Chaotic Readers
By: Connor Vallee & Jenna Burdett
Language: en-us
Categories: Arts, Books, Fiction, Comedy
Welcome to Chaotic Readers! Just two best friends who met working in the hell that can be retail and found out about our mutual love of reading. Each episode we talk about a different bookish topic, while enjoying refreshing ciders or sometimes just coffee (water for Connor). This is your spoiler warning, because we usually forget to give one where it might be necessarily. So if you're looking to listen to a couple friends hanging out talking anything and all things books (with some mild derailment in conversations), look no further! You can connect with us on Instagram @ChaoticReadersPodcast, and if...
Episodes
Chapter 17
Dec 15, 2025Send us a text
Welcome back! We’ve got our December episode ready for you, a little late but that’s fine! Things are getting a little crazy with the holidays.
This month we’re talking about hyped books! Over hyped, under hyped, appropriately hype. These are all our OWN opinions and if you think otherwise that is COMPLETELY valid and 100% okay! Sometimes, a book being overhyped isn’t even a bad thing.
if you follow us, reach out and let us know what you think about the hype of certain books. Do you have a...
Duration: 01:08:04Chapter 16
Nov 05, 2025Send us a text
Back for another episode! We deviated a lot in this episode and ended up talking about Monster the Ed Gein Story. Connor and me both finished the 3rd season of the Ryan Murphy series and just kind of dove into it after Connor mentioned wanting to read something about him - which if you have any recommendation, we’ll take them!
The book topic for this months episode was multiple editions of books, which we do get to.
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Chapter 15
Oct 01, 2025Send us a text
Happy October! It is officially spooky season! For those who don’t know October is National Book Month and National Literacy Month! It is literally the month for readers!
This month we talk about our bookish travel habits along with the typical deviation in book related topics.
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Chapter 14
Sep 03, 2025Send us a text
We’re back with another episode! We talk about our current reads, as always, and touch on our personal rating system. Breaking down what makes a 5 star and 4 star read for us. We also talk a little about our own writing.
I would like to note, that durning this episode I used the incorrect pronouns for Alyson Stoner who identifies with They/Them pronouns. I sincerely apologize, I had not done my part to ensure that I used the correct and preferred pronouns for them. It’s a simple thing to just...
Duration: 01:08:51Chapter 13 - We're BACK!
Aug 06, 2025Send us a text
No we didn't stop, we just took a really, really LONG break... for literally no reason. But we're back and we have a plan and schedule, with plans to release a new episode the first Wednesday of the month - just one episode for now.
Coming back we dive in with a review of the last couple years, combining our wrap-up because we missed it twice... oops.
Also lots of shark talk. And Jenna starts on her mild spiral about the Dyatlov Pass Incident - look it up its...
Duration: 01:03:54Chapter 12 ft. Author Elanor Miller, Part 2
Feb 23, 2024Send us a text
Here is it! Part 2 and the conclusion with our conversation with Elanor Miller, author of the series Flappers and False Gods. We can't thank Elanor enough for taking the out of her day to chat with us.
We encourage you checkout Flapper and False Gods yourself, you can find both book 1, Tenebrium, and book 2, Caligo, on Amazon and on Kindle Unlimited. Be sure to follow Elanor Miller on Instagram (@elanormiller) and TikTok (elanor.miller) for all the latest new about her upcoming projects. Sign up for her newsletter at elanormiller.com...
Chapter 12 ft. Author Elanor Miller, Part 1
Jan 27, 2024Send us a text
Welcome to another episode of Chaotic Reads! This is an incredibly special episode because we had the pleasure of chatting with author of Tenebrium and Caligo (the incredible sequel to Tenebrium, available on Amazon), Elanor Miller! We talk about her series, Flappers and False Gods, getting the origin story of Tenebrium and learning more about the character and Elanor's writing process. There's some off track conversation, but that's pretty normal for our podcast. We had a great time talking to Elanor, so much that this is actually part 1 of 2.
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Chapter 11
Dec 20, 2023Send us a text
Back for another episode of Chaotic readers! This is an obsessed author episode where we talk about meeting Pierce Brown and VE Schwab and talk about our love for Elanor Miller and the up coming sequel for Tenebrium (Caligo is out in January, be sure to check out Amazon for preorders!)
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Chapter 10
Oct 30, 2023Send us a text
We're BACK!
After a LONG break we're back! Just easing back into things, we're just catching up on what we've read since our last episode.
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Chapter 9
Jun 08, 2023Send us a text
As usual, we're going to kick off our episode with our April Reads (even though we're posting this in June...). This weeks we talk about things readers hate. Things like movie poster covers, and those stupid printed on stickers, and stickers in general. There's also some off topic ranting...a lot of off topic ranting, especially about journals...
Thanks for sticking with us as we figure this all out. We've been very inconsistent with our scheduling, but we're going to be going into an OFFICIAL break and when we come back, at...
Chapter 8
Apr 11, 2023Send us a text
Welcome back! On this weeks episode, Connor and I talk about alternative reading like comic and graphic novels, even fan fiction. We are firm believers of all forms of reading counting. We also talk about adaptations. If you want to join in, come follow our Instagram @ChaoticReadersPodcast and send us a message or leave us a comment! You can also join our FaceBook group!
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Chapter 7
Mar 14, 2023Send us a text
Welcome back! This weeks episode we dive into our bookish no no’s. Which is basically just things that bug us in the book community. We also have some positive things we like and our friend Becky is joining us again!
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Chapter 6
Feb 22, 2023Send us a text
Hello, hello! Welcome back, we're a little late but that's okay! This weeks episode we talk about Sarah J Maas and the fandom of ACOTAR. We can't be the only ones who are tired of the toxic environment that been created there. There ARE spoilers for any one of the books written by SJM, so here's your warning.
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Chapter 5 *Please read description for this episode before listening*
Jan 28, 2023Send us a text
On episode 6, we dive into our thoughts on I'm Glad my Mom Died by American Author, Jennette McCurdy. Before you take a listing to our thoughts, which we have a lot of them, know that there may be some triggering things brought up including eating disorders, mental, emotional & physical abuse, a narcissistic parent, and alcoholism. While we both rated this book 5 stars, we strongly recommend looking up any and all potential trigger warnings before reading or listening to this podcast. We want to thank Jennette for sharing her story and having...
Duration: 01:05:24Chapter 4
Jan 12, 2023Send us a text
Happy New Year everyone! This weeks episode we talk about our goals for 2023; reading goals, budgeting goals, goals relating to self-restraint. We talk about a few titles we're looking forward to reading in the next year and what authors we're dying to get some info from.
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Chapter 3
Dec 27, 2022Send us a text
Our last episode of the year! Excuse the audio, this is our first time including our out-of-state friend Becky, and we did NOT know how to make it smooth hahahaha. But we have a plan for next time!
On this end of the year episode, we talk about our reading challenges and our favorite reads. We also gush about our love for VE Schwab and talk about Stephanie Garber's Caraval series.
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Chapter 2
Dec 06, 2022Send us a text
This week we talk about our reading habits with a special guest, Connor's sister Olivia! Check out Olivia's Harley Quinn cosplay on Instagram @nj_harley_q
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Chapter 1
Nov 22, 2022Send us a text
Welcome back! Today we're talking about special editions, favorite book merch, and and our collections! Bonus, this is sort of Jenna's birthday episode since it's coming out the day before her birthday! Be sure to like and subscribe and throw Jenna a happy birthday over on Instagram either @ChaoticReadersPodcast or @JennaLeighsBookshelf.
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Prologue
Nov 08, 2022Send us a text
Welcome to the very first episode of our brand new podcast, Chaotic Readers! This first episode is just an extended intro, we're giving you a little about us and a little about our podcast. Also its our broad warning of potential spoilers at any given time, because we're probably going to forget to give warnings before we spoil things.
We've never done this before, one thing you MAY notice is us claiming the name is What Page Are You On, will give a little more info on...