Drunk Of The Book Club

Hello, sweeties! Welcome back to Episode 36. We read Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado. We discuss: Goodreads reading challenges, the ridiculously high prices of audio books, actually paying for music and movies, changing the speed of podcast playback, how druuuunk we sound if you slow down our podcast to 1/2 speed (please try-- enjoy), the interview Ashley heard of Carmen Maria Machado (Call Your Girlfriend episode titled "Winter Books"), the tone of sadness that colored a lot of the stories, the richness of the short story "The Husband Stitch" (we're pretty sure it must be on a Mills College syllabus right now), our lack of Law & Order SVU background knowledge, how "The Inventory" shifted in a really interesting way, Ashley's love of "The Resident" for its old-school ghost story vibe, the ambiguity of the time periods in the stories that made them feel like modern fairy tales, comparison's to Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird and Kelly Link's Get in Trouble, Micheline Marcom's philosophy of