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Ep 245 - Five Children and It, by E. Nesbit
12 juni 2017 · 1 uur
If you could wish for anything, what would it be? Dinosaurs to eat? Money to spend? A Nintendo to live in? Lees meer
The kids in E. Nesbit's story Five Children and It are bad at wishing. Like, really bad. But that means we get to have fun at their expense and perhaps learn a little bit about the perils of cutting corners.
Also, if anyone finds out what Andrew would wish for if he met a genie, please tell us. The world needs to know.
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Ep 244 - Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse
5 juni 2017 · 1 uur 12 min
Do you know the meaning of life? We don't either, but we feel like we're just a little bit closer after reading Hermann Hesse's classic Siddhartha. Lees meer
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Ep 243 - March, by Geraldine Brooks
29 mei 2017 · 1 uur 16 min
Andrew's out of the country so Craig's wife Laura joins the show to talk about Geraldine Brooks' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel March. Lees meer
March imagines the "offstage" of Mr. March, the largely absent father figure of Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women. What happens to an idealistic pacifist when confronted with the horrors of the Civil War? Where exactly did school recess come from? And who knew that Alcott's father ran a failed vegan compound in 19th-century Massachusetts?
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Ep 242 - Felidae, by Akif Pirinçci (Bonus Episode)
25 mei 2017 · 1 uur 1 min
This month, we read the first book in Akif Pirinçci’s “Felidae” series. It’s a “bestselling novel of cats and murder,” and it combines over-the-top violence that makes Watership Down look like a book that’s actually appropriate for children. It’s also just surreal enough to be a lot of fun. Lees meer
That said, the book’s author, Akif Pirinçci, espouses some truly vile views about immigration and Muslims—he’s referred to Germany as a “Muslim garbage dump” and has made jokes about sending Muslims to concentration camps. We can’t stress enough how deeply we disagree with these viewpoints, and we spend a bit of time in the episode talking about whether and how to separate art from the artists that made it. There are no good answers, but know that we did purchase a used copy of this book, partly because it’s out of print but also because we don’t want to provide financial support to anyone who says these kinds of things.
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Ep 241 - You Are A Shark (Choose Your Own Adventure) by Edward Packard
22 mei 2017 · 1 uur 14 min
YOU. ARE. A. SHARK. Lees meer
Or so the title of this Choose Your Own Adventure book by Edward Packward would have you believe!
Will we be a leader of animals or a follower? Will we dominate the ocean, land, or sky? Plenty of choices await us in this week's episode.
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Ep 240 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz
15 mei 2017 · 1 uur 4 min
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao earned Junot Díaz a Pulitzer Prize in 2008, and it remains one of the most highly regarded novels of our young 21st century. Lees meer
Oscar Wao is a Dominican lad who loves geekery almost as much as he loves women. The only trouble is: he just can't get any.
Tune in for a discussion of (toxic) masculinity, nerd alerts, and the Dominican Republic under the rule of El Jefe.
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Ep 239 - From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg
8 mei 2017 · 1 uur 2 min
We're at the tail end of Children's Book Week, so we thought it appropriate to discuss E.L. Konigsburg's Newberry Award-winning book From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Lees meer
The story follows two kids who run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, discover a love of Italian sculpture, and meet a kooky old lady who loves secrets.
Other talking points include: exercising sucks, children can be miserly, and bus mistakes. Also please visit butteryeggs.org.
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Ep 238 - Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer
1 mei 2017 · 1 uur 16 min
NOTE: A short stretch of fairly explicit sex talk earns this one the "Explicit" tag, though as usual we avoid cussing. You've been warned! Lees meer
This week, we illuminate everything about Jonathan Safran Foer's debut novel. It's not Andrew's cup of tea, exactly, but we try our best to dive into where it works, where we think it doesn't quite get there, and why Foer has a reputation for being "overrated" in some literary circles.
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Ep 237 - Skateboard Tough, by Matt Christopher (Special Bonus Episode)
30 april 2017 · 1 uur 19 min
Welcome to our rad, bad, extra-jumbo bonus episode on Matt Christopher's Skateboard Tough! It's a jumbo episode because we spend at least 10 minutes reading the titles of every sport book for kids he wrote. Lees meer
This episode attempts to answer the burning question in all of our hearts: what does Skateboard Tough even mean??? Included with your download: surprisingly serious conversation about childhood experiences and the importance of being seen, Matt Christopher's minor league woes, and activist journalism.
The song at the end is a snippet of Lupe Fiasco's Kick, Push, a song you should've heard by now.
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Ep 236 - Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
24 april 2017 · 1 uur 6 min
Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go explores the inner lives of teens as they learn, love, and discover their full potential as... something you need to read/listen to find out. This intimate novel flirts with disturbing science fiction elements, but our buddy Kaz keeps the tone eerily calm and comfortable. Lees meer
Join us for a conversation about clone teens, clone butts, genre boundaries, and our first memories of death. If you haven't noticed, our podcast is weird.
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Ep 235 - Silas Marner, by George Eliot
17 april 2017 · 1 uur 9 min
Craig returns this week for a talk about George Eliot (pen name for Mary Anne Evans) and her novel Silas Marner, which starts out as a bummer but gradually becomes an uplifting little story. We also talk about Craig’s vacation and the Baldwin brothers, among other things. Lees meer
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Ep 234 - The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
10 april 2017 · 1 uur 25 min
Craig’s on his long-delayed honeymoon this week, so Andrew’s wife and other best friend Suzannah is filling in this week to tell you all about Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo. Lees meer
Did you know that Dumas has upwards of 40 mistresses? Did you know that this book was published in 18 pieces over the course of a couple of years, and that it’s over 1,000 pages long? Did you know that someone actually helped write parts of many of Dumas’ books and never got any official credit for it? Did you know that the Count himself is a Jigsaw-esque murderous vengeance machine? All this and more on this week’s Overdue!
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Ep 233 - Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell (Bonus Episode)
6 april 2017 · 1 uur 1 min
David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas is most notable for its uniquely structured narrative, so it's only appropriate we made this the first book we cover while livestreaming for patrons! Lees meer
Other topics include Tom Hanks' henna tattoos, Yoko Ono husbands, and our favorite Disney princes. That's right, princes.
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Ep 232 - The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
3 april 2017 · 1 uur 11 min
This week we dive into Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, a quasi-autobiographical novel about womanhood, depression, and identity. We also discuss the unfortunate circumstances of Plath's early death, country mice moving to big cities, and metaphorical chemistry equipment. Lees meer
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Ep 231 - The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan
27 maart 2017 · 1 uur 3 min
This week the boys join Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club and read (fictional) stories about the Chinese-American children of Chinese immigrants; they also attempt to navigate some choppy waters around the book’s potential perpetuating of Chinese and Chinese-American stereotypes and the reaction to the 1993 film based on the book. Lees meer
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Ep 230 - Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Live in Philly)
20 maart 2017 · 1 uur 4 min
Well shiver me timbers, it's a live show! They say that dead men tell no tales, but Robert Louis Stevenson sure told a great tale in Treasure Island. Lees meer
Things reach a fever pitch (literally) at our live show at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Topics include pirate radio, Jimbo and Mr. Hands, the game Desert Island, and our favorite entry in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
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Ep 229 - One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
13 maart 2017 · 1 uur 11 min
This week, we return to the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (“Gabo” to his friends) for the first time since our second-ever episode. This time around we get to dive deeper into “magical realism,” the sort of dreamy heightened reality that Marquez employs so successfully, and we also touch on the book’s relationship with Colombian history and our relationship with our own hometowns. Lees meer
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Ep 228 - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
6 maart 2017 · 1 uur 14 min
It's time to travel to the magical land of Narnia! It's Craig's first time journeying through C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and it's EVERYONE's first time eating Turkish Delight! Lees meer
Find out what the opposite of delight is, how a lion can be Jesus, and just what happens to Susan when she reaches the Narnia equivalent of the pearly gates.
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Ep 227 - The World According to Garp, by John Irving
27 februari 2017 · 1 uur 8 min
This week we bring you The World According to Garp according to Andrew - we breeze through John Irving’s best-known “middlebrow” novel, touching on its feminist leanings, its surprising progressivism as it regards the transgendered, and both the dark humor and the just-plain-darkness lurking around every corner. Lees meer
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Ep 226 - Last Act, by Christopher Pike (w/ guest Margaret H. Willison)
20 februari 2017 · 1 uur 7 min
This week we're joined by social media maven (and friend of the show) Margaret H. Willison to talk about Christopher Pike's Last Act, an early entry from the author's prolific career writing YA thrillers. Lees meer
We're here to solve the mystery of a murder in a high school drama club, but our conversation ranges far and wide. Talking points include Margaret's mispronunciations, Andrew's career as a stage performer, and Craig's new favorite book Skateboard Tough.
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Ep 225 - Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, by Audre Lorde
13 februari 2017 · 1 uur 2 min
This week, we tackle Audre Lorde's autobiographical Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. It's an account of Lorde's childhood and early adulthood, focusing specifically on her experiences as a black, out, gay woman in New York City in the 1950s. Lees meer
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Ep 224 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon (Bonus Episode)
10 februari 2017 · 55 min
Mark Haddon's book about a teenager with "Behavioral Problems" is notable less for what happens in it and more for its perspective. It's an affecting study of human thought and behavior that we can't ruin even by talking about Subway for five minutes! Lees meer
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Ep 223 - Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
6 februari 2017 · 1 uur 4 min
"I am an invisible man," says the unnamed narrator at the beginning of Ralph Ellison's masterpiece Invisible Man. He then walks the reader through the painful journey that led to this realization, from the Jim Crow South to a less explicitly divided New York City. Lees meer
When we aren't discussing the narrator's struggle to fight for racial justice through and within a Communist party analog, we spend time chatting about the Pigskin Classic, dragging Harold Bloom, and unpacking stereo equipment. This week's show is brought to you in part by the fine folks at Blue Apron and Penn State World Campus.
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Ep 222 - Lord of the Flies, by William Golding (w/ The Librarian Is In)
30 januari 2017 · 1 uur 19 min
Who has the conch? Somebody find the glasses! We're trapped on a podcast island with the amazing Gwen Glazer and Frank Collerius of the New York Public Library's show The Librarian Is In. Lees meer
Actually, Gwen and Frank were kind enough to have us in their studio to chat about William Golding's novel The Lord of the Flies.
Possible television-related tangents include LOST, Kid Nation, and Kids Say the Darnedest Things!
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Ep 221 - Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
23 januari 2017 · 1 uur 4 min
What will you remember? What will you be remembered for? Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven asks these questions of most of its characters as they struggle to survive before and after an apocalyptic flu outbreak. Lees meer
We also talk Mandel's work crunching data on novels, National Days, Corporate Speak, and what we won't miss when we lose the Internet. Don't forget to book tickets to our live show at bit.ly/libraryshow!
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Ep 220 - The US Constitution
16 januari 2017 · 1 uur 38 min
We the Hosts of Overdue, in Order to form a more perfect Podcast, establish Humor, insure earbud Tranquility, provide for uncommon offense, promote our listeners’ Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Goofs to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this podcast on the Constitution for the United States of America. Lees meer
No really, we did it. A whole podcast on the Constitution, its origins, and the Bill of Rights. We talk about what the Framers didn’t say, what they didn’t predict, and what we wish people WOULDN’T do with the Constitution in years to come.
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Ep 219 - Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play, by Anne Washburn
9 januari 2017 · 1 uur 2 min
This week, Andrew brings his oddly deep and specific knowledge of The Simpsons to bear on Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play. In a post-apocalyptic world in which Simpsons quotes were treated as currency, he would pretty much run the place. Lees meer
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Ep 218 - Angel, by Elizabeth Taylor
2 januari 2017 · 1 uur 7 min
Welcome to 2017! Our first book of the year is Angel by Elizabeth Taylor, a somewhat forgotten mid-century classic about an author shaping her world through fiction. Lees meer
Because it's us, we HAD to spend time talking about the other Angels and Elizabeths Taylor in our lives. We also find time to cover cheaters and lies, Ferris Buellering, and Jerry the Internet Editor.
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Ep 217 - All-Star Superman, by Grant Morrison (Bonus Episode w/ Lucas Brown)
30 december 2016 · 54 min
Up in the sky, look! It's a bird...it's a plane...it's a podcast about Superman! Lees meer
Lucas Brown (host of the podcast "The Math of You") joins us for a discussion of Grant Morrison's timeless Man of Steel collection All-Star Superman. We talk about origin story troubles, Superman's ever expanding powerset, and one of the most affecting Superman panels in recent memory.
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Ep 216 - A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki
26 december 2016 · 1 uur 4 min
For our last regular show of 2016, we come to Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being and get schooled on the relationship between the writer and reader and the nature of time itself. Lees meer
We also touch on Christmas gifts from the future-past, good names for blogs, and more.
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Ep 215 - Stealing Christmas, by Alexa Riley
19 december 2016 · 57 min
This week we learn all about the "quick, dirty, and over-the-top" erotic fiction of Alexa Riley - and since Stealing Christmas is holiday-themed, we get into the spirit of the season, too! Lees meer
Join us for a frank and explicit discussion of mall barons, safe unsafeness, and sexy, sexy sexual intercourse.
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Ep 214 - White Teeth, by Zadie Smith
12 december 2016 · 1 uur 2 min
Show me Zadie Smith's WHITE TEETH! Join us for a discussion about her debut novel that tackles immigration, assimilation, and our collective struggle to control the lives we lead. Lees meer
We'll also reference Lady Gaga, share some rules for fistfighting (and writing), and discover the sad clown Pa(g)liacci.
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Ep 213 - The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
5 december 2016 · 1 uur 4 min
S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders was written when the author was just 16, which is impressive not just because the book has an atypical amount of empathy and perspective for something written by a teenager, but because the author is especially close to her characters’ circumstances. Lees meer
Also on tap for this week: sick raps, tales from the McDonald’s drive-thru, and a whole lot more.
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Ep 212 - The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
28 november 2016 · 1 uur 4 min
The History of Love is littered with catchphrases. Bazinga! Time to make the donuts! Not the Mama! Lees meer
That is to say, our episode on The History of Love is littered with catchphrases. The 2005 novel by Nicole Krauss stars Leo and Alma, whose fates are intertwined by the success of a powerful book. The name of that book? The History of Love. It's a book-within-a-book. Get it?!
We also chat about pen pals, t-shirts, saccharine texts, and the need to be seen.
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Ep 211 - The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman
21 november 2016 · 1 uur 4 min
Neil Gaiman started 2013's The Ocean at the End of the Lane as a novella for his wife, who "doesn't really like fantasy." This gives the book a different vibe from some of Gaiman's other work, though any book that features a tattered sentient bedsheet clears the "fantastical" bar for us. Lees meer
This breezy book deals mostly in Bradbury-esque musings on the nature of childhood and adulthood, and we spend a lot of time on that as well as the Great Page Count Race of 2016 and our new t-shirt empire.
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Ep 210 - 2016 Election (Bonus episode)
18 november 2016 · 1 uur 25 min
No book for this month's bonus episode, gang, and we're also releasing it at the same time for both patrons and everyone else in the interest of being timely. Lees meer
We were both deeply saddened by the results of last week's United States presidential election, and we've spent most of the last week dissecting our feelings about it and trying to figure out where we go from here. In this episode, we provide some context for our international listeners, attempt to commiserate with those who agree with us and reach out to those who don't, and lay out a path for getting more involved if that's something you want to do.
Thanks for listening, everyone. Your support means the world to us.
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Ep 209 - Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
14 november 2016 · 1 uur 5 min
What does pizza murder have to do with a linguistic virus that dates all the way back to Ancient Sumeria? Find out as we discuss Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Lees meer
Other talking points include Stephenson's "Multiverse," anime, and "pooning." Thanks again to all of our listeners.
It's been a hard week, but you folks are amazing.
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Ep 208 - Magic Bites, by Ilona and Andrew Gordon
7 november 2016 · 1 uur 8 min
Magic Bites, the first novel in a longrunning series by wife-and-husband writing team Ilona and Andrew Gordon (known collectively as Ilona Andrews) does throw out some interesting ideas. The relationship between magic and science is neat, and some of the action set pieces work well. Lees meer
But in other places, unfortunately, it fell flat for Andrew—characterization is often two-dimensional, the magical near-future Atlanta often feels contradictory and hastily drawn, and the prose is just clunky enough to highlight the novel’s problems rather than mask them. We talk about all of this plus voting, how phones work, and the pitfalls of judging an entire body of work by the strength of the debut.
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Ep 207 - Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter (Bonus Episode) by R.L. Stine
3 november 2016 · 1 uur 12 min
Listener beware, we're choosing the scares! In this, our final Spooktober entry of 2016, we bounce around the pages of R.L. Stine's Give Yourself Goosebumps #6: Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter. Lees meer
It's time to get the heebies AND the jeebies as we discuss unhelpful childhood nicknames, clash with Bad News Barney and Drippy Dora, and try to survive the sickest Goosebumps reference ever included in a Goosebumps book.
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Ep 206 - Ring, by Koji Suzuki
31 oktober 2016 · 1 uur 5 min
Hold on to your VHS tapes! It's time to talk about Koji Suzuki's Ring, the 1991 novel that inspired that movie everyone's heard of with the tape and the phone call and the seven days until your death. Lees meer
He may not be Stephen King, and he may not like horror - but Suzuki does know how to turn a mystery about a murderous videotape into quite the page-turner. Additional talking points include MST3K cons, horror lessons, and evil viruses.
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Ep 205 - The Werewolf of Paris, by Guy Endore
26 oktober 2016 · 1 uur 4 min
It’s time to get *very* professional with the fourth book of Spooktober 2016! Lees meer
Guy Endore’s The Werewolf of Paris is widely regarded as The Werewolf Novel, but it isn’t all full moons and silver bullets. Set in and around in the Paris Commune of 1871, the novel tackles class, sex, and the human desire to control our own impulses.
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Ep 204 - The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
17 oktober 2016 · 1 uur 6 min
Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as "the greatest haunted-house story ever written." The house itself is vile. It's dark and impossible to navigate. It's dripping with blood. So why are four people trying to spend their summer there?!? Lees meer
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Ep 203 - Hook (Bonus Episode)
15 oktober 2016 · 1 uur 5 min
Come Peter Panning with us as we discuss the 1991 Steven Spielberg film Hook, inspired by the classic book Peter Pan (Episode 165). It's time to name of a bunch of films, discuss the perils of overstaying your welcome in Neverland, and explore how such a stellar cast turned out a less-than-stellar movie. Lees meer
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Ep 202 - The Woman in Black, by Susan Hill
10 oktober 2016 · 1 uur 2 min
We get Spooktober rolling in earnest this week with Susan Hill's The Woman in Black, a ghost story written in the 1980s that intentionally invokes Gothic and Victorian storytelling techniques and language to create a tale that feels timeless. Lees meer
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Ep 201 - Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones
4 oktober 2016 · 1 uur 3 min
This week is the start of Overdue’s third-annual Spooktober spookfest, a month full of scary (or at least somewhat spooky) books that will get you in the mood for Halloween! Lees meer
Our first book is Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle, a book about a young girl transformed into an elderly woman, who gets wrapped up in a charming wizard's quest to avoid all responsibility whatsoever.
With our special guests Siri and the Christmas Creep, we touch upon the horrors and benefits of aging, the Billboard Magic Charts, Prince Justin, and WitchYelp.
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Ep 200 - Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
26 september 2016 · 2 uur 26 min
Here it is: the big two-hundo! This week, Andrew tackles David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in a show that is nearly 2.5 hours long and yet somehow still not quite long enough to get to everything. Lees meer
We break down the plot and the structure, such as they are, and we also dive deeper into the role of addiction and depression in the book and the book’s at-times antagonistic relationship with the reader. It’s a book worth reading, but perhaps more than anything we’ve yet done for the show, it resists being read.
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Ep 199 - Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt
19 september 2016 · 1 uur 5 min
It's my life...and it's now or never. I ain't gonna live forever! OR AM I? Natalie Babbitt's beloved children's novel Tuck Everlasting tackles the tough questions. What would happen if I could live forever? What will I do with the time I'm allotted on this mortal coil? Would it be creepy for a teenager to tell a ten-year old to drink immortality water in seven years so that he can be her forever husband? Lees meer
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Ep 198 - The Magicians, by Lev Grossman
12 september 2016 · 1 uur 8 min
What if magic were real? What if your favorite fantasy world was a place you could actually go? Would you be happy? Could you be happy? Lees meer
These are the questions posed by Lev Grossman's The Magicians, an en*gross*ing urban fantasy novel that's spawned two sequels and a SyFy original series.
Other questions we pose ask about the following: the Fall of Flirting, One-Star Amazon Reviews, Jurassic Park Trespasser, and sexy foxes (we're sorry).
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Ep 197 - Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing, by Rod Canion
5 september 2016 · 59 min
Something a little different this week: Andrew read a non-fiction book about the personal computer era, something he was reading about mostly because he was also watching AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire. There’s an interesting story at the heart of it, but delivered through the dry and often sterilized viewpoint of its one-time CEO it often seems lifeless. Lees meer
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Ep 196 - Watership Down, by Richard Adams (Live from Philadelphia)
1 september 2016 · 55 min
If you came out to our second-ever live show at the Philadelphia Podcast Festival, you've already heard this one! But for the rest of you, settle in for a conversation about bunny theology, rabbit puns, tattooed moms, and our normal shenanigans. Lees meer
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