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Episode 36: Back with ALL the books
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Yonit and Jessica, miles apart geographically but not when it comes to book recs! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiddushbookclub/message
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Episode 35: ALL THE BOOK RECS
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Jessica and Yonit reunite after months of reading through our to-be-read piles! We have all the book recs for you. Get ready to add books to your GoodReads, request from the library, and order from wherever you love to buy books, because your own to-be-read pile is about to grow super tall and topple over and crush you and you'll die happy beneath …
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Episode 34: DuckFarts and Book Recs
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Yonit and Jessica get a little too fershnikt on DuckFarts and talk about some NSFW (young ears and modest ears, be warned) Chanukah books, recommend fantastic new releases, and forget the rest in a drunken haze of vodka. L'Chaim! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiddushbookclub/message…
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Episode 33: Reading Through It...unless IT is Midnight Sun
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Yonit and Jessica drink caramel cinnamon apple cider because it's fall, discuss recent reads we've loved, which books have gotten us through, and what Midnight Sun could have been vs. what it is. L'Chaim! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiddushbookclub/message
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Episode 32: They All Die in this One
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Yonit and Jessica drink pineapple sake and talk about death. L'Chaim! Warning: major spoilers in this episode that focuses on character deaths in fiction. If you haven't read Little Women or Harry Potter and are planning to, then maybe wait on this episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiddushbookclub/message…
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Episode 31: Expand Your Mind...and Your Genre
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Jessica and Yonit STILL DON'T HAVE COCKTAILS because, let's face it, drinking alone at home just isn't the same. L'Chaim! We discuss how to open your mind to new genres, new books, and how to explore beyond the bestseller lists and find amazing bestseller-worthy books from diverse voices and cultures. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters…
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Episode 30: Everybody Loves a Good series
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Jessica and Yonit don't have any drinks! Send l'chaims!!! We discuss our love of book series and go off on our usual tangents, making it extremely difficult to describe the contents of this episode. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiddushbookclub/message
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Episode 29: Twilight, May the 4th, and the weird week
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Jessica, Yonit, and guest Megan, are having a weird week. L'Chaim! From May the 4th and Murder Hornets to Twilight and a 672-page Edward book, we have to wonder: Are vampires back? And were they ever gone? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiddushbookclub/message
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Episode 28: Coffee Martini of Mercy
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In which Jessica's husband makes her a very strong coffee martini then realizes Yonit's children have left her on read without any wine, and rushes over to Yonit's house to leave a coffee martini of mercy on her doorstep. L'Chaim! Oh, and also we talk about writing and books. Extra long episode just for your lockdown pleasure! --- Send in a voice m…
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Episode 27: Daddy Issues...in Space?
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Yonit and Jessica reZoom the Kiddush Book Club, but only one of us has a cocktail. L'Chaim! We discuss books we've read during quarantine, artsy books with no story that we can't be bothered with, twitter pitch parties, and Anne Frank. There's a bit of an awkward transition in the middle and we blame everyone in the house using the internet at the …
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Yonit and Jessica drink hard ciders in isolation. L'Chaim! We are joined by book club friends Megan and Aviva to chat about distraction books, to-be-read piles, and how to choose your next read when you're stuck at home with nowhere to go. If you'd like to join us for more group zoom chats, please email kiddushbookclub@gmail.com. --- Send in a voic…
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Episode 26: The End of the World as We Know it
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...and we're feeling fine, BH. Jessica & Yonit celebrate the end-times with a mudslide. L'Chaim! Follow the mudslide as it meanders from apocalyptic fiction to the post-apocalyptic nature of Love is Blind, and the state of Trader Joe's empty shelves. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiddushbookclub/message…
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Episode 25: Speculatively Speculating
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Jessica and Yonit drink I Saw The Wine and talk speculative books. L'Chaim! As expected, the wine cocktails take us down winding pathways, but it all comes together in the end. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiddushbookclub/message
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Jessica & Yonit talk shidduchim and married love, and this means drinking. Loads of drinking. We made a drink called The Shadchan, in which we randomly put things together to see if they'd work, and they did! Lime vodka, strawberry sugar syrup, and dry white wine. A shidduch! We talk with Lynne Silver, whose story about an empty-nesting married cou…
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Episode 23: A Shmooze with Rachel Lynn Solomon
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Jessica and Yonit pre-funk/pre-game cocktails and hard apple ciders, and shmooze with prolific local YA author and It's A Whole Spiel contributor Rachel Lynn Solomon about her work, Jewish rep in books, and her upcoming adult debut! Come for the witty conversation, stay for the insider tips for querying writers/aspiring authors. L'Chaim! --- Send i…
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Jessica and Yonit have all the feelings, nothing more than feelings. In fact, Yonit has organized them in a chart. A feelings chart. About all the books that give us the feels. Drink jello shots and the Official Jessica (OJ, vodka, grenadine), and make it a double. L'Chaim! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiddus…
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Episode 21: Kiddush Book Club presents CHANUKAH PRESENTS
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Jessica and Yonit drink the very strong Just Peachy Peach Ginny and tell you what to buy for Chanukah, from the Newish Jewish Encyclopedia to Chicken Soup Chicken Soup. L'Chaim! Also interviews with Chelm for the Holidays author Valerie Frankel and Hong Kong PJ Library queen Erica Lyons! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/p…
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Yonit and Jessica drink an unnamed shot of something blue and work up an appetite talking about food in literature and lots and lots of cookbooks. Yum. Okay, we're hungry. Get hungry with us. Also a preview of upcoming episodes. L'Chaim! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiddushbookclub/message…
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Episode 19: In Defense of YA
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Yonit and Jessica drink alcohol Yonit didn't have to be carded for because it's as young and sweet as she is. Smirnoff strawberry lemonade! Then a strong defense of YA and an attempt to figure out what YA actually is. To win a Kiddush Book Club bookmark, go to our instagram. L'Chaim! https://www.instagram.com/kiddushbookclub/ --- Send in a voice me…
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Episode 18: A Discovery of A Discovery of Witches
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Yonit and Jessica drink daemon mead (hard apple cider + mango syrup) and talk all things Discovery of Witches, from vampire obsession to historical accuracy, and other books that sit next to it on the bookshelf. L'Chaim! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiddushbookclub/message…
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Episode 17: The Little Mermaid's REAL Ending
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Jessica and Yonit drink Pearsecco (thanks for the potential sponsorship Crispin!), and live-review The Little Mermaid Live! We talk books-to-screen and dream casts. Who's your dream King Triton and who would you want to play YOU in a movie? Leave us your answer in a voice message! L'Chaim! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com…
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Episode 16: Return of the Spiel
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Jessica and Yonit drink Bartenura (sponsor us already!) and chat with It's A Whole Spiel editors Laura Silverman and Katherine Locke and contributor Adi Alsaid. We will switch to Joyvin if Bartenura doesn't get back to us, we mean it. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiddushbookclub/message…
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Yonit & Jessica talk the macabre and supernatural and go down several side-roads while drinking Witch's Brew: peach whiskey + peach syrup + white wine = delicious orange drink. L'Chaim! For those waiting for more It's A Whole Spiel episodes...coming soon! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiddushbookclub/message…
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Episode 14: It's A Whole Spiel; The Spiel Begins!
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In the first of a few episodes dedicated to this anthology, Jessica & Yonit have a l'chaim and talk to It's A Whole Spiel contributing authors Goldy Moldovsky, Dahlia Adler, and Elie Lichtschein. L'Chaim and G'mar V'Chasima Tova! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiddushbookclub/message…
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Episode 13: Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
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Jessica and Yonit drink Cosmosas. L'Chaim! Yonit chats with Brian Ballantyne, author of Confessions of a Working Father. We talk about non-fiction, instructive texts, fun guides that don't make our brains work so hard, and Next Level Basic: The Definitive Basic Bitch Handbook by Bravolebrity Stassi Schroeder. Zay gezunt! --- Send in a voice message…
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that two women in possession of good books, must be in want of a cocktail. Jessica and Yonit are drinking Fanny's Folly (peach brandy, white wine, a dashwood of lemon juice) and chatting with Pride & Prejudice & the Parsha author C.C. Ford. L'Chaim!--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/p…
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Episode 11: You're a wizard, Harry
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Yonit and Jessica drink fire-whiskey in memory of fallen heroes from the Deathly Hallows. L'Chaim! Reminder: we get easily distracted and may have lost track somewhere in the beginning, middle, and end of our synopses. Please don't kill us for remembering Harry Potter wrong. Our opinions are our own, and yours can be shared via voice message, which…
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Jessica and Yonit enjoy their back-to-school juice pouches of apple juice and vodka. L'Chaim! We talk about your favorite and least favorite assigned books from school. Did you ship Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth in 11th grade? Think of yourself as a Finny or a Gene in 9th? Absolutely despise The Pearl in middle school? Tweet us your faves at #KiddushBook…
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Yonit and Jessica sip Bartenura Blue Bottle and talk thrillers and espionage. L'Chaim! Yonit loves a dead body in every book, and we welcome special guest/Jessica's husband Ari who illuminates us on the male POV and wish-fulfillment in reading. Zay gezunt!--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiddushbookclub/message…
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Jessica and Yonit drink unseasonably early Simchas Torah Specials: hard cider+rum+ginger ale. L'Chaim! We talk about romance novels and, young listeners be warned, it definitely gets Too Hot For Shul. PG-13+. We also talk with Felicia Grossman, author of Appetites & Vices, and Dalliances & Devotion. Zay gezunt and enjoy! --- Send in a voice message…
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Episode 7: Damn the Man, Save the Empire
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Yonit and Jessica sip strawberry gin-and-tonics through contraband plastic straws and talk about tropes in books and film and how they change and don't change over time. L'Chaim! Also an interview with Empire Records screenwriter Carol Heikkinen! Listener questions are answered, behind-the-scenes facts are revealed, and we cover everything from Rex…
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Jessica and Yonit are drinking coffee and tea. We shmooze about the 9 Days, and share what we read on a fast day. All music in this episode is acapella. L'Chaim! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiddushbookclub/message
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Episode 5: History Shmistory
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Yonit and Jessica enjoy a spritz--or is it a shpritz?--and talk about historical fiction. Does it even matter if it's accurate, as long as there's forbidden love? Also a conversation with Jessica's sister Melinda about her undying love for Outlander and how she'll keep reading until Diana Gabaldon explains the ghost in the kilt! L'Chaim! --- Send i…
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Episode 4: Go Away, Mommy's Reading
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Jessica and guest co-host Megan have a l'chaim of birthday-cake-vodka-shots and shmooze about being busy mommies who find time to read. Even though Yonit is on vacation, we still found a way to get easily distracted and follow the challah crumbs to interesting places. Also a fantastic interview with Wasted Pretty author Jamie Beth Cohen. We talk ab…
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Episode 3: Answer a Question with a Question
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L'Chaim! We're drinking Smirnoff grapefruit vodka and talking about Jewish fiction & Jew-ish fiction, favorite Jewish authors, and more, going wherever the challah crumbs lead us. There are so many questions to be asked, and so many questions to be asked about those questions. Also we read reader comments and ask our shaila of the week. --- Send in…
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Episode 2: Fairytales & Bubbemeises
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Yonit and Jessica are drinking Sara Bee wine and talking about retellings of fairytales, folklore, bubbemeises, and more. And an interview with The Dollmaker of Krakow author R.M. Romero. L'Chaim! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kiddushbookclub/message
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Episode 1: Cooperative Interruption
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L'Chaim! We're drinking homemade beet vodka and hot tea, so pick your favorite drink and join us. In this first episode, Yonit and Jessica start by talking about what inspired this podcast, books about books, and get lost down many rabbit-holes. So many. Stick around for what we're reading right now and our GoodReads goals. Yonit is reading The Boo…
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