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In honor of back to school season, we're taking a look at traditional required reading in schools and deciding if those picks get a Pass or a Fail.

• The Highest Paid Podcasters of 2026
• Our list of books mentioned on Bookshop.org (this isn't just to get your money. It's so you're not spoiled in the show notes)
• The Invisible Man movie
• Young Frankenstein movie
• Society of the Snow movie
• Erin's Common Ground Pilgrimage trip for Hamnet happening in June 2027 is now open for registrations
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The first in our series: Author Deep Dives. In this episode, we unpack the meteoric rise of young millennial romance book icon, Emily Henry.

We answer all the questions: What are our own experiences with her writing? Where did she come from? What's the scouting report on her books?

And then we enter into the debates: Is she a mirror or an engine? Could her books be written by someone else? Who's on her corner? What is her VORA Score in terms of craft, conversion, degree of difficulty, and personality? We wrap it up with how will we consider her in 2046.

• Erin's Common Ground Pilgrimage trip for Hamnet happening in June 2027 is now open for registrations
• Emily Henry's Books on Bookshop.org
• Emily Henry on Instagram
• People We Meet on Vacation on Netflix
• What Up With That? SNL sketch
• Chuck Lorre
• Carrie Underwood's fall
• Ali Hazelwood
• BK Borison
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This is Footnotes. In these episodes, we scan the reading world for recent stories, trends, and news to chat about. We pick timely topics for the three of us, and you, to discuss.

• The Odyssey reviews
• ‘Children of Blood and Bone’ Author Tomi Adeyemi “Will Not Watch” Film Version: “Officially Separating My Name”
• Sense and Sensibility movie trailer
• Erin's Common Ground Pilgrimage trip for Hamnet happening in June 2027 is now open for registrations.
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