Read This Instead: Recent Episodes
Kelly Maust
An original podcast about books and how some books are so much better than other books! Come hang out with us!
Join us for the insane fever dream that is Caitlin Starling's The Death of Jane Lawrence! An alternate-history-Gothic-fantasy-romance set in a universe where you can literally divide by zero to do math/magic!
We return to the scene of the crime to finish up our thoughts on Veronica Roth's Divergent! Join us to hear more about Four/Tobias, Hunger Games rip-offs you might not have ever noticed before, and best of all, several dystopian books of past and present that you can Read Instead.
(btw, still getting the hang of this podcasting thing and that's why we keep talking about getting ready for Christmas in this episode - pretend you're in a time machine!)
Join us for a super-fun episode all about our Ten Book Commandments: the Thou Shalt Nots of fiction! Number 10 will surprise you. Doctors hate it!
Come join us as Sarah gazes into the serial killer eyes of Sally Thorne's The Hating Game!
Top 5 Reasons You Should Listen to this Episode:
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Love or hate the book, we'll give you lots of food for thought!
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We have great recommendations for other books at the end
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We'll make you laugh
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You can hear my horrible attempt at a British accent
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You can come continue the discussion on our Instagram! @read.this.instead
Book Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/285092.High_Fidelity
Come sip that espresso with us as we talk about Maria Tatar's new book, The Heroine with 1001 Faces! We hope your brain is hungry because this episode is jam-packed with food for thought!
Link to info about the book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56769530-the-heroine-with-1001-faces
Links to other interesting things from this episode:
https://venngage.com/blog/heros-journey/
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls052754941/
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHerosJourney
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheSevenBasicPlots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank%E2%80%93Raglan_mythotype
We're diving into a real classic this week with our look at One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest! Love this book or hate it, come hear our thoughts and recommendations for books we think tackle these themes better.
Hop in your rowboat and cruise down the swamp to hear our thoughts on Delia Owen's Where the Crawdads Sing! Full disclosure, we know this book was super popular, but it honestly didn't butter our Southern-fried biscuits. Love it or hate it, come join us!
Welcome to Espresso Shots, where we give you a quick jolt of content to tide you over until the full-bodied roast of our fortnightly book review episodes! On today's Shot we're talking about some of our favorite book tropes, what books we'd like to see become movies, who we'd cast in them, prose v. story, childhood books, how we find new books, favorite (and least favorite) classics, and more! Time to take a shot!
OK people...we thought about what you would like to hear, used our smarts to create an episode, were (mostly) nice to each other throughout, told the truth about what we thought, and believe it or not, we were continuously jumping on and off moving trains while recording. That can only mean one thing...we're DIVERGENT!!! Fortunately for the rest of you one-trait losers, you can check out this episode to hear our selfless, smart, kind, true, brave, and SUPER SPECIAL UNIQUE thoughts on Veronica Roth's YA dystopia.
If you don't get sidetracked by a mind-control serum, come back in 2 weeks for our thoughts on Where the Crawdads Sing!
It's good form to come hang out with us as we take a slight detour at the second star to the right! We'll be talking about all things Peter Pan and setting the stage for some future episodes on contemporary retellings of classic tales. The Disneyland Peter Pans are counting on you to tune in!
It's good form to come hang out with us as we take a slight detour at the second star to the right! We'll be talking about all things Peter Pan and setting the stage for some future episodes on contemporary retellings of classic tales. The Disneyland Peter Pans are counting on you to tune in!
It's Sarah Penner's The Lost Apothecary vs. Laura Hankin's A Special Place for Women and Greer Hendricks' & Sarah Pekkanen's You Are Not Alone! A fog-free historical London, self-poisoning via essential oil, and the world's fastest college admissions department await!