We're baaaack!!!! How much more modern classic do you get than Michael Crichton and these damn dinosaurs?
Yet another old white man is given too much power/money. It just some how always goes wrong. Hop on the jeep with us to explore Jurassic hell. We won't be mad if you throw Lex to the raptors, even if she is a child.
As penance for our way longer than advised hiatus, Andria Carved the pumpkin in the cover art
Where Hawthorne gave us too much information we didn't want, Shirley Jackson is being vague af. A banger in the 1940's we guess. Listen to us tell the tale of a confusing ritual and sooo many names. What's with that rock Mrs. Delacroix?
A short story by Alice Walker. She kept it light for us this time. Dee drops in after 6 years trying memorialize a culture she's always hated. Maggie's trying to live the culture. Mama's just trying to get through this visit.
Another Toni Morrison classic. Published in 1970. A series of small stories builds up to one young girl's brutal existence. We switched up the style on this one due to Toni traumatizing us.
Written by Zora Neale Hurston, 1937: The men in Janie's life are both her salvation and her destruction. The girl also has haters her entire life, because she's hot. Janie's literally just trying to live and be happy. Catch some black history facts on this one too!
Published in 1932, genetic manipulation and conditioning is the name of the game. Everybody gets what they want and anything they can't have the World State makes sure they don't want. "Everyone is happy now", until short man syndrome drives Bernard to social revenge by bringing a "savage" from the old world. Who's really the savage though when the World State has deleted love, romance, beauty, and critical thought? Having a soul means nothing so long as their world has strong stability.
From the fireside of California to the brutal winter of Alaska; Buck learns it's kill or be killed for this mutt. That won't stop him from becoming a legend though. He'll literally bite your throat out. Don't play with the boy
This week we read Animal Farm by George Orwell. Animals take over their farm for freedom only to be enslaved by pigs. You give a mediocre male the tiniest bit of power....You want a dictatorship?? This is how you get dictatorships. This is why reading is important.
Awfully bad attitude to have with a name like Ebenezer Scrooge. Your boomer grandparents only wish they could be this intolerable of the poors. Hear as an old crotchety man is bullied by ghosts into being a good person. This should happen more often. Charles Dickens really crushed with this one in 1843
Get in nerds! We're reading Beowulf. In a battle of bad neighbors only a true warrior can save the Danes. You've never fought 9 sea monsters while in a swimming competition? You don't have the grip strength of 30 men? Loser.
This week we read a story about the 2nd most dangerous game next to clubbing at Parliament House in Orlando circa 2013. Written by Richard Connell. Zaroff is just passionate about his hobby guys. Rainsford just needs to get into the spirit of the game. What? Y'all don't be hunting humans?? Follow us for more open water survival tips.
In this Arthur Miller play 15 people die, because a farmer cheats on his wife. Fake witches, fake Christians, but real treachery. The lies of the many outweigh the truth of the few in 1600's Salem.
This week we read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Why go to therapy when you could take drugs to split your personality and let the worst version of yourself wreak havoc? Why get a hobby when you could stalk an acquaintance just to know their business?
Mary Shelley really put her foot in this one. Put all your thoughts on this book aside. Dr. Frankenstein is the OG deadbeat dad. The "monster" is just trying to make friends...and take revenge...We swear it's justifiable though!
Another dose of Edgar Allan Poe. We're keeping it light this time though. One's a story about a bird!...triggering a man to spiral into grief. There's a party in the other one!...with the backset of a bloody pandemic. Super light!
What's a little wine, guilt, and murder among friends? Edgar Allan Poe is one of everyone's favorites. We're not an exception. We just had to give you our take on the pettiest man alive building people into walls and a very "not crazy" man who's guilt is equal to his insanity. Beware free wine in dungeons and cloudy blue eyes. 🙅
An unexpected Part 3, but can you blame us?? Jack has to "correct" his family lest he not make management at the Overlook. Was it really the ghosts or was this in Jack all along? Either way Hallorann is on his way to tussle with some ghosts for his boy Danny. Why are the ghosts all of sudden racist??? Wendy gets her ass beat. There are murderous topiaries. Y'all gotta hear the end.
How many ghosts does it take to break your brain? Is it really breaking your brain if you want the ghosts? An entire hotel full seems like a lot, but Jack loves to party! Danny is 5 years old with the mind of a 500 yr old future seeing wizard. Jack's a shit dad and husband for several chapters. Is he drunk, a psychopath, possesed, or all the above?
We're baaaAAAaack and with a double drop! A mediocre man drunk on himself takes a job on an isolated mountain in a spooky ass hotel. His son has an imaginary, but not imaginary future seeing vague friend. His wife would probably rather be any place else. Not sure what her problem is. Only a dozen or so people have died here.
Friendship. Betrayal. Pigmeat. These were the ingredients chosen to make the perfect girl, but Eva accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction---emotional negligence. And THUS Nel and Sula's tumultuous friendship was born... Check out this episode before our break for spooky season. Follow us on socials in the meantime on TikTok and Instagram: 2girls1bookpodcast. Send us book suggestions to 2girls1book92@gmail.com
