What is Hardcover Hooligans?

I’m glad you asked!

**Do you know what a podcast is? **If you answered “two straight white guys letting the world know their opinions”, then you’d be right!

My name is Mc (pronounced Mac, full first name McIntyre, pronounced Mack In Tire). Every other week, Danylo (pronounced Dan Ill (like sick) Oh! (like surprise)) and I read and talk about a book.

Most of the time, they are bad. Or rather, we think they are bad. Lately, you can hear us dive into the romantasy genre with A Court of Mist and Fury and Iron Flame. Well, the first two hundred pages of Iron Flame.

**I tried reading it. I really, really did. **But I came away feeling like my brain was melting out of my ears, and my eyes were melting out of my ears.

I then decided to join in the audiobook craze and listen to Iron Flame. And found that maybe audiobooks aren’t exactly for me. Which is a shame, because when I was a kid I used to beg my mom to play the Geronimo Stilton audiobook where he goes to a pyramid of cheese or something. I’d play it over and over and over again because I thought that little mouse bastard was so funny.

But now, in my old age (almost 26), I find my brain sort of skipping most of the book, and just hanging on to whatever I think might be important. Which SUCKS!

Maybe it's because now it's all on my phone, and not in my mom’s black-on-black 2006 Subaru Forester. Maybe it's because it's a digital download, and not an actual tape received through the McDonald’s drive-through (thru).

I used to work at Barnes and Noble, and I would see the audiobook aisle still with its cassette tapes and CDs. I like to imagine I could be the kind of person to put an audio book into a radio with a CD player, and sit while a fireplace rages in front me.

But I know deep down that it would just put me to sleep, and the fire would escape the confines of its place, and burn down my house and kill me. *Maybe that wouldn’t be so bad. *

Anyway, this is our blog. And it’s the first one I ever wrote! What fun!

As I sit in my little office and white google doc light screams into my face, I think this is what it must feel like to shout into the vacuum of space.

Maybe nobody will read it. *Maybe this is the last thing I ever write before nuclear fire drowns the world. *

If it is, thanks for reading. If it isn’t, then hey, maybe listen to the show!

We read good books too. Sometimes.