Another doozy of an episode this month. You can thank Laurel and her plethora of oddly upbeat books. Matt's DJ names take on a life of their own, we debate the merits of a 1-5 Star rating system, and we all agree George Saunders definitely isn't a prick. Brittany goes full Standerson over a graphic novel, we get Mattsplained™ Pokémon, and Heather pulls a Matt. But, the real journey was the friends we made along the way, or something. 

Book Mentions:

Heather: 

Fuzz by Mary Roach

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

Matt:

Penny: a Graphic Memoir by Karl Stevens

Sapiens: a Graphic History, volume 2: the Pillars of Civilization by Yuval Noah Harari 

The Handbook to Lazy Parenting by Guy Delisle

Laurel:

Fox 8 by George Saunders

In. by Will McPhair

Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel

The Return by Rachel Harrison

Brittany:

The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

The Secret Skin by Wendy N. Wagner

Dark One by Brandon Sanderson and Jackson Lanzing

Noor by Nnedi Okorafor

As ever, thank you to Shane Ivers of Silvermansound.com for the use of VHS Dreams as our intro and outro music.