Book Club with Julia and Victoria

Julia discusses disability, comedy, creativity, and treating people like people with Steven Verdile, the founder of the disability satire publication The Squeaky Wheel. Views expressed on Book Club with Julia and Victoria and bookclubwithjv.com are solely those of the hosts and not necessarily those of their employers, clients, guests, and collaborators. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Read and follow the Squeaky Wheel: Website: https://thesqueakywheel.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesqkywheel/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thesqkywheel Merch: https://thesqueakywheel.org/shop/ Mentioned in this Episode: Ramy (TV series) Speechless (TV series) Give Me Liberty (film) The Squeaky Wheel: Canada (in production) Special (TV series) Recommendations: Reductress ClickHole The Onion Broadway Beat The Hard Times Steve Way Tina Friml Shane Burcaw Ryan Haddad Crip Camp (film) Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong Currently Obsessed: How To With John Wilson (TV series) The Curse (TV series) 504: The Musical

Julia and Victoria learn what the word “flannel” means in British English and formulate their own theories about what happened to a stranded deep-sea researcher in the devastatingly beautiful novel Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield. Views expressed on Book Club with Julia and Victoria and bookclubwithjv.com are solely those of the hosts and not necessarily those of their employers, clients, guests, and collaborators. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Resources for Supporting Palestine:: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Resource for calling representatives Anera Mentioned in this episode: Apollo 13 (film) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (film) Dracula by Bram Stoker Our Flag Means Death (TV show) 112 Babel by R. F. Kuang — “Boots on the Ground” Storytelling Graham Norton Book Club episode with Julia Armfield Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag 122 How High We Go In the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu — Throw the Baby Recommendations: Arrival (film) The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang This is How You Lose the Time War by El-Mohtar and Gladstone Piranesi by Susanna Clark F(r)iction Issue #20 - Bodies Currently Obsessed: The Bear Season 2 Home by Billy Strings (album)

Julia and Victoria conclude that How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu is a very good book–Julia is just sad. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Mentioned in this episode: How High We Go In the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu AWP Conference Victoria’s StoryGraph: @victoriafrombookclub Psychopomp magazine Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone by Sequoia Nagamatsu “How a fictional plague helped Sequoia Nagamatsu overcome grief” by Michael Berry Character map star chart by @bookographic Recommendations: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Lucy By The Sea by Elizabeth Strout The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Currently Obsessed: Quiz Lady on Hulu Samba Schutte’s Our Flag Means Death Behind the Scenes series The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

Julia and Victoria grapple with the grotesque narrative choices in Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan, translated by Chi-young Kim. Julia incorrectly uses the word “epigraph” when she means “epitaph” approximately 25 times. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more Mentioned in this episode: Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan Bonus: Weird Short Fiction with Evan James Sheldon Minari (film) Pachinko (TV series) Modern Family by Cheon Myeong-kwan The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez International Booker Prize – Whale Namjoon’s Bookshelf Twitter thread on Whale Aschenputtel - Grimm Fairy Tale version of Cinderella Bakhtin on The Grotesque Recommendations: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Children and Their Cages by Evan James Sheldon Books that inspired Cheon Myeong-kwan's Whale Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Currently Obsessed: Handsome (podcast) Guilty EP by Taemin Marry My Dead Body (TV series) Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber Madewell curvy jeans

Julia and Victoria try to decipher the rules of Eight Billion Genies, the newest comic book series from Charles Soule and Ryan Browne, because Julia likes rules. They also learn about how one random French guy playing fast and loose with a One Thousand and One Nights translation made up most of what the “Western” world “knows” about “genies.” Tale as old as time. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Mentioned in this episode: The very important Arthur Library Card Dance Curse Words by Charles Soule and Ryan Browne Undiscovered Country by Scott Snyder, Charles Soule, and others God Hates Astronauts by Ryan Browne 'Eight Billion Genies' Graphic Novel Sparks Hollywood Bidding War, Amazon Deal For Chicago Artist by Web Behrens (Block Club Chicago) Paper Girls (Prime Video) Orientalism by Edward Said Recommendations: Saga by Brian K Vaughn and Fiona Staples Paper Girls by Brian K Vaughn and Cliff Chiang Invincible by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker Invincible (Prime Video) My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel by Chiara Lagani, Mara Cerri, Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe Into the Woods “Disasterology” episode of Ologies podcast I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Hartman The Question of Palestine by Edward Said Salt Houses by Hala Alyan Currently Obsessed: Our Flag Means Death (season 2) Normal Gossip podcast Nora From Queens (final season) Natalia LaFourcade’s album De Todos Los Flores IN the Mood album by Whee In Something to Give Each Other album by Troye Sivan Javelin album by Sufjan Stevens Freefall album by TXT the rest EP by boygenius

Julia and Victoria are surprised to find hope and belonging in a new story of humanity with The Dawn of Everything by “the Davids” (Graeber and Wengrow), the anthropological clapback to Sapiens by Harrari. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Mentioned in this episode: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harrari Books by David Graeber: Debt, The Democracy Project, Bullshit Jobs The Origins of Monsters by David Wengrow “A Flawed History of Humanity” by David A. Bell (Persuasion) “Digging for Utopia” by Kwame Anthony Appiah (The New York Review of Books) “‘I’m certainly open to criticism’: David Wengrow and the trouble with rewriting human history” by Andrew Anthony (The Guardian) “Against Method: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow” by Ian Morris (American Journal of Archaeologists) The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder 108 Nobody's Normal by Roy Richard Grinker — How Culture Creates the Stigma of Mental Health Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott Bonus: Historical Fiction with Rebecca Stott 116 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin — ‘70s Sci-Fi in Context Bliss and Blunder by Victoria Gosling Recommendations: Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff “The Last Human: A Glimpse Into the Far Future” by Kurzgesagt If Book Could Kill podcast, specifically “The End of History” episode Currently Obsessed: Strike Force Five podcast MUNA’s self-titled album Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout Before the Ruins by Victoria Gosling It’s a Wonderful World board game

Julia is truly bamboozled, Victoria embraces that she is a vampire girlie, and they both dig into the context of Joseph Sheridan LeFanu’s Carmilla, edited with commentary by the absolute legend Carmen Maria Machado. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Mentioned in this episode: Carmilla (1872) episode of Queer As Fact The Museum of Jurassic Technology “A Perfectly Normal Interview with Carmen Maria Machado Where Everything Is Fine” by Theodore McCombs (Electric Literature) Twilight by Stephanie Meyer Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia 080 Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Lizzie Bennet Diaries web series Carmilla web series European Travels for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss Carmilla the First Vampire by Amy Chu and Soo Lee Recommendations: Dracula by Bram Stoker Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Tár (film) F(r)iction – The Monsters Issue Interview with the Vampire series on AMC Gentleman Jack series on HBO Currently Obsessed My Invented Country by Isabel Allende Yellowjackets on Showtime Normal Gossip (podcast) Past Lives (film) The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

A Suga bias (Julia), a Jungkook bias (special guest RJ), a V bias (special guest Adam), and a person who knows almost nothing about K-pop (Victoria) have a spirited conversation about the style and silences of Beyond the Story: A 10-Year Record of BTS by Kang Myeong-seok and translated by Anton Hur, Clare Richards, and Slin Jung. There are… emotions. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Hang out with Adam and RJ over at The Ampliverse including their Boys Love Boys Love podcast! Follow The Ampliverse on TikTok and Instagram. Find RJ @boysloveblove and Adam @AdamNoecker on Twitter. Mentioned in this episode: Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS by BTS & Kang Myeong-seok trans. by Anton Hur, Clare Richards & Slin Jung Adam’s essay “Love Yourself,” Says BTS on The Ampliverse 104 Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong — Deciphering Difficult Poetry “I Want to Die but I Want to Translate Korean Literature: Why Translation Matters Just as Much as Eating Tteokbokki” by Anton Hur (The Margins) “I am absolutely ARMY, says BTS book translator Anton Hur” by Rush Mukherjee (Mint Lounge) A Special Conversation of the Translations for BEYOND THE STORY 10-Year Record of BTS with Anton Hur (IG Live with Indigo) G.C.F in Tokyo (정국&지민) Jimin’s Suchwita Interview CHAPTERS The Rise of Bangtan The White Paper Project Road to D-Day (SUGA documentary) Showgays: A Movie Musical Podcast Recommendations Cursed Bunny (English trans by Anton Hur) by Bora Chung Your Song Changed My Life by Bob Boilen Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey Currently Obsessed: ZEROBASEONE (제로베이스원) 'In Bloom' MV [Eng Sub] Vice Versa รักสลับโลก | EP.1 [1/4] | Uncut Version Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi Red, White & Royal Blue (film) Our Flag Means Death Season 2 Trailer

Julia and Victoria get into the weeds of cultivating a creative life while also having to pay bills with Nate Ragolia—writer, podcaster, and publisher at Spaceboy Books. They also decide which zoo animals they would be. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Mentioned in this episode: See what Nate’s up to: nateragolia.com Debut Buddies – First Skyscraper (1885) with Victoria Bruick “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver Jules Verne Philip K. Dick Kurt Vonnegut Pandemic (2016) Sorry to Bother You (2018) Recommendations: One Person Can’t Make a Difference by Nate Ragolia Debut Buddies podcast Cyberpunk 2077 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Currently Obsessed: Good Omens season 2 I’m a Virgo season 1

Exploring anarchism, feminism, and the Cold War, Julia and Victoria unpack the context of The Dispossessed by the brilliant and sassy Ursula K. Le Guin. Join for the sci-fi, stay for Barbenheimer, alien Jesus, and a confusion of Ursulas. Also Julia has minor microphone problems. (She sincerely apologizes). Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Mentioned in this episode: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin The Hainish Novels and Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin Le Guin’s 2004 Guardian interview with the great comebacks Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin “The Eye of the Heron: Le Guin’s Introduction to Feminism and Ode to Nonviolence” by Sean Guynes (Tor.com) Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin 1994 by Jonathan White Ursula K. Le Guin - A Left-Handed Commencement Address delivered 22 May 1983, Mills College, Oakland, California 13th directed by Ava DuVernay The Giver by Lois Lowry The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Recommendations: Books by Octavia E. Butler, including Wild Seed Books by Margaret Atwood, including The Handmaid’s Tale Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber Babel by R. F. Kuang Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by LeGuin Currently Obsessed: Secret Chef on Hulu The Retrievals podcast Taskmaster season 14 Evergreen by PVRIS In the End It Always Does by Japanese House Nosebleeds by Misterwives Unreal Unearth by Hozier Barbie (film) Oppenheimer (film)

Julia and Victoria wrestle with their frustrations with The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki and try to get to the bottom of important questions like, “What happened?” and “Who is this book for?” Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Mentioned in this episode: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki 045 A Tale for the Time Being archived episode on Buy Me a Coffee My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki Fantastic Fungi on Netflix Poured Over: Ruth Ozeki on The Book of Form and Emptiness B&N podcast Nobody’s Normal by Roy Richard Grinker Bonus: Julia Wrote a Thesis – Online Autistic Community and Finding Your Writer Voice “The Book of Form and Emptiness: by Ruth Ozeki” by Miyako Pleines (Spectrum Culture) “Ruth Ozeki’s Borgesian, Zen Buddhist Parable of Consumerism” by Judith Shulevitz (The New York TImes) The Women's Prize 2022 • #125 - The Book Club Review 107 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke — Reality and Representation Recommendations: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Mari Kondo Inkheart by Cornelia Funke Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Currently Obsessed: Who Shat On the Floor At My Wedding podcast In Bloom - ZB1 Crazy Rich Asians trilogy by Kevin Kwan

Victoria interviews Julia about her master’s thesis in Anthropology on Autistic social groups, disabled futures, and how to make Autistic friends by exchanging fun facts. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Mentioned in this episode: Unmasking Autism by Dr. Devon Price Nobody’s Normal by Roy Richard Grinker Neurotribes by Steve Silberman Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8 by Naoki Higashida The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion Currently Obsessed: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse

Julia and Victoria apply a postcolonial perspective to Ayana Lloyd Banwo’s When We Were Birds, a novel about death, magical matriarchs, love, and VIBES. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Mentioned in this episode: The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon Books by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o “In All Its Forms: A Conversation with Ayanna Lloyd Banwo” by Will Forrester (PEN Transmissions) “Trinbagonian author releases debut novel with UK publishing house” by Tevin Gall (Loop Trinidad & Tobago) Recommendations: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson Beloved by Toni Morrison Black Skin White Masks by Franz Fanon (translated by Richard Philcox) The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova Currently Obsessed: KAYTRAMINÉ album by KAYTRAMINÉ (Aminé and Kaytranada) Boys Planet (TV show on Viki) Boys Love Boys Planet The Ampliverse podcast Dear Hank and John podcast Galvanina Organic Sparkling Lemon soda

Julia and Victoria talk about the marriage of message and form in the “memoir situation” by one of their favorite human beings: 10 Steps to Nanette by Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Mentioned in this episode: Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby “Hannah Gadsby Talks ‘Queer Joy’ and Calling Out Netflix” by CT Jones (Rolling Stone) Hannah Gadsby’s Netflix specials Douglas and Something Special Broken Horses: A Memoir by Brandi Carlisle Recommendations: Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price, Ph.D. Comedy Sex God by Pete Holmes The episode of Oh I Like That podcast discussing Tár Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die by Daniel Sloss Heartbreak High on Netflix Please Like Me on Hulu Everything’s Gonna be Okay on Hulu Currently Obsessed: Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon Prime - season 5

Julia and Victoria are joined by their new literary friend Caleb Tankersley to discuss Caleb’s debut story collection Sin Eaters. They enjoy a lovely ramble about the process of creativity and the value of writing what makes you happy. Plus: some important Oreo discourse. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Find Caleb Tankersley online: Website: https://calebtankersley.com/ Split/Lip Press: https://www.splitlippress.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caleb.tankersley/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Caleb_of_1988 Mentioned in this episode: Sin Eaters by Caleb Tankersley My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George Mrs. S by Kay Patrick “The Eternal Combustion Engine” by Caleb Tankersley (Thirteen Bridges Review) Phantom Advances by Mary Lynn Reed (Split/Lip Press) Recommendations: Charles Yu Kelly Link Kevin Wilson The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich Midnight Mass (Netflix) Children & Their Cages by Evan James Sheldon Poetry by Caitlyn Alario including “As Any Foolish Woman” and “Sapphics II” Currently Obsessed: This Wound Is a World and Minor Chorus by Billy Ray Bellcourt Attack on Titan Something Special by Hannah Gadsby (Netflix) One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston Recipe Club podcast

Julia and Victoria make their case as to why Babel by R. F. Kuang should be two (or three?) books. Point #1: It is amazing, and the people want more. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Mentioned in this episode: Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang Daisy Jones & the Six - Film Club with Julia & Victoria Part 1 (Episodes 1-5) Part 2 (Episodes 6-10) The Poppy Wars trilogy by R. F. Kuang This “foot boop” scene from Our Flag Means Death (TV show) Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (and Book Club episode 085 where Julia talks about how many times she bought this book). Recommendations: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé The Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin Currently Obsessed: Fangirl Central podcast OO-LI album by Woodz Bad Dates with Jameela Jamil podcast

Julia and Victoria have an epiphany, answer their lingering questions, and discuss major series themes of time and the legacy of oppression while discussing The Stone Sky, conclusion of the Broken Earth trilogy, by N. K. Jemisin. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Mentioned in the Episode: Crunchyroll interview with N. K. Jemisin Amal El-Mohtar’s review of The Stone Sky for NPR Oprah Daily interview with N. K. Jemisin Recommendations: Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin Babel by R. F. Kuang This is How You Lose the Time War by Amar El Mohtar and Max Gladstone Currently Obsessed: Interview With the Vampire series on AMC Agust D D-Day album I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston Next In Fashion season 2 on Netflix

Hold on to your runny sacks. We are wrapping up our discussion of The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin! We’ll be re-releasing episodes on book one and two over the next two weeks. Stay tuned for our concluding discussion of book three, The Stone Sky, coming your way May 2023. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Link to original show notes. Grab a copy of The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin and support the show!

Hold on to your runny sacks. We are wrapping up our discussion of The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin! We’ll be re-releasing episodes on book one and two over the next two weeks. Stay tuned for our concluding discussion of book three, The Stone Sky, coming your way May 2023. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Link to original show notes. Grab a copy of The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin and support the show!

Victoria just got back from AWP where she spent five days geeking out with fellow book nerds. Julia and Victoria talk about networking and finding your people as an adult. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Mentioned in this Episode: Book Club episode on Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Milkweed Editions Europa Editions Book Club episode on the Neapolitan Series by Elena Ferrante Yale University Press Book Club episode on How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Book Club episode on Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia Gen Con Indy Currently Obsessed: Hozier EP Eat Your Young So!YoON! album Episode 1 : Love Jimin mini album Face RRR on Netflix