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THE UNMAKING OF JUNE FARROW | the foreboding air of rural southern towns
Adrienne Young has done it again with her immersive and atmospheric stories, this time in the oppressive summer heat of 1950s North Carolina. There's…
1 year, 5 months ago
MARCH VIBE CHECK | thoughtful reads & trash tv...the duality of man
February was a short month but somehow contained multitudes. RiLee is blindly watching Love is Blind and also blindly reading books she should have v…
1 year, 5 months ago
LEGENDBORN | the audacity of men (but never selwyn)
Dont mind us and our ugly crying, we are just discussing Tracy Deonn's Legendborn. This book is one of the best we've discussed on the pod and will b…
1 year, 5 months ago
BAD MORMON | basically just spilling mormonism tea
Today's wild card episode is about how Heather Gay's Bad Mormon exists in a context, and it's a context we know A LOT about. Our thoughts on this boo…
1 year, 6 months ago
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) | the ultimate comfort film
At the root of today's discussion is this question: Is there a superior adaptation of Pride and Prejudice? We're focusing our conversation on the 200…
1 year, 6 months ago
FEBRUARY VIBE CHECK | listen for sam's nic cage impression
We survived January! The month that never seemed to end!! There's a lot of variety in what we consumed in January. From Real Housewives to movies mid…
1 year, 6 months ago
ONYX STORM | a love letter to ridoc gamlyn
Welcome back to the Empyrean! Every single character in this ENTIRE world is going to be mentioned in the first 20 pages. Hope you figure it out! By …
1 year, 6 months ago
2025 TBR AND WATCHLIST | where’s the new music?
Suzanne Collins! Stranger Things! Unicorns! Here's everything that's on our radar for 2025. We've got a lot of new books we are looking forward to an…
1 year, 6 months ago
JAN VIBE CHECK | go see sonic 3
Its our first vibe check of 2025 and we were READING. This a spoiler free review of everything we consumed in December and what we are looking forwar…
1 year, 7 months ago
EMILY WILDE'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES | who actually journals this much?
For our December Book Club we read Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett, which turned out not to be an encyclopaedia at all! (We…
1 year, 7 months ago