In this episode we’re talking about Other People’s Faves (that we do not like)! Yes, it’s time for our hot takes and unpopular opinions! We discuss all the pretty spider girls, not finishing books, hate reading, and waiting to read the next book in a series. Plus: Fish venting!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Mention (Some of these we like and some of them we do not like…)

Wanted (2008 film) (Wikipedia) Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Wikipedia) - The play we mention The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien The Princess Bride by William Goldman The film version (Wikipedia) Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman The TV version (Wikipedia) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Redwall by Brian Jacques (Wikipedia) Along Came a Spider by James Patterson Kiss the Girls by James Patterson Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Night by Elie Wiesel The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (Wikipedia) Discworld by Terry Pratchett (Wikipedia) Uprooted by Naomi Novik Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami Murakami off reading lists in New Jersey  Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna The Not Very Merry Pout Pout Fish Rap The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld (this is a book that is actually recommended!) Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice by John Layman and Rob Guillory Dog Man by Dav Pilkey

Links, Articles, and Things

S. R. Ranganathan’s Five laws of library science (Wikipedia) “Just thinking about the time I talked mad shit about good ol Jimmy Patterson…” The story about only owning one book. CliffsNotes (Wikipedia) 21 Books You Don’t Have to Read The Dracula live-tweet thread (read this!) Tom King (Wikipedia) Orson Scott Card (Wikipedia) “Card has publicly declared his support of laws against homosexual activity and same-sex marriage.” Episode 052 - Separating the Art from the Artist Judge Dredd (Wikipedia) The movie “Using twitter is just microdosing anxiety” Don Cherry (Wikipedia)  "cryptic horror nightmare country" (Twitter thread) HARK! The Holiday Music Podcast

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