On Wednesdays We Read (OWWR Pod)
We are two best friends who do a deep dive into a new book book series, one book at a time. Join us while we assess the plot, the characters, and the themes of each book, while laughing at some of the more...interesting choices. Join us as we highlight the new series while updating you on other things we are reading, watching, and/or enjoying!
Current Seasons:
Season 1: Shai'Tan on Wheel of Time
Season 2: Blazing through the Poppy Wars
Season 3: The Murderbot Diaries Diaries
Season 4: Peaking into the Green Bone Saga
Season 5: Cycling through Legendborn
Season 6: The Year of the Dresden (Dresden Files)
Season 7: Breaking into the Broken Earth Trilogy
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 82 minutes
- Episodes
- 262
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Ep. 151- I think it's technically a good book. (Oathbound)
Hannah and Laura finish Oathbound and have many questions about the intimate scenes in the book. Yet, they have zero questions about the action scenes. Weird. They also chat about a fan…
Ep. 150- True fans remember her Nick Jr. days. (Oathbound)
Hannah and Laura are in the middle of Tracy Deonn's Oathbound and are pretty sure they are "Team Nick" now. They also chat about a YA series prequel with a cringeworthy main character a…
Ep. 149- Do we like Nick now? (Oathbound)
Hannah and Laura are cycling back into a favorite series! They cover the first 16 chapters of Tracy Deonn's Oathbound and try to keep up with the extremely fast pace. They also chat abo…
BONUS EPISODE- INDIE INTERMISSION SELECTION
Hannah and Laura go through knock-out rounds to choose the book they will cover for the next Indie Intermission! Be sure to check out all of the books/authors mentioned and support thei…
Ep. 148- SEASON 7 FINALE- Breaking the Earth
Evil Earth!! Hannah and Laura are at the end of the world and the end of The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin. They discuss their final thoughts on the series as a whole and try to …
Ep. 147- Mice be mousin' (The Stone Sky)
Hannah and Laura have reached the end of the world and the end of N.K. Jemisin's The Stone Sky. They discuss the characters and themes of the novel and try not to get too deep. They als…
Ep. 146- Now imagine if you will, Santino Fontana speaking these words...(The Stone Sky)
Hannah and Laura are learning about the end of the world by finishing up their coverage of the plot of N.K. Jemisin's The Stone Sky! They also chat about The Hunger Games prequels, adap…
Ep. 145- You will never be anything but a radio DJ. (The Stone Sky)
Hannah and Laura are moving forward within N.K. Jemisin's The Stone Sky and they are loving this complex world and its themes. They also chat about a speculative fiction book Laura read…
Ep. 144- We threw out your stretcher. (The Stone Sky)
Hannah and Laura are at the beginning of the end, covering the final book in N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy, The Stone Sky! Things are continuing to complicate and come together fo…
BONUS - Re-Release (Wheel of Time Season 2 with Sara of Fiction Fans and C.M. Caplan)
We had a few personal things come up, so we are rereleasing a combined version of our episode of Ep. 1-4 of Wheel of Time season 2 and the Patreon episode of Ep. 5-8 featuring Sara of F…
BONUS EPISODE-"Jennifer Lopez is a psychologist." (The Cell with Steve Hugh Westenra)
Hannah and Laura are traveling into minds in order to assist the FBI, but they get trapped and require author Steve Westenra's help to get back to reality. That's right! The Cell, a Jen…
Ep. 143- We are dealing with this in our own time. (The Obelisk Gate)
Hannah and Laura are wrapping up their discussion of N.K. Jemisin's The Obelisk Gate by discussing the book's characters and themes. They also chat about book club reads, axolotls, turt…
TV Tuesday Ep. 20- "Gojo's been crushing it since he was like 6." (Jujutsu Kaisen Season 1 with Moses Ose Utomi)
Hannah and Laura are learning to control Cursed Energy while looking for a Curse's missing fingers, so they decide to bring in friend and author, Moses Ose Utomi, to help them. Hannah, …
BONUS EPISODE- "I need a whole 'Mad Max' sequence." A discussion of The Diplomacy of the Knife by C.M. Caplan WITH C.M. CAPLAN
Hannah and Laura are thrilled to welcome C.M. Caplan back to the podcast to discuss book 2 in their Four of Mercies series, The Diplomacy of the Knife!! They dive deep into the characte…
Ep. 142- Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out. (The Obelisk Gate)
Hannah and Laura are covering the final third of the plot of N.K. Jemisin's The Obelisk Gate and are navigating all the things that are ramping up in the Stillness. They also chat about…
Ep. 141- Just Schaffa being Schaffa...Ugh. (The Obelisk Gate)
Hannah and Laura are covering the middle section of The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin! Things are getting more complicated, and they do their best to keep things sorted. They also chat a…
Ep. 140- Most of these chapters are downers. (The Obelisk Gate)
Hannah and Laura are delving into N.K. Jemisin's The Obelisk Gate, covering the first 7 chapters! And let's just say that Hannah is "not pleased" that a certain character has appeared i…
BONUS EPISODE- "Utilize the library and be in that space." In conversation on libraries WITH LIBRARIAN, LORA DEL RIO
Hannah and Laura have one of their dreams fulfilled in this week's bonus episode because they get the chance to learn all about libraries and their different services from librarian, Lo…
BONUS EPISODE- "I love to show the same moment from different perspectives." An author interview WITH ADAM BASSETT
Hannah and Laura are thrilled to welcome author Adam Bassett to the podcast to chat about his books Digital Extremities and the newly released, Animus Paradox! Adam shares about imagini…
Ep. 139- I feel "ick" reading about him (The Fifth Season)
Hannah and Laura are wrapping their discussion of N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season by discussing the characters and themes of the novel. They also chat about a vampire book that Laura sh…