Murders - Peter Swanson The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy Do You Dream of Terra-Two? - Temi Oh The Disaster Tourist - Yun Ko-Eun Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel Tin Man - Sarah Winman From the Ashes - Jesse Thistle The Stonewall Reader The Miseducation of Cameron Post - Emily M. Danforth The Hate U Give, On the Come Up and Concrete Rose - all by Angie Thomas Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (Chiltern Classic edition) One of Us is Lying - Karen M. McManus Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid The Ones We’re Meant to Find - Joan He Bridgerton: The Duke and I - Julia Quinn Fates and Furies - Lauren Groff Educated - Tara Westover Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo Gingerbread - Helen Oyeyemi City of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams

Jaz and Sharn chat about the last minute books they want to squeeze in before winter is over, and what books they have been saving to read in Spring (regardless of the fact that Sharn hates Spring 👀) -------- Our Instagram: @brewsandreviewspodcast Jaz: @travelsinfiction Sharn: @caffeineandcommas -------- Books mentioned: 21 Things You Might Not Know About The Indian Act - Bob Joseph Clap When You Land - Elizabeth Acevedo Get a Life Chloe Brown, Take a Hint Dani Brown, Act Your Ae Eve Brown - Talia Hibbert The Black Flamingo - Dean Atta Exit West - Mohsin Hamid The Bromance Book Club - Lyssa Kay Adams Catch and Kill - Ronan Farrow Parachutes - Kelly Yang The Pretty One - Keah Brown One by One - Ruth Ware The Shadows - Alex North Us Against You - Fredrik Backman Little Darlings - Melanie Golding Darling Rose Gold - Stephanie Wrobel Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi Greenwood - Michael Christie The Chrysalids - John Wyndham The Chaos Walking Trilogy - Patrick Ness Frankly in Love - David Yoon The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy Beartown - Fredrik Backman        

In today’s episode, Jaz and Sharn go on a virtual bookish night out, courtesy of the Bibliophile Night Out Book Tag (Created By Beth @BooksNest). Come and join us for a fun and chill book tag, which, of course, has many bookish tangents. Our Instagram: @brewsandreviewspodcast Jaz: @travelsinfiction Sharn: @caffeineandcommas Shoutouts: Amy / @AmysBookshelf Beth / @BooksNest Books Mentioned: Vi - Kim Thúy Concrete Rose - Angie Thomas Tin Man - Sarah Winman My Friend Fear - Meera Lee Patel Clap When You land - Elizabeth Acevedo 21 Things You Might Not Know About The Indian Act - Bob Joseph Get a Life, Chloe Brown - Talia Hibbert The Pretty One - Keah Brown Let Me Hear a Rhyme - Tiffany D. Jackson Amphibian - Christina Neurwirth The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins The Simple Wild - K.A. Tucker Love from A to Z - S.K. Ali A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara Ready Player One - Ernest Cline To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han The Disaster Tourist - Yun Ko-eun Beartown - Fredrik Backman Middlemarch - George Eliot That Reminds Me - Derek Owusu Less - Andrew Sean Greer The Sun is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng Heartstopper - Alice Oseman Red, White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston I’m Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya

In today’s episode, we catch up - as we always do -on what we’ve been reading this week! We especially dive into a conversation about the short memoir I’m afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya and the way it discusses themes around what it means to be a woman. Do we read specific genres on audiobooks? Do we set TBRs or are we mood readers? Do we forget to read eBooks because they’re not staring at us incessantly on our shelves? We cover the whole shebang in today’s episode all about reading habits! Our Instagram: @brewsandreviewspodcast Jaz: @travelsinfiction Sharn: @caffeineandcommas   Other shoutouts: Kayla / @BooksandLala Kerry / @linesiunderline Amy / @AmysBookshelf Lois / @LochanReads Angie / @ReadWithAngie   Books mentioned: My Grandmother Sends her Regards and Apologies - Fredrik Backman Love in Colour - Bolu Babalola The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett Sawkill Girls - Claire LeGrand Cinderella is Dead - Kalynn Bayron I’m Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya Clap When You Land - Elizabeth Acevedo The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka Home Body - Rupi Kaur Thirteen - Steve Cavanagh Before the Coffee gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga The Little Black Book - Otegha Uwagba 21 Things You Might Not Know About The Indian Act - Bob Joseph The Disaster Tourist - Yun Ko-eun Turtles All the Way Down - John Green This Green and Pleasant Land - Ayisha Malik Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid In a Holidaze - Christina Lauren The Simple Wild - K.A. Tucker The Body is Not an Apology - Sonya Renee Taylor

In today's episode, Jaz and Sharn announce the Brews & Reviews book club – a quarterly book club for chill 2021 reading. Head to our Instagram to vote on the first book pick.  Then, because sometimes reading is hard, we dive deep into reading slumps, how we deal (or don't) deal with them, as well as giving tips for reading when you're busy! ________________________ Our Instagram: @brewsandreviewspodcast Jaz: @travelsinfiction Sharn: @caffeineandcommas ________________________ Books mentioned: Roller Girl - Victoria Jamieson Indians on Vacation - Thomas King One by One - Ruth Ware In a Dark Dark Wood - Ruth Ware The Death of The Death of Mrs. Westaway - Ruth Ware My Grandmother Sends her Regards and Apologies - Fredrik Backman Love in Colour - Bolu Babalola Taking Up Space - Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi It’s Not Like It’s a Secret - Misa Sugiura I’m Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya The 4 Book Club options: The Disaster Tourist - Yun Ko-Eun The Secret History -  Donna Tartt The Girl with the Louding Voice - Abi Daré The Good Son - Jeong Yu-jeong

On today's episode, Jaz & Sharn give book recommendations based on their Instagram "Ask Box" Our Instagram: @brewsandreviewspodcast Jaz: @travelsinfiction Sharn: @caffeineandcommas Books Mentioned: The Other People by C.J. Tudor Sapiens: A Graphic Novel by Yuval Noah Harari One by One by Ruth Ware Indians on Vacation by Thomas King The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams The Library Book by Susan Orlean My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya Bad Blood by John Carryrou This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga My Grandmother Sends her Regards and Apologies by Fredrik Backman Gods and Conquerors by Aaron Kane Heinemann All the Things We Never Said by Yasmin Rahman Under Solomon Skies by Berni Sorga-Millwood When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole Sitting Pretty by Rebekkah Taussig Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix  The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman   Links:   Jacaranda books: https://www.jacarandabooksartmusic.co.uk/collections/twentyin2020  Casey + Bri: Books before Death BookTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWB5nvnEhvgdIIHsXFYojmw  Shazia’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/khan.library/  

- What books did we read in school? - How are literary exams different in Canada and the UK?- Why do schools make you read classics? - Do we think schools should teach more contemporary novels? - What even makes ”a classic” a classic? Come and take a trip down memory lane with us as we discuss what books we read in school in the UK and in Canada. Before that, however, apparently we’re not reallllllly a book podcast because we spent the first half of this episode essentially talking about school uniforms, exams and everything school related! We hope you find it as interesting as we found it. ________________________ Our Instagram: @brewsandreviewspodcast Jaz: @travelsinfiction Sharn: @caffeineandcommas ________________________ People mentioned: Seji @TheArtisanGeek Charlotte @WonderfullyBookish Books and Bones Podcast @booksandbonespodcast Books Unbound podcast @books_unbound ________________________ Books mentioned:  The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga The Other People by CJ Tudor One by One by Ruth Ware Sapiens Graphic Novel by Yuval Noah Harari Kensuke’s Kingdom and Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo The Giver by Lois Lowry Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Holes by Louis Sachar Lord of the Flies by William Golding A Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 1984 and Animal Farm by George Owell To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Dracula by Bram Stoker Many plays by Shakespeare (lol) A Streetcar Named Desire The Great Gatbsy by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge The Colour Purple by Alice Walker The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood And many more but this list was getting long! We hope you enjoyed this episode!

On this week's episode, Jaz and Sharn go through their unreasonably large to be read shelves and pick out books to unhaul, but wait! there’s a catch - the books will Shelf Destruct! The hosts are allowed to keep the books of the next six months and if they still go unread then the books will be officially unhauled.