Left On Read

"We're in philosophy mode now, man." Next read: The Forest Brims Over (Maru Ayase) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com

"If everyone was 5% sassier, the world would be a bit of a better place." Next read: The Stranger (Albert Camus) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com

"Oh, you're so special and weird and traumatized." Next read: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com

"A good way to get on a curmudgeon's side is to curmudgeon with them." Next read: Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com

"Hell yeah, stick the cigarettes up your butt." Next read: A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com

“She just wants her clam chowder, man. What is this heirloom tomato basil reduction?” Next read: The Bear and the Nightingale (Katherine Arden) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com

"Subliminumal messabaging." Next read: Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby Van Pelt) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com

"Sean's clocked in on the bunny gossip." Next read: Cult Classic (Sloane Crosley) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com

“We’ll probably die never getting humanity, but there’s beauty in always trying.” Next read: Watership Down (RIchard Adams) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com

"I just would be less mean, ok?! I'm just a girl!" Next read: Playground (Richard Powers) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com

"Big dad type no nonsense." Next read: The Dispossessed (Ursula K Le Guin) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com

"If I knew things I would know." Next read: The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com

"What is love to a rich man in the 1920s if not just possession?" Next read: We (Yevgeny Zamyatin) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com

"We just don't live in a value driven society anymore, man." Next read: The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com

Happy holidays and happy new year 2026! Getting another year in for the podcast feels amazing. Thank you so much for making us a part of your days. We appreciate all of you immensely. Stay tuned for our first episode of 2026 - and more exciting expansions of the pod - when we return on 1/9. Stay warm, stay safe. Love, Sean + Meg

"Going around killing mentally ill people might not be best." Next episode: End of Year Review

"All I remember about him was that he cared more about teeth than anything else." Next read: Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)  

"Suck blood, don't sleep, live long." Next read: As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)

"Security-sized window, only for little boys." Next read: Carmilla (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)

"Who up jerkin' their homunculus??" Next read: Cell (Stephen King)

"What if the universal truth is that nothing will ever get fixed?" Next read: Saturnalia (Stephanie Feldman)

"Oh my god, she's 30! She's a spinster!" Next read: Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World (Sasha Fletcher)

“I’m building worlds your tiny brain can’t comprehend!” Next read: Tender is the Night (F Scott Fitzgerald)

"He should have been a better bug." Next read: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (Walter Moers)

"Bring your white man British names. Call it Johntown." Next read: The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)