Ep 498 - Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A run-down mansion decades past its former glory, a headstrong heroine, a creepy family, and mushrooms all come together to form a perfect, spooky sto...
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Overdue is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. Join Andrew and Craig each week as they tackle a new title from their backlog. Classic literature, obscure plays, goofy murder mysteries: they'll read it all, one overdue book at a time.
Ep 497 - Peace, by Gene Wolfe
Spooktober continues! A narrator wanders rooms in his old house, telling the reader stories about his life. Is he an old man responding to a psycholog...
Ep 496 - The Invisible Man, by H.G. Wells
Spooktober 2021 kicks off with a book about a jerk who turned himself invisible and then was still a jerk! The titular invisible man is a forerunner t...
Jagged Little Mill, a Don Quixote miniseries - Episodes 7 & 8
Enjoy another episode of our newest show-within-a-show! We're reading Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes a few chapter...
Ep 495 - Eragon
Natasha from the Unspoiled podcast joins us this week to hatch a podcast about Eragon, a book that borrows freely from every other fantasy/sci-fi stor...
Ep 494 - The Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner
It's time to solve the mystery of the Boxcar Children! (Or is it The Box-Car Children?) Warner's novel about a quartet of self-sufficient kiddos under...
Ep 493 - Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
Craig and Andrew said they would record the podcast themselves. This very modern episode about a very modern novel discusses Woolf's signature writing...
Ep 492 - Too Like the Lightning, by Ada Palmer
Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning is mostly concerned with big historical questions like "what if nationality had nothing to do with geography" and ...
Ep 491 - Space Jam, by Nancy E. Krulik (Bonus Episode)
Everybody get up it's time to read now. We got a podcast goin' now. Welcome to the Space Jam! Join us as we talk about a storybook edition of the 1996...
Ep 490 - East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
After 488 episodes, we finally return to ol' Johnny Steinbeck. East of Eden mixes autobiography, pastoral fiction, and Biblical allegory -- a cocktail...