Left On Read

"I don't judge you for your spoonless behavior." Next read: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)

"I only have so much heart to cut up and send out to these individual stories." Next read: Against Technoableism (Ashley Shew)

"It's good we're reading this as adults and we're not two children with a mic." Next read: How High We Go in the Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu)

"I did not review the Queen with my adult eyes." Next read: The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)

“Relish in the depressive child realm with me.” Next read: The BFG (Roald Dahl)

"You shouted in your heart, and that's what matters." Next read: The Wide Window (Lemony Snicket)

"Unlegliness is close to godliness." Next read: Bloomability (Sharon Creech)

"I would rather we not exist if it meant that everything here could thrive the way it did." Next read: Omon Ra (Victor Pelevin)

"I'm not a fucking octopus, Will!" Next read: The Good Rain (Timothy Egan)

"No matter who you are, no matter what is stripped away from you, love is at the center of everything." Next read: Neuromancer (William Gibson)

"No more free range thought. Thought in cage. Thought bad." Next read: Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut)

"Pay the fuck attention to the language people use." Next read: 1984 (George Orwell) Plugs: - Bluesky! lorpodcast.bsky.social - Meg's Etsy! etsy.com/shop/eggstuph

"Vibing as the uncarved block." Next read: Why I Write (George Orwell)

"Oh boy, did it technothrill me!" Next read: The Tao of Pooh (Benjamin Hoff)

"War is about the friends you make along the way." Next read: Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)

"Are we just gonna fly by the seat of our pants again? I dunno, it's 2025 - anything can happen." Next read: The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien) Books mentioned: - Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury) - Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond) - I Who Have Never Known Men (Jacqueline Harpman) - Migrations (Charlotte McConaghy) - White Nights (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) - It's Lonely at the Centre of the Ear...

"Goin' down to the guy and gettin' the geese." Happy holidays and happy new year 2025. We're happy to reach another year of podcasting with you guys, thank you for making us a part of your day :) Stay tuned for new and exciting reads when we return on 1/10.

"An impression of Edgar Allan Poe is just raven squawks." Next read: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Hey man, maybe everything isn't gonna go to shit?" Next read: William Wilson (Edgar Allan Poe)

"If he dies, he dies, and that's pretty human." Next read: The Prepper (Morgan Talty)

"Big therapy time." Next read: The Bicentennial Man (Isaac Asimov)

"If the shadow attaches you to the idea of being a real human, what does it mean when your shadow dips?" Next read: Tender is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica) BOOKS ARE POLITICAL; READING IS RADICAL https://pen.org/report/beyond-the-shelves/ https://pen.org/book-bans/2023-banned-book-list/ https://lithub.com/the-republicans-project-2025-is-disastrous-for-books/

"Direct a porno. Would have been better, probably." Next read: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami)

"Victor, with all his delicate sensibilities, would never be able to handle a penis." Next read: The Hellbound Heart (Clive Barker)

"It was vivid, visceral, vibe." Next read: Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)