Happy Wednesday, darling friends! We have dedicated much of today’s podcast to indulging in escapist fantasies, and I have to be honest: They made us feel really nice. We highly recommend taking a short break in which you pretend you do not live in our present dystopian hellscape, as it is beneficial to one’s mental health. On today’s podcast, we also talk about our non-escapist democracy preservation efforts, as well as reviewing Elizabeth Little’s totally delightful mystery novel, Pretty as a Picture. Join us! You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go!
Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around!
1:14 – What we’re reading
5:23 – What we’re doing for democracy
7:14 – The Three Musketeers, chapters 20-25
22:40 – Fictional travel destinations
36:51 – Elizabeth Little’s Pretty as a Picture
1:04:09 – What we’re reading for next time
And here’s a list of everything we talked about!
The Trumpet of the Swan, E. B. White
Conrad’s Fate, Diana Wynne Jones
Feminist City, Leslie Kern
White Collar fic by copperbadge (link)
Kill Ratio (movie)
Our Hearts Are Fix’d, eleanor_lavish (link)
The Party’s Crashing Us, jackalope80 (link)
Postcards to Voters (link)
Vote Forward (link)
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas, trans. Lawrence Ellworth, Ch 20 – 25
Check Please!, Ngozi Ukazu
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
Fireflies on the Water, Yayoi Kusama (link)
A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Ready to Roll, Suzanne Brockman
Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho
The True Queen, Zen Cho
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Patricia C. Wrede (first one is Dealing with Dragons)
Year of the Griffin, Diana Wynne Jones
Fresh Meat (TV show)
The House at the Edge of Night, Catherine Banner
Tam Lin, Pamela Dean
The Lady’s Not for Burning, Christopher Fry
44 Scotland Street, Alexander McCall Smith
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
The Likeness, Tana French
Chicago Typewriter (Netflix)
Pretty as a Picture, Elizabeth Little
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
the Werner Herzog thing IS true
Real Men Knit, Kwana Jackson
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Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour
Transcripts by: Sharon of Library Hungry
Transcript is coming soon!