In this chaotic ramble, the crones tackle a deceptivelysimple question: If you could only read books with plot twists you always guess correctly, or ones with endings that leave you utterly baffled, which would you choose?

Chell immediately compares the question to an icebreakerone of her personal nightmares and declares she’d rather roll naked over LEGO than share a “fun fact” about herself. Naturally, she chooses the baffling endings. Confusion over vulnerability any day.

Annette, on the other hand, reveals her delicious littlesecret: she lives for the moment she can say “I told you so.”Predictable twists? Bring them on. She wants the satisfaction, the smugness, the victory lap.

Settle in for a cozy, comedic, and slightly unhingedliterary dilemma.

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This week on Two Crones and a Book, the bingo wheel demanded colour and the crones delivered.

Chell dives into Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey, a memoir‑meets‑life‑philosophy mashup full of wild stories, questionable decisions and the kind of cosmic yee‑haw wisdom only McConaughey can get away with. Was it profound? Was it unhinged? Was it both? Chell has thoughts.

Meanwhile, Annette ventures into the haunting world of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She unpacks the creeping dread, the feminist fury, and the wallpaper pattern that absolutely refuses to mind its own business.

Together, the crones compare notes on colour, chaos, and how two books with hues in their titles can live on completely different ends of the literary spectrum.

Grab your bingo cards, settle in, and let the crones guide you through another gloriously bookish adventure.

SPOILERS, MATURE THEMES AND LANGUAGE SOME LISTENERS MAYFIND OFFENSIVE.

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This week on Two Crones and a Book, we ask the only question that truly matters: If you could teleport into a book’s most dramatic moment… would you help, or would you absolutely make it worse?

Spoiler: we chose chaos. And trouble. And maybe a little light meddling that would make any author weep. Join us as we insert ourselves into iconic scenes, derail plot lines, rescue characters who didn’t ask for it and accidentally (on purpose) spark new disasters.

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This week on Two Crones and a Book, we dust off our bingo cards and dive headfirst into the square that made us both sweat a little: Read Something Out of Your Comfort Zone.

Chell wandered into the wild world of small‑town secrets and menopausal mayhem with A Hot Flash of Homicide by Dawn Dugle and let’s just say the title does not exaggerate. Meanwhile, Annette took a hard left turn into the unsettling, unforgettable, and deeply disturbing with Let’s Go Play at the Adams by Mendal W. Johnson.

Join us as we unpack what shocked us, what surprised us and what we’ll never emotionally recover from. Expect cackles, side‑eye and the occasional existential crisis.

SPOILERS, MATURE THEMES AND LANGUAGE SOME LISTENERS MAYFIND OFFENSIVE.

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This week, the crones crack open the metaphorical spineof their own lives and ask the ultimate storytelling question: If your life were a book, what would be the first line of the prologue?

From dramatic declarations to dry sarcasm, Annette andChell explore how one sentence can set the tone for an entire existence or at least the current chapter. Expect existential musings, chaotic energy, and a few lines that probably belong in a gothic novella or a dark comedy.

Whether your prologue starts with “It wasn’t supposed togo like this…” or “She woke up already tired of everything,” this episode is a celebration of the weird, wonderful ways we narrate our own lives.

Grab your imaginary quill, your emotional baggage, andyour favourite cup of tea this one’s a cozy spiral into literaryself-reflection.

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This week on Two Crones and a Book, Annette and Chell spin the bingo wheel and land on the prompt: A place you’ve never been. From the depths of the ocean to the winding paths of a magical house, theCrones take you on a journey through two wildly different realms of fantasy.

🧠 Annette dives into the abyss with Point Nemo by Jeremy Robinson, narrated by R.C. Bray. It’s a mind-bending, bioluminescent romp through the most remote spot on Earth, where science fiction meets cosmic horror and the mushrooms glow withmenace.

🏡 Chell wanders the whimsical corridors of Howls Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, specifically the illustrated Folio Society edition. With its enchanting artwork and classic Wynne Jones charm, this tale of magical misdirection and reluctant heroism offers a cozy counterpoint to Annette’s deep-sea dread.

Together, they explore how unfamiliar settings shape character, tone, and reader experience—and how fantasy lets us travel to places we may never physically reach, but can always visit in story.

SPOLIERS, MATURE THEMES AND LANUGAUGE SOME LISTENERS MAYFIND OFFENSIVE.

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In this delightfully chaotic 'Chat n’ Cackle' episode, Annette and Chell settle in with cups of something cosy and dive into the books that have shaped their reading year so far. From eerie horror valleys to motel mysteries, from heartfelt memoirs to unsettling classics, the Crones cover a stack of stories that made them gasp, giggle, or stay up far too late.

This episode’s reading pile includes:

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  This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer

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  Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

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  The Lamb by Lucy Rose

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  Come Closer by Sara Gran

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  The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

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  Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy

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  The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams

Play Nice by Rachel Harrison

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Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton

We Call Them Witches by India-Rose Bower

Expect tangents, laughter, strong opinions, and the kind of bookish chaos only Annette and Chell can conjure. Whether you’ve read these titles or are just here for the cackles, this episode is a warm, witty wander through their current literary landscape.

SPOLIERS, MATURE THEMES AND LANUGAUGE SOME LISTENERS MAYFIND OFFENSIVE.

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In this week’s ramble, the crones dive into the strangelytherapeutic art of diagnosing your life with book titles. Because sometimes the only way to make sense of a week is to let literature do the talking.

Annette arrives armed with a trio of titles that paint a picture all on their own: the existential haze of The Plague by Albert Camus, the tender exhaustion of If the Body Allows It by Megan Cummins and the slow, contemplative survival energy of The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey. If that doesn’t sum up a week, what does.

Chell, meanwhile, needs only one title to capture the full emotional landscape: A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snickett. Sometimes simplicity is the most honest form of storytelling.

Together, the crones unpack why these titles hit so hard,how books become emotional shorthand and what it means when your life starts sounding like a syllabus of chaos.

Settle in for a cozy, candid, and slightly unhinged chat because if you can’t laugh at your own plot twists, what’s the point.

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In this episode, the crones spin the great wheel of Book Bingo and land on the square that demands absolute superficiality: judge a book by its cover. No blurbs. No reviews. No recommendations. Just vibes, colours, and whatever strange energies radiate from the front design.

• Chell is lured in by the bold, unsettling imagery of Before and After by Andrew Shanahan — a cover that whispers, “This might get weird,” and oh… it does.

  
  

• Annette succumbs to the eerie, earthy strangeness of When Darkness Loves Us by Elizabeth Engstrom — a cover that promises something feral, something tender, and something deeply, deliciously wrong.

  
  

Together, they unravel how these covers seduced them, whether the stories lived up to the promise (or threat), and what happens when you let your eyeballs, not your brain choose your next read. Expect cackling, tangents, mild existential dread, and the occasional moment of genuine literary insight.

SPOLIERS, MATURE THEMES AND LANUGAUGE SOME LISTENERS MAYFIND OFFENSIVE.

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In this delightfully unhinged ramble episode, the croneswander off the beaten path and straight into the world of imaginary candle-making. If books had scent profiles, which stories would make the most irresistible, haunting, or downright questionable candles?

Annette brings the eerie forest shadows of The Watchersby A.M. Shine and the nostalgic, neon-tinged strangeness of The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson. Expect notes of damp moss, old secrets, and maybe a hint of childhood trauma.

Chell counters with the gothic decadence of Dracula, thewhimsical, smoky magic of The Midnight Circus by Erin Morgenstern, and because great minds think alike another dive into The Watchers. Apparently that book just smells like something worth bottling.

Together, the crones explore which stories would makecomforting candles, which would make cursed ones, and which should probably never be lit indoors.

Grab your tea, your cauldron, or your favourite questionable candle and settle in for a cozy, chaotic chat.

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