Read This F***ing Book
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Read This F***ing Book
A lowbrow-loving New Yorker and a Texan Poet divided by experience are united by a love of genre fiction. This is their book club. You better Read This F***ing Book!
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RTFB: Episode 28 - The Lies of Locke Lamora
Long promised and not forgotten, Elena and Rachel are back to talk about the gentleman bastards of The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. It's a bit...
RTFB: Episode 27 - Harrow the Ninth
We took a year off but we're back and what better book to get us back into the swing of things than the sequel to our last episode? We spend this enti...
RTFB: Episode 26 - Gideon the Ninth
Rachel rec'd her favorite book of the year for this spooky-season episode of RTFBPodcast and Elena loved it. We're reading Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn...
RTFB: Episode 25 - Warbreaker
We are back after our summer off! We're reading Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker. This is Elena's first dip into the Cosmere and Rachel's favorite of Sa...
RTFB: Episode 24 - The Raven Tower
We can't stay away from Ann Leckie! We read her full-length Fantasy debut, The Raven Tower. This one is a vengeance gig with gods (rocks, swarms, fore...
RTFB: Episode 23.5 - Heir to the Shadows/Queen of the Darkness
As promised, a supplementary episode discussing the rest of Anne Bishop's Black Jewels trilogy. The Content Warning is still in effect while we decide...
RTFB: Episode 23 - Daughter of the Blood
Elena and Rachel read Anne Bishop's Daughter of the Blood in this episode of RTFBPodcast. Lots of similarities to some of our other favorites with a f...
RTFB: Episode 22 - A Court of Wings and Ruin
We read the rest of the Court books by Sarah J. Maas. This super-sized episode covers A Court of Wings and Ruin and the novella, A Court of Frost and...
RTFB: Episode 21 - A Court of Mist and Fury
We are back with a double stuffed episode and the return of our librarian friend, Lauren! In this episode we're asking the real questions. What is wro...
RTFB: Episode 20 - Annihilation
“Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth...
RTFB: Episode 19 - Dune
It is time for the Sleeper to awaken! Join us as we tackle an epic sized episode for Frank Herbert's Dune!
Rachel discusses why she loves...
RTFB: Episode 18 - A Madness of Angels
We're doing our part to give life to the blue electric angels in the phone lines by uploading another episode of the RTFBPodcast! We discuss the brill...
RTFB: Episode 17 - Foreigner
A Felicitous New Year to you! In this episode Rachel and Elena are joined by our cosplay pal - engineer and Paidhi fan, Eli. This marks the first boo...
RTFB: Episode 16 - Provenance
Rachel and Elena are back with a podcast favorite in the latest Ann Leckie novel, Provenance. Spoiler-heavy (just read the book!) discussion covering...
RTFB: Episode 15 - The Girl at Midnight
Rachel recs a big favorite in Melissa Grey's The Girl at Midnight. Elena and Rachel discuss world building, fashion, and subversion of reader expecta...
RTFB: Episode 14 - Thief With No Shadow
We've missed our book chats! After moving and some additional travel and conventions, we are back on schedule. Latest conversation is about Emily Gee'...
RTFB: Episode 13 - Uprooted
Hiatus is over! We're done prepping like crazy for Dragon Con so we're back into our reading piles. This episode covers Naomi Novik's award winning Up...
RTFB: Episode 12 - Sunshine
Rachel and Elena read Sunshine by Robin McKinley. Not your run of the mill vampire story, and we would expect nothing less from a master like McKinley...
RTFB: Episode 11 - A Court of Thorns and Roses
We're joined by our librarian friend, Lauren, to read Sarah J. Maas' A Court of Thorns and Roses. This is an extra long episode because we really love...
RTFB: Episode 10 - The Snow Queen
We're back after an unscheduled break (one of our hosts had a major fire but everything is good now!) to read Joan D. Vinge's The Snow Queen, a retell...
RTFB: Episode 09 - Lost Stars
It's almost Star Wars Celebration Orlando, so we're reading some Star Wars! Not just any Star Wars - Rachel's favorite from the new canon, Lost Stars...
RTFB: Episode 08 - The Forever War
Today on Read This F**king Book, we read The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. This SciFi classic about an interstellar conflict inspired by the Vietnam W...
RTFB: Episode 07 - Illuminae
Elena and Rachel are joined by Kim from YouthBookReview to discuss the YA SciFi novel Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. This book is incredi...
RTFB: Episode 06 - The Arcana Chronicles
Episode 6 is our first total Failure in the RTFB Project. Rachel rec'd a book and Elena HATED it. Fangirl conversion rating: zero. Rachel might make u...
RTFB: Episode 05.5 - Ancillary Sword / Ancillary Mercy
No surprise to anyone, we loved the Imperial Radch books by Ann Leckie so much that we gave in to our inner fangirls and recorded a supplementary epis...
RTFB: Episode 05 - Biting the Sun
We're reading utopian New Wave SciFi from the 70s in Episode 05. This one is Biting the Sun by the derisann Tanith Lee. Attlevey! This is going to be...
RTFB: Episode 04 - Ancillary Justice
RTFB Episode 4 has us reading our new favorite space opera, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. We're joined by FireandLunch co-host Lauren and our nerdy...
RTFB: Episode 03 - The Left Hand of Darkness
Episode 3 has our hosts reading SciFi classic The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin. We're continuing our reading themes of winter, love and...
RTFB: Episode 02 - Winter Rose
Episode two has Rachel and Elena reading Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip. This is a perfect novel to read on a wintery night. A dreamy fantasy with...
RTFB: Episode 01 - Sabriel
in our first episode we're joined by illustrator Joey Ammons to read one of his favorites: Sabriel by Garth Nix. Discussion of themes, plot points, ch...
RTFB: Ep 00 - Prologue
What happens when two friends with differing tastes trade fandoms? Their next obsession is just a read away!
Introductory episode for a new podc...