Spoilers abound in this one, friends. If you want to enjoy this book, now is your chance to pause, check it out, and then give this a listen to see what this title is all about. We dive deeper into The City We Became, and cover a whole city's w...

Hello all, it's a new year and we are starting it strong with part 1 of a deep dive for The City We Became by N. K. Jemison.

 Hey Everyone, this is our yearly Top 5 Best and Worst books of the year. There are some disagreements in this one, but we don't think you'll be surprised on the winners. #yearend2024 #booktube #booktok #bookstagram #podcast #library #book...

No context, friend-os. No passport? No problem. We got you covered for today's 🎶Podcast Roadtrip🎶babes! The Ruffians share Christmas traditions from around the world, and even way back when in today's Christmas episode. Buckle in for some bleep...

Watch as Mallory takes one of her hard(ly) earned 5 star reads and talks herself down to a 2 (actually 3.5, because of the double epilogues). We were all kinda bummed about this one, because it definitely sounded like it would be funny. It was ...

Hey everyone we've got an exciting interview today with Timothy Huguenin where we talk about his Novella Unknowing I sink. The interview is excellent, and of course we go off the rails, but overall we had a great time talking with Timothy. Make...

 Hey everyone, we've got an episode all about sharks today as our curiosity this week. Also, we had some audio issues, so the first half of the episode sounds kinda rough. 

 Hello everyone, this week's episode is just a general book chat where we are chilling at the beach. Except for Mallory, she is shunned...jk, she just had to work.  

Hello everyone, today we are discussing Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, and it's no surprise that no one liked Zac's pick again. Also since he's a noob, he accidentally overwrote his own video with the output of the rendered video. We'll get...

Hello everyone, this is a special jokes only episode of the Reading Room Ruffians, we are branching out into video so hopefully this turns out well.

Today's episode is a deep dive into some West Virginia "true" ghost stories and a chat about our experiences and ghost stories. Also Zac's audio got deleted and he had to rerecord on vacation, so there is a decent amount of background noise. Oh...

We chat with author of The Patient (episode 14) Jasper DeWitt about some insight from The Patient, and we give him some fan feedback on a book he's working on - Sleep of Death! We've redacted spoilers with static. You're welcome. We had such a ...

Hello everyone, this episodes a doozy. We are discussing Ariel's deep dive pick Manhunt by  Gretchen Felker-Martin and it gets a bit intense. So sit back and strap in for a wild ride of an episode.

Sorry y'all, no pre show quote today, just straight into the hype music! We have ourselves a happy little book chat, Zac does some terrible French (again), and Ariel hates another book Zac suggested to her! And I quote, "Well, it's not as bad a...

We discuss Somebody Feed Phil, The Book, by Phil Rosenthal. Join in as we jump around the world in just over one hour, covering all 22 episodes of Season 1 of Somebody Feed Phil, the show! We suggest having food handy, because this one made us ...

Join us as Zac has Mallory levels of Words Are Hard-itis in this Curiosity episode on Hypnosis. 

Surprise episodes means you get your very own cold open from Mallory. You're welcome? We finish up our DCC episode dulogy with books 4-6. Enjoy from the safety of the safe zone, dear listeners. We'll be out there causing chaos with Carl. Don't ...

Strap in, Ruffians, we're going for a surprise 2 episode overview of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman. That's right, we didn't tell you about these before we recorded them! Who even are we?!

In this episode Zac falls deep into the nerd zone and discusses his book The Chip Wars by Chris Miller. He discusses how we developed chips and what they are used for. Please note this is about computer chips not the delicious salt...

We discuss The Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan in this episode. We only go off the rails like twice, but mainly because I cut the other 3 times out. You're welcome. This is a great discussion n evolution and how we maybe haven't learned all t...

A book chat where Ariel tells us a *whole* book (today's title is from that) twice, Mallory has a couple hot takes and cozy lil romcoms, and Zac makes up for missing our last book chat by talking about 58 books! Not really 58, but it is a lot.&...

In this episode Ariel and Mallory are talking about their curiosity, rocks...It's more interesting than it sounds we promise!

On this week's episode, we happy to welcome Sophia Brown, author of I'm Going To Be A Grandma. Make sure to check out her books and enjoy the interview. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201424100-i-m-going-to-be-a-grandma https://www.amazon....

Bleeping yourself is just as weird as typing this sentence was. Don't worry, there are only one, two, three - THREE bleeps. *ah ah ah* You better have read that in the correct voice. We deep dive into The Initial Insult by Mindy McGinnis. S...

In this episode we discuss Ariel's Non-fiction pick, The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean. Unfortunately this episode isn't as good as most of our others because Zac was sleeping during most of it's recording.