Where this author makes up a fake origin story for a real man that died in 1942 during a bombing over France. It's highly offensive, especially since it prominently involves 'grabbing' a 'girdle' for some reason.Go on, read it for yourself:https://bookshop.org/a/12554/9780762463138Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info.

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Leaves of Glen Reads: 'Life and Adventures of Santa Clause' by Frank Baum

This week we look at one of the early Baby Sitters Club books, and are surprised at how much better it was than Twilight.We learn:Ben had the weirdest walk around the lake ever.Glen gossiped with his hair dresser.This weeks bird blurb is just all over the place and without structure.Ben has a closer relationship with his dad than Glen, because of the show 'Coach'.Go read it yourself:https://bookshop.org/books/the-truth-about-stacey-the-baby-sitters-club-3-volume-3-9781338642223/9781338642223Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info.

Book Boys review: 'The Baby-Sitters Club: The Truth About Stacey' by Ann M. Martin

There is a cat giving away his satanic nature by walking around on it's hind legs, killing with pleasure and threatening everyone around him and NO ONE seems to care.Go on, read it for yourself:https://bookshop.org/books/the-blue-fairy-book-annotated-9781099638268/9781099638268Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info.

Leaves of Glen Reads: 'The Master Cat: Or, Puss in Boots' from the Blue Fairy Book

Ben decided that we should make a 'banter heavy' holiday episode. The conversation is awkward and uncomfortable, but Ben reads a sample of some Thanksgiving Twilight fiction. So that makes it all worth it.We learn:Ben’s boss had all her family over for the holiday, even though she just got over Covid.Glen made a turkey for the first time in his life, and it was so disgusting that he's decided to be a vegitarian. There's no bird blurb segment from Gretchen, but we played her music anyway.Ben's not going to get any break-up closure.Ben does an amazing reading from 'The Thanksgiving Feast Twilight Fanfic' by EdwardHisTopazEyesGo read it yourself: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7573298/2/The-Thanksgiving-Feast-Twilight-FanficVisit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info.

Book Boys special Thanksgiving Day episode

A group of people agree to live together in a house, though none are really 'crazy' or in need of professional help. So I have no idea why it is called an asylum, but there's food at the end... A tale as old as time.Go on, read it for yourself:https://bookshop.org/books/the-children-s-book-of-thanksgiving-stories-9781497322141/9781497322141Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info.

Leaves of Glen Reads: 'Thanksgiving at Todd's Asylum' by Winthrop Packard from 'The Children's Book of Thanksgiving Stories'

We broke up book-3-of-the-4th-book-of-the-twilight-saga into three parts just to make everything more confusing. The vampires finally meet the volturi and almost nothing happens. This is a book. A book that a lot of people have read.We learn:Ben’s SINGLE!Glen has to convince a friend, who might have COVID that he should be more carefulGretchen has a thanksgiving segment!Ben's breakup is the best thing that's ever happened to the podcast.We find out that Sean Penn ISN'T dating Mercedes, Val Kilmer's daughter.Go read it yourself: https://bookshop.org/a/12554/9780316067935Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info.

Book Boys review ‘Breaking Dawn’ by Stephenie Meyer - Part 4

Falling in love is easy when you only care about looks, lucky for this lady she had a god-mother who doesn't see any problems with that.Go on, read it for yourself:https://bookshop.org/books/the-blue-fairy-book-annotated-9781099638268/9781099638268Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info.

Leaves of Glen Reads: 'Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper' from the Blue Fairy Book

The first story, about a weird man who just wants a kid. The second, another story about a dumb person who has unlimited power and doesn't know how to use it.Go on, read it for yourself:https://bookshop.org/books/the-blue-fairy-book-annotated-9781099638268/9781099638268Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info.

Leaves of Glen Reads: 'Rumpelstiltzkin & Why the Sea is Salt' from the Blue Fairy Book

A creepy kid stumbles on two items that bring him unlimited wishes. Of course he keeps forgetting that and spends the rest of the story wasting his own time- And also forcing a woman to love him.Go on, read it for yourself:https://bookshop.org/books/the-blue-fairy-book-annotated-9781099638268/9781099638268Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info.

Leaves of Glen Reads: 'Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp' from the Blue Fairy Book

Another episode where I read fairy tales like a crabby uncle. This one, about a boy who wants to feel fear so he lights fires and kills his way toward understanding… Because he’s a psychopath. That’s his real problem. It’s the story of a boy with a serious untreated condition. Angela Lansbury plays a big role in this story for me.Go on, read it for yourself:https://bookshop.org/books/the-blue-fairy-book-annotated-9781099638268/9781099638268Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info.

Leaves of Glen Reads: 'The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was' from the Blue Fairy Book

One story ends pretty abruptly, but that’s how it goes when the protagonist is murdered. The other involves marrying your grandma. I don’t even care what the rest of the story was about beyond that.Go on, read it for yourself:https://bookshop.org/books/the-blue-fairy-book-annotated-9781099638268/9781099638268Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info.

Leaves of Glen Reads: ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood’ from the Blue Fairy Book

We broke up book-3-of-the-4th-book-of-the-twilight-saga into two parts just to make everything more confusing. Bella’s conversion is complete and we get to learn all about how cool being a vampire is. Then, a baffling discussion about how the Volturi are on their way. And the baby is really creepy.We learn:Ben’s Manager STILL has Covid, and he’s STILL gladGlen spent Saturday night in a bar where a friend breathed all over himGretchen’s segment has Glen thinking she should have her own podcastBen had an actual date with an actual person.Glen and Ben talk at length about the benefits of bookshop.org and nuzzlehouse.com Go read it yourself: https://bookshop.org/a/12554/9780316067935Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info.

Book Boys review ‘Breaking Dawn’ by Stephenie Meyer - Part 3

What do you do if you’re poor as hell, but have a beautiful daughter? Sell her off to a white bear for money.Go on, read it for yourself:https://bookshop.org/books/the-blue-fairy-book-annotated-9781099638268/9781099638268Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info.

Leaves of Glen Reads: ‘East of the Sun and West of the Moon’ from the Blue Fairy Book

You know what takes a fairy tale from average to ‘top-shelf’? A yellow dwarf sitting in a tree eating oranges. Everyone dies in the end.Go on, read it for yourself:https://bookshop.org/books/the-blue-fairy-book-annotated-9781099638268/9781099638268Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info.

Leaves of Glen Reads: ‘The Yellow Dwarf’ from the Blue Fairy Book

‘The Bronze Ring’ is the story of hubris. ‘Prince Hyacinth…’ is about how you should hope you’re never born ugly.Go on, read it for yourself:https://bookshop.org/books/the-blue-fairy-book-annotated-9781099638268/9781099638268Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info.

Leaves of Glen Reads: ‘The Bronze Ring’ and ‘Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess’ from the Blue Fairy Book

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