Fiction Between Friends

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Part book club, part podcast, Fiction Between Friends is a celebration of how a really good book can come into your life and change it. No scathing reviews or negative commentary, just great books and engaging conversations. Hosted by four childhood friends from the suburbs of Massachusetts, each episode covers either four books they’ve loved from the past, or a new release that just hit the bookshelves. It is an idyllic place for bibliophiles to rekindle their love for an old favorite or find a new one to read.

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S2 E14: We all read Latinx writers!

Jul 11 2022 52 mins

*Trigger warning: The beginning of this episode starts off with a politically charged conversation about the Supreme Court and the recent overturning of Roe v Wade. But we eventually do talk about books. ** Also, this is our last episode before our summer break, but we will be back in the fall rested and refreshed, with more amazing books to share with you all. Aileen read Olga Die

S2 E13: YA titles recommended by actual young adults

Jun 27 2022 59 mins

Alisa’s daughter Ella, and Lauren’s daughter Ana gave us a list of YA titles we hadn’t read yet. Aileen read We Were Liars by E. Lockheart, a thriller with a blow-your-mind twist at the end. Though classified as YA, we all felt like this book was just as suitable for adults also.Lauren read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak after years of her daughter Ana telling her to. Ana has

S2 E12: The thinking woman’s page turners

Jun 13 2022 53 mins

This week we read books that hovered somewhere in the beach read category, yet much more challenging and satisfying than the run-of-the-mill sand and surf fluff. Aileen read The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller, a story of summer, secrets, love, and lies.Lauren read Mr. Wrong Number, a hilarious rom-com by Lynn Painter.Alisa read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, about an agi

S2 E11: Guest host NYT bestselling author Beth Revis

May 30 2022 48 mins

This week on Fiction Between Friends we have a special guest, New York Times bestselling author, Beth Revis! We talk about her new book The Princess and the Scoundrel, coming out August 16, 2022, and her serial novel Museum of Magic that is out right now on Kindle Vella. Beth tells us all about the lovely people at Star Wars, and about how she worked pulling tarot cards and throwin

S2 E10: We read historical fiction and love it

May 16 2022 55 mins

This week the gang reads historical fiction. Alisa and Aileen are old pros at this sub-genre while Josie and Lauren are more like dabblers. Ironically, almost all of the picks were in the WW2 category while Josie was the odd duck who traveled back to medieval Europe.Aileen read Moloka’i by Alan Brennert. She’s been trying for years to read this book but every time she picked it

S2 E9: Guest host writer/director Barbara Stepansky

May 02 2022 50 mins

Ever wonder how your favorite book becomes a movie or a TV show? Well, wonder no longer because we have brought in a bona-fide filmmaker to explain it.Lauren couldn’t be with us, but we had our first guest speaker, Barbara Stepansky on in her place. Barbara is an award-winning screenwriter and a director who writes for the show Outlander. She had us read Kate Morton’s The Forgo

S2 E8: Books on our nightstands

Apr 18 2022 51 mins

This week on Fiction Between Friends, anything goes! It was the “What’s on Your Nightstand?” episode. Aileen read Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld. A modern re-telling of Pride and Prejudice. Lauren swung for the fences and read a book in Spanish that she’s been trying to read forever. En los Zapatos de Valeria by Elisabet Benavent, about 4 women who are best friends (sounds f

S2 E7: Books that got us through the pandemic

Apr 04 2022 52 mins

We talked about it, and we’ve decided that the pandemic is over. For now at least. And we wanted to celebrate by talking about what helped get us through it. Each other, of course, but also what we read.Aileen talked about how much she loved reading Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Lauren reminisced about Ross Poldark, the first book in the Poldark series by Winsto

S2 E6: Books set in New England (our hometown)

Mar 21 2022 59 mins

This week we all read books that were set in our neck of the woods. New England!Aileen starts us off with On Beauty by Zadie Smith. Lauren covers The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe. Josie read The Secret History by Donna Tartt. But Alisa probably “won” this week with her read, We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry. Trigger warnings: heavy drug and alcohol abuse,

S2 E5: Books that made us laugh

Mar 07 2022 57 mins

We felt like we needed to lighten up a bit, so this week we read books that made us laugh. Lauren read an old favorite, One for the Money by Janet Evanovich. Alisa read Faking It by Jennifer Cruise. Aileen read The Humans by Matt Hague. And Josie read one of her favorites, Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett.