Booksmart
by Missing Perspectives
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Western romance author Lyla Sage on “overnight fame”, fictional men…
Western romance author Lyla Sage on “overnight fame”, fictional men…
About this podcast
Booksmart is the podcast for readers who go absolutely feral for women’s stories. The book lovers who are ruled by a never-ending TBR stack and the fear of falling behind in their annual Goodreads Reading challenge. In this Missing Perspectives podcast, your hosts, interstate besties and colleagues, Sunny Adcock and Allie Daisy King, discover new favourites and discuss their own like they’re ancient texts worthy of preservation in the Library of Alexandria. Join them for monthly book club reads, interviews with authors, and a host of other book-related tangents.
Episodes
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- Western romance author Lyla Sage on “overnight fame”, fictional men, and developing her own ghost lore · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 28In this episode, Sunny and Allie sit down with New York Times bestselling author Lyla Sage, writer of western romances like the Rebel Blue Ranch series and Sweetwater Peak…
- 'How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates': Has anyone ever been this horny in a crisis before? (Book Club) · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 27It's Halloween ya'll (basically), and it's time to get spooky! In this book club episode, Sue Ann a.k.a. Ma (Sunny) and Helen Sharp (Allie) review Shailee Thompson's slasher…
- Alice Oseman on asexual and aromantic representation & farewelling Heartstopper · 20 min · Season 2 Episode 26On a very special episode of Booksmart for asexuality awareness week, Allie Daisy King had a chat with Alice Oseman, English author, illustrator, and screenwriter best known for…
- 'Off the Ice's' Bal Khabra on why readers can't get enough of hockey romances · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 25In this bonus episode of Booksmart, hosts Sunny and Allie meet with Canadian author Bal Khabra, of the beloved hockey romance series Off the Ice — which includes Collide, Spiral…
- Surprising Daisy Edgar-Jones with books (Interview for Sense and Sensibility) · 7 min · Season 2 Episode 25In this very special episode of Booksmart, co-host Sunny had the sublime opportunity to interview English actress Daisy Edgar-Jones for the Sense and Sensibility junket held in…
- 'The Shampoo Effect': a tired tale of gossip & upper-class apathy (Book Club) · 1 h 17 min · Season 2 Episode 23Welcome back to book club friends! Things are heating up down under, hence our desire to choose Jenny Jackson's New England set contemporary novel 'The Shampoo Effect' as our…
- The Love Hypothesis review: Does this adaptation have chemistry? · 51 min · Season 2 Episode 22The BookTok girlies have been blessed with yet another book-to-screen adaptation with Ali Hazelwood's 'The Love Hypothesis' dropping on Prime Video. But the real question is…
- Everything you need to know about the state of romantic fiction: from diverse love stories to adaptation fever · 1 h 9 min · Season 2 Episode 21In this episode of Booksmart, hosts Sunny Adcock and Allie Daisy King take on the current romantic fiction boom and share which new love stories you should be reading. Print…
- ‘Good Intentions’ by Jessy Wu: a coming of age campus novel turn corporate thriller (Book Club) · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 20What are these intentions Jessy speaks about, and are they good? Well that is what we are here today to find out. Welcome to Booksmart’s August Book Club episode! This month…
- Is Netflix’s ‘My Brilliant Career’ indeed brilliant? · 1 h 2 min · Season 2 Episode 19In this instalment of Booksmart, hosts Sunny Adcock and Allie Daisy King travel 125 years back in time to 1901 for Netflix’s adaptation of My Brilliant Career, the landmark…
- Author & Creator Tierney Page tackles taboo, the art of smutty romance books, and being horny online (Bonus Episode) · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 18In this bonus episode of Booksmart, host Allie Daisy King sits down with Australian romance author Tierney Page, known online as TierneyReads. Page is the author of the 'London…
- Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez: gothic fiction, witchcraft, and queer insta-love (Book Club) · 58 min · Season 2 Episode 17In this book club episode, Sunny and Allie review Muñeca by author Cynthia Gómez. The short novel comes in at under 200 pages and promises a Gothic queer love story featuring…
- Content Creator Cazzie Ahmed on manifesting her career as a fangirl & navigating the politics of fandom · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 16In this episode of Booksmart, hosts Sunny Adcock and Allie Daisy King sit down with Sydney-based professional fangirl Cazzie Ahmed (@filmgirlcazzie). Ahmed tells us how…
- 'Yesteryear': the rise of rage bait lit and tradwife revenge fantasies (Book Club) · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 13In this hotly anticipated book club episode, Sunny and Allie review the most talked-about book of the year: 'Yesteryear' by Caro Claire Burke. This debut fiction novel draws on…
- 'Every Year After' TV Show Adaptation: hot or flop? (Bonus Episode) · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 14In this bonus episode of Booksmart, hosts Sunny Adcock and Allie Daisy King react to Prime Video's television adaptation of Carley Fortune's popular young adult romance novel…
- Georgie Tunny on female ambition & friendship in the media industry, fangirls, and her debut novel 'Over to You' · 46 min · Season 2 Episode 11In this episode of Booksmart, hosts Sunny Adcock and Allie Daisy King sit down with seasoned Australian journalist and television presenter Georgie Tunny on the launch day of her…
- 'Remarkably Bright Creatures' Interview with Shelby Van Pelt and Olivia Newman (Bonus Episode) · 11 min · Season 2 Episode 12In this very special mini episode of Booksmart, Sunny is joined by the brains behind Netflix’s adaptation of 'Remarkably Bright Creatures', author and executive producer Shelby…
- 'My Dear You' by Rachel Khong: short story slander, ai sex bots, and the afterlife (Book Club) · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 11In their fourth book club episode, Sunny and Allie review 'My Dear You' by Rachel Khong. The book is a collection of ten short stories, written in as many years, exploring race…
- ‘Off-Campus’ TV Show Review: Is the Book Adaptation Worth Watching? · 59 min · Season 2 Episode 10The original hockey romance has finally gotten its own TV adaptation. In this episode, Sunny and Allie review episodes 1-7 of Prime Video's new 'Off Campus' series, based on the…
- Off Campus by Elle Kennedy - Book Series Recap - everything you need to know before the tv show · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 9In this very chaotic Booksmart special, Allie holds Sunny hostage to explain all thirteen books in the ever-expanding 'Off Campus' universe by Canadian author Elle Kennedy ahead…
