Belles With Books #49: Ground Control To Bianca

Happy Birthday, Bianca! The tradition continues for birthday months on the podcast: the birthday girl chooses the book! Go to space (or stay on your couch with a snack) with us as we discuss Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Below are the books mentioned this episode, as well as the three articles we mentioned: 

 

https://publishers.org/news/publishers-and-authors-file-class-action-lawsuit-against-meta-and-zuckerberg-for-willful-copyright-infringement-to-develop-llama-ai-models/

 

wh.gov/read

 

https://bookriot.com/most-read-books-on-goodreads-in-2026-so-far/ 

 

Books Mentioned: 

Space Man of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

 

Bianca’s Five Star Reads: The Will of the Many by James Islington, Project Hail May by Andy Weird, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen by Shea Ernshaw, and Scythe by Neil Shusterman

 

Mirandia’s Five Star Reads: Long Live the Pumpkin Queen, Long Love the Pumpkin Queen Graphic Novel by Liz Marsham, Breaking Without Sound by Draeko Campbell, A Parade of Horribles by Matt Diniman, The Mr. Ballin’s Presents Strange Dark and Mysterious by Mr. Ballin, and Chasing Space by Leland Melvin

 

Bianca’s Lowest Rated: With A Vengeance by Riley Sager

 

Mirandia’s Lowest Rated: Woman Down by Colleen Hoover

 

Mirandia’s Acquisitions: The Ink Slinger by Martina Sneed, Dark Sisters by Kristi DeMeester, and Three Times Removed by M.K. Jones

 

Mirandia’s Recent Reads: Atmosphere by TJR and Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl #8)

 

Bianca’s Acquisitions: The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke, The Library of Amorlin by Kalyn Josephson, The Once and Future Queen by Paula Lafferty, Antique by Seth Panitch, and Catherine by Essie Fox

 

Bianca’s Reads: City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare, Vengeful by V.E. Schwab, and And Now, Back to You by B. K. Borison.