Happy Halloween, book besties! 🎃 We’re starting with bookish news: Kindle Unlimited’s rebrand to Kindle+ and its new AI-narrated audiobooks, the Red Rising movie, and the casting for Violet and Xaden in Fourth Wing and January and Gus in Beach Read. Then we’re sharing our favorite Halloween traditions and spooky season movies, from Halloweentown to Zombieland. And we wrap up with a This or That game where a wrong guess means eating a Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Bean. Grass and soap were involved. We’re not okay. 😂

What are your Halloween traditions? Let us know!

Chapters:

0:00 Welcome to our Halloween special!

0:37 Bookish news: Kindle Unlimited is now Kindle+

3:42 Support your local library (Libby & Hoopla)

4:21 Red Rising is getting a movie

5:29 Fourth Wing casting: Violet & Xaden

8:14 Our honest take on the Empyrean adaptation

8:50 Beach Read casting: January & Gus

10:56 Who’s playing who

12:10 Halloween traditions & favorite movies

19:10 This or That: Bertie Bott’s Bean Challenge

28:46 The flavor card reveal 😬

30:34 Thanks for hanging out!

Enemies to lovers or "who did this to you"? Our romance trope bracket finale crowns the official Go Read Sis favorite trope! We also debut Phone a Friend, a fall edition where we pick which fictional characters we'd call for pumpkin patches, scary clowns, Thanksgiving, and more.

0:00 Welcome back + what's on deck

0:38 Current reads: Red Rising audiobook

3:10 Burn of the Everflame + husband updates

5:46 NEW segment: Phone a Friend!

18:01 Trope bracket Pt. 2 begins

27:23 The final + our #1 trope

30:13 Halloween special next week!

Friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, morally gray, "who did this to you"... which romance trope reigns supreme?! We kick off Part 1 of our trope bracket, share the 10 books we're determined to read before 2026 ends, and chat analog hobbies and reading at the gym.

0:00 Welcome back + the analog trend

1:55 Crochet season & hobby stacking

7:01 Reading at the gym (fitness era)

9:55 Our combined 10 Before the End

19:50 Romance trope bracket: Part 1

21:51 Love triangle vs. friends to lovers

22:39 Enemies to lovers vs. grumpy sunshine

26:00 Morally gray vs. pregnancy trope

26:55 One bed vs. "Who did this to you?"

29:11 Semifinals reveal + see you next time!