A Well-Read Tart

A Food and Book Lover’s Blog

MY MURDER (Dark Side of the Word Podcast)

Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the psychological thriller novel My Murder by Katie Williams. After being brutally murdered, wife and new mother Lou is brought back to life via cloning, along with several other victims of her serial killer. She gets to return to her happy marriage. Her daughter. Her old job. All the parts of her life she was told she...

SCYTHE (Dark Side of the Word Podcast)

Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the YA fantasy novel Scythe by Neal Shusterman. In a world where basic human misery is no longer a concern, the revered but fearsome Scythes exist solely to glean the population when Earth becomes a little too, well, populated. Now, two apprentices must vie for a coveted position in the Scythedom, and it soon becomes...

Dark Side of the Word: A Dark Book Podcast

Yup: the unthinkable has happened. I, the woman who hates the sound of her own voice, am co-hosting a book podcast. I've been writing about books for years; now, I'm talking about them, too. If you have a burning desire to hear what my voice sounds like -- and to find out what books you should and shouldn't read -- come listen to me and my critique partner, Kait, on Dark Side of the Word: Podcast.   What kind of books do we talk about? In...