The Modern Day Pirates

In this volume, Amanda and Brandon tackle cookbooks that are good readin’ and eatin’, making meatloaf for your pathetic reserve boyfriend, and cathedral construction.

The Strain could very easily be subtitled “How Vampires Learned to Stop Sparkling and Be Kind of Cool Again.”  It shouldn’t, because that’s the titular equivalent of a seven car pile-up, but I think that sentence sums up The Strain in a succinct if awkward manner. The Strain, just released in paperback, is the first [...]

In this episode, Amanda and Brandon talk about Autobiographies and Memoirs, Apples and Lady Gaga, and wife swapping. What is the difference between a autobiography and a memoir? Will Amanda ever like biographies? These questions answered and more.

In this episode, Amanda and Brandon tackle the classics. Like them or hate them, the classics are basically must-reads, but what exactly is a classic? Can Brandon say a certain word on a podcast? Is Little Women and Sex and the City the same thing? We also add a new chapter, book news! The Audible [...]

On this episode of Do Nothing But Read, Amanda and Brandon discuss Do Nothing But Read Day. DNBR Day is the holiday founded by Amanda where everyone throws all other things aside to finish that book they have had hanging around for months.

In this episode, Amanda and Brandon talk about books that would make great movies and what makes a good adaption work. With basically every novel and comic being turned into a movie, what would we like to see most?

Books about sideshows and freak shows can kind of become sideshows themselves. A sideshow is all about spectacle and observation. So in the act of reading about sideshows, we create a spectacle of the characters and their oddities.