Book Rant

Book Rant
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Book Rant

A podcast for bookish people, opinionated by bookish people. Because ranting is what book clubs are missing.

  1. 12/31/2023

    Year in Books: 2023

    We've resurfaced! Even though we haven't exactly been super busy reading behind the scenes, we figured we'd bring everyone back to speed with a recap of what we've been reading and doing for the past year. Our favourite reads, most surprising books of 2023, DNFs, reading goals for 2024... you know the drill. Also, if anyone asks what we got each other for our 2023 Book Box, the answer is we don't know; we're late and have bad memories.

    46 min

  2. 02/19/2022

    Are We Back?

    So, uh, it's been a while. We figured we should release something to let you know where we've been and what we've been reading. And to give some life updates and let you know where this podcast is going.We're not officially back from our hiatus (although we never really announced that we were on a hiatus... so were we ever officially on one?). But we felt like chatting about books! So here we are.We hope your reading is going well, too :)cw: pet loss, talk of mental illness

    56 min

  3. 08/31/2021

    Chill & Travel Light

    Listen, I think we just needed to have a chill episode. So, here it is. A chill episode. Vee talks about an old favourite, Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison, and thinks about how books change over time and reveal new secrets with age. Jess discusses the importance and heartbreaking reality of This Place: 150 Years Retold, a graphic novel exploring the last 150 years of so-called Canada through the lens of Indigenous voices and experiences.

    51 min

  4. 08/02/2021

    I Read Ice Planet Barbarians and It's Worse Than You Think

    cw: rapeIn this month's role reversal, Jess reads a book of essays and Vee reads (really awful) alien smut!Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino is highly recommended book of personal essays exploring the ways that capitalism has ruined everything. Guest appearance by Foucault.Ice Planet Barbarians: A Scifi Alien Romance by Ruby Dixon (not her real name) is... not recommended. In fact, it's atrocious and I suggest you forget it ever existed. It's a book about heteronormative assumptions and giving ex...

    55 min

  5. 07/01/2021

    I Like to Beautifully Read

    Sometimes you just need to get up at 5AM and beautifully read, ya know?Vee recounts her experiences reading This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, a wonderfully crafted sapphic romance about post-human time travelling agents... need I say more?And Jess gushes about the book that actually broke her reading slump: Beach Read by Emily Henry, a contemporary romance/romantic comedy (somebody tell me what the difference is) with quick banter and uncomfortab...

    1h 7m

  6. 06/17/2021 · BONUS

    Jess & Vee (Incoherently) Discuss: Piranesi

    It was bound to happen. Jess is finally out of her reading slump and dove straight into Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - which of course meant that we needed to sit down with some drinks and a pipe and chat about what we thought about this book.We by no means covered even half of the theories or ideas that this book brings up, so if you have anything to add, hit us up on Twitter or Instagram! If you haven't even read this book, what are you doing? Go read it!mouth noises sponsored by THC and oliv...

    43 min

  7. 06/03/2021

    Fantastic Histories And How (Not) To Write Them

    In case anyone is wondering: no, Jess didn’t get her reading chair back. The saga continues. I’m personally even wondering if the chair ever existed. Or maybe it was adopted and is now living a totally different life with another family. Maybe in Italy. I hope it’s happy.Jess reads Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco, a witchy enemies-to-lovers book set in pre-unification Italy, and Vee reads The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (as part of #asianreadathon), a brutal fantasy about war and the fa...

    1h 5m

  8. 05/25/2021

    Jess & Vee (Incoherently) Discuss: Book Adaptations

    Are book to movie/tv/theatre/videogame adaptations ever good?We start to answer this question in our latest minisode... and then get sidetracked by talking about which adaptations we've liked and disliked. Important stuff, you know.We're not (fully) sober in this episode, so if you're not comfortable with that, no problem. You can skip this one. Drink and smoke responsibly. (But also it's not really that great, anyways, so...)Also, yes, Jess said Gary Oldman instead of Gary Marshall. It's oka...

    36 min
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    A podcast for bookish people, opinionated by bookish people. Because ranting is what book clubs are missing.

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    • Creator
      Book Rant
    • Years Active
      2019 - 2023
    • Episodes
      36
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      Explicit
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      © 2024 Book Rant
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