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Strange and Beautiful Book Club

Strange and Beautiful Book Club

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Long time partners, Rachel and Matt, bring their unique blend of wit and weirdness to the worlds of sci-fi, horror, and fantasy. From quirky movie reviews to lively book discussions, they keep you entertained and informed with their mature humor and infectious enthusiasm. Join them as they chase their little nerd hearts through the genres they love.
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Strange and Beautiful Book Club - Vacation Announcement - July 2024 - Please Listen!
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07/15/24 • 1 min

Matt and Rachel are headed out on the road! Please listen for information on which shows will be on break until October!

  • Strange and Beautiful Book Club - On break until October 2024
  • Feast, Sheath, and Shatter: A Book Chat Podcast - On break until October 2024
  • Ger Can Get It - Regular Episodes
  • The Dead Do Not Podcast: A Lexx Rewatch - Regular Episodes (returning July 22nd, 2024)

Thank you! Join us on Patreon (link below) to follow us on our trip!


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Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting down with girl friends to chat about hot book boyfriends but in podcast format! Listen now at Feast, Sheath, Shatter: A Book Chat Podcast

Love Movies, TV Shows and Books in the Fantasy, Scifi, and Horror genre and want to hear more? Check us out at The Strange and Beautiful Book Club where Rachel and her husband Matt discuss all things genre-related.

Listen to us chat our way through the greatest scifi tv show ever made on We Are All Kosh - A Babylon 5 podcast

Longing for a simpler time in the police procedural genre AND love Vampires? Matt and Rachel also review the classic television show Forever Knight on their podcast, Come in 81 Kilo.

Not getting enough sweaty 90s sexcapades from your television and movie content? Listen to Meg and Rachel discuss the finer points of Geraint Wyn Davies' career over at Ger Can Get It!

You can also:
Join us on Instagram here: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork/⁠⁠⁠
Find us on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz9ENwKdHrm57Qmu8L4WXwQ

Riverside.fm is a video/audio recording platform built for podcasters. Check them out today for uncompressed audio and video recording, unlimited transcription services, AI Social Media clips, teleprompter and on screen scripts, and a bunch of other cool stuff too. Make long distance podcasting 100x easier. (Don't work harder, work smarter)

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Strange and Beautiful Book Club - "The Quantum Thief" by Hannu Rajaniemi

"The Quantum Thief" by Hannu Rajaniemi

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07/27/24 • 99 min

Our delayed monthly book club episode where we discuss "The Quantum Thief" by Hannu Rajaniemi. Did we both love it? Is there a percentage of made up words that Rachel simply cannot tolerate? How many books did Rachel read while actively delaying reading this one?

What is life anyways?

Listen and find out? (Maybe not the life one)


There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network!

Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting down with girl friends to chat about hot book boyfriends but in podcast format! Listen now at Feast, Sheath, Shatter: A Book Chat Podcast

Love Movies, TV Shows and Books in the Fantasy, Scifi, and Horror genre and want to hear more? Check us out at The Strange and Beautiful Book Club where Rachel and her husband Matt discuss all things genre-related.

Listen to us chat our way through the greatest scifi tv show ever made on We Are All Kosh - A Babylon 5 podcast

Longing for a simpler time in the police procedural genre AND love Vampires? Matt and Rachel also review the classic television show Forever Knight on their podcast, Come in 81 Kilo.

Not getting enough sweaty 90s sexcapades from your television and movie content? Listen to Meg and Rachel discuss the finer points of Geraint Wyn Davies' career over at Ger Can Get It!

You can also:
Join us on Instagram here: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork/⁠⁠⁠
Find us on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz9ENwKdHrm57Qmu8L4WXwQ

Riverside.fm is a video/audio recording platform built for podcasters. Check them out today for uncompressed audio and video recording, unlimited transcription services, AI Social Media clips, teleprompter and on screen scripts, and a bunch of other cool stuff too. Make long distance podcasting 100x easier. (Don't work harder, work smarter)

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Strange and Beautiful Book Club - "The Dark Tower - The Waste Lands" by Stephen King
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12/06/24 • 83 min

Rachel and Matt discuss the third book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King, The Waste Lands. Did the series get better? Are we willing to read more? Listen and find out!

The Waste Lands" is the third book in Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" series. It continues the journey of Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, as he searches for the Dark Tower, the nexus of all realities. Joined by his companions—Eddie Dean, Susannah Dean, and Jake Chambers—they traverse a desolate landscape filled with danger and mystery.

The narrative delves into the group's dynamics and individual struggles, highlighting their bonds and conflicts. They face various threats, including bizarre creatures and the enigmatic Man in Black. Themes of fate, loyalty, and the nature of reality are explored as they encounter strange cities, alternate dimensions, and moral dilemmas.

As they journey deeper into the wasteland, the group’s resolve is tested, leading to moments of both tension and humor. The story blends elements of fantasy, horror, and Western, all wrapped in King's signature storytelling style. It ends on a suspenseful note, propelling them toward the next chapter of their quest.


There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network!

Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting down with girl friends to chat about hot book boyfriends but in podcast format! Listen now at Feast, Sheath, Shatter: A Book Chat Podcast

Love Movies, TV Shows and Books in the Fantasy, Scifi, and Horror genre and want to hear more? Check us out at The Strange and Beautiful Book Club where Rachel and her husband Matt discuss all things genre-related.

Listen to us chat our way through the greatest scifi tv show ever made on We Are All Kosh - A Babylon 5 podcast

Longing for a simpler time in the police procedural genre AND love Vampires? Matt and Rachel also review the classic television show Forever Knight on their podcast, Come in 81 Kilo.

Not getting enough sweaty 90s sexcapades from your television and movie content? Listen to Meg and Rachel discuss the finer points of Geraint Wyn Davies' career over at Ger Can Get It!

You can also:
Join us on Instagram here: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork/⁠⁠⁠
Find us on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz9ENwKdHrm57Qmu8L4WXwQ

Riverside.fm is a video/audio recording platform built for podcasters. Check them out today for uncompressed audio and video recording, unlimited transcription services, AI Social Media clips, teleprompter and on screen scripts, and a bunch of other cool stuff too. Make long distance podcasting 100x easier. (Don't work harder, work smarter)

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Strange and Beautiful Book Club - "The Dark Tower - The Drawing of the Three" by Stephen King
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11/01/24 • 84 min

Find more about The Old Switcheroo here: https://www.theoldswitcharoo.com/
The Drawing of the Three is a dark fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King. It is the second book in the Dark Tower series, published by Grant in 1987.[1] The series was inspired by Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning. The story is a continuation of The Gunslinger and follows Roland of Gilead and his quest towards the Dark Tower ~Wikipedia ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Seemed only fair, since we discussed the MOVIE "Somewhere in Time" on Cinematic Anarchy that Chris come over to our neck of the woods to chat about the book! Find all Cinematic Anarchy episodes here:

https://cinematicanarchy.transistor.fm


There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network!

Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting down with girl friends to chat about hot book boyfriends but in podcast format! Listen now at Feast, Sheath, Shatter: A Book Chat Podcast

Love Movies, TV Shows and Books in the Fantasy, Scifi, and Horror genre and want to hear more? Check us out at The Strange and Beautiful Book Club where Rachel and her husband Matt discuss all things genre-related.

Listen to us chat our way through the greatest scifi tv show ever made on We Are All Kosh - A Babylon 5 podcast

Longing for a simpler time in the police procedural genre AND love Vampires? Matt and Rachel also review the classic television show Forever Knight on their podcast, Come in 81 Kilo.

Not getting enough sweaty 90s sexcapades from your television and movie content? Listen to Meg and Rachel discuss the finer points of Geraint Wyn Davies' career over at Ger Can Get It!

You can also:
Join us on Instagram here: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork/⁠⁠⁠
Find us on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz9ENwKdHrm57Qmu8L4WXwQ

Riverside.fm is a video/audio recording platform built for podcasters. Check them out today for uncompressed audio and video recording, unlimited transcription services, AI Social Media clips, teleprompter and on screen scripts, and a bunch of other cool stuff too. Make long distance podcasting 100x easier. (Don't work harder, work smarter)

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Strange and Beautiful Book Club - Movie - "Planet of the Apes (1968)"

Movie - "Planet of the Apes (1968)"

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05/17/24 • 44 min

Matt and Rachel discuss the movie adaptation of Pierre Boulle's classic novel. What did they get right? What didn't they? Do we think this is a rare case of the movie being better than the book? Listen and find out!


There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network!

Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting down with girl friends to chat about hot book boyfriends but in podcast format! Listen now at Feast, Sheath, Shatter: A Book Chat Podcast

Love Movies, TV Shows and Books in the Fantasy, Scifi, and Horror genre and want to hear more? Check us out at The Strange and Beautiful Book Club where Rachel and her husband Matt discuss all things genre-related.

Listen to us chat our way through the greatest scifi tv show ever made on We Are All Kosh - A Babylon 5 podcast

Longing for a simpler time in the police procedural genre AND love Vampires? Matt and Rachel also review the classic television show Forever Knight on their podcast, Come in 81 Kilo.

Not getting enough sweaty 90s sexcapades from your television and movie content? Listen to Meg and Rachel discuss the finer points of Geraint Wyn Davies' career over at Ger Can Get It!

You can also:
Join us on Instagram here: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork/⁠⁠⁠
Find us on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz9ENwKdHrm57Qmu8L4WXwQ

Riverside.fm is a video/audio recording platform built for podcasters. Check them out today for uncompressed audio and video recording, unlimited transcription services, AI Social Media clips, teleprompter and on screen scripts, and a bunch of other cool stuff too. Make long distance podcasting 100x easier. (Don't work harder, work smarter)

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Strange and Beautiful Book Club - "Mandy (2018)" - The Psychotic drowns where the Mystic swims
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10/18/24 • 56 min

Matt and Rachel discuss this uniquely brilliant and horrifically gory horror/dark fantasy from 2018 entitled "Mandy". To tell you literally anything about this movie before you've seen it would be a sacrilege. Go and watch it and then come back and that's not advice, it's an order!


There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network!

Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting down with girl friends to chat about hot book boyfriends but in podcast format! Listen now at Feast, Sheath, Shatter: A Book Chat Podcast

Love Movies, TV Shows and Books in the Fantasy, Scifi, and Horror genre and want to hear more? Check us out at The Strange and Beautiful Book Club where Rachel and her husband Matt discuss all things genre-related.

Listen to us chat our way through the greatest scifi tv show ever made on We Are All Kosh - A Babylon 5 podcast

Longing for a simpler time in the police procedural genre AND love Vampires? Matt and Rachel also review the classic television show Forever Knight on their podcast, Come in 81 Kilo.

Not getting enough sweaty 90s sexcapades from your television and movie content? Listen to Meg and Rachel discuss the finer points of Geraint Wyn Davies' career over at Ger Can Get It!

You can also:
Join us on Instagram here: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork/⁠⁠⁠
Find us on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz9ENwKdHrm57Qmu8L4WXwQ

Riverside.fm is a video/audio recording platform built for podcasters. Check them out today for uncompressed audio and video recording, unlimited transcription services, AI Social Media clips, teleprompter and on screen scripts, and a bunch of other cool stuff too. Make long distance podcasting 100x easier. (Don't work harder, work smarter)

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Strange and Beautiful Book Club - Bonus: We Are All Kosh - Preview - Babylon 5 (Season 1 Ep 0) - The Gathering
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12/07/24 • 134 min

This show is available to stream for free on Tubi or with a paid subscription on Amazon Prime. Tube has the version of The Gathering we watched but it's listed as the last episode of season 1.

Per wikipedia:

Babylon 5: The Gathering is the test pilot movie of the science fiction television series Babylon 5, aired on February 22, 1993. It is also the first of six feature-length films in the Babylon 5 media franchise.

The Gathering covers events which take place roughly one year before those of the first-season episode "Midnight on the Firing Line," providing a framework of backstories, political agendas, and personal relationships for some of the series' major characters.

Following the success of the movie, Warner Bros. Television commissioned the series for production in May 1993, as part of its Prime Time Entertainment Network (PTEN); the first season would premiere in the United States nearly a year later, on January 26, 1994.


There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network!

Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting down with girl friends to chat about hot book boyfriends but in podcast format! Listen now at Feast, Sheath, Shatter: A Book Chat Podcast

Love Movies, TV Shows and Books in the Fantasy, Scifi, and Horror genre and want to hear more? Check us out at The Strange and Beautiful Book Club where Rachel and her husband Matt discuss all things genre-related.

Listen to us chat our way through the greatest scifi tv show ever made on We Are All Kosh - A Babylon 5 podcast

Longing for a simpler time in the police procedural genre AND love Vampires? Matt and Rachel also review the classic television show Forever Knight on their podcast, Come in 81 Kilo.

Not getting enough sweaty 90s sexcapades from your television and movie content? Listen to Meg and Rachel discuss the finer points of Geraint Wyn Davies' career over at Ger Can Get It!

You can also:
Join us on Instagram here: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork/⁠⁠⁠
Find us on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz9ENwKdHrm57Qmu8L4WXwQ

Riverside.fm is a video/audio recording platform built for podcasters. Check them out today for uncompressed audio and video recording, unlimited transcription services, AI Social Media clips, teleprompter and on screen scripts, and a bunch of other cool stuff too. Make long distance podcasting 100x easier. (Don't work harder, work smarter)

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Rachel and Matt chat with Dan and Mark of Clockout Films (Find them on instagram here: @clockoutfilms) We discuss their latest feature, "Slaughter Beach" which is available now on Tubi and dive a little into their newest project "First State of Fear" which is an anthology horror film celebrating all things Delaware and Horror! (Puckwugies anyone?). Support them through their Indiegogo fundraiser! You can find it right: here! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/first-state-of-fear-crowd-fund-campaign#/


There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network!

Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting down with girl friends to chat about hot book boyfriends but in podcast format! Listen now at Feast, Sheath, Shatter: A Book Chat Podcast

Love Movies, TV Shows and Books in the Fantasy, Scifi, and Horror genre and want to hear more? Check us out at The Strange and Beautiful Book Club where Rachel and her husband Matt discuss all things genre-related.

Listen to us chat our way through the greatest scifi tv show ever made on We Are All Kosh - A Babylon 5 podcast

Longing for a simpler time in the police procedural genre AND love Vampires? Matt and Rachel also review the classic television show Forever Knight on their podcast, Come in 81 Kilo.

Not getting enough sweaty 90s sexcapades from your television and movie content? Listen to Meg and Rachel discuss the finer points of Geraint Wyn Davies' career over at Ger Can Get It!

You can also:
Join us on Instagram here: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork/⁠⁠⁠
Find us on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz9ENwKdHrm57Qmu8L4WXwQ

Riverside.fm is a video/audio recording platform built for podcasters. Check them out today for uncompressed audio and video recording, unlimited transcription services, AI Social Media clips, teleprompter and on screen scripts, and a bunch of other cool stuff too. Make long distance podcasting 100x easier. (Don't work harder, work smarter)

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Strange and Beautiful Book Club - "The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger" by Stephen King
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10/04/24 • 65 min

Rachel and Matt discuss "The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger" the first book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King in this first installment of our spooky HORROR season of Strange and Beautiful Book Club!

In "The Gunslinger," the first book of Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" series, we follow Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, as he pursues the mysterious Man in Black across a desolate, sprawling landscape. The narrative weaves through Roland's past and present, exploring his relentless quest for the Dark Tower, a mythical structure that is said to hold the key to the universe.

As Roland travels, he encounters various characters, including a young boy named Jake, who becomes entwined in his journey. Themes of fate, sacrifice, and the struggle between good and evil are prevalent as Roland grapples with his own morality and the burdens of his quest. The novel sets the stage for an epic saga filled with rich mythology and a blend of fantasy, Western, and horror elements.


There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network!

Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting down with girl friends to chat about hot book boyfriends but in podcast format! Listen now at Feast, Sheath, Shatter: A Book Chat Podcast

Love Movies, TV Shows and Books in the Fantasy, Scifi, and Horror genre and want to hear more? Check us out at The Strange and Beautiful Book Club where Rachel and her husband Matt discuss all things genre-related.

Listen to us chat our way through the greatest scifi tv show ever made on We Are All Kosh - A Babylon 5 podcast

Longing for a simpler time in the police procedural genre AND love Vampires? Matt and Rachel also review the classic television show Forever Knight on their podcast, Come in 81 Kilo.

Not getting enough sweaty 90s sexcapades from your television and movie content? Listen to Meg and Rachel discuss the finer points of Geraint Wyn Davies' career over at Ger Can Get It!

You can also:
Join us on Instagram here: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork/⁠⁠⁠
Find us on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz9ENwKdHrm57Qmu8L4WXwQ

Riverside.fm is a video/audio recording platform built for podcasters. Check them out today for uncompressed audio and video recording, unlimited transcription services, AI Social Media clips, teleprompter and on screen scripts, and a bunch of other cool stuff too. Make long distance podcasting 100x easier. (Don't work harder, work smarter)

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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How many episodes does Strange and Beautiful Book Club have?

Strange and Beautiful Book Club currently has 167 episodes available.

What topics does Strange and Beautiful Book Club cover?

The podcast is about Book Club, Scifi, Fiction, Horror Movies, Podcasts, Movies, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Tv & Film, Horror and Film Reviews.

What is the most popular episode on Strange and Beautiful Book Club?

The episode title 'Bonus - Chat with Clockout Films - "Slaughter Beach" and "First State of Fear"' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Strange and Beautiful Book Club?

The average episode length on Strange and Beautiful Book Club is 76 minutes.

How often are episodes of Strange and Beautiful Book Club released?

Episodes of Strange and Beautiful Book Club are typically released every 2 days, 22 hours.

When was the first episode of Strange and Beautiful Book Club?

The first episode of Strange and Beautiful Book Club was released on Nov 18, 2022.

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