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Sacred Cheese of Life tackles a different text each week, discusses what makes it awesome, and uses that to improve our writing.
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S1E50 50 Murderbot and Character
I'm in another Murderbot reread. Happens several times a year. But it got me thinking why we love Murderbot so much. What is it about a depressive angry ex-slave cyborg with PTSD who's on the run…
S1E49 49 Harriet the Spy
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh is one of the best books ever. It gets into everything good: how to transition from a complacent child to a self-aware person, what it means to be a writer, who we…
S1E48 48 Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons's amazing novel Cold Comfort Farm features a main character without a real character art of her own, who walks into the lives of her messy dramatic cousins and solves all their major…
S1E47 47 A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" is widely taught because it's such a fascinating and complex collection of literary maneuvers in a small space.We get the story of Emily Grierson, an…
S1E46 46 We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson’s novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle raises questions like: what if my little sister was a murderous psychopath? And: how burned down does a house have to be before we’ll move…
S1E45 45 I Capture the Castle
I adore this book, then I got all mad at the ending, then when I went over it again, I had misread it—the ending is exactly right. Hurray!Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle is overtly a retelling of…
S1E44 44 Jellicoe Road
Melina Marchetta’s novel Jellicoe Road will kill you dead, in a good way, but you only get to read it unspoiled ONCE, so please I am begging you, read it before you listen to this! I will ruin…
S1E43 43 Jupiter Ascending
This is a little bit different as an approach. I decided to record while watching Jupiter Ascending, which made for slightly odd audio, though I turned the tv down a few minutes in. But it also meant…
S1E42 42 Farscape and Space Opera
Farscape is an absolute delight of a show. Space opera at its best. I wanted to study it for space opera for Becca’s favorite show. Ultimately I talked myself out of it through this discussion and…
S1E41 41 Landscape
Joan Aiken uses landscape to encompass and embody the stories she tells—sometimes. When she does it, I find the novels incredibly compelling. It’s odd that she doesn’t always do it, though, come to…
S1E40 40 Battlestar Galactica miniseries
I just watched the three hour miniseries for this. I have SUCH a complicated relationship with this show! We’ll get into it, don’t worry. I’m interested in what worked so well in this miniseries and…
S1E39 39 I Am the Cheese
This week I'm reading the amazing novel I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier. Please read it before listening! This novel is so upsetting. And I remembered it very differently from the way it actually…
S1E38 38 Scamanda
Kind of a departure this week. I listened to a whole long podcast series called Scamanda about a person who created a fictional situation for herself, lied about having cancer, and used that to bilk…
S1E37 37 Rimrunners
Rimrunners is really super From The Past in a way that's kind of unpalatable now, a time when "tough heroine" meant "is like a dude hero from twenty years before." She's tough! She kills a would-be…
S1E36 36 Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
That title has issues, but it’s a fantastic book. This is a middle grade novel by E.L. Konigsburg, one of my favorite middle grade authors—and we already know I adore middle grade. I think I have ten…
S1E35 35 The Almost Year
Florence Engel Randall’s novel follows a traumatized black teen who gets sent to live with a white suburban family in the early 70s. She didn’t want to go, nobody wants her there, and she has a bad…
S1E34 34 WYSIWYG
The book I read is about a wealthy family in Scotland interacting with some Scottish Travellers and being Good and Right about things having to do with them and not Prejudiced and Bad and Mean.…
S1E33 33 Objective Reading
This week I read the Thrushcross trilogy, Leaving Thrushcross, The Icarus Triptych, and Mazewood. And yeah, I wrote them, but I also have no memory, so things were startlingly new to me, which I…
S1E32 32 Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Laini Taylor’s novel Daughter of Smoke and Bone is the first in a trilogy that will knock your socks off. Read it! Read it before you listen to this! There are SECRETS that I will give away and ruin…
S1E31 31 Liar
Justine Larbalestier’s Liar, at last!This is such a good novel. You have to read it before you listen, though. I will RUIN it for you by spoiling every possible thing. This is a book you have to…
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Sacred Cheese of Life has published 50 episodes since June 2024, covering topics in Arts, Books.
Sacred Cheese of Life is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 54m.
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