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Ep 643 - Holes, by Louis Sachar

Holes! We all need 'em, we all love 'em. This is a book where a boy is sentenced to dig a bunch...

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• 5 días

Ep 642 - Last Night at the Telegraph Club, by Malinda Lo

Lo's award-winning novel seeks to shine a light on marginalized experiences from mid-century San...

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• 12 días

Ep 641 - War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy?

Every week, one of our hosts reads a book and tells the other person (and you, the audience)...

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• 19 días

Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episodes 3 & 4 (Books 5-9)

For our latest show-within-a-show, we'll revisit Ancient Greece through Emily Wilson's new...

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• 21 días

Ep 640 - Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk

The first rule of podcasting is DON'T TALK ABOUT PODCASTING. The second rule of podcasting is...

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• 26 días

Ep 639 - There There, by Tommy Orange

There There sets itself apart by being a book by and about indigenous Americans in an explicitly...

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• 1 mes

Ep 638 - The Mystery at Lilac Inn (Nancy Drew #4), by Carolyn Keene

This bonus episode was recorded on LEAP DAY! So we leapt into The Mystery at Lilac Inn with our...

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• 1 mes

Ep 637 - The Trumpet of the Swan, by E.B. White

The third and final of White's whimsical children's books about animals, The Trumpet of the Swan...

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• 1 mes

Ep 636 - The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis

Modern readers often experience C.S. Lewis as "the Narnia guy," but he's also one of the 20th...

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• 2 meses

Ep 635 - Jazz, by Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison’s second novel in her beloved Beloved trilogy, Jazz introduces the reader to a trio...

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• 2 meses

Ep 634 - The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #3), by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson returns for another road trip across a mythological United States. Plenty of new...

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• 2 meses

Ep 633 - Network Effect (Murderbot Diaries #5), by Martha Wells

Our month of sequels continues with the first full-length novel in Martha Wells' Murderbot...

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• 2 meses

Ep 632 - Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #2), by Tamsyn Muir

To kick off a month of sequel coverage, we get bone deep in the Locked Tomb follow up Harrow the...

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• 2 meses

Ep 631 - The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die, by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

An early-90s Bengali novel that was translated into English relatively recently, The Aunt Who...

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• 3 meses

Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episodes 1 & 2 (Books 1-4)

For our latest show-within-a-show, we'll revisit Ancient Greece through Emily Wilson's new...

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• 3 meses

Ep 630 - Nothing to See Here, by Kevin Wilson

Move along, everyone. Nothing to see here. No women navigating adult friendships and their...

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• 3 meses

Ep 629 - The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen (Bonus Episode)

Time to celebrate winter with a chilly fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Also we're talking...

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• 3 meses

Ep 628 - The Witch Elm, by Tana French

The Witch Elm has Dublin, and it has murder, and it has a squad of detectives, but despite all...

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• 3 meses

Ep 627 - Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence

Banned in many countries until the 1960s, David Herbert Lawrence's 1928 novel is both racier and...

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• 3 meses

Ep 626 - The House at Pooh Corner, by A.A. Milne

Happy 2024, and happy Public Domain day! Time finally caught up to US copyright law a few years...

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• 4 meses