Welcome back to Razzlefrat! While endings are bittersweet, we made sure to stay true to our weird selves. This episode we wrap up with the end of the year goals and thoughts for the future. A quick run-down of novellas from November and all the last of our 2024 reads. We discuss the play The Seagull by Anton Checkhov for our last book club. Be sure to follow us on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands to see any future bookish content. All 60 episodes will remain available to listen or download and our joint insta account @razzlefratpod will end but stay as a relic. Thank you to anyone and everyone to listened to our rambles and silly conversations, even from the days Eclectic Earth Witch and Contemporary Cat Lady. For the last and final time, we bid you farewell. xoxo, Razzlefrat
November Novella:
https://lithub.com/the-50-best-contemporary-novels-under-200-pages/
https://lithub.com/50-great-classic-novels-under-200-pages
Books/authors mentioned this episode:
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Chapter 59: Stand on Beezniss
Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This is our penultimate episode, and we had the election blues. BUT we knock them out (sort of) by looking ahead to our most anticipated reads of Spring 2025. Join us for our last review in our next and final episode. We’ll be reading The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @razzlefratpod! Until next time, we bid you farewell. xoxo, Razzlefrat
November Novella:
https://lithub.com/the-50-best-contemporary-novels-under-200-pages/
https://lithub.com/50-great-classic-novels-under-200-pages
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Chapter 58: Playing God
Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, life is back to kicking our asses, but at least it’s fall? Then, we dive straight into our October book club pick: The Orchard by David Hopen! We talk faith, philosophy, the inexorable march of time… the usual suspects. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @razzlefratpod! Until next time, we bid you farewell. xoxo, Razzlefrat
November Novella Challenge
50 Classic Novellas
50 Contemporary Novellas
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Chapter 57: Obsession With The Deadly Dilf
Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, sweater weather is back (and so are the muppets?). Then, we play a round of “Lifetime Movie or Commercial Thriller?” and all we have to say is: Lifetime, call us. We can help you. Join us next time for our book club read, The Orchard by David Hopen! Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @razzlefratpod! Until next time, we bid you farewell. xoxo, Razzlefrat
Books/authors mentioned this episode:
Filterworld by Kyle Chayka
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Next to You by Helena Bonham Young
Gray After Dark by Noelle Ihli
Nowhere Like Home by Sara Shephard
The Devil and Mrs. Davenport by Paulette Kennedy
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson
Gathering of Shadows by VE Schwab
Graveyard Shift by ML Rio
Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake
Babel by RF Kuang
The Orchard by David Hopen
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Chapter 56: Shove Some Ice In Your Pants
Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, Tumblr is BACK, baby, and so is #soupszn. Also, we had a 24-hour readathon because we don’t do anything at half speed and reading is lifeeee. Then, we discuss this month’s film adaptation: Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh. We chat violence, alcoholism, and obsession—it’s very fun and light. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @razzlefratpod! Until next time, we bid you farewell. xoxo, Razzlefrat
Books/authors mentioned this episode:
My Murder by Katie Wiliams
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Lightlark by Alex Aster
Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
Swallow the Ghost by Eugenie Montague
City Limits by Megan Kimble
Funny Feelings by Tarah Dewitt
Babel by RF Kuang
The Orchard by David Hopen
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