Two sisters. One bookstore wine bar. Endless opinions. Join us on Reading the Vine, where we pour a glass, crack a spine, and talk about the books we can't put down, the business we're building, and all the things in between. Part book club, part happy hour, all heart.
Emotional Damage: The Books That Broke Us (and the Ones We'd Prescribe You)
This episode is all about emotional damage, the books that still haunt us, the trends that ruined us, and all the reasons readers need therapy now. In this episode: the required high-school reading that scarred us for life (Go Ask Alice where one drink laced with LSD and her whole world spirals), the book that gave Megan her biggest book hangover EVER (Alchemised), this week's emotional damage (a 5:40am wake-up call for take two and yes, this is our second take, the audio didn't work, and a ...
27 Jul 2026
Beach Reads and Summer Sips
It's 100+ degrees in West Texas, so we're leaning in, this whole episode is beach reads, summer sips, and surviving the heat with a book in hand. In this episode: our bottle of the week (Cade Sauvignon Blanc- one wine, three barrels, and the accidental invention of the word "Zengi"), the wine-and-Taco-Bell pairing nobody asked for, summer reading superlatives (best pool read, best beach thriller, best vacation romance), why every good thriller happens next to a body of water, and the book Me...
20 Jul 2026
What Owning a Bookstore Is ACTUALLY Like (Dream vs. Reality)
This week we're pulling back the curtain on the bookstore, what it actually looks like on a Tuesday at 4pm when everything happens at once. Spoiler: it's organized chaos. In this episode: turning a gray box into a bookstore in 30 days, the "she's just a girl" origin story (featuring hypothetical accidental tax evasion), why "build it and they will come" is a lie, the bingo night that popped off, the mystery of the purple book and her doppelganger, the ladder fight that almost ended the whole...
20 Jul 2026
The Couples Book Club: 12 Books & 12 Date Nights You'll Actually Look Forward To
My husband doesn't read. So I made him a deal: one book a month, and each one comes with a date night. Plot twist, I'm sucking him into this hobbit of mine. In this episode, Amanda walks Megan through the full Couples Book Club list, 12 books across every genre, each paired with a themed date night (stargazing in a truck bed, a DIY mystery night, a wedding-reception dinner at home, and one involving a Santa suit). Megan has to guess the dates cold, and honestly? She kind of nails it. The fu...
20 Jul 2026
Two Sisters, a Bookstore, and All the Things We Should've Talked About Off Air
Welcome to Reading the Vine, the podcast from Paper & Vine Book Bar, where two sisters talk books, wine, and all the things they probably should have talked about off air... on air. In our very first episode: how "we should start a bookstore" turned into an actual bookstore and wine bar in Midland, Texas, a taste test of our house wines (Cherry Vanilla, Hot Mess Express, and Coastal Crush), the great dog-earing debate, whether audiobooks count as reading (they do, fight us), and why ever...
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