RAD Reading Podcast
Episode #26
Episode Title - Get Swept Away: Books That Transport You
Episode Summary:
A great book can sweep you away, but some books really take you on a trip. Today, we’re talking about books that transport you either to another place or transport you through time (because one of us is kind of obsessed with time travel/time loop stories.) So grab your suitcase or your flux capacitor and join us!
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Highlights:
Cheap travel via books
Australian listeners, please reassure us there aren’t giant man-eating spiders everywhere
Our favorite book settings
Roni wants to read summer camp books but not actually, you know, attend anything involving camping
Time travel books count as travel books because we say so
Watch out, don’t accidentally stumble into a wormhole
If Roni and Dawn were in a book with a grumpy/sunshine trope, it’s clear who would be the grumpy one and who would be the sunshine one
Time loops, and wormholes, and multiverses, oh my
Thoughts on sexy times in cringe-y locations
Dawn feels Outlander shame
Roni needs someone to explain season 2 of Russian Doll to her
Dawn explains reverse harem books
A stack of books we tried for this episode but that didn’t really work for us
Roni gets library hold guilt
Some books on our TBR that fit this theme but that we haven’t gotten to yet
Dawn’s Friday the 13th trauma
If Dawn ends up climbing a mountain, something has gone very wrong in the world
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:
See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Maybe In Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Books recommended by Dawn:
The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Company Assassin by Claudia Blood
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
An Adventurer’s Manifesto by Megan Rho
Lawless by Crystal Ash (SPELL)
Submit by Tana Stone
Other books mentioned:
The Dry by Jane Harper
The Impossible Us by Sarah Lutz
Year of Yes by Shonda Rimes
The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith
Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard
Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Maloy
Girl’s Night Out by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke
Hide by Kiersten White
The Counselors by Jessica Goodman
Camp So-and-So by Mary McCoy
The Summer Job by Lizzy Dent
Breathless by Amy McCulloch
Other things mentioned:
Russian Doll (Netflix)
RAD Reading Recs of the Week:
Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
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.)