That Book was BONKERS

The Haunting of Hill House

Happy Spooky Season! For this October we read The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, and...

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

Off with their heads! This month we sympathized less with French aristocrats than author BARONESS...

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Northanger Abbey

Once upon a time, Jane Austen was a snarky teenager who had met too many goths. Gothic heroines...

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Kindred by Octavia Butler

This month we took a break from bonkers books to read just a very solid novel, Kindred by Octavia...

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North and South

Should you read North and South without seeing Richard Armitage play Mr. Thornton first? Our...

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The Bloody Chamber

We read one of the best books of modern fairy tale retellings: The Bloody Chamber by Angela...

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Love's Labour's Lost

We drank some drinks, read some Shakespeare, became a little audience-hostile, while still loving...

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The Diary of Fanny Parkes

Fanny Parkes was a middle class British woman who kept a diary of her years in India, and was one...

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Byron! Literary ****boi extroaordinaire

CONTENT WARNING: Byron's poetry contains lots of Orientalist language. He may have experienced...

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The Master and Margarita

With giant cats, the Devil as a stage magician, and a lot of concern about Pontius Pilates'...

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Witches for Spooky Season

This month we did something a little different. Linnea and Reidan read On Witchcraft by Cotton...

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Valley of the Dolls

Is it a classic? Yes. Is it well-written? Ehhhhhhhhh, not as such. Is it worth reading? If you...

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Orlando by Virginia Woolf

We love gender-bending protagonists around here, and Orlando is the mother of them all. We talk...

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Notre Dame de Paris

For July, Bastille Day, and in recognition of the tragic fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral, we...

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Candide

WARNING: This episode contains mentions of sexual assault right from the jump because there's a...

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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Part 2

We're back this month with the second half of Vanity Fair, rejoining Becky, Amelia, Dobbin, and...

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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Part 1

For April and May, we are reading William Makepeace Thackeray's doorstop of a serial novel,...

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The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

Beware the Ides of March! In this extra-adult episode we discuss 6 of the 12 Caesars, Roman...

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Silence AKA Chekov's Nun

For February, we read Silence, a 13th century chivalric romance about crossdressing knights. We...

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The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery

Coincidences abound in this wonderfully tart book of romance and wish-fulfillment. We discuss...

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