Season 1

Welcome to the Page 1 Challenge, a fun little podcast game for book lovers. Here’s how we play: without knowing the title, author or even genre of a book, can hearing Page 1 be captivating enough to make you want to read the...

Remember when your mother was making spaghetti sauce and she gave you a spoonful to taste? That’s sort of what we do here on The Page 1 Challenge . We give you just a taste of a book – just the first page. Is the first pag...

Imagine a world where people choose to read a book without first knowing the title or the author. Does such a world exist? Yes! This is The Page 1 Challenge , where we find out if only hearing a book’s first page is enough to...

Don’t judge a book by its cover. That’s good advice. But we take it a step further. We don’t even judge a book by the title or author. We judge it by listening to the first page! This is The Page 1 Challenge! Can page 1 e...

Welcome to the Page 1 Challenge, a fun little game for book lovers. Here’s how we play: without knowing the title, author or even genre of a book, can hearing Page 1 be captivating enough to make you want to read it? That’s...

THIS is The Page 1 Challenge , the podcast where we DON’T judge a book by its cover, or even by the author or the title! We judge it by reading the first page, and only the first page. Is that fair? Oh, heck no. But it is ...

Judging a book by its cover is considered to be superficial and unsophisticated. Judging a book by its first page is considered to be the whole point of this podcast called The Page 1 Challenge . Before telling you the title...

Fellow cave people, choosing new book to read doesn’t HAVE to involve knowing title or author or seeing the cave art. We just invented fire! And by 'fire' I mean listening to the first page of the book to see if we find it ...

Welcome to The Page 1 Challenge . If you’ve listened to this podcast before you know that this is usually where I give a whimsical intro about how the podcast works. Today I’m just going to say that this particular Page 1 ma...

[ SPOILERS - DON'T READ UNTIL YOU LISTEN TO THE EPISODE!! ] . . . . This episode of The Page 1 Challenge features the book " Deadly Declarations " by Landis Wade, published by Lystra Books in 2022. Landis’ website is: https:...