Book Cult

Today we read TWO books, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Extremly Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safron Foer. We discuss why these books are banned, how many times one of us cried, and parenting styles of fictional characters!

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Who is the most famous witch in literature? How do you pronouce Elphaba? These are the questions we strive to answer on today's Halloween themed episode.

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Don't play tennis with these witches. A coven of three witches meet the new man in town, see his wild art and cool bath, and become obsessed with him...you can guess what happens next. John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick has the fall vibez for the spooky season but without the scare.

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We went to the Winchester Mystery House and want to tell you all about it. Listen to hear about spiderweb windows, stairs to nowhere, and maybe the coolest rich person to ever live.

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She's NOT like other girls, and he is clearly not like other boys...what could go wrong? Join us for the not wild enough ride that is Into the Darkness by V.C. Andrews, that is actually written by her ghost writer and it shows.

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On this episode we tell an Icelandic tale about black magic and men who aren't good with rejection and a Grimm's Fariytale of a girl boss who just wanted to break the glass ceiling and instead got criticized by a fish.

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It's an October Friday the 13th, the spookiest day possible and to celebrate we are talking about all the lore around The Exorcist. I mesn what really caused that fire, a bird or a demon?

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Watch out for demons and projectile vomit because we are talking about the horror classic, The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. This is the book that spurred the movie that shocked and horrified the world but really we are more shocked and horrified by the mounting medical bills this demon racked up.

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Since it's Banned Book Week, we are talking about one of the most banned authors, Toni Morrison. Not only has she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction but also a Nobel Peace Prize, her work describes the experience of being black in America and will remain a cuturally important piece of our history no matter how many racists try to keep people from reading it.

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Has science gone too far in the name or creating slave labor? Yes, obviously. Silvia Moreno-Garcia's take on the HG Wells classic is disturbing, compelling, and makes us want to take a trip to the Yucatan Peninsula (or maybe just have some jaguar DNA). 10/10 would read again.

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