Weekend Reads Podcast: Recent Episodes
Lisa and Pan
A biweekly show where we talk about a short story or book we read over the weekend. Come read with us!
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we begin the long drive into The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken.
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we talk about benign child ghosts, M. Night Shyamalan, and church camp.
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we chat about the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark movie. Make sure to check out our review of the books as well!
Am I human? Humans need clothes right?
This second-person narrative puts you in the role of a starving child, forced to fend for yourself and others in an unclear world.
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we climb through a regular-sized window in The Open Window by HH Munro.
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we are rambling about Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku by Fujita.
We finally made our way back to Lara Jean with the second book and the only one we hadn't talked about yet.
The audio on this one is messy, we are working on it :P
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we fall in love all over again with A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks.
In this episode we discuss a man who kills his wives, and somehow end up talking about the bible :/
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we struggled through The Frog Prince by the Brothers Grimm. For the record, Lisa did not say, "Read or else." Enjoy.
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we chat about a sexy bear and an asshole dwarf in the Grimm's Fairy Tale Snow White and Rose Red.
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we wrap up our discussion about Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me.
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we're getting suspicious of VW Bugs and men in slings with The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule.
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we're chatting about skin, puss, and lost loves in Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart.
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we're getting creepy vibes from Gramma by Stephen King.
In this very speacial episode of Weekend Reads? we talk about the new Netflix adaptation of Jenny Han's To All The Boys I've Loved Before!
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we get emotional with Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon.
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we're chillin' in a kingdom by the side of the sea with Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee.
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we read the poem Loving in Truth by Sir Philip Sidney.
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we get the feels with jomny sun's everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too.
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we're talking about Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan.
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we attempt to fathom the world of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis.
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we venture into the land of poetry with Rupi Kaur's Milk and Honey
On this episode of Weekend Reads we pick our own ending with Margaret Atwood's "Happy Endings".
Rating Pan 6/10 Possible endings Lisa 7/10 Orgasms for Mary
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we debate about the elephant in the room (or the bar...) of Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants.
Rating Pan 10/10 wire hangers Lisa 8.4/10 "please stop talking"s
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we gush over To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han.
Rating Pan 9/10 Joshes in a trashcan Lisa 9/10 love notes
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we discuss O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi
The Gift of the Magi https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/1-the_gift_of_the_magi_0.pdf
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we get trapped in The Yellow Wallpaper with Charlotte Perkins Gilman. (Yes, we know Stetson was also a married name.)
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/theliteratureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we discuss Miranda July's Something That Needs Nothing.
Something That Needs Nothing: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/09/18/something-that-needs-nothing
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we discuss The Grownup by Gillian Flynn. (Gone Girl spoilers!)
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we're reading Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Totally inappropriate for children.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvbU1dOz_1c&t=345s
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-E2ZlqCThA&t=18s
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDmce0e0ce4&t=3181s
One this episode of Weekend Reads, we discuss Joyce Carol Oates' Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Read: https://www.cusd200.org/cms/lib/IL01001538/Centricity/Domain/361/oates_going.pdf
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we discuss the creepypasta The Seer of Possibilities.
The Seer of Possibilities https://www.creepypasta.com/the-seer-of-possibilities/
About creepypastas https://www.creepypasta.com/frequently-asked-questions/
For this episode of Weekend Reads, let's talk about why you shouldn't put that there.
Guts: http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts Chuck Palahniuk reading Guts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYHLpEEz_8g
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we ramble about The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino.
Story link: http://www.aleastory.co.uk/The-Distance-of-the-Moon.pdf
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we ramble about Fugue by Maryse Meijer.
Story link: http://www.joylandmagazine.com/regions/midwest/fugue
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we ramble about Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han.
Which of Lara Jean's Loves Do You Belong With? Quiz: http://rivetedlit.com/2016/02/18/which-of-lara-jeans-loves-do-you-belong-with/
Movies mentioned: Sleepless in Seattle, Sixteen Candles, The Sound of Music
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we ramble about The Man on the Stairs by Miranda July.
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we ramble about Ides of March by E. W. Hornung.
Story link: http://www.rafflesredux.com/the-ides-of-march/
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we ramble about The Egg by Andy Weir.
Story link: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
Story link: http://www.mikedidonato.com/images/2009/04/harlan-ellison-i-hav-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream.pdf
On this episode of Weekend Reads, we ramble about All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury.
Story link: http://www.btboces.org/Downloads/6_All%20Summer%20in%20a%20Day%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf