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SURPRISE! An episode from the vault!

For May’s bonus guest episode, Stephanie and Hannah invite their friend and fellow book club member, Marla Record, to the show. Marla asked Hannah and Stephanie to read Abbott, the limited run comic series about a Black female detective in Detroit in the 1970s who encounters not only systemic racism, but a supernatural threat to her city. Join the ladies this month as they have a lively discussion about the medium of comics and graphic novels (and why you definitely shouldn’t hate them).

Resources:

Detroit Under Fire: https://policing.umhistorylabs.lsa.umich.edu/s/detroitunderfire/page/home

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SURPRISE! An episode from the vault!

For this April’s bonus topical episode, Stephanie and Hannah sit down with their friend Kacye to discuss common tropes in the genres they love! As they enumerate the tropes they love and, of course, hate from the romance, fantasy, and thriller genres, they find they have more in common than they thought.

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This week, Hannah takes Stephanie back to their very first episode by assigning another Kazuo Ishiguro novel, The Buried Giant. Will Stephanie hate this one as much as she disliked Never Let Me Go?

In post-Arthurian Britain, where a dragon sleeps guarded by Sir Gawain and a mist of forgetfulness covers the land, an elderly couple named Axl and Beatrice search for their son. As they encounter neighbors who can no longer remember the war that once pitted them against each other, the couple slowly starts to recover their memory and finds that their love will be tested. Join Hannah and Stephanie this week as they discuss fantasy, allegory, and literary fiction, and how these things do (or don’t, depending on who you ask) work together.

Resources:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/the-book-of-sorrow-and-forgetting/384968/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/23/the-uses-of-oblivion

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/books/review/kazuo-ishiguros-the-buried-giant.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/books/for-kazuo-ishiguro-the-buried-giant-is-a-departure.html

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36. A History of Wild Places

This week, Stephanie assigns Hannah another thriller: A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw. Will Hannah hate this thriller as much as some of the previous Stephanie has made her read?

Maggie, a children’s author, goes missing in the woods. Travis, a private detective with a supernatural gift, follows her in the dead of winter. And Theo, his wife Calla, and her blind sister Bee, live in a mysterious commune called Pastoral, trying to avoid a deadly disease spread by the trees. As these characters' narratives collide, they all discover something new about each other and themselves. Join Stephanie and Hannah this week as they discuss everything from hypnosis and cults to beach reads and celebrity crushes.

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This week, Hannah and Stephanie discuss Never Let Me Go by Kazou Ishiguro, a book Hannah loves. Will Stephanie hate it?

Ishiguro’s novel follows the friendship and heartaches of Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy. They grow up together at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. However, their futures are not entirely in their hands, and they must come to terms with their reality before it's too late. Through this novel (which was the inspiration for this podcast), Hannah and Stephanie discuss how where a person is at in life can affect how she reads a book, and that the way a book is marketed and discussed (even if it differs from the author’s intent) can color a reader’s judgment and enjoyment.

Resources For This Episode:

“9 Fascinating Facts About Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Never Let Me Go’” https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/never-let-me-go-kazuo-ishiguro-book-facts

“Kazuo Ishiguro discusses his intention behind writing the novel, Never Let Me Go” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jCB59pPG7k

“Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Never Let Me Go’ is a Masterpiece of Racial Metaphor” https://electricliterature.com/kazuo-ishiguros-never-let-me-go-is-a-masterpiece-of-racial-metaphor/

“‘Never Let Me Go’ Drama lands FX/Hulu Series Order” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hulu-fx-never-let-me-go-series-1235248398/

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