The Terrible Reading Club Podcast
1) 23. "Slenderman" with Kathleen Hale
In 2014, 12-year-old Payton "Bella" Leutner was stabbed 19 times by two other tween girls. The crime was well publicized as the Slenderman stabbings because the two girls who committed the stabbing sa...Show More
2) 22. “Christmas Orphan Club” with Becca Freeman
‘Tis the season for a holiday read, and Becca Freeman has written the coziest novel that ticks all the boxes: friendship, romance, and just a sprinkle of grief and trauma. Nora and Becca share all abo...Show More
3) 21. 2023 Gift Guide!
Happyish Holidays and welcome to our first ever TRC gift guide! Nora and Kara (and our awesome TRC community) have compiled book recs for everyone on your gift list — from the youngest of picture book...Show More
4) 20. "This Time Tomorrow" with Emma Straub
When author Emma Straub’s dad got sick, he told her one night in the hospital, “You should write a book about a daughter visiting her father in the hospital.” So that’s what she did, and that book bec...Show More
5) 19. I Read That: "The Woman in Me" by Britney Spears
Everyone knows who Britney Spears is … or do we? For many people, Britney is frozen in time circa 2002. For others, she faded away after 2008 until her gut-wrenching testimony about her 13-year conser...Show More
6) 18. "This Story Will Change" with Elizabeth Crane
Elizabeth Crane didn’t want to get divorced, but her husband did. Thus, her memoir, This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After, was born — a book about the death of a marriage, the start of ...Show More
7) September Read/Reading/TBR
Join Nora for her first monthly book check-in to see what she loved, what she’s currently reading, and what’s next on her list. Wanna read the books? When you purchase from Bookshop.org, you help supp...Show More
8) "How To Stay Married" with Harrison Scott Key
When Harrison Scott Key discovered his wife was cheating on him, he wasn’t about to break his wedding vows. He was going to save his marriage, and that quest involved taking a good hard look at how he...Show More
9) I Read That with Kate Kennedy
Nora sits down with author, podcaster, pop culture critic and friend, Kate Kennedy of Be There in Five, to talk about the politics of being a parent online, why we’re so quick to dismiss the work of i...Show More
10) "On Our Best Behavior" With Elise Loehnen
What does it really mean to be a good person? Have you ever wondered why you consider one public figure to be “good” and another “bad”? Where those frameworks for so-called goodness came from? Turns o...Show More