• Week 6: Spring Fling
    Feb 1 2025

    Welcome to Week 6 where I talk about books set in spring!

    If you're interested in trying the challenge, you can find all the info here:

    https://www.the52book.club/

    Tell me about your favourite spring books here:

    https://www.instagram.com/myweekisbooked2025/

    Links to all the books mentioned in this episode:

    Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

    The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

    The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

    The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune

    Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

    The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

    Thanks for listening...see you next week!

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    21 min
  • Week 5: Literary Larceny
    Jan 23 2025

    Welcome to Week 5 where we'll be talking about books with heists!

    If you're interested in trying the challenge, you can find all the info here: https://www.the52book.club/

    Tell me what your favourite heist stories are: https://www.instagram.com/myweekisbooked2025/

    Here's some links to all the books I talk about in this episode:

    The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

    Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

    A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

    Starter Villain by John Scalzi

    The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

    Warcross by Marie Lu

    The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

    The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean

    Osgood As Dead by Cooper S. Beckett

    See you next week to talk about books set in Spring!

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    24 min
  • Week 4: Nailed It!
    Jan 19 2025

    It's Week 4 and we're talking about books that start with the letter N! If you're interested in trying the challenge, you can find all the info here: https://www.the52book.club/

    Let me know your favourite book that starts with "N" here: https://www.instagram.com/myweekisbooked2025/

    And if you'd like to read any of the books I talked about today, you can find them here!: The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

    Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

    No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister

    The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

    The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

    News of the World by Paulette Jiles

    The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

    The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation by Jean Teillet

    The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

    Thanks for listening!

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    25 min
  • Week 3: Migrations, Murmurations, and Martians
    Jan 8 2025

    Welcome back, friends! For week 3 of the 52 Book Club Challenge, we're discussing books with titles that start with the letter "M". Hope you find something to add to your TBR!

    You can check out the challenge here: https://www.the52book.club/

    I'd love it if you joined me on this journey :)

    Follow me in Instagram here, so we can discuss all the great books we're reading for the challenge: https://www.instagram.com/myweekisbooked2025/

    And here are links to all of the books I mentions in the episode:

    Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

    The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

    Minecraft Dungeons: The Rise of the Arch-Illager by Matt Forbeck

    A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

    The Martian by Andy Weir

    Masters of Death by Olivie Blake

    The Measure by Nikki Erlick

    Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo

    Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

    The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth

    Murmuration by T.J. Klune

    My Mother Cursed My Name by Anamely Salgado Reyes

    Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

    Thank you for listening! See you next week!

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    25 min
  • Week 2: Red All Over
    Jan 3 2025

    This week I discuss Prompt #2 in the 52 Book Club Challenge: A Book with a Red-Haired Character, and leave you with lots of book recommendations!

    If you're interested in checking out the challenge, you can find all the info here: https://www.the52book.club/

    If you'd like to reach out with feedback, or best of all, to let me know what you chose for the prompt, you can find me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/myweekisbooked2025/

    And here links to all the books I mentioned in the episode:

    Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

    A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

    Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

    The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

    Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

    The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

    The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

    The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

    All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

    An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

    The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

    The House In the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

    Minecraft Dungeons: The Rise of the Arch-Illager by Matt Forbeck

    Path of a Warrior by Erin Hunter

    Into the Wild by Erin Hunter

    That's a lot of books! Thank you for listening, see you for Week 3!

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    28 min
  • Week 1: Pun Intended
    Dec 30 2024

    Welcome to the first episode of My Week Is Booked! It's packed with recommendations for books that have a pun in the title, which will make sense to you if you're following the 52 Book Challenge...but even if you're not, there's just lots of ideas in here for your next great read.

    If you're interested in checking out the challenge or giving it a try, here's the link so you can do that:

    https://www.the52book.club/

    And if you'd like to follow us on Instagram, where you can leave feedback, suggestions, or your picks for each week's prompt, you can do that here:

    https://www.instagram.com/myweekisbooked2025/

    And here are links to all the books mentioned in the episode:

    Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

    Just Mercy by Bryan Stephenson

    Disoriental by Négar Djavadi

    Olive Juice by T.J. Klune

    Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

    Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

    Book Lovers by Emily Henry

    Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

    The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood

    Independence by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    Thanks for listening...see you next week!

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    19 min