The Little Prince: Growing Up is a Trap
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A French classic written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. We've read this book a good few times. Th...
The Haunting of Hill House: Shirley's Redemption
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We may have been a bit quick to judge in our episode on The Lottery. Shirley Jackson did her thing h...
Jurassic Park: Lex 🤝 Human Sacrifice
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're baaaack!!!! How much more modern classic do you get than Michael Crichton and these damn d...
The Lottery: Vague Violence
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Where Hawthorne gave us too much information we didn't want, Shirley Jackson is being vague af. ...
Everyday Use: Quilt Drama
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A short story by Alice Walker. She kept it light for us this time. Dee drops in after 6 years trying...
The Bluest Eye: Toni & Tangents
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Another Toni Morrison classic. Published in 1970. A series of small stories builds up to one young g...
Their Eyes Were Watching God: Everybody's a Critic
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Written by Zora Neale Hurston, 1937: The men in Janie's life are both her salvation and her destruct...
Brave New World: Sex, Drugs, and Stability
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Published in 1932, genetic manipulation and conditioning is the name of the game. Everybody gets wha...
Call of the Wild: Buck Wild
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the fireside of California to the brutal winter of Alaska; Buck learns it's kill or be kill...
Animal Farm: Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we read Animal Farm by George Orwell. Animals take over their farm for freedom only to be ...
A Christmas Carol: Guilt Tripping Made Popular
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Awfully bad attitude to have with a name like Ebenezer Scrooge. Your boomer grandparents only wish ...
Beowulf: Michael Jordan of Monster Slaying
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in nerds! We're reading Beowulf. In a battle of bad neighbors only a true warrior can save the D...
The Most Dangerous Game: Denim Chain Mail
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we read a story about the 2nd most dangerous game next to clubbing at Parliament House in ...
The Crucible: Witches & Hoes
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this Arthur Miller play 15 people die, because a farmer cheats on his wife. Fake witches, fake Ch...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Cryptic Crackhead
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Why go to t...
Frankenstein: Daddy Issues
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Shelley really put her foot in this one. Put all your thoughts on this book aside. Dr. Frankens...
The Raven & The Masque of the Red Death: Grief Bird Meets Pandemic
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Another dose of Edgar Allan Poe. We're keeping it light this time though. One's a story about a bird...
Cask of Amontillado & Tell-Tale Heart: Wine & Crime
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's a little wine, guilt, and murder among friends? Edgar Allan Poe is one of everyone's favorit...
The Shining PT3: Everyone Needs Dick
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An unexpected Part 3, but can you blame us?? Jack has to "correct" his family lest he not make manag...
The Shining PT. 2: Will Work For Ghosts
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How many ghosts does it take to break your brain? Is it really breaking your brain if you want the g...
The Shining PT. 1: Kubrick's Biggest Dropped Ball
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're baaaAAAaack and with a double drop! A mediocre man drunk on himself takes a job on an isolated...
Sula: Tale of Best Friends*******
07 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friendship. Betrayal. Pigmeat. These were the ingredients chosen to make the perfect girl, but Eva a...
Of Mice and Men
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is one of our favorites. Friendship, struggle, and grief is John Steinbeck's game. He's...
The Gift of the Magi Meets the Gift of Gab
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry...eventually. First we dive into Harriett Tubma...
A Good Man is Hard to Find
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Someone should put you in a box floating down the river, Gramma!" A Good Man Is Hard to F...
1984 : The Thot Police
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Buy your next home in Oceania where the government watches your every move and publicly executes you...
The Yellow Wallpaper: Creepin' Ladies & Dismissive Husbands
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. We appreciate the crazy you display lady. 1890'...
7. The Scarlet Letter: The Coward, the PickMe, and the Redundancy
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're late! We're sorry! The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne sent us spiraling. It'...
6. Macbeth: Lady Macbeth's Dog
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we review Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Let's learn together how the promise ...
Giovanni's Room
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we review Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. Will David ever stop being dog water? Wh...
5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings PT.2
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a continuation of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by May Angelou. This episode is brought to...
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings PT. 1
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we review I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. We see the POV of Maya gr...
3. Murder on the Orient Express
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 1930's Croatian backdrop. A cut up gangster. 12 weirdo's trapped on a train. Who killed th...
2. Lord of the Flies
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we review Lord of the Flies by William Golding. A mess of kids, no adults, starvatio...
The Island of Dr. Moreau: Man Bear Pig
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Worlds collide literally and surgically in this early sci-fi classic. Die alone in a boat or hang ou...