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BONUS EPISODE FROM THE VAULT!
For this month’s guest episode, Stephanie and Hannah are joined by their good friend and fellow reader, Ann Marie, to discuss a book that Ann Marie loved and Stephanie hated: The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. (Hannah hasn’t read it, but we all know she doesn’t care about spoilers.) Join these three friends as they discuss print vs. audio books, the perils of listening to books at work, and the awkwardness of dragon sex (yes, you read that right) in this New Adult fantasy romance novel. And be prepared to laugh. A lot.
Ann Marie’s bookstagram account: @annmariereads
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BONUS EPISODE FROM THE VAULT
This month, Hannah shares with Stephanie summaries and reviews of some of the worst-rated books on Goodreads. There is no “might” about how much these reviewers hate these books! Join the ladies as they discuss everything from authors behaving badly on social media to the perils of self-publishing.
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SURPRISE! We've released another BONUS EPISODE FROM THE VAULT!
This month, Stephanie and Hannah make good on a previous idea and review the movie adaptation of one of the books featured on the show. Together they watched the 2017 adaptation of Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending, and then reconvened to answer the all-important question: Was the book really better than the movie?
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SURPRISE! An episode from the vault!
For this June’s guest episode, Stephanie and Hannah again return to their book club and invite English professor, Dr. Loren Warf, to share two books: one that she loved to read but hated to teach, and another that she loved to teach but hated to read. Join these three friends as they discuss Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Neal Shusterman’s Scythe, and what there is to love and hate about both.
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SURPRISE! An episode from the vault!
For this month’s bonus topical episode, Hannah and Stephanie share all the other books they’re reading. You know, the books they actually choose for enjoyment. Join them as they discuss everything from celebrity memoirs to parenting books to collections of short stories and more!
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SURPRISE! An episode from the vault!
For May’s bonus guest episode, Stephanie and Hannah invite their friend and fellow book club member, Marla Record, to the show. Marla asked Hannah and Stephanie to read Abbott, the limited run comic series about a Black female detective in Detroit in the 1970s who encounters not only systemic racism, but a supernatural threat to her city. Join the ladies this month as they have a lively discussion about the medium of comics and graphic novels (and why you definitely shouldn’t hate them).
Resources:
Detroit Under Fire: https://policing.umhistorylabs.lsa.umich.edu/s/detroitunderfire/page/home
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SURPRISE! An episode from the vault!
For this April’s bonus topical episode, Stephanie and Hannah sit down with their friend Kacye to discuss common tropes in the genres they love! As they enumerate the tropes they love and, of course, hate from the romance, fantasy, and thriller genres, they find they have more in common than they thought.
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This week, Hannah takes Stephanie back to their very first episode by assigning another Kazuo Ishiguro novel, The Buried Giant. Will Stephanie hate this one as much as she disliked Never Let Me Go?
In post-Arthurian Britain, where a dragon sleeps guarded by Sir Gawain and a mist of forgetfulness covers the land, an elderly couple named Axl and Beatrice search for their son. As they encounter neighbors who can no longer remember the war that once pitted them against each other, the couple slowly starts to recover their memory and finds that their love will be tested. Join Hannah and Stephanie this week as they discuss fantasy, allegory, and literary fiction, and how these things do (or don’t, depending on who you ask) work together.
Resources:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/the-book-of-sorrow-and-forgetting/384968/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/23/the-uses-of-oblivion
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/books/review/kazuo-ishiguros-the-buried-giant.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/books/for-kazuo-ishiguro-the-buried-giant-is-a-departure.html
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36. A History of Wild Places
This week, Stephanie assigns Hannah another thriller: A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw. Will Hannah hate this thriller as much as some of the previous Stephanie has made her read?
Maggie, a children’s author, goes missing in the woods. Travis, a private detective with a supernatural gift, follows her in the dead of winter. And Theo, his wife Calla, and her blind sister Bee, live in a mysterious commune called Pastoral, trying to avoid a deadly disease spread by the trees. As these characters' narratives collide, they all discover something new about each other and themselves. Join Stephanie and Hannah this week as they discuss everything from hypnosis and cults to beach reads and celebrity crushes.
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This week, Hannah takes Stephanie back to her childhood with the podcast’s first children’s book: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster! But will adult Stephanie have enough whimsy to enjoy the ride into the Lands Beyond?
Milo, home from school with nothing to do, is bored. Then a mysterious package arrives in his room, taking him to the Kingdom of Wisdom bereft of its Princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Milo’s journey to restore the princesses is rife with word-play and whimsical adventures as he learns just how fun it can be to learn. Join Hannah and Stephanie this week as they discuss puns, learning, strange 70s cartoons, and the experience of reading children’s book for the first time as an adult.
Resources:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/17/broken-kingdom
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63166/11-whimsical-facts-about-phantom-tollbooth
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SURPRISE! An episode from the vault!
For April's bonus guest episode, Hannah and Stephanie sit down with Hannah’s husband, Brandyn! He has decided to attempt to “unite” them by bringing two books, one they will both love and one they will both hate (though he loves them both). Join them as they discuss Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir and Embassytown by China Mieville (and see if you can guess which one Brandyn thinks both ladies will hate).
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This week, Stephanie tries again to help Hannah see the popular appeal of author Jodi Picoult by assigning her friend to read the novel Wish You Were Here. Will Hannah simply wish she was reading something else?
Diana lives and works in New York City in March of 2020. She and her boyfriend Finn, who is a surgical resident at an NYC hospital, have been planning a vacation to the Galapagos Islands for months, but when the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic begin to affect the city’s hospitals, Finn tells her she should take the trip alone. What neither of them knew was that Diana would get stuck on a remote island during quarantine, or just how much the experience would change them both. Join Stephanie and Hannah this week as they discuss one of the first popular novels to center around our recent pandemic and speculate about what writing and art will look like in a post-Covid world.
Resources:
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2020/05/icu-delirium/611155/
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This week, Hannah assigns Stephanie her first nonfiction read for the podcast: Lynne Truss’s 2003 “runaway bestseller” Eats, Shoots and Leaves. But will Stephanie simply want to run away from this very British book about punctuation?
What’s the difference between a panda who eats shoots and leaves and a panda who eats, shoots, and leaves? The first is holding bamboo while the second is holding a gun, of course! In her book that takes its name from this joke, Lynne Truss discusses the history, correct usage, and egregious misuse of our most common English punctuation with biting, British wit. Join Hannah and Stephanie this week as they discuss commas, apostrophes, and the evolution of language (alongside no less than three Office references).
Resources:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/06/28/bad-comma
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To wrap up June, Stephanie assigned Hannah a book that she thinks her friend will love, but that she herself hated. Will Hannah like Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney as much as Stephanie hated it, or will this assignment simply be a mutual rant between friends?
Frances and Bobbi, female college students in Dublin, are best friends with a romantic history and a creative connection. As they perform spoken-word poetry throughout the city, they catch the attention of author and photographer, Melissa, and her actor husband, Nick. The four form a close but fraught relationship, much of it centering on an affair between Nick and Frances. Join Stephanie and Hannah this week as they discuss this book whose author has been hailed as the voice of their generation and the importance of cultivating emotional intelligence.
Resources:
A New Kind of Adultery Novel | The New Yorker
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When Hannah read Naomi Alderman’s The Power, she was not a fan. However, she thought Stephanie might be. Will she be correct?
One day, women around the world wake up and realize they have a new physical power: the ability to conduct electricity through their hands. This evolutionary leap leads to an upheaval of cultural and social structures world-wide as women take back the power that has been withheld from them in places like government, business, media, and religion. But the things that the women do with their new power are not always an improvement. Join Hannah and Stephanie this week as they discuss themes of gender, religion, and–of course–power, in Alderman’s dystopian take on the female revenge narrative.
Resources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/books/review/naomi-alderman-power.html
https://www.vogue.com/article/the-power-naomi-alderman
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Stephanie thinks Hannah will love–or at least, not hate–Laura Sebastian’s take on the Arthurian legend, Half Sick of Shadows. Will Stephanie’s prediction, unlike many of the Lady of Shalott’s visions in the novel, come true?
Elaine, only daughter of the kingdom of Shalott, has a secret: she sees visions of the future. After leaving her oppressive mother in the court of Camelot, Elaine grows up on the fay-inhabited island of Avalon alongside Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, and Morgana. When the five friends must return to court to help Arthur claim his throne, Elaine’s visions of the future will be tested, and the heavy weight of all their choices will continually haunt her. Join Stephanie and Hannah this week as they discuss this female-centered revision of the story of Camelot and why they would definitely not want to see the future.
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We're releasing this guest episode from the vault!
For the March 2023 bonus guest episode, Hannah and Stephanie sat down with Hannah’s sister! Rachel is a public school librarian, and Hannah asked her to bring a book that she loves and a book she hates from her YA shelves to share with the podcast. Join these three ladies as they discuss the joys and frustrations that sometimes accompany reading!
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This June we’re breaking the formula! Hannah and Stephanie each assign the other a book that they think their friend will like. Hannah’s pick for Stephanie is a book she has wanted her to read since they were in college together: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.
As she begins her freshman year of high school, Melinda is coping with a trauma that is not immediately apparent to the reader, but is revealed to be a sexual assault by an older classmate at a party during the summer. In shock after her rape, Melinda calls 911, but then disappears, leaving all her peers to label her as simply the girl who “called the cops” on their party and then ostracize her at school. The novel’s action centers on Melinda’s attempts to cope with her trauma, most notably of which is her stubborn refusal to speak. Join Hannah and Stephanie this week as they share two different but valuable perspectives on this book and the issues it brings to light.
Resources:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/404125/pdf
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This week Stephanie makes yet another attempt at romance, assigning Hannah to read Lyssa Kay Adams’ The Bromance Book Club. Will she finally find a romance that Hannah doesn’t hate?
Gavin and Thea Scott’s marriage is in jeopardy. The final straw is Gavin’s revelation that his wife has been faking it in the bedroom during their three-year marriage. Then Gavin’s friends and fellow MLB teammates bring him help from the most unlikely of places: an induction into their club of men who read romance novels. Join Stephanie and Hannah this week as they discuss romance tropes, marriage, and a broader definition of both masculinity and femininity.
Resources:
https://thenerddaily.com/lyssa-kay-adams-author-interview/
https://theeverydaymagazine.co.uk/fictionandpoetry/talking-to-lyssa-kay-adams
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To get back at Stephanie for assigning her a sad book, Hannah assigns Stephanie Yu Miri’s Tokyo Ueno Station. Will Stephanie find its bleak story as upsetting as Hannah found The Four Winds?
Kazu has lived his whole life in poverty, resulting in his last place of residence being a makeshift tent outside Ueno Station in Tokyo. As a ghost, he continues to reside in this busy park and must now contemplate the life–or lack thereof–he left behind. Join Hannah and Stephanie this week as they discuss the issues of poverty and isolation that this book attempts to highlight, while also trying to discern which types of “sadness” they can each handle in a book.
Resources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/books/yu-miri-tokyo-ueno-station.html
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2020/06/25/tokyo-ueno-station/
https://electricliterature.com/a-ghost-haunts-the-tokyo-olympics/
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