Can I Bring My Book
Welcome to Can I Bring My Book a podcast brought to you by besties, Kat and Amanda. Join us as we- tangentially- talk books... and so much more!
Episodes
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, tr...
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.)
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The books that ...
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 thought...
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:
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Their favorite book boyfriends (and why morally gray is irresistible)
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The “I...
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.
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<...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:
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📚 Why mood reading is real (and personal)
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🎧 Accidentally re-reading th...
Can I Bring My Book: The podcast where besties meet books… and sometimes black coffee reveals your reader soul.
This week, Amanda and Kat spiral through chaotic quizzes, coffee orders, and the wild world of interspecies romance. (Yes, really.) First up? A deep dive into Novelist, a new tool offered by their local library that serves up book recs based on shows you love (like The Bear) or tropes you're obsessed with (like "found fam...
Can I Bring My Book: The podcast where besties meet books… and sometimes unhinged fantasy quizzes.
This week, Amanda and Kat dive into a chaotic “Pack Your Bag” fantasy quiz—and discover that Amanda is a panicky pixie packing an anxious teddy bear and a goat named Bitey. Naturally.
The episode spirals delightfully from there with a round of bookish “Would You Rather” (dog-eared pages or spoilers, anyone?) and a debate over naming p...
You know what they say—don’t judge a book by its cover. But honestly? Sometimes we do. In this episode of Can I Bring My Book, Kat and Amanda explore the irresistible world of cover buys: books they picked up purely because of how pretty, striking, or downright soft-to-the-touch they were. From bold color palettes and intriguing titles to irresistible textures and filigree chapter pages, we’re sharing the cover art that convinced u...
This week on Can I Bring My Book, Kat and Amanda get real about the chaos of their TBRs, the bookish habits they’re slightly ashamed to admit, and the hot takes that might get them banned from the bookish internet. From using dust jackets as bookmarks (we’re sorry) to confessing our dependence on airplane mode for Kindle hoarding, we’re laying it all out.
Plus, we dive into a very specific (and ve...
TBR Time Travel + Our Most Unhinged Trope Talk Yet
Time to dust off the digital shelves—Amanda and Kat are throwing it back to the very first books they ever added to their Goodreads TBRs (we're talking 2011-level chaos). From books they still haven’t read to ones they completely forgot about (and maybe even hate-read), this episode is packed with judgment, nostalgia, and a surprising amount of purging.
Plus, we round things out wi...
Is it more fun to live the story or to watch it unfold? In this episode, we’re diving into the big narrative debate—first person vs. third person point of view. From omniscient storytelling to limited perspectives, we unpack the pros and cons of each and share which styles we gravitate toward (spoiler: it depends on the vibe).
We also chat about one of our favorite storytelling devices—the unreliable narrator—and list the books tha...
Title: Cult Vibes, Curses, and New Bookish Obsessions
Episode Description: This week on Can I Bring My Book, Amanda and Kat are back with fresh book reviews of their Bestie Book Swap read this month! Kat shares her thoughts on The Vicious Circle by Katherine St. John — a thriller that brings all the culty, secluded island drama. Meanwhile, Amanda dives into Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber and officially joins the Jack...
Episode Title: Dramatic Goodreads Readings & Five-Star Shade
Book reviews, dramatic readings, and a little friendly shade—what more could you ask for?
In this episode of Can I Bring My Book, Kat confronts Amanda about her ahem generous Goodreads ratings and challenges her to revisit old book reviews. Cue the dramatic readings, cringey commentary, and some surprising reflections.
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Episode Title: Should We Challenge Ourselves as Readers? A Debate on “Shoulds,” Genres, and Bookish Growth
Can I Bring My Book — the podcast where we, Kat and Amanda, tangentially discuss books... and so much more.
This week, Amanda and Kat dive into the tension between comfort reading and personal growth, all sparked by a spicy internet comment about what books readers should be reading. Is it enough to read only what you want to ...
Episode Title: Let’s Build the Ultimate Book Boyfriend
In this week’s episode, Amanda and Kat take a break from their towering TBRs to do something far more important—design their perfect fictional boyfriends. From battlefields to bakeries, black tees to farmhouses full of goats, the duo takes online quizzes (some more accurate than others, or maybe none that are accurate at all) and debate everything from pickup lines to dream p...
Spring Cleaning Your Reading
This week, Amanda kicks things off by sending Kat on a mission to grab five books from her physical TBR cart… and chaos ensues. Together, they reflect on reading goals, shift some priorities, and play a bookish version of “keep, read, donate” (don’t worry, no books were harmed in the making of this episode).
Also in this episode: 📚 How Goodreads guilt-trips Amanda 📚 Kat’s fear of spring cleaning ...
Bestie Book Swap & Precious Little Robots
In this week’s episode, Amanda and Kat are back with another Bestie Book Swap! We each read a book picked by the other—and, as usual, we’ve got thoughts.
Kat reviews The Year of Less by Cait Flanders, a memoir (sort of) about minimalism, consumption, and self-discovery. Spoiler alert: someone’s feeling a little misled by the marketing.
Amanda shares her love for A Psalm for the Wil...
How to Break Out of a Reading Slump
Reading slumps—every book lover’s worst nightmare. Whether it’s burnout, life getting in the way, or a book so good that nothing else compares, we’ve all been there. In this episode, Kat and Amanda break down what causes reading slumps and share practical tips to help you rediscover your reading groove.
We discuss: 📚 The different types of reading slumps and what causes them 📚 How long Kat’s ...
Bookish Hot Takes & Controversial Opinions
Get ready, book besties—we’re stirring the pot in this episode! Kat and Amanda dive into bookish hot takes, from whether reading a bad book is worse than watching a bad movie to the eternal debate of paperback vs. hardcover. We’re also chatting about series vs. standalones, dog-earing pages (monstrous or practical?), and whether smut is really just… well, you’ll have to listen to fin...
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