Episode 11

10/24/23 • 55 min

Our Spooky Season Special! We talk about how we started reading horror, reading age appropriate (and possibly age inappropriate) books, and everything from Jewelle Gomez to Stephen King to William Butler Yates. Come for the dramatic interpretation of the Paperbacks from Hell cover of Stage Fright, stay for the Louise Gluck poem at the end. As always, a cozy mystery recommendation, and our ever-growing list of to-be-reads (all horror this time). Happy Halloween!

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez The Valencourt Book of World Horror Vol 1 ed by James Jenkins and Ryan Cagle Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix Stage Fright by Garret Boatman The Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemore Terrifying Transformations: An Anthology of Victorian Werewolf Fiction ed by Shannon Scott and Alexis Easley The Other by Thomas Tryon Lolly Willowes or The Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner Caught Dead Handed (Witch City Books #1) by Carole J. Perry

TBR:

Crota by Owl Goingback John the Balladeer by Manly Wade Wellman Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology ed by Richard Wells

RIP Louise Gluck

TBR:

Crota by Owl Goingback John the Balladeer by Manly Wade Wellman Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology ed by Richard Wells

RIP Louise Gluck

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Episode 10

Join us as we discuss Fall and Winter reading, our takes on what gets published when, and some of Sarah's least favorite things about how books look.

Sarah discusses:

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Rouge by Mona Awad

TBR:

Dracula by Bram Stoker Paperbacks From Hell series, particularly The Nest of Nightmares by Lisa Tuttle

Eric discusses:

The Last Devil to Die (A Thursday Murder Club book) by Richard Osman

TBR:

Julia by Sandra Newman
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
The 272 by Rachel Swarns
Secret Hours by Mick Herron

Sharon discusses:

Covid Reads:
The Hopkins Manuscript by R.C. Sherriff
Landscapes of the Detectorists edited by Innes M. Keighren and Joanne Norcup
Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
I Could Read the Sky by Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke

TBR:

Return to Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century by Craig Taylor
Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff

Briefly Mentioned:

The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius by George Orwell
Wifedom by Anna Funder
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
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Episode 12

Jolabokaflod and navigating the tricky waters of giving books as gifts, Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse, Britney Spears, 20th Century Romanian poetry, Eric sings Paula Cole, and new and different cozy adventures!

Books discussed: Dandelions by Thea Lenarduzzi Wheel with a Single Spoke and Other Poems by Nichita Stanecsu trans. by Sean Cotter Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal trans. by Jessica Moore Tremor by Teju Cole The Librarianist by Patrick DeWitt The Woman in Me by Britney Spears Cozy: Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

TBR: Upside-Down World by Benjamin Moser Gen X Pittsburgh by Davis Rullo It Did Happen Here ed. by Moe Bowstern et al. The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez