Listen as middle-aged women drink custom, crafted cocktails and debate with enthusiasm the merits of storytelling through its various mediums. The focus is on audio books and how it contrasts with movies, television, paper and e-books but we may wander into comic and online serial web novels. And, if we have too many, maybe raconteurs.
In this episode we discuss coming of age books. April, Michele, and Iris share stories about the first time that they over imbibed. Questions around if aliens or robots can have coming of age stori…
In this episode April and Michele pre-game a little before the episode starts, where they then join Iris in discussing stories that have been retold many times. Discussion centers around fairy tales…
In this episode we discuss the differences between audio books recorded by a single narrator vs those recorded by a full cast.
In this episode we discuss books across all generations. How stories maintain relevance and continue to be read and influence books into the next generation. A conversation develops regarding relig…
In this episode April, Michele and a special guest, Tracy Stegall, talk about the books that have made them laugh. They discuss how their personal preferences for humor impact the stories that they …
In this episode we discuss White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and narrated by Amy Landon. Due to the sobering nature of the book, we chose not …
We each read, listened and watched the story of Where’d You Go Bernadette just so we could talk about the different mediums. Spoilers included
Please join us in our most indulgent and delightful episode yet, where we discuss the first Trilogy in Robin Hobbs Realm of the Elderlings. We talked about the experiences in listening and reading t…
Listen as we discuss the romance genre with our special guess Jess Brent who has well thought out opinions regarding the feminist aspect of the romance genre and who loves these stories with her whol…
We didn’t pull our punches – in this episode we talk about the audio book narrators we love and those we love to hate.
In this episode we talk about the first time we listened to audio books and how those experiences helped us fall in love.
In our inaugural episode we talk about how the podcast came about and discuss the art of skimming while reading or listening to books.