Did The Reading

It's our Christmas Special!

Today Abby and Jess try to bring some festive cheer by discussing Charles Dickens' Christmas classic. Naturally, going via a discussion of 'why ghosts', poor politics, Mari…

Abby has finally done it, Jess has read a Twilight book.

Our resident YA fiction queen recalls her childhood of reading the Twilight books, and discusses the story written from Edward's perspective i…

One of the most famous modernist novels, Jess and Abby tackle Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and, yes, even try to summarise the plot.

What do we think of Woolf's male characters? What even is a "socia…

Murder? Timeless.

For more out of context soundbites, look no further than this week's episode, where Jess and Abby discuss Shakespeare's Macbeth (after Jess takes some convincing that Macbeth and Ric…

Shirley Jackson's short story, 'The Lottery' is the subject of this week's conversation between Jess and Abby.

You can read the story on the New Yorker website here.

A gothic story of family, community…

You asked, you receive.

Ever wondered what Jess and Abby think Gatsby's Instagram profile would look like? You've come to the right place.

Via a conversation that swerves from Fitzgerald's female chara…

We're back!

To start series two we both talk through some of the books we read during lockdown, as we face another one. From fiction through to books we lent and borrowed (and we know how picky Jess i…

Abby and Jess discuss The Mule Bone via decolonising the curriculum, the politics of language, and the radical capacity for stage performance versus a text on the page.

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Jess and Abby discuss Sylvia Plath's short story via The Metal Bowl, The Bell Jar, and Hugh Grant makes an appearance.

Tune in for two 22-year olds' opinions on how to have a successful marriage, the …

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Jess and Abby talk about Angela Carter's classic fairytale adaptation- via Queer Eye, Made in Chelsea and a couple of misquoted psychoanalysts.

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Abby and Jess discuss Fahrenheit 451, what's up with the girl who is around for 3 pages, how we treat our own books, and how we can judge science fiction from the 1950s.

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For our first episode, we look at Edgar Allen Poe's short story, The Pit and the Pendulum.

Join us as we talk about Bear Grylls, I'm a Celeb, recount a cinema trip that was equal parts amusing and hor…