Episodes

  • FROM THE VAULT: July Guest Episode with Ann Marie Norrid
    Sep 18 2023

    BONUS EPISODE FROM THE VAULT!


    For this month’s guest episode, Stephanie and Hannah are joined by their good friend and fellow reader, Ann Marie, to discuss a book that Ann Marie loved and Stephanie hated: The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. (Hannah hasn’t read it, but we all know she doesn’t care about spoilers.) Join these three friends as they discuss print vs. audio books, the perils of listening to books at work, and the awkwardness of dragon sex (yes, you read that right) in this New Adult fantasy romance novel. And be prepared to laugh. A lot. 


    Ann Marie’s bookstagram account: @annmariereads

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    41 mins
  • FROM THE VAULT: July Topic - Goodreads' Worst Rated Books
    Sep 11 2023

    BONUS EPISODE FROM THE VAULT


    This month, Hannah shares with Stephanie summaries and reviews of some of the worst-rated books on Goodreads. There is no “might” about how much these reviewers hate these books! Join the ladies as they discuss everything from authors behaving badly on social media to the perils of self-publishing. 


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    35 mins
  • FROM THE VAULT: June Topic - The Sense of An Ending Movie
    Sep 4 2023

    SURPRISE! We've released another BONUS EPISODE FROM THE VAULT!


    This month, Stephanie and Hannah make good on a previous idea and review the movie adaptation of one of the books featured on the show. Together they watched the 2017 adaptation of Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending, and then reconvened to answer the all-important question: Was the book really better than the movie?


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    23 mins
  • FROM THE VAULT: June Guest Episode with Loren Warf
    Aug 28 2023

    SURPRISE! An episode from the vault!


    For this June’s guest episode, Stephanie and Hannah again return to their book club and invite English professor, Dr. Loren Warf, to share two books: one that she loved to read but hated to teach, and another that she loved to teach but hated to read. Join these three friends as they discuss Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Neal Shusterman’s Scythe, and what there is to love and hate about both. 


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    35 mins
  • FROM THE VAULT: May Topic - Currently Reading
    Aug 21 2023

    SURPRISE! An episode from the vault!


    For this month’s bonus topical episode, Hannah and Stephanie share all the other books they’re reading. You know, the books they actually choose for enjoyment. Join them as they discuss everything from celebrity memoirs to parenting books to collections of short stories and more!


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    32 mins
  • FROM THE VAULT: May Guest Episode with Marla Record
    Aug 14 2023

    SURPRISE! An episode from the vault!


    For May’s bonus guest episode, Stephanie and Hannah invite their friend and fellow book club member, Marla Record, to the show. Marla asked Hannah and Stephanie to read Abbott, the limited run comic series about a Black female detective in Detroit in the 1970s who encounters not only systemic racism, but a supernatural threat to her city. Join the ladies this month as they have a lively discussion about the medium of comics and graphic novels (and why you definitely shouldn’t hate them). 


    Resources: 

    Detroit Under Fire: https://policing.umhistorylabs.lsa.umich.edu/s/detroitunderfire/page/home 


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    49 mins
  • FROM THE VAULT: April Topic - Tropes with Akacyea Deck
    Aug 7 2023

    SURPRISE! An episode from the vault!


    For this April’s bonus topical episode, Stephanie and Hannah sit down with their friend Kacye to discuss common tropes in the genres they love! As they enumerate the tropes they love and, of course, hate from the romance, fantasy, and thriller genres, they find they have more in common than they thought.  


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    43 mins
  • 37. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
    Jul 31 2023

    This week, Hannah takes Stephanie back to their very first episode by assigning another Kazuo Ishiguro novel, The Buried Giant. Will Stephanie hate this one as much as she disliked Never Let Me Go


    In post-Arthurian Britain, where a dragon sleeps guarded by Sir Gawain and a mist of forgetfulness covers the land, an elderly couple named Axl and Beatrice search for their son. As they encounter neighbors who can no longer remember the war that once pitted them against each other, the couple slowly starts to recover their memory and finds that their love will be tested. Join Hannah and Stephanie this week as they discuss fantasy, allegory, and literary fiction, and how these things do (or don’t, depending on who you ask) work together. 


    Resources: 

    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/the-book-of-sorrow-and-forgetting/384968/ 

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/23/the-uses-of-oblivion 

    https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/books/review/kazuo-ishiguros-the-buried-giant.html 

    https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/books/for-kazuo-ishiguro-the-buried-giant-is-a-departure.html 


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    1 hr and 5 mins