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Happy New Year! We’re back with a classic in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, a book that many would call a quintessential American girl’s tale. Do we agree with this assessment? You’ll find out if you listen to this episode. You’ll also discover what we think about feminism in historical context, question certain self-improvements, agree with the narrator’s opinion on spinsters, and discuss the lack of passion in this story. We also talk about ladies who don’t like ladies, the creation of shipping, obnoxious children, and (perhaps oddly) lobsters.
The music bump is Chopin’s Mazurka in A minor, op. 17 due to period appropriateness. Feel free to imagine Beth playing it in heaven if that makes you feel better about it.
109 – Little Women – Marmee is the Worst
Our recommendation: Short version is that it doesn’t really hold up that well.
Ben: 5/10. Didn’t love it, didn’t hate it. I liked that there were a lot of things to discuss, as there usually are with classics.
Gabs: 5/10. 6/10 for part 1, 4/10 for part 2.
Quick administrative note: We’re hoping to post more often this year, though of course we guarantee nothing. As part of this “do more stuff” plan, we would like to be a little more responsive to our listeners. Please leave some requests/recommendations/suggestions for books for future episodes either in the comments for this episode or on our suggestions page.
Featured image via David Flores.
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Happy New Year! We’re back with a classic in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, a book that many would call a quintessential American girl’s tale. Do we agree with this assessment? You’ll find out if you listen to this episode. You’ll also discover what we think about feminism in historical context, question certain self-improvements, agree with […]
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Stephenie Meyer wrote a book that isn’t about vampires! Erin became intrigued about her new thriller, entitled The Chemist, after reading this profile of Meyer in the New York Times and suggested that we read the book for Boozy Book Club! While the book itself was pretty lackluster (“lackluster” being a generous description), it led to a pretty good […]
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Hey there, Bardolatry listeners. For this episode of Bardolatry, Gabs and Olivia dig into one of Shakespeare’s earlier plays, The Taming of the Shrew. While this play has been made into theater and film adaptations like Kiss Me, Kate and 10 Things I Hate About You, the play itself isn’t as popular as Shakespeare’s better […]
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Our latest edition of Boozy Book Club explores some geeky history with the 1968 fantasy classic, A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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It's another anime themed episode of Nostalgia Myalgia! This month we delve into Rurouni Kenshin, a Toonami-featured show about an assassin-turned-pacifist.
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Hello there listeners, and welcome to another episode of Bardolatry. Today, Gabs and Olivia (with written contributions from Katy) discuss Romeo and Juliet andHamlet, and whether these two plays should be read in schools, how ingrained they are in our culture, and if there should be other plays that could serve as students’ gateway to […]
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This month on Nostalgia Myalgia, we did something a little different – we recorded ourselves playing the classic children’s board game Candy Land. The competition got pretty heated. We also discussed our dream cast for a theoretical live action Candy Land movie (get on it, Hollywood!). If you’d like to play along with us (and […]
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Hey there, listeners! Get ready for another episode of the Virgin Podcaster! On this month’s episode, we invite lovely ladies Erin and Gabs to talk about this hilariously non-sequitur shoot the shit podcast called Lady to Lady (or Lady on Lady, according to Erin) hosted by three comedians. Hopefully, our interpretation of their podcast is […]
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This month in Boozy Book Club, we read Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers, so raise a goblet of wine and enjoy the discussion of medieval assassin nuns!
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The March edition of Novel Ideas, features The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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