Meet the Sisters Behind My Sister’s TBR
We’re Rebecca and Stacey—sisters by birth, bookish besties by choice, and enthusiastic enablers of each other’s ever-growing TBRs.
We created My Sister’s TBR because some of our favorite conversations have always been the ones we have with each other: talking about what we’re reading, passionately defending fictional characters, dissecting endings, sharing new releases, and asking the most important literary question of all: But was the spice actually necessary?
Our tastes overlap just enough to keep things interesting—but differ enough that agreeing on a book is never guaranteed. One of us is happiest soaking up the sun with Nicholas Sparks. The other would prefer to be emotionally devastated by a centuries-old Fae warrior before heading off to play Dungeons & Dragons.
We’ll let you guess which is which.
Meet Rebecca
Rebecca is our resident sunset chaser, sunshine reader, and Nicholas Sparks enthusiast.
Her love of reading really took off in her twenties after discovering Colleen Hoover, and she has been making up for lost reading time ever since. Give her a warm day, a comfortable chair, and an emotional romance set in a picturesque small town, and she is perfectly content.
Her forever-favorite series is Harry Potter, but when she isn’t reading, you’ll probably find her rewatching Game of Thrones, tending to her farm in Stardew Valley, or stopping whatever she’s doing to admire a particularly beautiful sunset.
Rebecca likes romance, familiar worlds, fictional heartbreak, and her anxiety medication—as any sensible woman trying to survive both real life and our monthly reading schedule should.
She brings warmth, thoughtfulness, and a slightly more reasonable perspective to the podcast.
Usually.
Meet Stacey
Stacey has been escaping into books since she first discovered Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone—and she has never quite returned to the real world.
She is a fantasy-loving, dice-rolling Dungeons & Dragons gremlin who will happily explain the entire Maasverse to anyone willing to listen. Or anyone standing nearby. Consent to the lore dump is preferred but not strictly required.
While Rebecca enjoys her anxiety medication, Stacey is out here rawdogging life and hoping a natural 20 will carry her through.
She loves complicated fantasy worlds, deeply damaged characters, morally questionable decisions, and romances that require a glossary, a map, and approximately 700 pages of emotional suffering. When she isn’t reading, podcasting, or talking about Sarah J. Maas, she is probably planning a D&D campaign, creating an unnecessarily detailed fictional character, or acquiring another hobby instead of finishing the ones she already has.
Stacey brings the chaos, the tangents, and enough obscure book lore to turn every episode into a side quest.
Our Sister Dynamic
Rebecca is sunshine, sunsets, and emotional contemporary romance.
Stacey is moonlight, dice, and magical warfare.
Rebecca is more likely to fall for the dependable hometown love interest. Stacey is already defending the villain with the traumatic backstory.
One of us keeps the conversation grounded. The other has somehow connected the book we’re discussing to a completely unrelated fantasy series, a D&D character, and a piece of internet drama from six years ago.
But underneath all the teasing, disagreements, and wildly different interpretations, we genuinely love sharing stories with each other. Books have given us something to laugh over, cry over, debate, obsess about, and occasionally hold against one another for recommending.
That sisterly relationship is at the heart of My Sister’s TBR. The podcast isn’t a polished literary lecture—it’s the conversation you’d have with your bookish best friend after finishing a story and desperately needing to talk about it.
What You’ll Hear on the Podcast
Every month, we catch up on what we’re currently reading, share the upcoming releases threatening our bank accounts, and discuss the latest news from around the book world.
We also recap everything we’ve read, hand out our honest—and sometimes brutally different—ratings, and take a deeper look at our monthly Featured Read. Expect romance, fantasy, thrillers, adaptations, bookish news, questionable fictional crushes, occasional spoilers, and plenty of sisterly banter.
Some books leave us swooning. Some leave us sobbing. Others leave us wondering whether we read the same book at all.
Those are usually the most entertaining episodes.
How It All Started
After years of talking about books together, we finally decided to put microphones in front of us and launched My Sister’s TBR in January 2023.
Since then, we’ve earned our diplomas in Book Editing, interviewed authors, built a wonderfully bookish community, and even appeared on Nicholas Sparks’ Instagram—not once, but twice. Rebecca remains appropriately thrilled about this.
What began as two sisters chatting about their latest reads has become a space for readers who want recommendations, honest opinions, new-release excitement, and a little harmless literary chaos.
Pull Up a Chair—You’re One of Us Now
Whether you read 100 books a year or you’re still trying to finish the one you started three months ago, you’re welcome here.
Come for the recommendations. Stay for the sisterly chaos, passionate disagreements, fictional boyfriends, fantasy-world vacations, and the comforting knowledge that someone else’s TBR is just as out of control as yours.
Subscribe, listen to the latest episode, and follow us on Instagram and Facebook to tell us what you’re reading.
We can’t promise to make your TBR smaller.
Honestly, we’re probably going to make it worse.
Happy reading!
Rebecca & Stacey
Your bookish sisters at My Sister’s TBR
