Can I Bring My Book

Quicksilver by Callie Hart: An In-Depth Chat with Your Book Besties

Can I Bring My Book: The podcast where besties meet books… and sometimes can’t tell if we loved or just survived them.
This week, Amanda and Kat dive into Quicksilver by Callie Hart. Did we love it? No. Did we hate it? Also no. Do we have thoughts? You bet!
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Narrator Crushes, Summer Flings, and Moaning Audiobooks

Can I Bring My Book: The podcast where besties meet books… and sometimes hit 2x speed just to get through the cringe.
This week’s impromptu episode is a chaotic love letter to audiobook narrators—and a warning about graphic audio sound effects. Amanda and Kat discuss Lights Out and Caught Up by Navessa Allen, and why Jacob Morgan might just be the blueprint for romance narration.
Also in this episode:
Why Jacob Morgan is the standard and Teddy Hamilton just didn’t quite hit
When sound effects in graphic audio go too far
Amanda's love for Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
The joy of finding a perfect beach read
The single dad trope and why it doesn’t always hit for us
Quick trope talk: summer romances, accidental crushes, and Bridgerton tangents
This one’s got chaos, crushes, and a little cringe. You’ve been warned.
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Your Book Besties Buddy-Read The Book of Doors

Can I Bring My Book: The podcast where besties meet books… and sometimes get emotionally derailed by magical realism.
This week, Amanda and Kat dive deep into their bestie read of The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown—and it’s anything but spoiler-free.
NOTE: There are spoilers ahead. Proceed at your own caution. 
We’re talking magical realism, time travel, secret libraries, mysterious mentors, and a plot twist that hit us harder than we expected (seriously, we’re still recovering).
We cover:
The Book of Doors and its time-bending powers
Wild fan theories (Is Mr. Webber secretly Hugo? Could Cassie have become the Woman?)
The emotional devastation of thinking Izzy was dead
Loopy time loops, unlocked fears, and questionable time-travel ethics
Favorite relationships (London + Izzy, Cassie + Drummond)
Our favorite magical books (The Book of Pain, Health, Illusion, and more)
A new scale: “More baby than Gandalf”
This book broke Kat in the best way and gave Amanda some notes—and it made for one of our most passionate book chats yet.
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Your Book Besties Read WHAT?!?!

Can I Bring My Book: The podcast where besties meet books… and this week, we might need to explain ourselves.
In one of our most unhinged episodes to date, Amanda and Kat spiral into the strange, sentient, and downright sizzling world of inanimate object romance. (Yes, it’s real. No, we don’t understand it either. But, do we love it? Absofuckinglutely!)
Inspired by the absurd dating simulator Date Everything, this episode covers pretty much the entire catalog of Holly Wilde:
The Deviled Egg Made Me Do
SPF Me (sunscreen. It's sentient.)
Taken by My TBR
I Accidentally Got Engaged to Daylight Saving Time
Laid by the Lint Trap Monster
And, more!
Then, we ground ourselves with some good old-fashioned trope talk, including:
Nerds Falling in Love (Two Can Play by Ali Hazelwood)
Secret Identity Shenanigans (Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas)
It’s weird. It’s funny. It’s probably going to make you Google something you’ll regret.
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Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid: An In-Depth Chat with Your Book Besties

Can I Bring My Book: The podcast where besties meet books… and sometimes get emotionally wrecked by slow-burn space heartbreak.
This week, Amanda and Kat deep-dive into their July buddy read: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
(⚠️ Heads up—this episode contains spoilers from start to finish! Plus there's mention of suicide.)
Set during NASA’s 1980s shuttle era, Atmosphere follows aspiring astronaut Joan Goodwin through training, trauma, queerness, and quiet acts of resistance. As she builds her future among the stars, she also wrestles with heartbreak, sisterhood, and a slow-burn romance that left both of us sobbing.
In this episode, we unpack:
That moment with Griff (yes, that moment—we are not okay)
The opposites-attract magic of Joan and Vanessa
The pressure of ambition vs. personal loss
Barbara. Just… Barbara.
Favorite quotes, least favorite characters, and the ending that broke us (in a good way)
If you love space, sapphic stories, and soft, slow emotional unraveling—you’ll want to read Atmosphere. Just maybe not in public.
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Books That Made Us Cry and We Loved Every Moment

Can I Bring My Book: The podcast where besties meet books… and ugly cry over them.
This week, Amanda and Kat tackle the ultimate emotional damage: books that made them cry. Amanda brings the heartbreak with Sandwich and A Little Life, while Kat breaks down the emotional gut punch of At First Spite and the historical devastation of Salt to the Sea. It’s fine. We’re fine. (We are not fine.)
Also in this episode:
The books that broke us (and the ones we’re still recovering from)
Bathtub rescues, emotionally supportive book boyfriends, and third-story windows
Wartime tragedy, fake boyfriends, and devastating plot twists
Tropes of the week: Damsel in Distress (Bella Swan, we’re looking at you) and Meet-Cringe (yes, that means Fifty Shades)
Books mentioned: At First Spite, Sandwich, Salt to the Sea, A Little Life, Twilight, Cinder, Assistant to the Villain, and Fifty Shades of Grey
Come for the chaos, stay for the tears—and maybe bring tissues.
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Never Have I Ever (But Maybe I Have)

Can I Bring My Book: The podcast where besties meet books… and reveal way too much during bookish party games.
This week, Amanda and Kat play a bookish round of Never Have I Ever — and things get personal. From dog-earing pages to borrowing books indefinitely, they confess it all (including some spicy inspiration). Then, they take a BuzzFeed quiz to find out their romance novel archetypes — turns out, they might both be the thoughtful observer type.
Also in this episode:
Their favorite book tropes of the week: Single Parent and Age Gap romances
Cowboy romance recommendations (hello, Lost and Lassoed)
Books mentioned: The Idea of You, Birthday Girl, Done and Dusted, Training the Heart, and several by TJ Klune
Oh — and Kat may or may not have blocked a teenager for lurking on her Bookstagram. You’ll just have to listen.
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My Type? Morally Gray With a Mask

Can I Bring My Book: The podcast where besties meet books… and confess our book crushes.
This week, Amanda and Kat get personal about their literary love lives—aka, book boyfriends (and the occasional book breakup). Amanda swoons over her masked man Josh from Lights Out, while Kat... is book-boyfriend single. For now.
In this episode, we dive into:
Their favorite book boyfriends (and why morally gray is irresistible)
The “I hurt you to protect you” breakup trope
A breakdown of the masked man trope (yes, it’s a real thing and Amanda has research)
A semi-rant about slow burn romances that take too long to spice up
Whether hockey romance is worth the hype
And the charm of fluffy beach reads like Better Than the Movies
Books mentioned:
Lights Out by Jodie Slaughter
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Signs of Cupidity by Raven Kennedy
Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
Corrupt by Penelope Douglas
God of Malice by Rina Kent
Scream for Us by Molly Doyle
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Whether you're in a committed relationship with Rhysand or currently between fictional partners, this one's for you.
 
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This Is Not the Book Haul You Planned For

Can I Bring My Book: The podcast where besties meet books… and bring zero plans.
This week’s episode starts with birthday vibes and somehow unravels into hot takes, book haul logistics, and an existential debate about whether the "mentor dies" trope is a literary rite of passage. Amanda wants a birthday book spree. Kat wants rules. And neither of them agrees on how many books one person should be allowed to carry.
They dive into:
The chaos of viral book buying sprees (and whether they’re sustainable)
Barnes & Noble vs. used bookshops (and Amanda’s inner struggle)
Tropes of the week: The Mentor Dies and The Backstabbing Mentor
Plot twists, overconsumption, and the unread blind dates with books sitting on Amanda’s shelf
Also mentioned: The Poppy War, Circe, Water Moon, Pumpkin Spice Café, Ender’s Game, Shadow and Bone, and, of course, Harry Potter.
Moral of the story? We should have had an agenda. But chaos is our brand.
 
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We Really Should Have Had an Agenda

Can I Bring My Book: The podcast where besties meet books… and occasionally forget to plan ahead.
This week’s episode is a full-on hot take tornado. Amanda and Kat may not have had an agenda, but they definitely had opinions. From mood reading denialists and Goodreads ethics to reading as “overconsumption,” nothing is safe.
Along the way, they discuss:
📚 Why mood reading is real (and personal)
🎧 Accidentally re-reading the wrong story
🔥 Grady Hendrix’s unhinged author reviews of his own books
💬 The debate over reading 20+ books a month—and whether that’s somehow… bad?
☕️ Tropes of the week: Training sequences and The Instant Expert
Also mentioned: Circe by Madeline Miller, Secret Window, Secret Garden by Stephen King, Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore, and Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix.
So, yeah… we really should’ve had an agenda. But where’s the fun in that?
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