Relaxing Reads

Relaxing Reads

The Breeze Network of radio stations bring you the Relaxing Reads podcast. The Breeze encourages you to make a little time for yourself by diving into a good book and then join the discussion with Deb, Simone and Tanya on our Relaxing Reads podcast! Each month we’ll introduce a new book we love whether it’s about self-love, empowerment of mindfulness or simply fun and whimsical. We want you to join the conversation to discuss your thoughts on these books with us! We’ll chat about the book during our monthly discussion and share the audio here.

Episodes

Relaxing Reads - Liane Moriarty “Here One Moment”

April 16, 2025 • 38 mins
Our latest podcast, hosts Simone, Tany and Deb discuss “Here One Moment” from Liane Moriarty. This novel takes us on a short flight from Hobart to Sydney, Australia. After a delay and everyone is seated on the jam-packed flight, one passenger catches the attention of everyone.It’s not the newlywed couple with the bride still in her wedding dress, the mom and her toddler son, the well-dressed man anxiously checking his watch or the ...
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Brooklyn Thomas Isn't Here - Author Q&A featuring Alli Vail

February 27, 2025 • 18 mins
In our latest podcast, hosts Simone, Tanya and Deb chat with the author of “Brooklyn Thomas Isn't Here” Alli Vail. Brooklyn's best friend is missing, her career is a disaster, she’s stuck living with her parents, and now her heart isn’t beating. With Alli, we discuss how women alter and shrink themselves to meet societal and familial expectations, and the serious price they pay for doing so. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy ...
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Alli Vail - Brooklyn Thomas Isn't Here

February 7, 2025 • 36 mins
Our latest podcast, hosts Simone, Tany and Deb discuss “Brooklyn Thomas Isn’t Here” a novel by Alli Vail. Her best friend is missing, her career is a disaster, she's stuck living with her parents, and now her heart isn't beating. Can Brooklyn Thomas confront her past to save her present? Brooklyn Thomas is pretty sure she’s mostly dead. She can’t feel her heart beat and she’s disappearing: her reflection keeps vanishing from mirror...
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Coming To Find You - Author Q&A featuring Jane Corry

January 22, 2025 • 21 mins
In our latest podcast, hosts Simone, Tanya and Deb interview Jane Corry the author of the gripping and emotional thriller, “Coming To Find You”.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jane Corry - Coming To Find You

January 7, 2025 • 22 mins
In our latest podcast, hosts Simone, Tanya and Deb discuss, “Coming To Find You” by Jane Corry. This is certainly a gripping and emotional thriller. When her family tragedy is splashed across the newspapers, Nancy decides to disappear. Her grandmother's beautiful Regency house in a quiet seaside village seems like the safest place to hide. But the old house has its own secrets and a chilling wartime legacy . Now someone knows the t...
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The Holiday Honeymoon Switch - Author Q&A featuring Julia McKay

December 18, 2024 • 18 mins
In our latest podcast, hosts Simone, Tanya and Deb chat with the author of The Holiday Honeymoon Switch Julia McKay / Marissa Stapley. We ask her our burning questions and plus Marissa shares some big news with us!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Julia McKay - The Holiday Honeymoon Switch

December 4, 2024 • 30 mins
In our latest podcast, hosts Simone, Tanya and Deb discuss The Holiday Honeymoon Switch from Julia McKay / Marissa Stapley. Trading places and vacations might just be the Christmas miracle these two best friends need. Holly Beech and Ivy Casey are bury-the-body besties.. When Holly’s fiancé jilts her, leaving her in shock and with a nonrefundable honeymoon, Holly convinces Ivy to switch places. Ivy will go on the Hawaiian honeymoon...
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Death by a Thousand Cuts - Author Q&A featuring Shashi Bhat

October 31, 2024 • 19 mins
In our latest podcast, hosts Simone, Tanya and Deb talk to the author of “Death by a Thousand Cuts” Shashi Bhat. She shares what inspired these stories and what's next for her. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Shashi Bhat - Death by a Thousand Cuts

October 16, 2024 • 20 mins
In our latest podcast, hosts Simone, Tanya and Deb discuss “Death by a Thousand Cuts” a collection of short stories, that comes from author Shashi Bhat. A writer discovers that her ex has published a novel about their breakup. An immunocompromised woman falls in love, only to have her body betray her. After her boyfriend makes an insensitive comment, a college student finds an experimental procedure that promises to turn her brown ...
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Carley Fortune - This Summer Will Be Different

September 18, 2024 • 29 mins
In our latest podcast, hosts Simone, Tanya and Deb discuss our latest read This Summer Will Be Different which comes from New York Times Best Selling author, Carley Fortune, and it’s as hot and steamy as our summer!!! Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn’t know he’s her best friend’s younger brother. Lucy and Felix’s...
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Colleen Hoover - It Ends with Us

August 1, 2024 • 31 mins
In our latest episode, hosts Simone, Tanya and Deb discuss "It Ends with Us" by Colleen Hoover. The novels takes us through Lily Bloom's emotional journey as she navigates relationships with Atlas, her childhood love, and Ryle, her husband who has shown abusive behavior. The story explores the complexities of Lily's connections, her inner turmoil, and her determination to break the cycle of abuse for her daughter's well-being. As s...
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What Wild Women Do - Author Q & A featuring Karma Brown

July 17, 2024 • 28 mins
In our latest episode, hosts Simone, Tanya and Deb chat with the author of What Wild Women Do - Karma Brown. She shares some great insight into the book, including what inspired it, and what she has in store for us next.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Karma Brown - What Wild Women Do

June 27, 2024 • 29 mins
In our latest podcast, hosts Simone, Tanya and Deb discuss What Wild Women Do from Karma Brown. The story about 1970s feminist, Eddie facing the costs of loss and autonomy strives to create a better future for women at her Adirondacks camp; the other woman, Rowan, an aspiring screenwriter of today, makes a shocking discovery that sets her on a course of rewriting her own story. It’s lives that interweave as two women in very differ...
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Author Interview with Sarah Bernstein - Study for Obedience

May 28, 2024 • 27 mins
Hosts Simone, Deb and Tanya chat with Sarah Bernstein about her book "Study For Obedience".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Sarah Bernstein - Study for Obedience

May 16, 2024 • 22 mins
In our latest episode, hosts Simone, Deb and Tanya discuss Study for Obedience from Sarah Bernstein.  This book tells the story of a young woman who moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. 

Soon after arriving, a series of inexplicable events occurs – deaths of cattle; the demise of a ewe and her lamb; a local dog's phantom ...
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Author Interview with Nita Prose - The Mystery Guest

April 30, 2024 • 19 mins
Hosts Simone, Deb and Tanya chat with the bestselling author of The Maid, Nita Prose about her latest book "The Mystery Guest". We chat about how she got the idea, the cast of characters and storyline, plus Nita shares some really big news with us!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Nita Prose - The Mystery Guest

April 3, 2024 • 26 mins
In our latest episode, hosts Simone, Deb and Tanya discuss a book from the bestselling author of The Maid, Nita Prose called The Mystery Guest. Molly Gray is not like anyone else. With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, she has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches a pinnacle state of perfection, her world is turned upside down ...
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Author Interview with Amy McCulloch - Midnight

March 15, 2024 • 28 mins
Hosts Simone, Deb and Tanya chat with the bestselling author of Breathless, Amy McCulloch about her latest book "Midnight”. In the previous Relaxing Reads episode they discussed the book "Midnight". It's another pulse-pounding thriller: a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Antarctica to camp beneath the midnight sun becomes a desperate battle for survival against a killer determined to follow their prey to the very ends of the earth. 
With ...
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Amy McCulloch - Midnight

February 29, 2024 • 21 mins
In our latest read, hosts Simone, Deb and Tanya discuss a book from the bestselling author of Breathless, Amy McCulloch "Midnight”. It's another pulse-pounding thriller: a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Antarctica to camp beneath the midnight sun becomes a desperate battle for survival against a killer determined to follow their prey to the very ends of the earth. 
With 24 hours of daylight, there is nowhere to hide.

Olivia has always dr...
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Keziah Weir - The Mythmakers

January 31, 2024 • 51 mins
Our latest read, The Mythmakers is Keziah Weir’s debut novel about a young journalist named Sal who discovers a short story by an older author she met years ago. The story she believes is about her and that moment she met the man, Martin. Her life is in shambles, with a relationship falling apart and a career that’s taking a nosedive…so why not leave it all behind in search of that manuscript. This leads to an entanglement with the...
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