This week, Gare and Steph and I talk about books that got us into reading, changed our lives, and changed our brain chemistry!

Books That Got Us Into Reading

Heartsick

The Good Girl

The Fact of a Body

Books That Changed Our Life

A Density of Souls

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

And Then She Was Gone

Books That Changed Our Brain Chemistry

The Shards

The Good Daughter

The Chain Gang All Stars

Books We’re Reading

The Lion Women of Tehran

The Lies We Told

Talking to Strangers

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This week, I'm back with Halley Sutton and we dive into what makes something scary. We discuss different movie and book concepts and the way different scary sub-genres scare different people. My audio also recorded through my camera instead of my microphone, so sorry for the audio quality in advance.

Books We Talked About

This Family Lies

Stalker

The Chestnut Man

Maeve Fly

The Return

Movies We Talked About

Longlegs

Oddity

Late Night with the Devil

A Quiet Place: Day One

Maxxxine

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This week, I talk with Elisabeth Eaves about her thriller The Outlier. We dive into what attracted her to writing an "unlikeable" female psychopath for the main character, and the quandary of hurting few to help the many.

The Outlier Synopsis

Cate Winter, at 34, is a wildly successful neuroscientist and entrepreneur who has invented a cure for Alzheimer's that will improve the lives of millions. On the verge of selling her biotech company for an obscene sum, she is also about to become very rich.

But Cate has a secret that keeps her deeply uneasy about everything she is and does: she grew up at the Cleckley Institute, a treatment facility for the rehabilitation of psychopathic children. And, as far as she knows, she is the institute's only success: all of her peers have become thwarted, maladjusted or even criminal adults.

Then Cate discovers the existence of another ex-patient and outlier who might prove that her success isn't a fluke. He has not only stayed out of jail, but he's made a mark in business and science. Though his identity is confidential, she breaks the rules and drops everything to track him down. And when she finds him, living under an assumed name in Baja California, she is immediately obsessed. Like her, he is driven and brilliant, an innovator willing to do what it takes to perfect a new energy technology that will stop global warming. Here, at last, is her mirror, her ultimate collaborator, the possible answer to the enigma of her nature.

But in the wake of a mysterious death, Cate can't avoid suspecting him. If he is involved, do his ends justify his means? Ruthless herself, she's about to find out whether there are any moral lines she won't cross.