Book Club with Julia and Victoria

It’s finally happening. We are going to finish our discussion of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series! To catch you up on the conversations about books 1-3, we’ll be re-releasing those episodes over the next few weeks. Stay tuned for the discussion of book 4, and our wrap up of the entire series coming your way NEXT WEEK!Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph:Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading ChallengeBook Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading ChallengeDisclosure: 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 Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante and support the show!

It’s finally happening. We are going to finish our discussion of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series! To catch you up on the conversations about books 1-3, we’ll be re-releasing those episodes over the next few weeks. Stay tuned for the discussion of book 4, and our wrap up of the entire series coming your way in a couple of weeks.Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph:Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading ChallengeBook Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading ChallengeDisclosure: 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 Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante and support the show!

It’s finally happening. We are going to finish our discussion of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series! To catch you up on the conversations about books 1-3, we’ll be re-releasing those episodes over the next few weeks. Stay tuned for the discussion of book 4, and our wrap up of the entire series coming your way next month.Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph:Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading ChallengeBook Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading ChallengeDisclosure: 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 My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante and support the show!

Julia and Victoria acknowledge that they do not always know what is going on while diving headfirst into the incredible debut poetry collection from Ocean Vuong: Night Sky With Exit Wounds.Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph:Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading ChallengeBook Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading ChallengeDisclosure: 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:Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean VuongOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongWar baby: the amazing story of Ocean Vuong, former refugee and prize-winning poet (The Guardian)Time Is a Mother by Ocean VuongOnly Murders in the Building The Book Thief by Markus ZusakSchindler’s List (Movie)Recommendations:Crush by Richard SikenThe Best We Could Do by Thi BuiCurrently Obsessed:League of Their Own (TV Show)Interview With The Vampire (TV Show)Paper Girls (TV Show)Being Funny in a Foreign Language by The 1975Spelling the Tea: The Vampire Tea Room Magical Mysteries by Erin Johnson

Lord Byron’s Letters of the FutureJulia and Victoria needed to scream about how much they loved crying over the romantic, angsty sci-fi novella This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, so now it is an episode.Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph:Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading ChallengeBook Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading ChallengeDisclosure: 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:Wingspan Board GameThe Craft Sequence by Max GladstoneThe bird meme from Amal’s Twitter: (original comic by @FalseKneesRed, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuistonDoctor WhoThe Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger“Blue-da-ba-dee” by Eiffel 65Recommendations:Good Omens by Neil Gaimen and Terry PratchettJulia’s “Becoming Blue” playlistTravel Light by Naomi MitchesonCurrently Obsessed:League of Their Own on Amazon PrimeHold the Girl by Rina Sawayama

Julia and Victoria explore the Dark Ages with writer, historian, and former professor Rebecca Stott. They discuss Rebecca’s new book Dark Earth: about two sisters who run away to a ruined Roman city in 6th century Britain. They talk genre, archaeology, breaking boundaries, and Julia gets very excited about swords.Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph:Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading ChallengeBook Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 100+) Reading ChallengeDisclosure: 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.Follow Rebecca Stott:Website: https://www.rebeccastott.co.uk/ Twitter: @RebeccaStott64Listen to her radio broadcasts for BBC Radio Four’s A Point of ViewMentioned in this Episode:The Secret Island by Enid Blyton“In the Waiting Room” by Elizabeth BishopRecommendations:Cwen by Bryce GibbyBlack Sun by Rebecca RoanhorseA Tale For the Time Being by Ruth OzekiCirce by Madeline MillerCurrently Obsessed:Elephant’s Breath paint by Farrow and BallThis Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max GladstoneOnly Murders In the Building on HuluMarchita by Silvana Estrada

Julia and Victoria talk with author Evan James Sheldon about his new book of gloriously weird flash fiction, Children and Their Cages, and his creative process. Julia learns that flash fiction is not, in fact, a story written very fast.Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph:Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading ChallengeBook Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 100+) Reading ChallengeDisclosure: 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 EpisodeFollow Evan James Sheldon’s writing on evanjamessheldon.com and Twitter @EvanJamesSheld1. Check out his latest book Children & Their Cages available online at Barnes & Noble.The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan“On Writing and the Business of Writing” by Carmen Maria MachadoThe House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros"Fairy Tale is Form, Form is Fairy Tale" by Kate Bernheimer“For Everyone Who's Still Fucked Up Over That Story About The Girl With The Ribbon Around Her Neck” by Lauren Yapalater (Buzzfeed)Recommendations:The Complete Stories of Leonore Carrington by Leonora Carrington, introduction by   Kathryn Davis“The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria MachadoA Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba The Iliac Crest by Christina Riviera GarzaThe Summer Book by Tov JanssonSin Eaters:Stories by Caleb TankersleyFriday Black by Nana Kwameh Adjei-BrenyahCurrently Obsessed:Charco PressBullshit Jobs by David GraeberThe Making Of by Brecht Evans

Julia finds herself of an age somewhere between Jane Eyre and Miss Marple, and she’s asking herself: Does she have money and/or prospects? Remains to be seen.

Happy Virgo Season! Victoria sits down to share six little (ish) reflections she is carrying with her as she waves goodbye to age 26 and steps into age 27.Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and join Victoria on Storygraph:Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading ChallengeBook Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 100+) Reading Challenge

Julia and Victoria parse through all the bizarre takes by professional critics and writers on Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata.Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and join Victoria on Storygraph:Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading ChallengeBook Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 100+) Reading ChallengeDisclosure: 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:New Film Club with Julia & Victoria episode! Why we’re not persuaded by Netfix’s Austen adaptationSayaka Murata’s Eerie “Convenience Store Woman” Is a Love Story Between a Misfit and a Store by Katy Waldman (The New Yorker) This anti-capitalist novel explores what it means to be 'normal' in an abnormal world by Marianne Eloise (i-D Vice) I thought I was too different to see myself in a novel – but Sayaka Murata got me by Naoise Dolan (The Guardian)Life Ceremony: Stories by Sayaka MurataFor Japanese Novelist Sayaka Murata, Odd Is the New Normal by Motoko Rich (The New York Times) Recommendations:Ayoade on Top by Richard AyoadeThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark HaddonThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsNeurotribes by Steve SilbermanUnmasking Autism by Dr. Devon PriceThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionCurrently Obsessed:Only Murders in the Building on HuluPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeExtraordinary Attorney Woo on NetflixSeverance on Apple TV+