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The 2am Book Review Club

The 2am Book Review Club

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Welcome to the 2am Book Review Club! Do you stay up too late reading books? Do you love mysteries, thrillers, romance, historical fiction, fantasy, or literary fiction? Do you want weekly book recommendations and/or book breakdowns? Then you’ve found your new favorite book club! Join me each week as I discuss everything from the most-hyped new releases to books that nobody seems to have heard of as we explore the wide and wonderful world of books!
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Dive deep into the physiological realms of Marketing Perspective at 2am, Generate more Attention get better results in your Brand, Businesses & Art! Find me at https://kalamana.com Cover art photo provided by Hayden Hunt on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@haydenhunt
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It's After 2AM. When late night conversations turn into therapy sessions. Join Ammi, Michelle URL, and Chamelle on discussions involving life, relationships, love, and sex. Every Friday. @itsafter2am https://www.itsafter2am.com https://linktr.ee/itsafter2am QnA: after2amthoughts@gmail.com Inquiries: itsafter2am@gmail.com
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Bryce Huffman and Irving Thomas

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This podcast, hosted by Detroit natives Bryce Huffman and Irving Thomas, is a celebration of bad movies, b movies, low budget gems, box office bombs and whatever downright bizarre films cross our path. Let's talk about what we love about films that are more likely to win a Razzie than an Oscar.
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I picked up 5 random books at the library, and today we're finding out if I can predict which will be my most favorite, which will be my least favorite, and which ones will end up somewhere in between! The 5 books are: Piranesi, The Essex Serpent, The Devil and the Dark Water, and two classic mysteries by the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie. Whic…
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I finally read the best-selling octopus book, Remarkably Bright Creatures! Why is this debut novel a New York Times bestselling smash success? Is it worth the hype? And most importantly: what did I think of the octopus? Find out in this week's episode! The 2am Book Review Club Youtube channelThe 2am Book Review Club による
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I finally read the sequel to Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands! Was it everything I was hoping the sequel would be? How does it hold up to the first book? And what does a cozy fantasy sequel look like anyway? Find out in this week's episode! The 2am Book Review Club Youtube channel…
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I finally read The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow! Alternate history, fairytale-infused witchy fantasy, and sisters taking on the world: this book is everything that I love! ...Or is it? Find out in this week's episode! Apologies if it sounds like I have cold--pollen allergies are no joke. The 2am Book Review Club Youtube channel…
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I read 18 books in March, ranging from fantasy to mysteries to romance, and I'm here to talk about them! Which did I love? Which disappointed me? And which book is the one that changed my life?? Find out in this episode! The 2am Book Review Club Youtube channelThe 2am Book Review Club による
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Join me during the month of March as we read as many mystery books as we can!! Reading challenge link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/1c2daf45-bc27-4e55-88ce-25d3d9df5f09. I spent the final week of Mystery Marathon March reading 3 more mysteries: The Marlow Murder Club, We Were Liars, and Black Rabbit Hall. What do I think of thes…
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Join me during the month of March as we read as many mystery books as we can!! Reading challenge link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/1c2daf45-bc27-4e55-88ce-25d3d9df5f09. I spent Week 3 of Mystery Marathon March reading just 2 mysteries: Everyone on This Train is a Suspect and All the Sinners Bleed. What do I think of these popul…
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Join me during the month of March as we read as many mystery books as we can!! Reading challenge link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/1c2daf45-bc27-4e55-88ce-25d3d9df5f09. I spent Week 2 of Mystery Marathon March again reading 3 mysteries: The Writing Retreat, The Violin Conspiracy, and Just the Nicest Couple. What do I think of t…
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Join me during the month of March as we read as many mystery books as we can!! Reading challenge link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/1c2daf45-bc27-4e55-88ce-25d3d9df5f09. I kicked off Mystery Marathon March with 3 mystery books: Good Bad Girl, A Most Agreeable Murder, and Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone. What do I think …
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Join me during the month of March as we read as many mystery books as we can!! Reading challenge link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/1c2daf45-bc27-4e55-88ce-25d3d9df5f09. Want some mystery recommendations? Listen to the episode, where I talk about ten of my favorite mystery books from 2023! I hope you'll choose to join my reading…
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Let's celebrate the month of all things romance related with a romance novel mini-series!! This week we're talking about Recipe for Persuasion, a Jane Austen-inspired romance centered around a Food Network reality show. Why was this such an emotional book? What was so surprising about it? And (asking the real questions here): Did I like the second-…
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Let's celebrate the month of all things romance related with a romance novel mini-series!! This week we're talking about The Mozart Code, a Cold War Vienna spy story featuring a marriage of convenience. What do I think of the spy stuff? Was it... a little TOO historical? And (asking the real questions here): Did I like the romance??? Let's find out…
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Let's celebrate the month of all things romance related with a romance novel mini-series!! We're continuing with The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels, a romantic, bonkers light fantasy set in an alternate Victorian England. Is it fantastical? Just how bonkers are we talking?? And (asking the real questions here): Did I like the romance??? Let's …
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Let's celebrate the month of all things romance related with a romance novel mini-series!! We're kicking things off with The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, a witchy cozy fantasy romance. Is it cozy? Is it fantastical? And (asking the real questions here): Did I like the romance??? Let's find out! The 2am Book Review Club Youtube channel…
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Guess what great British author turned out to secretly also be a great detective?? That's right, this week's holiday book club pick features beloved author Jane Austen solving a holiday-themed whodunit! Guide to throwing your own Jane Austen Christmas party (caution advised)! The 2am Book Review Club Youtube channel…
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What do you get when you put together a (hot) hitman who loves Christmas and his grouchy, grinchy (hot) neighbor who can't stand Christmas? You get this week's holiday book club pick, How the Hitman Stole Christmas! The 2am Book Review Club Youtube channelThe 2am Book Review Club による
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This week, we're wrapping our Reading Around the World mini-series with our Nigeria pick, A Spell of Good Things! Featuring compelling characters, interesting conversations about modern-day Nigeria, and memorable writing, this Booker Prize longlisted book is a win in my book! Be sure to check out The 2am Book Review Club Youtube channel here.…
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This week, we're continuing our Reading Around the World mini-series with our Cuba pick, Next Year in Havana! Featuring complex political commentary, morally gray characters, and a (disastrously executed) romance, this sweeping historical epic gives us lots to discuss. Note: I state that this is the author's debut novel, which is not true, but I be…
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This week, we're launching our reading around the world deep dives with Elena Ferrante's classic, My Brilliant Friend!! With subtle (and not so subtle) social commentary, a cast of colorful characters, and (of course) the complex friendship that's the heart of the book, My Brilliant Friend certainly gives us plenty to talk about (just look at this …
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This week, we're launching November's Reading Around the World mini-series!! We're kicking it off with an overview episode, where I talk about most of the books I read for this challenge. The remaining 3 books will be the focus of deep dive episodes, which will be releasing throughout the month! Want to participate in the StoryGraph Reads the World…
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This week, we're talking about the horror-mystery-thriller-whatever you classify it as, Night Film! Featuring: us trying to figure out what the heck the ending means! Apologies for extraneous background noise/uneven audio, but we were so excited to record this episode and we hope that you'll be excited to listen anyway!…
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This week, we're talking about one of the spookiest books ever written, Shirley Jackson's classic, We Have Always Lived in the Castle! Featuring: some truly out-there theories about what this book really means. Apologies for extraneous background noise/uneven audio, but we were so excited to record this episode and we hope that you'll be excited to…
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This week, we're launching the Spooky Book Support Club, a mini-series that will be running all spooky season long where we read spooky books and talk about them! Which books were spooky? Which ones were not? And which 3 do we think are the perfect Halloween reads?? Listen to this week's episode to find out!!…
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This week, we're diving a little deeper into the 16 books I read for the StoryGraph genre challenge with a battle of the biographies between Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane and All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson. Which is the better biography?? Let's find out! And hopefully, I'll inspire you to do this reading challenge as wel…
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This week, we're kicking off the StoryGraph Genre Challenge mini-series! I completed this reading challenge by reading 16 books, and this week I'm excited to talk about the prompts and the 16 books I read for them. And hopefully, I'll inspire you to do this reading challenge as well! The 2am book review club is on Youtube! Check out the channel her…
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What a crazy season for Bryce, Irving, JG and every guest who came on the show to talk about movies! Bryce and Irving had to actually record the finale episode twice because JG's studio was broken into and all his equipment was stolen. But fear not, the Movie Mafia and others have been donating to help him recoup what he lost. For this finale, Bryc…
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This week, we're launching a mini-series on books that have been popular this year! And we're starting off strong with Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, which (spoiler alert!) was absolutely worth the hype. Featuring: discussions of unlikeable female characters, romantic subplots, and a Sherlock Holmes tangent for some reason. In other words,…
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Season 2 is almost done, but Bryce, Krissy and JG had to talk about this undeniable classic of Black cinema, 1991's The Five Heartbeats! The music drama follows a fictional Motown era vocal group as they traverse through the additions and egos that broke up many of the real groups of that time period. Robert Townsend, who already got brought up dur…
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What happens when a young womanizer is beat at his own game by a woman who is also his boss? Well he gets to live happily ever after with another woman who he, for some reason, cheats on. That's part of why Bryce and his sister Krissy talked about the 1992 comedy Boomerang this week. Eddie Murphy, Robin Givens and Halle Berry star in this rom-com t…
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Bryce and his homie Arrielle "AR" Mock watched the 2002 Jamaican crime thriller Shottas this week. Even though they couldn't understand most of the dialogue without subtitles, they had fun watching a bunch of reggae and dancehall artists try their hardest to act like street-smart criminals. Check this hood gem and see if you can decipher Jamaican P…
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This week we're finally wrapping our first ever bad thrillers mini-series!! And we're going out with Hidden by Fern Michaels, the worst reading experience I have had this year. Plot? 439 pages of filler. Thrills? None to be found. Characters??? Well. We definitely have a lot to discuss. Featuring: an overview of the reading experience, with many qu…
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The hiatus is over! Bryce is back in the studio, this time with one of his best friends, Asher. The two talk about the best Rudy Ray Moore fan-fic of all time, the 2009 Blaxploitation comedy Black Dynamite, Michael Jai White stars as the prototypical badass brotha from the 70's who bands together with every Blaxploitation trope possible to fight "T…
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We're continuing our mini-series on bad thrillers with The Maidens, where we get to learn why it's not actually your fault if you have childhood trauma and end up becoming a serial killer. We also get to meet creepy college professors, examine a serious case of men writing women, and learn how to disguise your pointless, boring mystery/thriller as …
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This week, we're launching a mini-series on bad thrillers! Kicking off the mini-series, we have a murderous drug-trafficking gang, a picture-perfect all-American family, and an ordinary dad who just happens to be Captain America in disguise. Hold onto your seats, cause this ride gets crazy as we break down the stupidest thriller plot I've read so f…
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This week, we're wrapping up our World War 2 Paris books mini-series with the gorgeous historical fiction book based on a true story, The Postmistress of Paris! Why is this book so beautiful and lyrical and heart-breaking?? Why is it my favorite book in this mini-series?? And why is it my favorite out of the 13 historical fiction books I've read so…
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What if I told you Nas and DMX starred in a really long music video directed by the one and only Hype Williams that took every troped of late 90's East Coast Rap music and somehow it got released as if it were actually a movie with a story and a plot? Well that's exactly what 1998's Belly feels like. And despite all of its flaws, Belly is undeniabl…
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This week we're continuing our mini-series on World War 2 books set in Paris! This week's book is The Paris Orphan, a historical fiction book featuring, you guessed, a French orphan. Why is this book both informative but also infuriating? Which true story is this book based on? And what kind of a soap-opera mess is the ending?? Find out in this wee…
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You ever turn to BET when you're channel surfing and notice that the station is playing the movie Baby Boy...again? Well that's because it is a classic of Black cinema. Of course, this movie isn't perfect, but in 2001 the late great John Singleton gave us a highly quotable movie starring Tyrese, Taraji P. Henson, Ving Rhames and Snoop Dogg. Bryce a…
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This week we're launching a mini-series about World War 2 books set in Paris! Our first book in this mini-series is The Paris Architect, a slow-burn WW2 thriller featuring, you guessed it, an architect who lives in Paris. How does this book explore the setting? What kind of architecture is an architect going to build in the midst of a war? And why …
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What if the comedy classic Airplane was remade as a minstrel show starring a not-yet-famous Kevin Hart, Method Man and Snoop Dogg? Well that's basically what the 2004 comedy Soul Plane is, a minstrel show from start to finish. Bryce and Sydni talk about the problematic yet somehow still funny flick and why it could never be released today. Check ou…
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This week, we're once again talking about recreating real women! But this time, we're asking the question, when does historical fiction become fictionalized history? We'll be conducting our discussion via The Only Woman in the Room, a book about the incredible life of a Hollywood legend, Hedy Lamarr. How can we, as readers, responsibly consume hist…
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It might be hard to imagine now, but back in 2003, many of us never expected a Black man to become the President of the United States. Luckily Chris Rock decided to make his directorial debut with the film Head of State where a Black Washington DC alderman runs for president. Bryce and Sydni talk about the hilarious ways this movie depicts American…
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Family road trips can be stressful, especially if you're taking your estranged wife and your your three kids on a multi-day trek to a family reunion. Bryce and Irving took a road trip back to 2004 to visit the critically panned comedy Johnson Family Vacation. Cedric the Entertainer stars alongside Vanessa Williams, Bow Wow, Solange, and Steve Harve…
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Some dudes will do anything to get laid. Even if it means risking their lives and their nether regions, oddly enough, to do so. This week Bryce and Irving rewatched 1997's Booty Call, a comedy where Jaimie Foxx and Tommy Davidson play two men desperate for sex. Vivica Fox and Tamala Jones (sorry for calling you the wrong name in the episode) play t…
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