Welcome to My Wife Likes Books, a podcast about all things books for anyone who enjoys reading or loves the sounds of our voices!
We will be reading and reviewing a chapter every fortnight, and invite you to read along with us. Our first book is A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara.
Your hosts are Sarah Berry, Sallie Chedburn and Sophie Bishop.
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Show music adapted from “What A Wonderful Day” by Shane Ivers (silvermansound.com (http://silvermansound.com)) and licensed under creative commons BY 4.0
Artwork by Keith Kilpin
Produced and edited by Oscar Rogers
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This episode, our plucky trio dive into the murky online world of 'book review apps', and discuss whether this is simply the newest iteration of tinder. Also, have books been made too accessible? The ladies talk about direct-to-brain audio and talking pictures.
20 Oct 2026
Is ACOTAR Secretly a Gay Book? (A Court of Thorns and Roses Readalong, Chapters 6–16)
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Feyre’s arrived in Prythian, and she isn’t winning Sophie over. On her first read, Soph’s finding the pace a slog and Feyre a petulant head to be stuck in — and she’s firmly on Team Tamlin, who has, after all, just lost his friend to Feyre’s arrow. Sarah reads all that hostility as trauma and finds Feyre much better company once she knows her family’s safe. Sallie’s surprised by how much she dislikes her on a reread.
Along the way we try to pin down what Tamlin actually looks like in beast mode (current best guess: the animated Beast with Mr Tumnus’s horns). Sophie makes the case that ACOTAR is a deeply camp book, and we get serious about Feyre’s illiteracy — could a heroine who struggles to read be part of why this series has pulled so many people into reading? Sarah also explains why the readalong has her thinking about capping how many books she reads a year.
We’re live at The Bookcellar on Stokes Croft, Bristol on 26 October to celebrate the new ACOTAR book. Tickets have sold out, but we’ll be streaming on Instagram and TikTok from around 9:30pm. If you run a Bristol book club, Sarah has a strong recommendation involving wine matched to whatever you’re reading.
Next week: an Offering episode. In two weeks: ACOTAR up to and including chapter 31.
⚠️ Spoilers for A Court of Thorns and Roses up to chapter 16. Some gory descriptions.
Books discussed
A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Mist and Fury – Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Splintered Harmony – Sarah J. Maas
Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
Fourth Wing – Rebecca Yarros
A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
Oddbody - Rose Keating
13 Oct 2026
Dust Jackets: Venerate or Sacrifice? (Plus Is Katabasis Really Romantasy?)
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Sarah hates dust jackets so much she bins them the day she buys a hardback. She brings them to The Offering expecting an easy sacrifice — and faces a surprise. Sophie turns up with evidence (a hot-pink surprise under the Dungeon Crawler Carl jacket), while Sallie makes the case for the flap as a built-in bookmark that tracks your progress. Oscar chips in with the price tag on a first-edition Great Gatsby jacket, and Sarah compares the whole thing to buying suede shoes that need a protective spray.
Before that, Sarah’s halfway through The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett and seeing faces in her bathroom downlights. Sophie’s back from Keswick with a stack of discounted hardbacks — Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling and Douglas Stuart’s John of John among them. Sallie’s listening to R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis on audio, which sparks a debate about what actually makes a book romantasy.
We’re live at The Book Cellar on Stokes Croft, Bristol on 26 October to celebrate the new ACOTAR book. Tickets have sold out, but we’ll be streaming on Instagram and TikTok from around 9:30pm.
Next week: A Court of Thorns and Roses, chapters 6–16.
Full list of books mentioned:
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels – Janice Hallett
The Appeal – Janice Hallett
The Difference Engine – William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
The Gallows Pole – Benjamin Myers
Katabasis – R.F. Kuang
Babel – R.F. Kuang
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario – Matt Dinniman
Dungeon Crawler Carl – Matt Dinniman
London Falling – Patrick Radden Keefe
Empire of Pain – Patrick Radden Keefe
Say Nothing – Patrick Radden Keefe
The Snakehead – Patrick Radden Keefe
Agrippa — Robert Harris
Conclave – Robert Harris
John of John – Douglas Stuart
Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart
Any Human Heart – William Boyd
Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
Oh William! – Elizabeth Strout
We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Complete Works of Arthur Conan Doyle - Arthur Conan Doyle
Fourth Wing – Rebecca Yarros
A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Splintered Harmony - Sarah J. Maas
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