We're STILL talking about Henry Fielding's book, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling! We learn that Tom is a bit of a [long-handled gardening tool that can also mean an immoral pleasure seeker]. And he's been kissing Sophia's WHAT now?
We're back at it again with The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding, Books 3-7! Tom is accidentally the luckiest person in the world.
We're talking about Amy's favourite book, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding! Infants are abandoned! Women get called terrible names for getting pregnant out of wedlock! It's 800 pages!
We're talking about The Ballad of Mulan from 5th-6th century China! We talk gender, war, class, and how literature course options should be better!
It's songs as poems part two! Can you guess the song? Will Amy think all of them are by Taylor Swift or Relient K? Find out!
Yes! It's the funny literature break we've been promising! We're talking about comedy poetry legend Ogden Nash, wordplay, and perhaps a new way to look at all of society as a whole?
We're finishing Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy with the final book, The Ghost Road! Be sure to follow along with this week's discussion questions:
What?
Why?
Huh?
We're continuing the Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker with Book 2: The Eye in the Door! This one is suddenly a lot bleaker than the last one, uh oh! Luckily, there's lots of smashin' to make up for it.
It's trilogy time! We're talking about Regeneration, Book 1 of the Regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker. Featuring familiar faces from World War 1 literature, a hospital magazine, and canon queer readings.
Content warnings: War, death, corpses, mutilation, dismembered body parts, PTSD, dead animals, attempted suicide, conversion therapy.
You ever remember a book one way, and then you re-read it and it's... not that? Yeah, that was Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. CONTENT WARNINGS: Sexual assualt, abuse of authority, physical assault, racism, light homophobia, animal suffering, animal death, abortion. Yeah, sorry y'all.
We're back talking about Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe (Volume 5 in the series)! Featuring linguistics, comic book-specific literary techniques, and porch light sensors.
Amy, Chantelle, and Mr. E. Sangria are reading Am I The A**hole Stories from Read-it, the version of Reddit for fictional characters only! Are these guys in the wrong? And what stories are they from, anyway?
The long-awaited second part of our children's lit episode, four years after the original! Thank you to everyone who submitted audience recommendations for picture books many, many moons ago. And we are joined by a Very Special Guest who has Lots Of Experience reading to children!
We're talking about The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel! This Canadian book by an Uncited alumnus author delves into murder accusations, investment fraud, and GHOSTS.
We're talking about Billy Bishop Goes to War, a musical by Eric Peterson and John MacLachlan Gray! Have you ever wanted to talk about World War I but make it fun and quirky and then make it very very sad? Fly on over.
We're welcoming back our good friend Az (calscalzones on Bluesky) to talk about Bryan Lee O'Malley's Volume 4 of the Scott Pilgrim series, Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together! We're talking allll the L words.
We're reviewing one of Chantelle's top five favourite books ever, Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver! It's a queer YA fantasy that looks at: What if astrology was a main component of culture? How do we define our role in society? What if a lizard was real big?
It's another epistolary novel, which means we're once again joined by special guest Jamie Anderson (jamienerdgirl on Bluesky) to talk about The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood! It's... oof.
We're talking about Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan! About taking a nice trip through the Polish countryside because of a music festival and—oh wait—no, it's about the Holocaust. Content warning for genocide, racism, and violence.
This week we're talking about Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child! Featuring Japanese folklore, Little House on the Prairie, a mysterious pregnancy, and so many cucumbers. Keep listening for more Canadian lit coming your way.