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Book Club with Julia and Victoria

Book Club with Julia and Victoria

Julia Clausen and Victoria Bruick

Welcome to Book Club With Julia and Victoria, the podcast for book friends!

If you just finished a book and HAVE to talk about it with someone, if you’re a casual reader looking for book recs, or if you’re the type of deep thinker who has formative memories of their high school English teacher, you’re in the right place.

We believe a good book can come from anywhere, so we read classics and recent releases, bestsellers and little-known gems. But ultimately, this podcast is for the books we just can’t shut up about.

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Book Club with Julia and Victoria - 068 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

068 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

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06/16/21 • 57 min

Julia and Victoria are joined by their friend Andy Park to discuss Pachinko by Min Jin Lee and his family’s experiences as Korean American immigrants. Julia makes several K-Pop references.

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Mentioned in the Episode:

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

Interview with Min Jin Lee on Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books podcast

Escaping North Korea by Mike Kim

Fred Armisen learns he’s a quarter Korean

John Oliver AAPI episode

Parts Unknown with Anthony Bordain S2: EP1

Asian Boss youtube channel

Concept of “Han”

Recommendations:

Pachinko miniseries

The Imperial Cruise by James Bradley

Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante

Mr. Sunshine on Netflix

White Paper Project

Minari 2020 film

Currently Obsessed:

Inside by Bo Burnham

The Mitchells Vs. The Machines on Netflix

TXT album Freeze

Agatha Christie novels

Arlo Parks album Collapsed in Sunbeams

Arlo Parks episode on Song Exploder podcast

One-Punch Man anime

Kim’s Convenience on Netflix

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Book Club with Julia and Victoria - 032 Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

032 Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

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05/17/20 • 55 min

Marjane Satrapi prefers to call her seminal work Persepolis (about her life growing up in Iran in the 1980s) a Comic Book rather than a Graphic Novel, as we hoity toity Americans like to describe our more “serious” books, which is a perfect example of how Satrapi is always determined to buck the status quo. During a period of political upheaval and war in her country, Satrapi read comic books about Karl Marx, and listened to Iron Maiden, and stood up for her beliefs at political rallies or at school. She’s so punk, it’s incredible. So dive into Persepolis with us to learn more about the history of Persia and to spend some time with a young Marjane, the heroine the world desperately needs.

Mentioned in the Episode:

Free online classes with Harvard

Persepolis Film adaptation

Chicken With Plums film by Satrapi

The Voices film by Satrapi

Radioactive film by Satrapi

History of Iran/Persia

Prince of Persia game

Iron Maiden

Kim Wilde

Action Philosophers! Comic Book

Diary of Anne Frank

US Support for Iraq in Iran/Iraq war

Gulf War

Recommendations:

Persepolis book 2

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

Lois Lowry’s books: The Giver series, The Willoughbys

Embroideries by Satrapi

Craig Thompson graphic novels:

Quarantine Recommendations:

La Casa de Papel on Netflix

Harry Potter at Home (people reading Harry Potter)

Cleaning Your Closet with Mari Kondo

Legos

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Book Club with Julia and Victoria - 042 Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi

042 Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi

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08/29/20 • 48 min

Julia and Victoria return once again to the story of Marjane Satrapi in Persepolis 2 as young Marji navigates the perils of living on her own in a foreign country, particularly one where her race and heritage are viewed as a political statement, and the difficulty of deciding the direction of her future adult life. Satrapi’s story blows open our culture’s generalizations about “The Middle East” with nuance and humor and heartbreak. This book also makes it abundantly clear that no one will ever be as cool as Satrapi - absolutely no competition.

Stuff we talked about:

Persepolis 1 and Book Club Episode 32

ALA Most Challenged Books of 2014

What to read next:

Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi

March by John Lewis

Life Recs:

Palm Springs 2020 film

Unorthodox miniseries on Netflix

Glass Animals new album Dreamland

Amine new album Limbo

Max Richter new album Voices

Hunter x Hunter anime on Netflix

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Book Club with Julia and Victoria - 103 This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
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10/22/22 • -1 min

Lord Byron’s Letters of the Future

Julia and Victoria needed to scream about how much they loved crying over the romantic, angsty sci-fi novella This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, so now it is an episode.

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Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge

Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge

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Mentioned in this Episode:

Wingspan Board Game

The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone

The bird meme from Amal’s Twitter: (original comic by @FalseKnees

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Doctor Who

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

“Blue-da-ba-dee” by Eiffel 65

Recommendations:

Good Omens by Neil Gaimen and Terry Pratchett

Julia’s “Becoming Blue” playlist

Travel Light by Naomi Mitcheson

Currently Obsessed:

League of Their Own on Amazon Prime

Hold the Girl by Rina Sawayama

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Book Club with Julia and Victoria - 001 Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

001 Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

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07/12/19 • 53 min

Welcome to Book Club! The Earth is a Libra, God is a woman, Aziraphale and Crowley are in love, and the world is ending. What a time to be alive! Go read the book and watch the Amazon series and then come back for a chat with us about this quirky tale.

Random tidbits mentioned in this episode:

Ansafone

M25 motorway

The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Recommendation for further reading:

Anything by Nick Hornby, especially Funny Girl and Juliet, Naked

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Book Club with Julia and Victoria - 100 Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

100 Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

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07/22/22 • -1 min

**Check out our 100th Episode Celebration Giveaway on Instagram!**

Read the Contest Rules here.

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Mentioned in this Episode:

Inside the Push to Diversify the Book Business” by Marcela Valdes (The New York Times)

“Season 4: Episode 10: Fantasy Fields w/ Rebecca Roanhorse” (Deadline City podcast)

The Sci-Fi Author Reimagining Native History” by Lila Shapiro (Vulture)

Book Club episode 099 Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Recommendations:

Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Currently Obsessed:

Moth by Woosung (album)

Jack in the Box by J-Hope (album)

Stranger Things (Season 4)

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Book Club with Julia and Victoria - 002 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

002 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

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07/19/19 • 56 min

Read the novel. Cry. Question whether you have a soul. Watch the movie. Cry again. Then listen to the podcast.

Random tidbits mentioned in this episode:

Yo-Yo Ma performing Bach Cello Suites 1-6 presented by BBC Proms

Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go Featurette - Exploring the Story by FOX Searchlight

BONUS: Tiny Desk Concert we love of Yo-Yo Ma jamming with his bluegrass crew

Recommendation for further reading:

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

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Book Club with Julia and Victoria - 112 Babel by R. F. Kuang — “Boots on the Ground” Storytelling
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05/19/23 • -1 min

Julia and Victoria make their case as to why Babel by R. F. Kuang should be two (or three?) books. Point #1: It is amazing, and the people want more.

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Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge

Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge

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Mentioned in this episode:

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang

Daisy Jones & the Six - Film Club with Julia & Victoria

Part 1 (Episodes 1-5)

Part 2 (Episodes 6-10)

The Poppy Wars trilogy by R. F. Kuang

This “foot boop” scene from Our Flag Means Death (TV show)

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (and Book Club episode 085 where Julia talks about how many times she bought this book).

Recommendations:

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin

Currently Obsessed:

Fangirl Central podcast

OO-LI album by Woodz

Bad Dates with Jameela Jamil podcast

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Book Club with Julia and Victoria - 113 Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby — A Wizard of Form
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06/26/23 • -1 min

Julia and Victoria talk about the marriage of message and form in the “memoir situation” by one of their favorite human beings: 10 Steps to Nanette by Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby.

Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph:

Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge

Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge

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Mentioned in this episode:

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby

Hannah Gadsby Talks ‘Queer Joy’ and Calling Out Netflix” by CT Jones (Rolling Stone)

Hannah Gadsby’s Netflix specials Douglas and Something Special

Broken Horses: A Memoir by Brandi Carlisle

Recommendations:

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price, Ph.D.

Comedy Sex God by Pete Holmes

The episode of Oh I Like That podcast discussing Tár

Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die by Daniel Sloss

Heartbreak High on Netflix

Please Like Me on Hulu

Everything’s Gonna be Okay on Hulu

Currently Obsessed:

Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon Prime - season 5

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Julia and Victoria provide a little feedback sandwich on Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski, a book designed to help women cope with the unique burnout that results from dealing with the patriarchy.

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Mentioned in the Episode:

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski, Ph.D. and Amelia Nagoski, DMA

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski PhD

Maintenance Phase podcast

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Gilbert and Gubar

Book Club episode on Jane Eyre

Semler

Recommendations:

“Completing the Stress Cycle” episode of Unlocking Us with Brené Brown podcast

Daring Greatly by Brené Brown Ph.D.

The Wisdom of Your Body by Hilary McBride PhD

You’re a Miracle (And a Pain in the Ass) by Mike McHargue

“Fearology (FEAR) Pt. 1” and “Fearology (FEAR) Pt. 2” episodes of Ologies podcast

Currently Obsessed:

Sex Education on Netflix

Under Our Roof podcast

All of Us Are Dead on Netflix

Epik High Is Here Pt 2 album by Epik High

Julia was featured on Sad In the City podcast Ep 10 “Sad But Jokes”!

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How many episodes does Book Club with Julia and Victoria have?

Book Club with Julia and Victoria currently has 269 episodes available.

What topics does Book Club with Julia and Victoria cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts, Books, Arts, Tv Reviews and Tv & Film.

What is the most popular episode on Book Club with Julia and Victoria?

The episode title '068 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Book Club with Julia and Victoria?

The average episode length on Book Club with Julia and Victoria is 57 minutes.

How often are episodes of Book Club with Julia and Victoria released?

Episodes of Book Club with Julia and Victoria are typically released every 6 days, 18 hours.

When was the first episode of Book Club with Julia and Victoria?

The first episode of Book Club with Julia and Victoria was released on Jul 12, 2019.

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