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Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 01 - Kristy's Big Idea (The Baby-Sitters Club #1)

Our latest show-within-a-show begins! We have convened a club whose charter is to learn about The Baby-Sitters Club. Join us as we met the Club's founding members and learn about Kristy's mortal enemy: her mom's new boyfriend.

Here's the full Sit Me Baby One More Time reading list:

• Kristy's Great Idea

• Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls

• The Truth about Stacey

• Mary Anne Saves the Day

• Dawn and ...

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Bonus 068 - Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (Novelization), by Tracey West

We want to be the very best (podcasters)! The best (podcasters) there ever were! And our true test was to talk about the novelization of the first film in the most successful media franchise in the world: Pokémon.

Bonus 067 - Garfield: His 9 Lives

Garfield creator Jim Davis decided to turn his PAWS, Inc. artists loose on multiple interpretations of our favorite orange feline. Behold, a truly absurd collection of tails -- I mean, tales.

EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS DISCUSSION OF AT LEAST ONE ODDLY EXPLICIT TURN OF PHRASE THAT REALLY CONFUSED US.

Bonus 066: The Garfield Movie

Submitted for your approval, a bonus-bonus episode about the international kind-of-a-hit animated movie The Garfield Movie. Contains about 45 minutes of genuine field audio, recorded on a portable tape recorder, from a restaurant where we went to eat lasagna as we unpacked what we had just watched.

June Bonus Recording - Garfield: His 9 Lives on June 28th!

We'll be recording our June Bonus Episode on GARFIELD: HIS 9 LIVES on Friday, June 28th @ 8:30 PM ET. All Patrons at the Let's Hang Out tier ($5+) will get a link to join us for a livestream on YouTube.

We'd love for you to join us. Bring Lasagna?

Bonus 065 - Think and Grow Rich

We're learning how to THINK AND GROW RICH with our good frenemy Napoleon Hill!

April Bonus Recording: Think and Grow Rich on 4/27

We'll be recording our April Bonus Episode on THINK AND GROW RICH on Saturday, April 27th @ 8:30 PM ET. All Patrons at the Let's Hang Out tier ($5+) will get a link to join us for a livestream on YouTube.

We'd love for you to join us. We're sure it will be a rich discussion!

April Schedule 2024

Welcome to April! Five regular episodes AND a Bonus? WOO!

If you haven't already, we invite you to join us for our first episode of the month, which was DEFINITELY about WAR AND PEACE and NOT AT ALL about CliffsNotes or studyguides or whatever.

Coming up next we have Malinda Lo's queer coming-of-age story LAST NIGHT AT THE TELEGRAPH CLUB. Then we have our Patron's Choice book of the month HOLES by Louis Sachar. Did you know that's the same guy who did Wayside School? Who knew! 2024-04-04 17:30:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Bonus 064 - The Mystery at Lilac Inn (Nancy Drew #4)

It's LEAP DAY! So we leapt into THE MYSTERY AT LILAC INN with our good friend young sleuth Nancy Drew!

Also we're talking Odies 2023!

Bonus 063 - The Snow Queen

Time to celebrate winter with a chilly fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Also we're talking Disney's FROZEN!

December Schedule 2023

December's already under way and we've got plenty of reads to get you through the first leg of winter (or summer depending on your hemisphere)! We've already gotten deep in our Gamer feelings with TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW and travelled into the mystifying world of Gormenghast with TITUS GROAN.

Coming up next we have the acclaimedd PACHINKO by Min Jin Lee. It's a generational epic! And we close out the month on Xmas Day with our annual Happy Hornydays installment: HER NIGHT...

Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Reading Schedule

Sing, O Muse, of two friends steeped in knowledge,
Two lads with bonds kept strong for years since college.
The Trojan War they seek to understand.
Here find the pathway forward they have planned.

This is our tentative schedule for our current longread project on Emily Wilson's translation of the Iliad. 

Longreads supporters ($10+) get each episode as we record them. Our first delayed combo episode for Books 1 & 2 will post to the main ...

November Schedule 2023

November's already under way and it's a banger! We kicked things off with another hot collab w/ Heaving Bosoms, talking about Rebecca Yarros' FOURTH WING. It's a "romantasy."

Coming up next we have THE STRANGER by Albert Camus. Then we return to the world of Percy Jackson with Rick Riordan's THE SEA OF MONSTERS. Finally, we close out the month with ALL SYSTEMS RED by Martha Wells, the first of her Murderbot Diaries.

In the world of bonus content, our Spooktober bonus just hit the ...

Bonus 062 - A Night in the Lonesome October

What if a dog was your POV character? What if that dog's owner was JACK THE RIPPER? What if there was a game but you didn't know who was playing? All of these questions and more get asked in our Spooktober bonus episode.

Bonus 061 - Moneyball

It's time to talk about market efficiencies in popular non-fiction aka the work of Michael Lewis. Specifically, we're chatting about his 2003 book MONEYBALL, which chronicles the work of Billy Beane to optimize the Oakland A's despite his owners not wanting to spend real money. 

July Schedule 2023

So far July has included The Alchemist (what's YOUR Personal Legend??) and A Wizard of Earthsea (what's YOUR True Name?? we promise we won't tell anyone).

Coming up next is our 600th Episode!!! You can join us for the livestreamed recording at bit.ly/overdue600. We're talking Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief! 

Closing out the month we have our Patron's Choice poll winner An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon and Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell. ...

Bonus 060 - Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack Vol. 1

We're talking Mondays. We're talking lasagna. We're talking annoying dogs and bumbling owners. We're talking Lyman -- wait what? Join us as we dive into the Garfield deep lore (and learn to make a Garf of our very own).

Episode 600 Stream: Percy Jackson!

We hope you can join us for the recording of our 600th episode! To celebrate, we're going to extend the YouTube hangout magic to all listeners who want to join us was we talk about the first Percy Jackson novel THE LIGHTNING THIEF!

All listeners, old and new, are welcome to join us at bit.ly/overdue600 for the stream. 8:15pm ET. July 14th, 2023.

Thanks to all of our Patreon supporters for helping us get to this milestone. We truly would not be here without you.

June Schedule 2023

We kicked off June with Less by Andrew Sean Greer. It's a Pulitzer winner and the episode is up on our feed right now. Go listen!

Next up will be Gulliver's Travels. This guy Gulliver? He goes places - allegorical places.

In Summerwater, twelve people are cooped up on a rainy Scotland day. It's the longest day of the summer and something is about to happen.

Our Patron's Choice episode for June is The Roaches Have No King by Daniel Evan Weiss. We'll try to g...

May Schedule 2023

May launched with a Children's Book Week celebration of Sandra Boynton. We each brought several board books to the recording, and we talked about our kids - it's very cute!

Then we're logging on to Slack for the cheeky novel Several People are Typing by Calvin Kasulke. What if a whole novel, but in Slack??

Then it's time for magical teens in Rainbow Rowell's Carry On. 

Our Patron's Choice episode for May is the infamously difficult to adapt book The Orchid Thief by Su...

Bonus 059 - Super Mario Bros. (1993) The Novelization

Mamma Mia! Let's-a go back to the 1990s and discuss Todd Strasser's novelization of the 1993 film adaptation of the Super Mario Bros. videogame franchise. It all makes about as much sense as the sentence you just read!

April Schedule 2023

April kicks off with Sally Rooney's hit novel Normal People. We're joined by guest Vanessa Zoltan, whose voice you may recognize from Hot & Bothered or Harry Potter and the Sacred Text.

Then we're going to read the award-winning All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders. According to Wikipedia, it is "about a witch and a techno-geek, their troubled relationship, and their attempts to save the world from disaster." Props to Wikipedia for the Oxford comma usage.

We'll r...

March Schedule 2023

March kicks off with the Hugo/Nebula award-winning novel This is How You Lose the Time War. Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone collaborated on this epistolary novel about a timey-wimey war. Then we have to figure out how to get this Cat down from a Hot Tin Roof - maybe Tennessee Williams can help us.

Our Patron's choice episode this month is Heidi by Johanna Spyri, but Andrew Sean Greer's Less was a VERY close second. Maybe we'll circle back to that one. Closing out our regularly schedul...

Bonus 058 - Do Overdue: Ghost Train

WE FIND OURSELVES SHOOK BY THIS ROLLICKING RATTLING RIDE ALONG THE RAILS OF THE GHOST TRAIN.

This bonus episode is part of our Do Overdue 10th Anniversary Spectacular, in which we are revisiting books from earlier in the run of our show.

Bonus 057 - Horrorstör

The graveyard shift in this haunted not-IKEA proves rather spooky!

January 2023 Update

Welcome to 2023 everyone!

First, we wanted to say thank you. Next month will be our TENTH anniversary (can you believe it??), and we would not be here without you. Whether you just found or the show or you’ve been with us for years, we’re grateful that you’re here and humbled that you’ve chosen to support the show.

Second, just a few quick reminders about reward tiers, projects, etc.

- The $1 reward tier grants you access to our awesome...