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Aphrodite Wants To Be Part of the Plot Too: Betrayed Chapter 9
Chapter 9 Having just learned that Aphrodite is having a vision of Zoey’s grandmother dying, Zoey demands to know what’s going on. [Ariel says: Lady be getting old, is all.] During her vision,...
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Imagine a World Without Netflix: Beautiful Disaster Epilogue
Given Trabby has been in a, er, “stable” relationship for more than five minutes, it’s time for them to get married. This would be like if you started jogging around your neighborhood once a week and...
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Travis Works For The FBI, Obviously: Walking Disaster Epilogue
It’s a big day, readers! Today we finish our parallel reading of Jamie McGuire’s college romance novels that Ariel and I have been referring to as “The Disasters”. Ariel finished Beautiful Disaster...
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Sexy Time and Squirrels: Cosmo Red-Hot Read May 2014
Last night I took a cat to the vet to have a tick removed from its neck, and that experience was less painful than this story. Matthew says: Incidentally, this month’s Red Hot Read has also reminded me...
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Matthew Watches The Room #11: Two Characters We’ve Never Seen Before Have...
In case you wondered if Tommy Wiseau adding three separate Claudette subplots in the last scene that don’t actually have anything to do with the plot was going to be a regular kind of thing, the next...
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Zoey and Her Pals Decide to Make a Bomb Threat: Betrayed Chapter 10
I usually write the little “what happened last week in too-many-plotsville” thing from memory at the beginning of each post, but this time I had to suffer re-reading the end of chapter nine because I...
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Zoey Goes To Starbucks: Betrayed Chapter 11
Yeah, you read that title right. Get ready for some goddamn excitement. [Ariel says: I can't get over the contrast between our titles from this week. We go from bomb threats to Starbucks no big deal.]...
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Dinosaurs BEFORE Dark? That’s Just Madness: Magic Tree House #1 Chapters 1-3
If you’re anything like Matt and me, sometimes as much as we love mocking books like Fifty Shades or Beautiful/Walking Disaster, we need a bit of a palate cleanser before starting the next truly awful...
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There Are DINOSAURS All Up In This Bitch!: Magic Tree House #1 Chapters 4-5
I hope everyone’s enjoying our reading of Magic Tree House so far! Ariel and I have been talking about revisiting more series we enjoyed when we were kids, like our annual Goosebumps reading, because...
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Matthew Watches The Room #12: Denny Owes A Drug Dealer Money, Apparently
Much like how the previous scene began with two never-before-seen characters with an unexplained relationship to the plot, this week’s scene also begins with a never-before-seen character with a...
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The Epic Love Story of Heath and Zoey (JKLOL): Betrayed Chapter 12
Seriously, I don’t know why I can never remember what happened in Betrayed last week. I must be disassociating while I write these posts or something. Anyway, Zoey was interrogated by Lame Cop 1 and...
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Zoey Can’t Keep It In Her Pants: Betrayed Chapter 13
Previously in House of Night, Zoey is cheating on her boyfriend with a second guy. I’m genuinely confused how we’re supposed to find her to be a likeable main character. [Ariel says: I think we're...
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A Tyrannosaurus Predictably Shows Up to Cause Trouble: Magic Tree House #1...
Previously, in Dinosaurs Before Dark, Jack finds a mysterious medallion and determines that someone else has been to prehistoric times just like he and Annie have. [Matthew says: Also, dinosaurs.]...
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God Damn DINOSAURS, That’s What’s Going On!: Magic Tree House #1 Chapters 8-10
Hopefully you enjoyed our reading of Magic Tree House, because we finish it today! [Ariel says: I keep forgetting this book is only like three pages. Whoops!] I’m pretty sure our summary of this book...
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The Twist of Jack Twist: Betrayed Chapter 14
Previously, Zoey drank some of Heath’s blood, rubbed his erection over his pants and then returned to school to make a bomb threat. Man, vampyre high school is so cray. We’re really not doing our part...
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Zoey’s Got 99 Problems, But A Plot Ain’t One: Betrayed Chapter 15
Yes, it’s another post where Zoey just reminds the reader what’s going on in her love life, as though there was an actual plot that might distract us from this. [Ariel says: Plots are sooo last year.]...
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Covering Up Murder is an Underrated Way to Spend an Affordable Evening With...
For those of you that have defied the odds and actually looked forward to BBGT (or at least half of BBGT) doing Entwined With You, your time has finally come. [Matthew says: But I'm still going to be...
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1740 Shades of Grey: Pamela Part 1
While Ariel’s reading Entwined with You (a recently released novel about a woman and the rich, powerful, and incredibly controlling man who falls in love with her [Ariel says: My thighs are already...
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The Terrible Twos: It’s Almost Time For Our Annual Ask Us Anything!
Hey, readers! Have you ever asked yourself, “Wow, how long have I been reading Bad Books, Good Times for?” Because as of the 20th, the highest answer you have for that will be two years. This means...
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Matthew Watches The Room 13: Lisa Misses Mark, Mark Doesn’t Know Why
We have a short, transitional scene in The Room this week. Lisa calls Mark, who makes this face for the entire scene. It is a riveting scene. The conversation does not get off to a great start, but not...
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