After Victor succeeds in what he has been killing himself to achieve his eyes are opened to the horror of what he's done. But rather than step up, he runs away and tragedy eventually catches up to him.

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Tonight we'll hear the beginnings of the cautionary tale that Victor Frankenstein shares with Walton. But rather than listening to the words themselves we'll pay attention to what isn't being said. We'll dig beneath the superficial, romantic layers of his tale and ask the probing questions that no one around him dared to do. 

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The world Frankenstein was born into was fraught with emotional madness. His story is one of intense passion and despair but also full of caution for the man who wants to follow his heart against all sound reason.

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Tonight we cover the context and backstory of one of the most impactful novels of Western Culture. A young woman surrounded by tragedy and pain, poured her sorrow into authoring a fable that spawned a new literary genre and a character recognizable anywhere.

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What we read forms our minds. We will become what we behold.

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Tonight is a brief recap of my reading in 2025. 

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Beware the doppelganger. Find out how tonight's featured author reworks the timeless theme of the villainous twin.

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Tonight's episode reviews an old book that was banned from being printed until 1973. Why are some books challenged? Should their questionable content stop us from reading them? What's a better way to approach different ideas and viewpoints?

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How much of the cares of this world can one woman carry on her shoulders? Thomas Hardy tries to answer this question in his classic, Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Tonight's episode explores the worldviews Hardy struggled with in Victorian England and what he puts his heroine through to express to the world the tragic results of man-made religion and man centered philosophy.

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Our first episode of Season 6 looks at four things about better books that can change our lives when we read them.

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