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Book Club with Julia and Victoria Julia Clausen and Victoria Bruick
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4.3 • 18 Ratings
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Welcome to Book Club With Julia and Victoria, the podcast for book friends!
If you just finished a book and HAVE to talk about it with someone, if you’re a casual reader looking for book recs, or if you’re the type of deep thinker who has formative memories of their high school English teacher, you’re in the right place.
We believe a good book can come from anywhere, so we read classics and recent releases, bestsellers and little-known gems. But ultimately, this podcast is for the books we just can’t shut up about.
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Bonus: Disability Humor & Creating in Community with Steven Verdile
Julia discusses disability, comedy, creativity, and treating people like people with Steven Verdile, the founder of the disability satire publication The Squeaky Wheel.
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123 Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield — Monsters of the Deep Subconscious
Julia and Victoria learn what the word “flannel” means in British English and formulate their own theories about what happened to a stranded deep-sea researcher in the devastatingly beautiful novel Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield.
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122 How High We Go In the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu — Throw the Baby
Julia and Victoria conclude that How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu is a very good book–Julia is just sad.
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121 Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan — Gossip and the Grotesque
Julia and Victoria grapple with the grotesque narrative choices in Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan, translated by Chi-young Kim. Julia incorrectly uses the word “epigraph” when she means “epitaph” approximately 25 times.
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120 Eight Billion Genies by Charles Soule & Ryan Browne — What Would You Wish For?
Julia and Victoria try to decipher the rules of Eight Billion Genies, the newest comic book series from Charles Soule and Ryan Browne, because Julia likes rules. They also learn about how one random French guy playing fast and loose with a One Thousand and One Nights translation made up most of what the “Western” world “knows” about “genies.” Tale as old as time.
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119 The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow — People Have Always Been People
Julia and Victoria are surprised to find hope and belonging in a new story of humanity with The Dawn of Everything by “the Davids” (Graeber and Wengrow), the anthropological clapback to Sapiens by Harrari.
Customer Reviews
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love this podcast!! very insightful, such a great way to learn more about books I already love and discover new books.
So cringe
Americans trying to talk about foreign authors in the most annoying way possible
Uninsightful, liberal garbage
Was looking for a thorough discussion of All The Things We Cannot See after finishing it. Was hoping for additional insights that I may have missed as I don’t consider myself to be a “reader” and reading novels is new for me. During the summary they got several key facts of the book (and actual history) wrong or at least half wrong. They spent a long time trashing Americans for liking world war 2 stories and talking, insert liberal talking points about America sucking. Absolutely nothing to do with the book itself. The book doesn’t even have American characters so the assessment that WW2 books are written solely for American pride doesn’t apply to this book at all.
The reason why WW2 books and stories appeal to people is to learn from the past, and human nature. To try to fathom how so many human beings were complacent in this. Similar tactics have been used since then in other countries, even today. And there are many parallels between the communist takeover in Germany, and what the far left/Marxism is attempting to do today in America.
The lack of insight in this podcast episode is likely due to the influence that Marxism has had on these women. They aren’t getting the point of this book because they don’t understand the importance of the events or how we should learn from them. I mean they literally think that the book is post modern and is saying that there isn’t a clear right and wrong???? No, it’s very clear that Werner is wrong and his sister Jetta and his from Fredrick is right.
Definitely pass on this podcast if you are looking for anything intelligent whatsoever. After listening to the episode I can away realizing that I got MUCH a more from this book than they did. And I mostly read nonfiction, this was my first fiction book in probably 8 years.