Strange and Beautiful Book Club

Seriously, we needed a Toxic Man-Bro to argue with us and Matt just didn't come through.  

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We discuss this darkly poetic and tragically comic vampire movie by the director of Old Boy. Who doesn't love a movie that isn't afraid of a bad sex scene. Maybe Matt but you'll have to listen to fin…

Dune by Frank Herbert - Part 2 of 3 of our breakdown of the book that started it all!

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It's time to go deep, real deep, on one of our favorite books with adaptations and that, of course, is Dune by Frank Herbert. We start this special series (one of our secret projects, secret no longe…

Our first monthly book club pick! We read Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang which is the Matt book that ever Matted. It's smar…

A fun exploration of two movies with deceptively different approaches to the zombie movie medium. We discuss the inconsistent tension mess of World War Z and the unintelligent brilliance of Shaun of …

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Definitely one of our favorite if not THE FAVORITE of the zombie books we've read. The shear amount of research and thought work that had to go int…

Matt thought it would be a really good idea to make Rachel watch both Robocop movies and inevitable discussion ensued! Which one did we like best and why was it the original? You'll just have to list…

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THE VERY LAST Feast, Sheath, and Shatter: A Book Chat Podcast Episode (Formerly Book Talks with Kate) to be released on the Strange and Beautiful Book Club stream. After this they will be moving to t…

Fund Season 3 here: 2023 Pride Collection - "In The Flesh (Season 2 Ep.3)" - In which we find a way to like Gary even less.2023 Pride Collection - "In The Flesh (Season 2 Ep.3)" - In which we find a …

Kieren is back and he's got a job. We pick up some time after the events of the last episode and I can already tell we are going to harder on story this season so color us EXCITED. 

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Bright, bold, ambitious and so narratively tight you couldn't fit a postcard in between the plot points. This movie was, and still is, sheer perfection. A shining example of the sincere ambition that…

Introducing Feast Sheath and Shatter! The new name for the Book Talks with Kate! In July, Feast Sheath and Shatter will be permanently moving to it's own stream. Check back in the show notes for the …

The next episode in our 2023 Pride Collection. This is the third and last episode of In the Flesh's initial season and it's a really really good one. Prepare to have those heart strings tugged becaus…

Trigger Warning: This episode of the Strange and Beautiful Book Club as well as the episode of In the Flesh contain discussions of suicide.

This episode of our podcast has a much more serious tone tha…

Our first introduction to the cast and characters of this wildly layered, emotionally engaging show about Partially Deceased Syndrome Suffers (don't call them Zombies!). Kieran heads home to rejoin h…