Good Books Bad Banter

Join two twenty somethings as they banter, cringe, and curse about the most popular books in pop culture.

Leisure Hobbies Books Arts

Update frequency: every 6 days
Average duration: 73 minutes
Episodes: 89
Years Active: 2022 - 2024

Episode #65: Morbidly Yours

Oh Callum, you can cut my heart out and keep it for yourself thats just how much i adore you and your sweet Irish words! Never thought i'd have a crush on an undertaker but here we are. Ivy Fairbanks…

01:09:30 | Fri 24 Nov 2023

Episode #64: Wildfire

Wildfire makes you wish wintertime wasn't in full swing because this is THE summer camp romance we all need and want. As a kid, I always wanted to be like Hallie and Annie and go to sleep away camp a…

01:10:01 | Fri 17 Nov 2023

Epsiode #63 - Red Queen

Oh Mare Barrow, why does your book have so many strange ass names? We both agreed that the beginning of Red Queen left something to be desired but by the end of this book? HOOKED. Both of us love tha…

01:06:26 | Wed 08 Nov 2023

Episode #62: Crown of Midnight

It's another Friday episode to end off your week with a bang! We're onto the second book of the Throne of Glass series and its seriously an issue at how much of a grip these books have on both of our…

01:06:32 | Fri 20 Oct 2023

Episode #61: Throne of Glass

HEY STRANGERS! We went on an unexpected month long hiatus and it's finally time for us to pick up the damn mic's again! It feels so good to be back, we've had so many changes happen within the last 4…

01:16:54 | Fri 13 Oct 2023

Episode #60: A Darker Shade of Magic

Are we on the cusp of discovering our next great fantasy series? A Darker Shade of Magic gave us a slow start but we think it's only setting the scene for the other books in the series. We are smitte…

01:04:06 | Wed 13 Sep 2023

Episode #59 - Icebreaker

Another Friday episode? We're getting back on track baby! And what better way to start your Friday than a breakdown on Icebreaker?! Everyone and the mother loves this book and for good reason! It has…

01:10:01 | Wed 13 Sep 2023

Episode #58 - Firekeeper's Daughter

We're back with a quick episode on Firekeeper's Daughter. We're blown away by how this YA novel touches on so many issues that face Native American communities like drug addiction, racism, and sexism…

00:45:42 | Wed 06 Sep 2023

Episode #57: Happy Place

My Happy Place is sitting somewhere in the mountains and Tori's is living out of a van traveling the continental U.S. Emily Henry gave us such complex and real character development that it hurted(,:…

01:20:09 | Wed 30 Aug 2023

Episode #56 - Crescent City House of Sky and Breath Part 2

Whew baby do we have an episode for you today! Maddie and Tori have FINALLY finished HOSAB! Discussing Crescent City and all its theories is not for the weak when the internet exists y'all. Maddie an…

01:51:33 | Fri 25 Aug 2023

Episode #55 - Neon Gods

We're back to getting y'all episodes and with new music! Who is she?! Shout out to our friend Wojtek who made us our killer new intro/outro music. Today's episode we have the OG trope withs a Hades a…

00:46:50 | Wed 23 Aug 2023

Episode #54 - Crescent City House of Sky and Breath Part 1

Crescent City House of Sky & Breath aka a lesson in edging. In this episode we talk about the first 300 pages of CC2 and so much is going on!!!!! Rebels, thunderbirds, theories galore, a love triangl…

00:56:50 | Wed 09 Aug 2023

Episode #53: So, I Have A Theory

Another day, another episode and we're bringing something different this week! Tori and I are talking about all of the popular theories of our favorite books, recent news in the book world, and just …

01:11:14 | Fri 04 Aug 2023

Episode #52 - Love, Theoretically

Theoretically, Jack's ballsack being flush against me would be a great thing but hearing that sentence out loud made me spiral. Ali Hazelwood continues to give us the best rivals to lovers story line…

00:56:19 | Fri 28 Jul 2023

Episode #51 - Meet Me at the Lake

First ESA, now MMATL, Carley Fortune really has us in a chokehold!!!!! We adored Fern and her story with Will, her story with her mom, and Carley's perfect way of writing dual timelines. This story i…

00:51:51 | Wed 26 Jul 2023

Episode #50 - Fourth Wing

Say it with me - "A dragon without its rider is a tragedy, a rider without their dragon is dead. Welcome to the FOURTHHHHHHH WWWWWIINNNGGGG!!!" How appropriate is it that our 50TH EPISODE on the pod …

01:14:13 | Fri 21 Jul 2023

Episode #49 - Mental Health Matters

We're back y'all! We took a break last week because life has been hectic and Maddie has been struggling with stress and burnout at work. Sadly, because work takes up so much of our time it tends abso…

01:03:44 | Wed 12 Jul 2023

Episode #48 - Gideon the Ninth

We're coming to you guys crystal fucking clear today, we finally set up our new mics!!!! Can you hear a difference in our voices? Great now you can hear absolutely everything we have to say without t…

01:07:43 | Wed 28 Jun 2023

Episode #47 - Guncle

We're back for another episode baby and we are hyped up on the OceanGate drama LMAOOO. We start this episode by chatting about the ocean cause wtf but we quickly head into our three updates where Mad…

01:05:08 | Thu 22 Jun 2023

Episode #46 - One Last Stop

a radical queer 70's ghosts stuck in modern reality on a subway train, who just happens to meet the love of her life - a red headed bisexual? this has our names written all over it and it was such a …

00:57:10 | Wed 14 Jun 2023

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are the property of Madison Nieto, Victoria Larson. This content is not affiliated with or endorsed by eachpod.com.

EachPod