Shows
Left On Read39: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (Walter Moers)“I’m building worlds your tiny brain can’t comprehend!”Next read: Tender is the Night (F Scott Fitzgerald)
2025-08-231h 04Left On Read38: The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)"He should have been a better bug."Next read: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (Walter Moers)
2025-08-0858 minLeft On Read37: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)"Bring your white man British names. Call it Johntown."Next read: The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
2025-07-261h 03Left On Read36: Against Technoableism (Ashley Shew)"I don't judge you for your spoonless behavior."Next read: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)
2025-07-111h 03Left On Read35: How High We Go in the Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu)"I only have so much heart to cut up and send out to these individual stories."Next read: Against Technoableism (Ashley Shew)
2025-06-271h 04Left On Read34 - Minisode: The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)"It's good we're reading this as adults and we're not two children with a mic."Next read: How High We Go in the Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu)
2025-06-1332 minLeft On Read33 - Minisode: The BFG (Roald Dahl)"I did not review the Queen with my adult eyes."Next read: The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)
2025-06-0633 minLeft On Read32 - Minisode: The Wide Window (Lemony Snicket)“Relish in the depressive child realm with me.”Next read: The BFG (Roald Dahl)
2025-05-3032 minLeft On Read31 - Minisode: Bloomability (Sharon Creech)"You shouted in your heart, and that's what matters."Next read: The Wide Window (Lemony Snicket)
2025-05-2433 minLeft On Read30: Omon Ra (Victor Pelevin)"Unlegliness is close to godliness."Next read: Bloomability (Sharon Creech)
2025-05-1652 minLeft On Read29: The Good Rain (Timothy Egan)"I would rather we not exist if it meant that everything here could thrive the way it did."Next read: Omon Ra (Victor Pelevin)
2025-05-031h 04Left On Read28: Neuromancer (William Gibson)"I'm not a fucking octopus, Will!"Next read: The Good Rain (Timothy Egan)
2025-04-191h 01Left On Read27: Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut)"No matter who you are, no matter what is stripped away from you, love is at the center of everything."Next read: Neuromancer (William Gibson)
2025-04-041h 05Left On Read26: 1984 (George Orwell)"No more free range thought. Thought in cage. Thought bad."Next read: Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut)
2025-03-211h 06Left On Read25: Why I Write (George Orwell)"Pay the fuck attention to the language people use."Next read: 1984 (George Orwell)Plugs:- Bluesky! lorpodcast.bsky.social- Meg's Etsy! etsy.com/shop/eggstuph
2025-03-071h 01Left On Read24: The Tao of Pooh (Benjamin Hoff)"Vibing as the uncarved block."Next read: Why I Write (George Orwell)
2025-02-221h 09Left On Read23: Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)"Oh boy, did it technothrill me!"Next read: The Tao of Pooh (Benjamin Hoff)
2025-02-0758 minLeft On Read22: The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)"War is about the friends you make along the way."Next read: Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)
2025-01-241h 04Left On Read21: Post Winter Break Catch Up"Are we just gonna fly by the seat of our pants again? I dunno, it's 2025 - anything can happen."Next read: The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)Books mentioned:- Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)- Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond)- I Who Have Never Known Men (Jacqueline Harpman)- Migrations (Charlotte McConaghy)- White Nights (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)- It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth (Zoe Thorogood)- Perfume (Patrick Süskind)
2025-01-1053 minLeft On Read20 - Minisode: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)"Goin' down to the guy and gettin' the geese."Happy holidays and happy new year 2025. We're happy to reach another year of podcasting with you guys, thank you for making us a part of your day :) Stay tuned for new and exciting reads when we return on 1/10.
2024-12-2626 minLeft On Read19 - Minisode: William Wilson (Edgar Allan Poe)"An impression of Edgar Allan Poe is just raven squawks."Next read: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
2024-12-2029 minLeft On Read18 - Minisode: The Prepper (Morgan Talty)"Hey man, maybe everything isn't gonna go to shit?"Next read: William Wilson (Edgar Allan Poe)
2024-12-1326 minLeft On Read17 - Minisode: The Bicentennial Man (Isaac Asimov)"If he dies, he dies, and that's pretty human."Next read: The Prepper (Morgan Talty)
2024-12-0632 minLeft On Read16: Tender is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica)"Big therapy time."Next read: The Bicentennial Man (Isaac Asimov)
2024-11-221h 00Left On Read15: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami)"If the shadow attaches you to the idea of being a real human, what does it mean when your shadow dips?"Next read: Tender is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica)BOOKS ARE POLITICAL; READING IS RADICALhttps://pen.org/report/beyond-the-shelves/https://pen.org/book-bans/2023-banned-book-list/https://lithub.com/the-republicans-project-2025-is-disastrous-for-books/
2024-11-0955 minLeft On Read14: The Hellbound Heart (Clive Barker)"Direct a porno. Would have been better, probably."Next read: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami)
2024-10-2553 minLeft On Read13: Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)"Victor, with all his delicate sensibilities, would never be able to handle a penis."Next read: The Hellbound Heart (Clive Barker)
2024-10-121h 04Left On Read12: Parable of the Sower (Octavia E Butler)"It was vivid, visceral, vibe."Next read: Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
2024-09-271h 03Left On Read11: Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)"He's on hella fire."Next read: Parable of the Sower (Octavia E Butler)
2024-09-131h 08Left On Read10: Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)"We need to hole up in a cabin, get belligerently drunk, and rewrite Brave New World: Women's Edition."Next read: Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
2024-08-301h 03Left On Read9: Dune (Frank Herbert)"He guzzles the worm piss and suddenly he's everyone's man."Next read: Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
2024-08-161h 06Left On Read8: A Short Stay in Hell (Steven L Peck)"Time long as shit."Next read: Dune (Frank Herbert)
2024-08-021h 00Left On Read7: Sabriel (Garth Nix)"I wish I had the ability to draw really well so that I could draw how we picture the abortion clinic on the waterfall."Next read: A Short Stay in Hell (Steven L Peck)
2024-07-191h 05Left On Read6: Encounters with the Archdruid (John McPhee)"I should have brought sources for my chicken rant."Next read: Sabriel (Garth Nix)
2024-07-051h 15Left On Read5: The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien)"I really fucked with the mirrors."Next read: Encounters with the Archdruid (John McPhee)
2024-06-211h 06Left On Read4: Bird Box (Josh Malerman)"They're trying to explore us, feel up our face balls."Next read: The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien)
2024-06-071h 09Left On Read3: Good Omens (Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett)"They had to do the Lord of the Rings shoutout, otherwise it wouldn't be British."Next read: Bird Box (Josh Malerman)
2024-05-241h 08Left On Read2: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)"A lack of life in his life."Next read: Good Omens (Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett)
2024-05-101h 17Left On Read1: The Sixth Extinction (Elizabeth Kolbert)"Would you say we are overdue for another plague?"Next read: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)
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