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PRODUCTION NOTE: Our name has changed but our levels of delusion and derangement have not! Lit By Moonlight is now Normal About It - where we're anything but!

This week we're stepping back into the Remnant Chronicles universe with Mary E. Pearson's post-trilogy sequel, Vow of Thieves! As two people who still haven't read The Remnant Chronicles trilogy (it's on our TBR we swear) we thoroughly enjoyed this book! One of us even starts full on crying in this episode while talking about it. It's just a beautiful story, okay!!!! Also in this episode, we talk about the strong protagonists that are Kazi and Jase, the Ballenger family members that are on our shit list, Jase restoring our faith in male main characters, and the absolute best trope to ever exist in literature. Kaitlin gets so excited about this trope she knocks her mic over, and now that she's typing this description, she's wondering if maybe that's why it stopped working properly halfway through which then caused some additional editing...who's to say! 

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PRODUCTION NOTE: Our name has changed but our levels of delusion and derangement have not! Lit By Moonlight is now Normal About It - where we're anything but!

This week we're visiting another book by Madeline Miller that made both of us go oingo boingo bonkers insane! Circe takes us to a vivid and beautiful world full of the most incredible prose we've ever read. We discuss womanhood, what it means to be alive, how this book made us think about our parents, share a handful of Miller's jaw-dropping quotes, and finally, Emberlin tries to get Kaitlin canceled when their zoom meeting ended in the middle of recording. She had it coming! 

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PRODUCTION NOTE: Our name has changed but our levels of delusion and derangement have not! Lit By Moonlight is now Normal About It - where we're anything but!

Folks (of the air)! we do not like this book. but if you listened to our review of The Cruel Prince you probably could've guessed that. If you or a loved one have had to read about a man's tail caressing another woman, you may be entitled to auditory compensation-and that is listening to us rant about The Wicked King! Join us as we attempt to find any world building, discuss a main character who is clever but only when it's convenient, attempt to figure out why the book is titled what it is when no context really supports it, and talk about what this book could've been about if it wasn't full of nonsense. If you wear headphones while listening, this is your warning that we yell a lot throughout this episode! :)

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PRODUCTION NOTE: Our name has changed but our levels of delusion and derangement have not! Lit By Moonlight is now Normal About It - where we're anything but!

WELCOME BACK TO OUR FANTASY LAND!! This week we are entering our Fantasy Era Round 2: Electric Boogaloo with Leigh Bardugo's sequel to the grishaverse, Siege and Storm! In this episode we pour out all of our love for arguably one of the best literary characters of all time, Leigh drops us into a Mario Kart race with no forewarning, Emberlin shares her thoughts on how urban planning should go in fantasy worlds, and we both share our hopes and predictions for season two of Netflix's Shadow and Bone!

drop us a comment if you know what the bees are :)

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TW: Domestic Abuse, Rape, Gore, Death 

PRODUCTION NOTE: Our name has changed but our levels of delusion and derangement have not! Lit By Moonlight is now Normal About It - where we're anything but!

In our final installment of #SbooktacularOctober, we travel up to an isolated mountain where more than one type of monster is wreaking havoc on one woman's life. In this episode, our love for The Cryptid Factor collides with Christina Henry's thriller, Near the Bone! We share our most favorite cryptid creatures, how everyone (except William) deserved so much better, and Emberlin pitches a new cryptid centered show that we need to watch ASAP!

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TW: violence, rape and sexual assault, murder, gore, drug addiction, overdosing, death, suicide, blackmail, self-harm, and forced consumption of human waste. 

PRODUCTION NOTE: Our name has changed but our levels of delusion and derangement have not! Lit By Moonlight is now Normal About It - where we're anything but!

In our third week of #SbooktacularOctober, we're talking all things Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo. It's safe to say this episode is a little chaotic. To kick things off, Kaitlin gets one of the best emails of her life, Emberlin relives the trauma of finding out Santa isn't real, Manny makes his ASMR debut, and is all of the lore to Lethe House really that important? If we know anything, it's that there's Too Many Cooks. 

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PRODUCTION NOTE: Our name has changed but our levels of delusion and derangement have not! Lit By Moonlight is now Normal About It - where we're anything but!

It's the second week of our Sbooktacular October and we're reading another classic horror novel! In our discussion of Stephen King's The Shining, Kaitlin finally puts her degree to use, Emberlin has a love/hate relationship with King's writing, we take a step into the wonderful world of Dad Lore and, we discuss if a book can really scare you when you've already lived through The Horrors.

Manny also eats some micro plastics but that's just how he copes. 

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PRODUCTION NOTE: Our name has changed but our levels of delusion and derangement have not! Lit By Moonlight is now Normal About It - where we're anything but!

Welcome to the first week of Sbooktacular October! Each Thursday of this month, we'll be reviewing a ~spooky~ book for the ~spooky~ season! To kick things off we're starting with the classic 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. In this episode we discuss the things that scare us most, doomed characters and the yearning for a different life, comparing the book to the Netflix television series of the same name and finally, how all ghosts are our friends (well, at least the chill ones are). 

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PRODUCTION NOTE: Our name has changed but our levels of delusion and derangement have not! Lit By Moonlight is now Normal About It - where we're anything but!

For our final review of our Back to School reads we tackle the Arthur Miller play ‘The Crucible.’ In this episode, we dive into the history of the Salem Witch Trials, and by ‘we’ we mean Emberlin because Kaitlin is canonically terrible at history and also still hasn’t learned her lesson with audiobooks. We may or may not prove that the teacher who accused us of cheating in high school right, the scary times of living during a time when when people were getting accused of witchcraft and our final high school memory of a terrible night that allegedly happened! 

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GENERAL CONTENT WARNING FOR THIS EPISODE: Violence (mentioned throughout the episode due to the subject matter of the book) and Sexual Assault (around the 23 minute mark when the author William Golding is mentioned). 

PRODUCTION NOTE: Our name has changed but our levels of delusion and derangement have not! Lit By Moonlight is now Normal About It - where we're anything but!

Welcome to the Jungle! This week we discuss a sophomore year of high school read-Lord of the Flies by William Golding. In this episode we discuss symbolism, whether or not children stranded on an island would actually Be Like That, our feelings on reading the book in high school versus now, we find out whether or not we would survive on a desert island, and finally...y'all remember silly bandz?!?!?

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