Welcome back to Razzlefrat! While endings are bittersweet, we made sure to stay true to our weird selves. This episode we wrap up with the end of the year goals and thoughts for the future. A quick run-down of novellas from November and all the last of our 2024 reads. We discuss the play The Seagull by Anton Checkhov for our last book club. Be sure to follow us on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands to see any future bookish content. All 60 episodes will remain available to listen or download and our joint insta account @razzlefratpod will end but stay as a relic. Thank you to anyone and everyone to listened to our rambles and silly conversations, even from the days Eclectic Earth Witch and Contemporary Cat Lady. For the last and final time, we bid you farewell. xoxo, Razzlefrat

November Novella: 

https://lithub.com/the-50-best-contemporary-novels-under-200-pages/

https://lithub.com/50-great-classic-novels-under-200-pages

Books/authors mentioned this episode:

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This is our penultimate episode, and we had the election blues. BUT we knock them out (sort of) by looking ahead to our most anticipated reads of Spring 2025. Join us for our last review in our next and final episode. We’ll be reading The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @razzlefratpod! Until next time, we bid you farewell. xoxo, Razzlefrat

November Novella: 

https://lithub.com/the-50-best-contemporary-novels-under-200-pages/

https://lithub.com/50-great-classic-novels-under-200-pages

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, life is back to kicking our asses, but at least it’s fall? Then, we dive straight into our October book club pick: The Orchard by David Hopen! We talk faith, philosophy, the inexorable march of time… the usual suspects. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @razzlefratpod! Until next time, we bid you farewell. xoxo, Razzlefrat

November Novella Challenge 

50 Classic Novellas

50 Contemporary Novellas

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, sweater weather is back (and so are the muppets?). Then, we play a round of “Lifetime Movie or Commercial Thriller?” and all we have to say is: Lifetime, call us. We can help you. Join us next time for our book club read, The Orchard by David Hopen! Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @razzlefratpod! Until next time, we bid you farewell. xoxo, Razzlefrat

Books/authors mentioned this episode:

Filterworld by Kyle Chayka

This Other Eden by Paul Harding

Next to You by Helena Bonham Young

Gray After Dark by Noelle Ihli

Nowhere Like Home by Sara Shephard

The Devil and Mrs. Davenport by Paulette Kennedy

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson

Gathering of Shadows by VE Schwab

Graveyard Shift by ML Rio

Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake

Babel by RF Kuang

The Orchard by David Hopen

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, Tumblr is BACK, baby, and so is #soupszn. Also, we had a 24-hour readathon because we don’t do anything at half speed and reading is lifeeee. Then, we discuss this month’s film adaptation: Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh. We chat violence, alcoholism, and obsession—it’s very fun and light. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @razzlefratpod! Until next time, we bid you farewell. xoxo, Razzlefrat

Books/authors mentioned this episode:

My Murder by Katie Wiliams

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

Lightlark by Alex Aster

Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce

Swallow the Ghost by Eugenie Montague

City Limits by Megan Kimble

Funny Feelings by Tarah Dewitt

Babel by RF Kuang

The Orchard by David Hopen

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, Allie gets into chess and Ashtin continues her Sarah J Maas evangelism. Then, the fall weather has us putting on our professor hats. We discuss books we think should be studied in school as well as books that make you feel like you’re on a campus. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @razzlefratpod! Until next time, we bid you farewell. xoxo, Razzlefrat

Books/authors mentioned this episode:

The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

My Murder by Katie Wiliams

Daydream by Hannah Grace

Green Dot by Madeline Gray

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Vladimir by Julia May Jones

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The Atlas Six trilogy by Olivie Blake

The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Old School by Tobias Wolff

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

Lightlark by Alex Aster

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

Autumn by Ali Smith

Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, we’re recording IRL (!) and trying to manifest fall through Gilmore Girls rewatches and booking trips to Vermont. Then, we discuss this month’s book club pick, Memory Piece by Lisa Ko. We talk about gender, legacy, the nature of time, and whether a book can do TOO much (spoiler: it can). Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @razzlefratpod! Until next time, we bid you farewell. xoxo, Razzlefrat

Books/authors mentioned this episode:

Memory Piece by Lisa Ko

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

The Most by Jessica Anthony

The Evening Road by Laird Hunt

My Murder by Katie Wiliams

Daydream by Hannah Grace

Green Dot by Madeline Gray

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, we’re willing fall into existence. Then, Build-a-Bookworm with us! Finally, we discuss our most anticipated fall 2024 reads. Join is next time for our analysis of our August book, Memory Piece by Lisa Ko. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @razzlefratpod! Until next time, we bid you farewell. xoxo, Razzlefrat

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, Allie is headed to the beach for her annual getaway and Ashtin is sucking it up through jet lag and a cold. Then, because we know you’ve all been dying to know, in the wake of the NYT’s Top 100 Books of the 21st Century list, we reveal our own ballots. Then, a closer look at Breakfast at Tiffany’s starring Audrey Hepburn, our summer adaptation watch! Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @razzlefratpod! Until next time, we bid you farewell. xoxo, Razzlefrat

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, Allie’s taking measures to beat the NYC heat and Ashtin is dramatically jet setting to Europe to get away from it. Then, we play a round of bookish smash or pass: Summer Edition. Join us next time for our summer adaptation watch: Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @razzlefratpod! Until next time, we bid you farewell. xoxo, Razzlefrat

Books/authors mentioned this episode:

Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Piglet by Lottie Hazell

Saving Time by Jenny Odell

Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen

Beach Read by Emily Henry

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

Rouge by Mona Awad

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T Shirt by Madeline Pendleton

The Prince by Machiavelli