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Welcome to Book Club With Julia and Victoria, the podcast for book friends!
If you just finished a book and HAVE to talk about it with someone, if you’re a casual reader looking for book recs, or if you’re the type of deep thinker who has formative memories of their high school English teacher, you’re in the right place.
We believe a good book can come from anywhere, so we read classics and recent releases, bestsellers and little-known gems. But ultimately, this podcast is for the books we just can’t shut up about.
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130 Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - The End of an Era
Julia and Victoria share the final episode of Book Club discussing the Jane Austen novel about home (and the moral bankruptcy of the upper classes) that started their friendship: Mansfield Park.Views…
129 Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park — Book vs TV Show
Content warning: this episode includes discussions of suicide and homophobia.Julia and Victoria reminisce about their 20s comparing the novel Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park, translated by…
128 The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang— History vs. Fantasy
Julia and Victoria try to find the line between history and fantasy in The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang. They use their incredible communication skills to meet in the middle of their opposing…
127 The Pairing by Casey McQuiston — Who Is the Elf?
The Book Club takes a big bite of all the genres and references in Casey McQuiston’s fourth romance novel, The Pairing. Julia invents a new branch of theory entirely based on the works of J.R.R.…
126 Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir — The Author-Reader Contract
Julia and Victoria marvel over the masterful point of view shifts and scream about the ending of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Victoria buys some lemonade.Views expressed on Book Club with Julia…
125 Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan — The Post Office of Words
This discussion of Index, a History of the by Dennis Duncan is a big day for Victoria because it’s an episode all about her favorite thing ever: sorting things into categories. Julia is there to help…
124 One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston — Spec-Fic-Rom WooLaWoo
“Excuse me, sir, there’s some magic in this romance”: Julia and Victoria unpack Casey McQuiston’s sophomore novel, One Last Stop.This episode was recorded on September 2, 2024.Views expressed on…
V&O: Fledgling by Octavia Butler – Ethical Vampirism
Julia and Victoria discuss the last vampire book of The Vampire & the Octopus series and then get very excited about two questions: Are there any ethical choices under vampirism? And, if so, are…
V&O: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Naylor — Octopus Novels of the Future
Views expressed on Book Club with Julia and Victoria and bookclubwithjv.com are solely those of the hosts and not necessarily those of their employers, clients, guests, and collaborators.Become a…
V&O: The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Julia makes her case of why the creature in Grady Hendrix’s The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires is NOT really a vampire, and Victoria makes a counterargument that it is actually the…
V&O: The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller — The Octopus in Captivity
Julia and Victoria read a pandemic book called The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller where the octopus is not the focus of the story, but is at the heart of the book’s major themes of captivity and…
V&O: Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda — Parenting Your Inner Baba Yaga
Julia and Victoria get very hungry talking about the trope-flipping, contemporary vampire novel Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda.Views expressed on Book Club with Julia and Victoria and…
V&O: Sea Change by Gina Chung — Loneliness & Adaptation
Julia and Victoria discuss Sea Change by Gina Chung and how authors use the octopus to contemplate loneliness and change. They discover that life really is about the friends we made along the way in…
V&O: The Vampire in Storytelling, a Bite-Sized History
Victoria teaches Julia all about the origins, tropes, and metaphors of vampire lore that create the undead monster we read about today. They discuss the origins of vampire stories in Slavic folklore,…
V&O: The Octopus in Literature, an Equal, Intelligent Other
Julia takes Victoria on a deep dive of octopus stories throughout time and space in this first episode of The Vampire & the Octopus series. We tackle questions like “Are octopus stories a form of…
Bonus: Disability Humor & Creating in Community with Steven Verdile
Julia discusses disability, comedy, creativity, and treating people like people with Steven Verdile, the founder of the disability satire publication The Squeaky Wheel.Views expressed on Book Club…
123 Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield — Monsters of the Deep Subconscious
Julia and Victoria learn what the word “flannel” means in British English and formulate their own theories about what happened to a stranded deep-sea researcher in the devastatingly beautiful novel…
122 How High We Go In the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu — Throw the Baby
Julia and Victoria conclude that How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu is a very good book–Julia is just sad.Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram…
121 Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan — Gossip and the Grotesque
Julia and Victoria grapple with the grotesque narrative choices in Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan, translated by Chi-young Kim. Julia incorrectly uses the word “epigraph” when she means “epitaph”…
120 Eight Billion Genies by Charles Soule & Ryan Browne — What Would You Wish For?
Julia and Victoria try to decipher the rules of Eight Billion Genies, the newest comic book series from Charles Soule and Ryan Browne, because Julia likes rules. They also learn about how one random…
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