In this episode, we talk about what makes a good title for a book!
Today we talk about approaching new topics!
In this episode, we discuss our Book of the month - When Women Were Dragons!
In this episode we discuss what we are reading to finishing out the summer!
Welcome to Spirited Shorts - a supplemental episode for all of you that can’t get enough of us.
In this episode, Madeline goes to Hogwarts and takes shots from the Goblet of Fire!
In this episode, we chat about the Pulitzer Prize winners, both past and present!
Featured Titles:
frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrew Elliott
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly
The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen Underworld by Don DeLillo
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich and more!
Episode Bookshelf (go here for entire list of books for this episode)
On this Spirited Shorts episode, we discuss our July book of the month - Making History!
In this episode, we chat about the books that made us and the books that broke us.
Featured Titles:
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene
The Getaway by Jim Thompson
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Chase the Scream by Johann Hari
and more!
Episode Bookshelf (go here for entire list of books for this episode)
In this episode, our chaotic chat about tropes with special guest, Walter, continues!
Warning: This episode contains rants, adult language, and ramblings.
Refer to part 1 for show notes!
Greetings and Drinkings
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1) Novik, Naomi *
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1) Blake, Olivie
The Family Krupitsky, Naomi
Book of Night (Book of Night, #1) Black, Holly
She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1) Parker-Chan, Shelley
When Women Were Dragons Barnhill, Kelly
Horus Rising (Horus Heresy #1) Abnett, Dan
False Gods (Horus Heresy #2) McNeill, Graham
Galaxy in Flames (The Horus Heresy #3) Counter, Ben
The Flight of the Eisenstein (The Horus Heresy #4) Swallow, James
All the Light We Cannot See Doerr, Anthony
Pulp Brubaker, Ed
Razzmatazz Moore, Christopher
Noir Moore, Christopher
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal Moore, Christopher
Fool Moore, Christopher
Kill or be Killed, Vol. 1 Brubaker, Ed
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II Parkin, Simon
Tropes
Ready Player One Cline, Ernest
Ready Player Two Cline, Ernest
Armada Cline, Ernest
Cryptonomicon Stephenson, Neal
Seveneves Stephenson, Neal
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1) Abercrombie, Joe
A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness, #1) Abercrombie, Joe
Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1) Abercrombie, Joe
The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) Sanderson, Brandon
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2) Sanderson, Brandon
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3) Sanderson, Brandon
The Historian Kostova, Elizabeth
Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1) Newman, Kim
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (The Shadow Histories #1) Parry, H.G.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Clarke, Susanna
The Guns of the South Turtledove, Harry
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, #1) Grahame-Smith, Seth
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1) Grahame-Smith, Seth
Dawn of the Dreadfuls (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #0.5) Hockensmith, Steve
East of Eden Steinbeck, John
The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck, John
The Dutch House Patchett, Ann
Mexican Gothic Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
The Godfather (The Godfather, #1) Puzo, Mario
August: Osage County Letts, Tracy
Steel Magnolias Harling, Robert
John Constantine: Hellblazer, Vol. 1: Marks of Woe Spurrier, Simon
The Savior's Book Cafe Story in Another World (Manga) Vol. 1 Izumi, Kyouka
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) Brown, Dan
Foucault's Pendulum Eco, Umberto
The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto
Rabbits Miles, Terry
Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane
This Is How You Lose the Time War El-Mohtar, Amal
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1) Bardugo, Leigh
In this episode, we chat about Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic, our June Book of the Month.
Episode Bookshelf (go here for entire list of books for this episode)
In this episode, we discuss classics - the ones we love and love to hate.
Episode Bookshelf (go here for entire list of books for this episode)
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Martian by Andy Weir
Raptor by Dave McKean
Memory’s Legion by James S.A. Corey
Making History by Stephen Fry
Rabbits by Terry Miles
The Company by Robert Littell
All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw
Daredevil by Chip Zdarsky
Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar
Just Roll with It by Lee Durfey-Lavoie
The Fall of Richard Nixon by Tom Brokaw
Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Company by Robert Litell
Welcome to Spirited Shorts - a supplemental episode for all of you that can’t get enough of us.
In this episode, Madeline visits Hogwarts and talks about the third book in the series.
In this episode, we discuss our picks for Pride Month and Comic Books!
Books Mentioned This Episode (it's a lot)
Spirited Shorts 1.5 - May Book of the Month
In this episode, we discuss our May BotM, Certain Dark Things.
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Episode 1.5 - “One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
In this episode, we discuss vacation reads and how we choose them.
Books Mentioned:
Greetings and Drinkings
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West by Lauren Redniss
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kensey
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Main
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
Howl by Allen Ginsberg
Fences by August Wilson
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by August Wilson
A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Two Trains Running by August Wilson
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
Billy Summers by Stephen King
Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
March by Geraldine Brooks
Rabbits by Terry Miles
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse
The Company by Robert Littell
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1) by Neil Gaiman
Welcome to Spirited Shorts – a supplemental episode for all of you that can’t get enough of us.
In this episode, Madeline visits Hogwarts and talks about the second book in the series.
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The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
The Fisherman by John Langan
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard
Raptor: A Sokol Graphic Novel by Dave McKean
Django/Zorro: The Official Sequel to Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino, Matt Wagner, Esteve Polls
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A Love Story Trilogy by Christopher Moore
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
Children of Blood of Bone (Legacy of Orisha) by Tomi Adeyemi
The Shades of Magic by V.E. Schwab
Mistbornby Brandon Sanderson
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Grisha and Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (The Shadow Histories #1) by H.G. Parry
Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky #1) by Rebecca Roanhorse
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials) by Phillip Pullman
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
The Lightbringer Series by Brent Weeks
Libriomancer (Magic Ex Libris) by Jim C. Hines
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Book of the Month Wrap-Up: A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians
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