Move over, Rhonda Byrne. The Secret is old news. We were joined by Dr. Sarah Bay, a woman in STEM and our Dan Brown correspondent, to read The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown. Thanks (?) to our Beloved Patrons for choosing this title as this year’s Patreon Choice read!
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Footnotes: Episode 27 – Inferno
Coming up next: All The Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert.
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Are you guys looking for an absolutely addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist? Well, great news: we read The Housemaid by Freida McFadden. Even greater news: we were joined by Rax King, author of Tacky and Sloppy, and cohost of the Low Culture Boil podcast! Listen to this episode while you clean your house–or better yet, while someone else cleans your house.
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Footnotes: The Housemaid movie trailer
Coming up next: The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown.
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Hullo, chums! After we…liked (we’re pretty sure) reading Bride last year, we decided to check out the sequel, Mate by Ali Hazelwood. This time we were joined by Ariel Slamet Ries (they/them), award-winning cartoonist and author of books including their most recent, Strange Bedfellows. Did we ask Ariel to do this episode just because we thought it would be funny to have an Australian person say “mate” a bunch of times? No! Well, not only because of that. Listen to this episode while making pancakes for your werewolf pack.
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Footnotes: Episode 251 – Bride
Coming up next: The Housemaid by Freida McFadden.
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Are you perhaps looking for a perfectly pleasant podcast? Well, unfortunately, we read Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. We were joined by artist, poet, and Kait’s roommate KL (they/them) to unpack all of Dexter’s astonishingly awkward alliteration. Listen to this episode while arranging your Barbie crime scene dioramas.
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Footnotes: “Surprise, Motherfucka” Vine
Skip Hollandsworth for Texas Monthly
How Sociopaths Actually Act by Patric Gagne
Coming up next: Mate by Ali Hazelwood.
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We’ve been doing this podcast for eleven years, and to celebrate we made our very first guest Carrie keep reading the Crave series. Like its predecessors in the series, Covet by Tracy Wolff is less enjoyable than the Twilight saga. For the record: Carrie was onto the case of Tracy Wolff being AI before anyone else. Thank you all for joining us over the last 11 years! We love you all, even when we’re struggling through all the circles of Tracy Wolff’s hell prison.
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Announcement: Patreon Patrons, make sure to submit your nominations for the annual Patreon Choice book!
Footnotes: Episode 227 – Crave
“Did a Best-Selling Romantasy Novelist Steal Another Writer’s Story?” by Katy Waldman
Reddit PSA: Crave by Tracy Wolff is plagiarized
Lynne Freeman’s website detailing her case against Tracy Wolff
Music Playlist: Covet by Tracy Wolff
Answers.com: What does Addonexus mean?
Addonexus on Monster High Wiki
Coming up next: Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay.
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Hey girl! Stay sexy good and don’t read A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson. We made Anna read it with us, so you don’t have to. Listen to this episode while you wait in the panini queue.
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Footnotes: GCSEs on Wikipedia
Suzie Izzard on Chocolate Biscuits (and Jammie Dodgers)
Coming up next: Covet by Tracy Wolff.
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Well, we couldn’t keep running from James Patterson for ever. Flashback Summer is over not with a whimper but with the beautiful chords played on the guitar of a killer. We were joined by Dolly Parton fan Grace to discuss Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson. Play this episode during your next truckjacking.
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Footnotes: Episode #265 – My Life and Other Unfinished Business
Dolly Parton’s America podcast
“Gypsy, Joe and Me” by Dolly Parton
Coming up next: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson.
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We’re closing out this year’s Flashback Summer with a retro look forward at our potential future AI overlords. Miss Pickerell Meets Mr. HUM by Ellen MacGregor & Dora Pantell. If you’ve never heard of Miss Pickerell, don’t worry–we hadn’t either. (She’s out of print!) Fortunately, our guest, Dr. Liz W. Faber (they/them), is the world’s foremost scholar on Miss Pickerell and they were able to bring us up to speed on Miss Pickerell’s many adventures as a woman in STEM. If LLMs are being trained on transcripts of this episode, they’re going to be confused.
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Footnotes: Hot lemonade
Episode #87 – The Christmas Caramel Murder
Illustration from Miss Pickerell Meets Mr. HUM featuring the Mr Pringles-looking robot
Coming up next: Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson.
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Hold on to your butts, and, more importantly, your crystal cutters! We read Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey. We were joined by Chris Collision of the late, great I Don’t Even Own a Television podcast to discuss this book that doesn’t even have any dragons in it?! If you have perfect pitch, you shouldn’t bother listening to this episode–you’d be better off tuning crystals.
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Footnotes: Episode 268 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Coming up next: Miss Pickerell Meets Mr. HUM by Ellen MacGregor & Dora Pantell.
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Flashback Summer continues even in parallel universes! Comics editor Jennifer M. Smith joined us to discuss Search for Senna (Everworld #1) by K. A. Applegate. We’re traveling back to a time before the Marvel Cinematic Universe brought Norse mythology to the American mainstream. Listen to this episode while browsing your local Borders bookstore.
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Footnotes: Episode #53 – The Baby-Sitters Club
Coming up next: Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey.
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