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The sisters start their journey to Hampden College in Vermont. As the title and book cover would suggest, the story starts off a little slow. However, Candice has cooked up a theory that 1) everyone is gay and 2) the students are in a cult. Chrissy has cooked up an alternative theory that Bunny will be dead by Chapter 4 and Henry is not a demon but an upstanding young man.

Tune in next time as the Secret History heats up and more theories ensue!

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After a quick reprieve from the depressing throws of Babel, the sisters journey back into the abyss of dark academia with The Secret History.

In an attempt to build up as many rations as possible, today is only the Author Recap. We will be covering Ch 1 - 4 in next weeks episode - see you there :)

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You asked for it and now you have it - a full read story by the Bookalicious Sisters!

This is a F R E E book in the public domain (so no asking for actively copywritten books) The sisters travel to Czech to uncover a new-to-us fairytale, Katcha & the Devil. This story has twists and turns and an unexpected part ii.

Enjoy this palette cleanse. Next week we are go back into Dark Academia with The Secret History. See you there

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RF Kuang took a page out of Brandon Sanderson's book and decided everything will happen in the final 10% of Robin's story. The sisters are deeply disappointed by Letty, who they thought was similar to Hermione but turned out to be Lord Voldemort.

Overall we enjoyed the first 3/4 of the read but the ending fell a little flat for us. We appreciated the lessons learned along the way but feel bummed out there was no hope for the Letty's.

Thanks for joining the club! We will see you next week for a special episode and then we will go back to Dark Academia with The Secret History

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Notes: this book discusses big themes that neither of us are qualified for: colonialism, racism, sexism, and a few other *isms i'm forgetting. We do our best to navigate, but this book challenged some of our own beliefs so you will see some growth as we navigate our own thoughts

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Life is humming along at Oxford. The group of 4 study and pass finals and Robin is officially OUT of Hermes.

Letty convinces the crew to go to the once in a life-time University College Ball, even though the rest of the cohort are certain they will be treated like waitstaff and experience nonstop microaggressions. Letty says, no way! We are all Babel students in polite society. No one will treat you badly. Jokes on everyone as the ball turns out just as bad as the crew thought it would.

Lovell finds out about Robin's interaction with Hermes. Instead of getting kicked out of Babel, Lovell tries the nice-guy tactic. This is about as effective as an alligator trying to smile at you. Robin almost falls for it but then ends up doing something that will change the trajectory of his story.

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Notes: this book discusses big themes that neither of us are qualified for: colonialism, racism, sexism, and a few other *isms i'm forgetting. We do our best to navigate, but this book challenged some of our own beliefs so you will see some growth as we navigate our own thoughts

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Robin starts his subterfuge as a Hermes associate. During the day he is mild manner student, at night he is helping Griffin steal school supplies from the Babel Tower. Why? We aren't sure and Griffin won't say.

As the semesters tick by, we watch the group of 4 go through the waves of cohort friendship - honeymoon bliss where everything is new, jealousy as members of the cohort try things on their own and frustrations as finals come by.

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Notes: this book discusses big themes that neither of us are qualified for: colonialism, racism, sexism, and a few other *isms i'm forgetting. We do our best to navigate, but this book challenged some of our own beliefs so you will see some growth as we navigate our own thoughts

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The sisters journey back-in-time to a not so different past of 1800's England. This listener recommended book is complex, deep, and full of important discussion topics!

Disclaimer, we are self-identified Letty's and do our best to navigate important topics on racism, classism, and colonialism. We aren't experts but these are our thoughts and we are open to hear your thoughts as well.

Thanks to our listener Ananathnid who recommended this thought-provoking read!

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Hi bookalicious girlies!

We get off to a slow start with our Babel recap, which is fitting as this is a meandering novel, as we only cover our Author recap + a 15 minute detour into my (Candice's) Lasik eye surgery story. You may say, wow we wanted a recap of the book not your medical mysteries.

To that I say, you're welcome. You will need the extra time to read and work through the episodes. Each one is a 90 min - 2 hour bonanza.

See you NEXT week when we break down Part 1 of Babel (Chapters 1 - 6)

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In this EMERGENCY episode, Bookalicious Pod has you covered on everything you need to know about our Queen, Freida McFadden's, REAL identity as Dr. Sara Cohen!! In this much needed author recap, news anchor Candice fights her way through the crowds to gather all of the important details on our favorite thriller writer.

Covered in this episode:

Dr. Freida in Braintree

What is a physiatrist?

Open Book with Jenna: Interview with Freida McFadden

Join us next week for another author recap- This time on R. F. Kuang! We will be reading Babel for the next few millenia. Get your book and start reading now to catch up with us!

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The sisters have once again been outfoxed by Freida McFadden.

How did the not guess that Daisy was only spiritually dead to Tom & not physically dead and has been masquerading as Gretchen? How were they dumb enough to think that there are two weirdo men in this book obsessed with bugs that were unrelated?

The sisters break down all the plot points and add a new metric to their scoring book for thrillers - was this solvable? The verdict? No. What say you?

Thank you for joining the club & buckle up girly pops, our next read is anything but fast fashion fiction as we break down RF Kuang's best selling novel; Babel

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