Judging Book Covers

This episode is dedicated to Chris. Happy belated birthday! 

We finally get a relaxing break and decided to read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams! We also discuss A Simple Favor, another book that you should see the movie first. What IS the question that has the answer 42?!

Next Week: A memoir

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Happy Banned Book Week! Stephanie and Meghan discuss one of the more popular banned books: Beloved by Toni Morrison. All the content warnings. And we feel them in our bones. 

Next episode: A Book We Saw The Movie First

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This week Stephanie and Meghan tackle one of Obama's favorite 2018 books: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones! This episode is also extra bonus discussion of Hunger Games, as Stephanie finished the series after last episode. 

An American Marriage has discussions of rape, infidelity, and abortions, so just a heads up. It's a rough yelling ride. 

Next episode: Banned Book Week

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Stephanie and Meghan tackle a book by an author from their state: Suzanne Collins from Connecticut! Stephanie had not read Hunger Games, while Meghan realizes it's probably her favorite YA series. 

We discuss the terrifying possibility of the Games happening, our favorite characters, and how a post-Game of Thrones world has led Stephanie to believe none of her characters are safe! 

Next book: A 2018 award winning book

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Several weeks ago, Stephanie and Meghan wavered between reading Rebecca and One Hundred Years of Solitude. When Facebook helped them decide to read the first, they saw an opportunity to read the second as well. 

What happens when an entire family names everyone the same name? What's more important, family or war? How should you treat our partner's side piece, or their children? All this and more! 

Next Up: A book by an author from your state

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It is summer, so of course Stephanie and Meghan are continuing to do some school-ish summer reading. This week they read The Scarlet Letter, a book Meghan read in high school and hated. Has it gotten better with age?

Next Up: A book translated into English!

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Today Stephanie and Meghan read a Gothic classic: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier! We discuss if it is actually a romantic love story, what we thought the book would be about, and man how young our poor narrator actually is! 

Next Up: Rereading an assigned book from school!  

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This week Stephanie and Meghan tackle Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber! We discuss all ten stories in the collection, not just the first story! 

Book drink: Bloody Marys 

Next Up: A classic we haven't read before! 

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This week Stephanie and Meghan try to understand some poetry, so they invite Megan Sunday of Let's Get Weirding to help them find some poetry they'll actually like! 

Megan definitely delivered, as we all read some Edna St. Vincent Millay's poetry that made us laugh, discuss how revisionist American history is, and how frustrated some women were with the perspective people had of them. We also discuss the Lifetime movies based on V.C. Andrews books, Downton Abbey, and American literature and how it is taught. 

Poems discussed in the episode: 

"I, being a woman and distressed"

"Justice Denied in Massachusetts"

"Humoresque"

"Oh oh you will be sorry for that word"

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This week Stephanie and Meghan dive into a collection of essays: The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley! And we do spend this episode as an excuse to talk about our woes in pop culture. 

Cocktail: Hair of the llama cocktail

Next Up: A collection of poetry 

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