Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! This week, we've got intrigue, battles, and possibly an invincible cat? Also, a new player enters the game, the sun goes out, and we're reminded that feral cats don't know shit about science. Join us next week for everyone's favorite time of year… that's right, it's Christmas Shoes season once again. Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fre...
Dec 22, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week, we're reading the second book in our mafia romance unit. We've got another forced marriage to a teenager, but hey, at least the age gap is smaller this time. Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! Recommended Reading: A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall Bindle Punk Bruja by Desideria Mesa Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr 28 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! This week, our cats are headed back to the mountains to spread the good word of the Warrior Code to the poor, uneducated cats of the world. Truly, this is ThunderClan's burden. Also make sure to subscribe to our totally real and very secret Patreon to read the first chapter of Double Mulan: The Warriors Fanfic today! Join us next week for the second book in our Mafia Romance unit! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Insta...
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week we're wrapping up our unit on YA horror with a book we both actually loved. We've got a haunted house, difficult step siblings, and a ton of facts about bedbugs. Like, so many bedbug facts. Do not read if you have a fear of bedbugs. Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! Recommended Reading: The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco The Tea Dragon Society by K. O'Neill Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Emai...
Nov 29, 2022•1 hr 22 min
Warriors: Dark River by Erin Hunter by Anna and Em
Nov 21, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers! We're starting a brand new listener slubmission unit on mafia/mob romances (thank you, Charlie!) with a book that… well, let's just say this one had a lot of problems with this one. At least we can only go up from here, right? Maybe? 😬 Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! Recommended Reading: Pathfinder: Kingmaker has taken over our lives Rent a Boyfriend by Gloria Chao The Verifiers by Jane Pek Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagr...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 30 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers! We’re finally back with another Meow Meow Monday episode. We’ve got a new series of Warriors books with a whole new generation of cats to follow. But don’t worry, we still have all of our old favorites: Firestar, Tigerstar, and fucking Spottedleaf making another fucking comeback. Where will this new arc take us? Join us next week for the first book in a new unit on mafia romances! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: ...
Nov 07, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Happy Halloween, Literary Slummers! This week, we have a classically spooky YA horror book about a haunted house, an EXTREMELY small town, and really awkward sexual tension between step-siblings. Join us next week as we FINALLY return with a Meow Meow Monday! Recommended Reading: Dwellers by Eliza Victoria Potion Permit Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz
Oct 31, 2022•1 hr 20 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to our final Maritime Monday episode. That's right, we're wrapping up the Dive series and saying goodbye to our scuba teens. Will they steal the treasure out from Cutter's nose? Will Star recover from the bends? How many ghost sharks will feature? The answers may surprise and disappoint. Join us next week for the next book in our YA horror unit! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: you...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week, we're wrapping up our sad girl unit with a listener slubmitted author (thanks, Bryn!) We've got a quirky girl medical illustrator and a bad boy graffiti felon navigating a relationship with lots of sad things in both their back stories. We've got banter, we've got bad relationships with parents, we've got consensual stalking. #JustSadGirlThings Recommended Reading: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez Jessica Darling series by Meg...
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Maritime Monday! We're continuing our journey to the depths with the second book in The Dive series. Our teenaged treasure hunters are starting to get in over their heads. There's ghost sharks, sentient museums, and a surprisingly dark ending to this middle grade book. Join us next week for the final book in our sad girls unit! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.co...
Oct 10, 2022•57 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week we're kicking off a new spooky unit on YA horror with a book Em read as a kid and did not care for. Have her thoughts changed returning to the book as an adult? Look for Anna's guest episode on All the Good Dogs! And join us next week for another Maritime Monday. Recommended Reading: Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia A Howl: An Indigenous Anthology of Wolves, Werewolves, and Rougarou DISNEY DREAMLIGHT VALLEY Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee...
Oct 03, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week we're continuing our listener/friend slubmitted unit on sad girls with a classic sad girl novel. We also discuss high school reading assignments and the literary canon, but maybe it's more entertaining than it sounds. Please excuse Anna's still slightly sick voice. 😔 Look for Anna's guest episode on All the Good Dogs! And join us next week for the first book in Em's new unit on YA horror. Recommended Reading: DISNEY DREAMLIGHT VALLEY Notes of a Crocodi...
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to a special Maritime Monday episode of Shelf Aware! This week, Anna and Em are *diving* into a short middle-grade series to give us a little break from the Warrior Cats. We've got 13-year-olds doing an internship with a prestigious marine biology institute. Of course. Very realistic. Also, treasure. Join us next week for the next book in our sad girl unit, and then back to our regularly scheduled programming. Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Inst...
Sep 19, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Warriors: Sunset by Erin Hunter by Anna and Em
Sep 13, 2022•1 hr 24 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode of Shelf Aware! This week, we're wrapping up our unit on domestic thrillers. Anna finally realizes why she doesn't like the genre (better late than never). The main character has no self-preservation whatsoever. So! Many! Twists!! Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! Recommended Reading: When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole The Appeal by Janice Hallett Caraval by Stephanie Garber Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Ins...
Sep 05, 2022•1 hr 37 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday episode of Shelf Aware! This week, we've got a chores book full of cat relationship drama, yay. We also talk a lot (like, way too long) about IF the cats were actually people, who would be the hottest? Please, don't analyze our thoughts too closely. Join us next week for the last book in our domestic thriller unit! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtub...
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 18 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week, we're starting a brand new listener slubmitted unit on sad girl books. We're diving into a YA contemporary featuring classic teen issues such as: teen pregnancy, a strained relationship with your parents, a boyfriend who is pressuring you for sex, and an ex-boyfriend who comes to your house every Friday night and pouts on your couch because you parents are BFFs and have weekly Friday night movie nights and he doesn't have enough of a social life to com...
Aug 22, 2022•1 hr 19 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! This week, we've got relationship drama, chores, and lots of badgers. Also featuring a lot more questions about what happens when cats die and go to StarClan. StarClan book when?? Join us next week for a brand new unit about very sad girls! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/fretwiz
Aug 15, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week, we're continuing our unit on domestic thrillers with a classic YA thriller that is one of the most disturbing books we have read in a while. And make you stick around to the end of the episode to find out some of what happens in the rest of this series. It's a wild ride. Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! Recommended Reading: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill Yerba Buena by Nina LeCour Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnotel...
Aug 01, 2022•1 hr 37 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday episode of Shelf Aware! This week, the Boogie Boarders finally make their way home, but everything in the forest is so very sad and hungry. Have they returned too late? Also, we have very strong opinions about how the titles in this series. But when don't we have strong opinions, lmao Join us next week for the next book in Anna's domestic thriller unit! Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: ...
Jul 25, 2022•59 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to a special guest episode of Shelf Aware! While Anna is busy moving house, she challenged Em and Brad (@StoryBookWeaver) to read the first book in one of her favorite cozy mystery series. Did they like it? Well, no. 🤷🏻♀️ Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! Recommended Reading: Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.com/user/f...
Jul 18, 2022•1 hr 20 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! This week, our band of traveling cats comes across another group of cats that don't follow the Warrior Code (and are super cultural appropriation-y), and end up kind of taking place in a white (silver?) savior narrative. Also, Firestar continues to struggle with the destruction of the forest as warriors slowly start disappearing as well. Join us next week for a special guest episode with Em and Brad, where Anna subjects them to a book...
Jul 11, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week, we're starting a new unit on domestic thrillers with a book that Em thought she'd be able to avoid for the rest of forever (sorry not sorry). How does Anna feel about this book ten years after she first read it? Recommended Reading: Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz River of Shadows by Karina Halle Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! Twitter: @shelfawarecast...
Jul 04, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! This week, we're starting the second series of Warrior Cats books, The New Prophecy. We've got new cats, but the same problems. Something's threatening the forest. Cats still can't understand prophecies. Also, is there a Cat Hell? Join us next week for a brand new unit with a book Em swore she would never read. Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Ben Cope: youtube.c...
Jun 27, 2022•59 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week, we're wrapping up our unit on novels based on TTRPGs with a trip to the B-B-B-BOOOONEYAAAARD. Who would have known that a book called Boneyard would be spooky? Not Anna, apparently. Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! And even though half the year is up, you can still join our 2022 reading challenge. Details are on our Twitter! Recommended Reading: Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson Master of On...
Jun 20, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! This week, we are talking about the final book in the first Warrior Cats arc. Fireheart is now the leader of ThunderClan. TigerStar is out there causing more mischief. And we meet a new clan?? Also, will this book be amazing enough to propel us to read more Warriors books? Join us next week for the last book in our TTRPG unit. And even though half the year is up, you can still join our 2022 reading challenge. Details are on our Twitte...
Jun 13, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week, we're wrapping up Em's unit on no-sex romances with a contemporary romcom. Was it enough to change our stance on romance without sex on the page? Was this book even anti-horny enough to count? And why did everyone make such a big deal about a perfectly normal way to deal with grief? Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! And don't forget about our 2022 reading challenge. You check it out on our Twitter or Storygraph. Recommended Reading: Conju...
Jun 06, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another Meow Meow Monday! This week, Fireheart deals with a lot of shit including more Tigerstar schemes, some actual dogs, and a leader who wants to go to war with the cat ghosts who live in the stars. What's a poor deputy to do? Join us next week for the last book in our clean romance unit! And don't forget we have a reading challenge for 2022. You can check it out on our Twitter or Storygraph. Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @she...
May 30, 2022•56 min
Welcome back, Literary Slummers! This week we're talking about the first book in a beloved fantasy series starring the most perfect little drow lad in all the land. We've got schemes! We've got fights! We've got hard to pronounce fantasy names that we don't pronounce consistently! Join us next week for another Meow Meow Monday! Recommended Reading: Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma Coming Back by Jessi Zabarsky Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Instagram: @shelfawarecast Email: shelf...
May 23, 2022•1 hr 3 min
