RAD Reading Podcast Episode #31
Episode Title: Don’t You Forget About Me: Stories Told In Alternative Formats
Release Date: September 2, 2022
Episode Summary:
Sometimes we get so focused on the traditional novel that we forget that stories come in all different types of formats and structures. This week, we’re giving those kinds of stories the spotlight. Join us as we recommend graphic novels, anthologies, short stories, novels with creative formats, and some truly wacky things Dawn found at the bookstore.
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Highlights:
• Reading is reading and don’t let anyone tell you format dictates whether something counts
• Roni gets on her reading soapbox at a football game and was “that person”
• Giving things a try that you think may not be for you
• Dawn wants to time travel
• The upsides of short stories
• Dawn was definitely almost killed by one of the Children of the Corn
• Leonard the dog makes known his love of LGBTQIA+ romance
• The difference between graphic novels and comics
• Roni discovers a new way to read graphic novels that makes it so much easier for her to follow the story
• Roni is going through a Buffy phase #sorrynotsorry
• Novels with interesting formats
• Remember when Twitter wasn’t a hellscape?
• The elusive state of “full mental capacity”
• IKEA can be effing scary
• The curse of “have a great summer”
• Roni loves her scary movies and books but she’s terrified of one book Dawn loves
• Dawn cheats on “choose your adventure” books
• Coloring books with interesting subjects
• Our RAD Reading Recs of the week - including a book a listener recommended to us!
***episode spoilers ahead**
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*Note: all book links are affiliate links which means the podcast makes a small commission if you make a purchase, but there is no extra cost to you!
Books recommended by Roni:
• Night Shift by Stephen King
• Different Seasons by Stephen King
• Vampires Never Get Old edited by Zoraida Cordova and Natalie C. Parker
• Slasher Girls and Monster Boys edited by April Genevieve Tucholke
• Echoes: A Ghost Story anthology edited by Ellen Datlow
• Take the Heat: A Criminal Romance anthology
• Nightingale charity anthology
• Fifty First Times: A New Adult Anthology
• Break Me Down by Roni Loren
• Yours All Along by Roni Loren
• Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (multiple volumes)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Volume 1 comic
• The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
• The Appeal by Janice Hallett
• Goodnight Tweetheart by Teresa Medeiros
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Books recommended by Dawn:
• The Tattered Blue Line anthology
• Dissent: A charity anthology for reproductive rights
• Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
• Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
• Love Letters by A.R. Gurney
• Minalima pop-up books - Alice In Wonderland, Wizard of Oz
• My Lady’s Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zagris
• Murdered by James Schannep
• Crush and Color - Ryan Reynolds edition
RAD Reading Recs of the Week:
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (Roni’s rec)
• Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister (Dawn’s rec)
Other books mentioned:
• American Predator by Maureen Callahan
• Vicious by V.E. Schwab
• Not Until You serial by Roni Loren
• By the Hour by Roni Loren
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple
• Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Find us online:
Connect with Roni on her website or @roniloren on Instagram
Connect with Dawn on her website or @dawnalexanderbooks on Instagram
Another note: Because we are both in the publishing industry, sometimes the books we recommend might be by an author we know personally, an author who shares a publisher, editor, or agent with Roni, or an author whom Dawn has edited. Publishing is a small world, so that will happen from time to time. However, we guarantee that we only recommend books we love. We have not been asked to promote any of these books and none are paid ads. However, some books we review may be ARCs (advanced reading copies provided by publishers to reviewers for honest reviews.)