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.
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.
Julia and Victoria grapple with the grotesque narrative choices in Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan, translated by Chi-young Kim. Julia incorrectly uses the word “epigraph” when she means “epitaph” approximately 25 times.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan
Bonus: Weird Short Fiction with Evan James Sheldon
Minari (film)
Pachinko (TV series)
Modern Family by Cheon Myeong-kwan
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
International Booker Prize – Whale
Namjoon’s Bookshelf Twitter thread on Whale
Aschenputtel - Grimm Fairy Tale version of Cinderella
Recommendations:
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Children and Their Cages by Evan James Sheldon
Books that inspired Cheon Myeong-kwan's Whale
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Currently Obsessed:
Handsome (podcast)
Marry My Dead Body (TV series)
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
