Book Cult

6 tattoos is way too many tattoos, according to a tattoo artist apparently. We are talking about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson and even though it is way too long it is still a wild murder mystery/financial crime mystery/Nazi family saga that you can hear all about.

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We love an anti-racist socialist and that is what Stieg Larsson was. While we may not suggest overworking yourself while smoking 60 cigarettes a day, we do suggest being as cool as Stieg. Also fuck his family for not giving his partner the rights to his writing.

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If you thought going to school sucked as a kid, then you are not ready to hear about how much worse it is to grow up with a fundamentlist, paranoid father who has almost complete control over your family and forces you to work in a scrap yard as a young child. Tara Westover's memoir might be controversial but there is no denying that this is the reality for some children and it is horrifying. 

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Today's theme is orphans, kind of. Join us for a runaway who likes to make sure she is covered in soot prior to cooking for a king and loves to hide her jewelry at the bottom of bowl. We also have the boxcar kids out of the boxcar and into a home with their grandfather who happens to be friends with a video game designer because why no.

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People want to make divorce harder or maybe even get rid of it altogether, and why? Because they hate everyone who isn't a straight man. Divorce literally has saved lives and anyone who says we should get rid of it is just wrong and probably a facist.

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The prequel and final book in the Cutler series is here and it is disturbing. Join us as we talk about a gross confederate legacy, romance novels making women crazy, and religious extremeism from a child. It is a classic VC Andrews novel so listen at your own risk.
Trigger warnings: animal cruelty, sexual abuse, child abuse, death of a child, death of a parent, additction

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Slightly bear themed story time with the tale of an artist looking for their muse and mans deal with the devil that naturally leads to marriage.

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Jesus is her boyfriend and it's really hard to compete with Jesus. Susan Campbell talks about growing up in a fundamentalist church and how from a young age she can't understand the way women are treated differently in the church. As a baby feminist in the 70s and 80s, Susan questions the church's teachings, rewrites the Bible and sells it to her grandma, and eventually comes to terms with her faith.

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Just last week the FBI released their first batch of documents from their file on the now deceased OJ Simpson. In this is a letter from a woman who felt OJ was innocent and that she knew who the real killer was. How did she know this? She saw it in her dreams.

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We're back at it with Dawn...for about 100 pages. Then we get the equally tragic story of her daughter, a teen runaway who maybe was living in the late 90s acting like she's in the 40s. It is a classic VC Andrew's plot and we love it. Warning: sexual assualt, death of a parent, family abuse.

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