7 episodes
Very Different Books Jared & Victoria
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Jared and Victoria love reading, but their tastes are ... different. In this podcast that's part literary criticism and part comedy, they discuss the books they are currently reading and what attracts them to different genres and authors. Contact us at verydifferentbooks@gmail.com or at @VDBpodcast on Twitter for feedback or recommendations for books to cover in future episodes!
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You Would Cry Too If It Happened to You
Coming up on the one-year anniversary of the start of the podcast, an emotional Victoria and her emotional-support Jared revisit the books that they discussed in the unaired pilot episode: The Sea in Winter by Christine Day (2021) and The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells (1901).
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A Three-Husband Problem
In a slightly experimental format, Jared avoids spoilers while discussing Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem (2008), the first novel of the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, by talking about aliens. Victoria, on the other hand, spoils everything about Maggie Shen King's dystopian novel An Excess Male (2017) which delves into current issues arising from China's One-Child Policy and extrapolating the future of those issues playing out under constant government surveillance.
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We Don't Want Bangs
Happy New Year! After a couple months off to deal with the retail holiday rush, Jared and Victoria are back in a short episode to discuss what they read between Halloween and Christmas, as well as the books they're hoping to read in the coming year.
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When In Doubt, Burn It Down
Content warning: sexual assault and child sexualization. See chapter info if you wish to skip past this content.
In the first Halloween episode, Victoria struggles through Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice (1976) and Jared takes us on a journey through Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (1962). A discussion also follows about the value of content and trigger warnings in books with mature themes.
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It Has to Be Dana
Jared covers the roller coaster that is Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett and Victoria breaks down Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien.
We forgot to record the social media handles (because we're smart little newbies over here, okay), so if you want to get in touch with us, we're at @VDBpodcast on Twitter and can be reached at verydifferentbooks@gmail.com. -
It Could've Been Done Better
After keeping this week's books a secret from each other, Jared and Victoria discuss books that they've been waiting to read for quite a long time: The Children of Men by P.D. James, and Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer.
The video we mention at 10:54 is here.