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Save Me From My Shelf Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith
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4.7 • 19 Ratings
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We're friends and academics who take classic literature off its pedestal by making fun of it.
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SMFMS Bookends 7: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The seventh episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Alice's Adventures in Wonderland episode.
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Episode 57a - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In the first part of our fifty-seventh episode, we regress to childhood and look at Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). We examine Lewis Carroll's sexual vs. artistic motives, take our first dive into nonsense literature, and celebrate confectionary, being mean to children, and Alice's criminal escalations.
Cover art © Catherine Wu.
Episode Theme: Camille Saint-Saens, The Carnival of the Animals, '10 Voliere'.
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SMFMS Bookends 6 - A Midsummer Night's Dream
The sixth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Midsummer Night's Dream episode.
You can hear us on an episode of Carl Sweeney's The Movie Palace here, in the last 5-10 minutes of the show, where we recommend our favourite pre-'70s film: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/classic-movie-recommendations-part-1/id1398503911?i=1000656989665
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Episode 56 - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our fifty-sixth episode, we celebrate midsummer with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1605). We make a lot of (obvious) jokes about asses, Amazon, and fairy kink (despite not reading THE fairy kink book).
Cover art © Catherine Wu.
Episode Theme: Felix Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night's Dream 'Op 61'
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SMFMS Bookends 5 - The Grapes of Wrath
The fifth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from The Grapes of Wrath episode.
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Episode 55 - The Grapes of Wrath
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our fifty-fifth episode, we recap John Steinbeck's 1939 Dust Bowl adventure, Biblical allegory, and socialist manifesto, The Grapes of Wrath. It's all pigs, sex, and pooping (a shocking amount of pooping). We discover the show's second mono-butt-cheeked character, Abby develops a backup plan for a life of crime, and Daniel goes on a rant about topsoil.
Cover art © Catherine Wu.
Episode Theme: 'Woody' on guitar and harmonica, by Daniel Jenkin-Smith.
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Customer Reviews
👏🏼 great discussions!
I’m so happy I found this podcast the book discussions are so good and funny!
The Special Relationship
As a Yank with plans to move to UK soon, your relationship is hashtag goals. Love your actual work too.
Followed and love
I’ve been looking for a show like this for so long. I found the pod through Kate Lister’s Betwixt the Sheets and just a few episodes in and I’m sold. It’s really smart people talking about really old books and making them approachable. If I had a complaint, Daniel occasionally talks a little too low to understand. Still, absolutely love it.
Edit: I’ve listened to more episodes since my original review and they either got better mics or Dr. Daniel is articulating more. Still, five stars.