The Haunting of Hill House
Happy Spooky Season! For this October we read The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, and you should too.Recommendations:* The Sonja Blue vampi...
That Book was BONKERS
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A podcast about literature and history. Every week Linnea Hartsuyker, Jessica Hatch, Manik Hinchey, and Reidan Fredstrom read a piece of literature and discuss its literary merits and historical context.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Off with their heads! This month we sympathized less with French aristocrats than author BARONESS Emmushka Orczy might wish. Blakeney is a himbo, Marg...
Northanger Abbey
Once upon a time, Jane Austen was a snarky teenager who had met too many goths. Gothic heroines that is. We read Northanger Abbey and found it bonkers...
Kindred by Octavia Butler
This month we took a break from bonkers books to read just a very solid novel, Kindred by Octavia Butler.Works mentioned include:* Hood Feminism by Mi...
North and South
Should you read North and South without seeing Richard Armitage play Mr. Thornton first? Our hosts say: mmmmmmaybe not. But we still (mostly) enjoyed ...
The Bloody Chamber
We read one of the best books of modern fairy tale retellings: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter.Mentioned in this ep:Snow White, Blood Red edited b...
Love's Labour's Lost
We drank some drinks, read some Shakespeare, became a little audience-hostile, while still loving every single one of you! Yes, it's Love's Labour's L...
The Diary of Fanny Parkes
Fanny Parkes was a middle class British woman who kept a diary of her years in India, and was one of the first white women ever allowed within a zenan...
Byron! Literary ****boi extroaordinaire
CONTENT WARNING: Byron's poetry contains lots of Orientalist language. He may have experienced and perpetrated sexual abuse and we discuss that all in...
The Master and Margarita
With giant cats, the Devil as a stage magician, and a lot of concern about Pontius Pilates' migraines, we've never read a book that fulfilled the brie...