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Episode 34: Let's Get Spooky - October's Read/Watch/Listen Recs

October 14, 2022 Roni Loren

RAD Reading Podcast

Episode #34 

Episode Title: October’s Read/Watch/Listen

Release Date: October 14, 2022

Episode Summary:

It’s that time of year again! Light the pumpkin-scented candle, get a bowl of your favorite Halloween candy, and turn on a stormy night soundtrack to set the mood. Today, we’re bringing you the best scary (from Roni) and gently spooky (from Dawn) things we’ve read, watched, and listened to lately.

Listen above or in your favorite podcast app:

  • Apple podcasts

  • Audible

  • Spotify

  • Or add to your favorite podcast app with their “Add by URL” feature and paste this link there: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/rad-reading

Highlights: 

  • Why Dawn can’t go to the movies in October

  • Reading slumps are the worst

  • Roni tried a new method to tackle her giant TBR pile and it worked!

  • A book that was on Roni’s TBR for 7 years

  • Locked basements are a bad sign

  • A book that had one of us thinking WTF the whole time

  • We need warnings if the dog dies

  • A book that was just right for Dawn

  • Roni’s spooky/scary TV and movie recommendations (and an anti-recommendation)

  • Dawn recommends a few fun and not-so-spooky things to watch

  • A genre mash-up with fantastic audiobook narration

  • Lycanthropy is a word and Roni is standing by that

  • It always comes back to Buffy

  • Our RAD recs of the week

***episode spoilers below**

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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:

  • 16 Things I Thought Were True by Janet Gurtler

  • Love In the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson

  • Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

  • For the kiddos: Goosebumps - Welcome to Dead House by R.L. Stine


Books recommended by Dawn:

  • Crux: The Dragon Brides (Intergalactic Dating Agency) by Kate Rudolph

  • Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest

  • For the kiddos:

  • Bunnicula by James and Deborah Howe

  • The Haunting by Margret Mahy

  • Secret of the Sevens by Lynn Lyndquist


Watch Recs by Roni:

  • Freaky (Netflix)

  • Midnight Club (based on Christopher Pike book) on Netflix

  • Boo, Bitch (Netflix)

  • Anti-Rec: My Best Friend’s Exorcism movie

  • The 20/20 episode The Vanishing Act (about Sheri Papini)

  • Looking forward to watching:

  • The new Interview with a Vampire series

  • (rewatch) The Craft

  • (rewatch) The Grudge

  • Hereditary

  • Idle Hands

  • Smile

  • (rewatch) Jennifer’s Body


Watch Recs by Dawn:

  • The Good Place

  • She-Hulk

  • Rings of Power


Listen Recs by Roni:

  • Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison

  • Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer (rec with reservations)

  • Listening now: It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror edited by Joe Valesse

  • Listening now: Bloody Fool for Love by William Ritter - Spike from Buffy prequel


RAD Reading Recs of the Week: 

  • Saltaire by Hazel Jacks (Dawn’s rec)

  • Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Roni’s rec)


Other books mentioned:

  • What If You & Me by Roni Loren

  • Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo


Other non-book recommendations:

  • Storygraph app

  • Currently Reading podcast

  • Last Year’s Halloween episode: They All Float




Find us online:

RAD Reading on Instagram

RAD Reading Facebook Page

RAD Reading Website


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.)


In Read/Watch/Listen Tags rad reading podcast, spooky reads, spooky movies, tv shows, halloween, roni loren, dawn alexander, boo bitch, the midnight club, freaky, reading, books, book recommendations, scary books
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Episode 5: They All Float - Our Best Halloween Recs

October 29, 2021 Roni Loren

Episode # 5

Episode Title: They All Float: Our Best Halloween Recs

Release Date: October 29, 2021

Listen above or in your favorite podcast app:

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  • Audible

  • Spotify

  • Acast  

  • Or add to your favorite podcast app with their “Add by URL” feature and paste this link there: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/rad-reading

Episode Summary/Highlights: 

Happy Halloween! This week Roni freaks out Dawn with her scary book and movie picks (and episode title) and Dawn offers recommendations for those who prefer their Halloween on the gentler side. It’s a long one, y’all! We’ve got a pile of recs for you, including suspense, horror, true crime, and paranormal romance. Grab a bag of Halloween candy and join us! 

Highlights:

  • The controversial episode title

  • Our suspense recs

  • We can’t pronounce author names

  • Roni’s crush on a loveable (fictional) serial killer

  • Our paranormal recs

  • Dawn’s trauma from The Exorcist

  • Roni realizes she still has a thing for hot vampires

  • Stephen King and peer pressure

  • Roni tries to sell us on a lizard hero

  • Our true crime recs

  • The “Scooby-Doo” recs for those who don’t like horror

  • Roni’s scary movie recs

  • The Lost Boys and why Dawn would happily get lost with any of them

  • The movie Roni won’t watch alone

  • Our Halloween TV recs

  • Podcast recs for the horror and true crime lover

  • Our RAD Reading Recs of the week

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Books recommended by Roni:

  • No Exit by Taylor Adams

  • YOU series by Caroline Kepnes

  • Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice

  • Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

  • The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons

  • Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix

  • “Sour Candy” by Kealan Patrick Burke

  • “Sometimes They Come Back” in Night Shift by Stephen King

  • The Last Hour of Gann by R. Lee Smith (my more extensive review I mentioned)

  • Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix

  • We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper

  • Evil Has a Name by Paul Holes and Jim Clemente

  • A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

  • Halfway to the Grave by Jeannine Frost

  • Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead



Books recommended by Dawn:

  • The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

  • That Last Weekend by Laura DiSilverio

  • Ten by Gretchen McNeil (Scary book trailer)

  • The Good Demon by Jimmy Cajoleas

  • The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

  • Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

  • Who Killed My Daughter by Lois Duncan

  • What If You & Me by Roni Loren (obviously the most fantastic book on this list ;) )

  • Ghosts, Pies, & Alibis by Amanda Reid

  • Her Halloween Treat by Tiffany Reisz


Other books mentioned:

  • Final Girls by Riley Sager

  • Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid


Roni’s Movie/TV Recs:

  • Happy Death Day

  • The Strangers

  • It Follows

  • The Babadook

  • Classics mentioned: Halloween, Scream, Poltergeist, The Shining, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Exorcist, IT (the 90s miniseries), Alien, The Lost Boys, The Ring

  • True Blood

  • Scream Queens

  • YOU


Dawn’s Movie/TV Recs:

  • Stranger Things

  • It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

  • Community Halloween episodes


Podcast recommendations:

  • Books in the Freezer

  • The Horror Virgin

  • Serial

  • Obsessed with Disappeared

  • True Crime Obsessed


Other things mentioned:

Shudder streaming channel



RAD Reading Recs of the Week: 

  • Standoff by Sandra Brown (Dawn rec)

  • Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips (Roni rec)

Check out all of our previous RAD Reading Recs on the RAD Rec page!


Find us online:

RAD Reading Facebook Page

Connect with Roni on her website or @roniloren on Instagram

Connect with Dawn on her website or @dawnalexanderbooks on Instagram



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!

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.)

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