This week, we're talking about the horror-mystery-thriller-whatever you classify it as, Night Film!Featuring: us trying to figure out what the heck the ending means!Apologies for extraneous background noise/uneven audio, but we were so excited to record this episode and we hope that you'll be excited to listen anyway!

This week, we're talking about one of the spookiest books ever written, Shirley Jackson's classic, We Have Always Lived in the Castle!Featuring: some truly out-there theories about what this book really means. Apologies for extraneous background noise/uneven audio, but we were so excited to record this episode and we hope that you'll be excited to listen anyway!

This week, we're launching the Spooky Book Support Club, a mini-series that will be running all spooky season long where we read spooky books and talk about them!Which books were spooky? Which ones were not? And which 3 do we think are the perfect Halloween reads?? Listen to this week's episode to find out!!

This week, we're diving a little deeper into the 16 books I read for the StoryGraph genre challenge with a battle of the biographies between Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane and All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson. Which is the better biography?? Let's find out!And hopefully, I'll inspire you to do this reading challenge as well!The 2am book review club is on Youtube! Check out the channel here.

This week, we're kicking off the StoryGraph Genre Challenge mini-series! I completed this reading challenge by reading 16 books, and this week I'm excited to talk about the prompts and the 16 books I read for them.And hopefully, I'll inspire you to do this reading challenge as well!The 2am book review club is on Youtube! Check out the channel here.

This week, we're wrapping up our mini-series on hot books with Every Summer After! Featuring a friends-to-lovers, second chance romance, you'd think that this would be an easy win... but is it?Find out in this week's episode!

This week, we're continuing our mini-series on currently hot books with Book Lovers by the one and only Emily Henry!Featuring: a rant about why Wuthering Heights is NOT a romance.

This week, we're continuing to ask if popular books are worth the hype! In this episode, we're talking about Romantic Comedy, one of the hottest romance releases so far this year.

This week, we're launching a mini-series on books that have been popular this year! And we're starting off strong with Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, which (spoiler alert!) was absolutely worth the hype.Featuring: discussions of unlikeable female characters, romantic subplots, and a Sherlock Holmes tangent for some reason. In other words, it's a typical week on the 2am book review club!

This week, we're wrapping up our World War 2 Paris books mini-series with the gorgeous historical fiction book based on a true story, The Postmistress of Paris!Why is this book so beautiful and lyrical and heart-breaking?? Why is it my favorite book in this mini-series?? And why is it my favorite out of the 13 historical fiction books I've read so far in 2023???Find out in this week's episode! (Where I rave about how much I love this book.)

This week we're continuing our mini-series on World War 2 books set in Paris! This week's book is The Paris Orphan, a historical fiction book featuring, you guessed, a French orphan.Why is this book both informative but also infuriating? Which true story is this book based on? And what kind of a soap-opera mess is the ending??Find out in this week's episode!

This week we're launching a mini-series about World War 2 books set in Paris! Our first book in this mini-series is The Paris Architect, a slow-burn WW2 thriller featuring, you guessed it, an architect who lives in Paris.How does this book explore the setting? What kind of architecture is an architect going to build in the midst of a war? And why are there some many books called The Paris ____ anyway?Find out in this week's episode!

This week, we're once again talking about recreating real women! But this time, we're asking the question, when does historical fiction become fictionalized history? We'll be conducting our discussion via The Only Woman in the Room, a book about the incredible life of a Hollywood legend, Hedy Lamarr.How can we, as readers, responsibly consume historical fiction? What do authors of historical fiction owe to their real-life inspirations? What do they owe to us, their audience? And what do I mean by fictionalized history, anyway?

This week we're talking about mysteries with meta elements!We all love a good old-fashioned murder mystery, but what happens when these mysteries go meta? How exactly do these mysteries get meta? What do these mysteries say about the genre? And how do they stack up against the classics?Find out during this discussion of The Plot, The Woman in the Library, and The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle!

This week we're talking about historical fiction centered around real women, including a book centered around the Soviet sniper known as Lady Death.We'll be talking about The Diamond Eye, The Christie Affair, and The Second Mrs. Astor. How well do these books bring these real women to life? What techniques do these books use to bring these very different times and places to life? And which one of these books is my favorite historical fiction book of the year so far?Let's find out!You can also think of this episode as an hour-long rant about how much of a disappointment The Second Mrs. Astor was. Relevant Wikipedia links:Madeleine AstorJohn Jacob Astor IVVincent AstorHope you enjoy!