Sisters Are Reading

NOT SCARY – Lindsay talks Barbara through the first of Sarah J. Maas' ultra-popular sexy fairy books. Featuring: Magic psychic fairy bonds, masque masks, will-they-won't-they, and more totally fun non-scary things.

Barbara tells Lindsay about Camille DeAngelis' cannibal-coming-of-age story. Featuring: The New York Marathon, delicious boys, surprise grandpas, and Timothée Chalamet.

5Lindsay and Barbara recap Edgar Allen Poe's iconic short story about a dude visiting his depressed friend in a creepy mansion. Featuring: Non-scary book obsessions, the spirits of vegetable things, Notting Hill, and critical criticisms.

Lindsay first shares her hilariously harrowing experience with an intoxicated woman at the Denver Airport. Then the sisters discuss Joan Samson's chilling novel about a small New Hampshire town that gets taken over by a conman auctioneer. Featuring: New England antiques, the lure of land, child auctions, and Watching the New Baby.

Lindsay and Barbara talk through Danielle Valentine's meh novel about an anxious millennial who gets pregnant and miscarries (but doesn't?). Featuring: Spilled wine, telling-not-showing, and putting your soul into the body of your best friend's dead baby.

Lindsay and Barbara recap one of the greatest short stories ever written – Shirley Jackson's The Lottery. Featuring: Sound description of an accordion, sore losers, and human sacrifice.

Lindsay and Barbara talk about Kathe Koja's "punk existentialist horror novel" about a mysterious hole and the people obsessed with it. Featuring: Exploding mouse skulls, scary porn, art weirdo cult followers, goo cocoon, and an antidote to happiness.

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Matt Shaw's badly written but excellently recappable tale of a dad gone wild. Featuring: Twirly hands, Father Time, how Barbara would rewrite this book, and dogs that talk with buttons.

Lindsay and Barbara recap Clive Barker's iconic novella about a dissolute dude who tries to claw his way out of hell and the sister-in-law who helps him. Featuring: Super scary cenobites, a trip to the mall, sad-sack friends, and more.

Lindsay and Barbara talk about Gillian Flynn's twisted short story about a fake psychic pulled into a dangerous family haunting. Featuring: a chilly-holdie, hand jobs, creepy teens, and more.

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Victor LaValle's discomfiting tale of a man wrongly held in a mental hospital terrorized by "the devil." Featuring: Seahawks training camp, mental diagnoses, and all the pronunciations of the word "woman."

Lindsay and Barbara recap Gerardo Sámano Córdova's magical realist tale of grieving parents growing a new creature from a piece of their son's dead body. Featuring: Light cannibalism, fluid sexualities, barking dogs, and more.

Lindsay and Barbara are joined by infamous cousin-friends Matt & Tyler to dissect Stephen Graham Jones' genre-film-inspired novella. Featuring: Return to the creepy boathouse, decidedly non-magical mental illness, high school friend dynamics, and much much more!

Lindsay and Barbara catch up after weeks and weeks of not recording and briefly recap Algernon Blackwood's iconic proto-Lovecraftian tale The Willows. Featuring: Diana Krall! Therapy! Indescribable cosmic creatures!

Lindsay and Barbara chat about Elizbeth Hand's acid-folk-fuelled oral history of a 70s band's pagan breakdown. Featuring: Wren witch faeries, grimoires, a neolithic mound shaped like half an egg, doggie-horsie-this-book, and our mother singing Arlo Guthrie.

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Ronald Malfi's super scary tale of a man searching for his lost brother in the dark and dangerous realm of monsters/serial-killers (aka Alaska). Featuring: Eyelash lift vs extensions, the difference between shrews and voles and mice, identical twin magic, scary animal head masks, and more.

Lindsay and Barbara talk through Guy Adams & AK Benedict's confusingly plotted multi-character Lovecraftian homage. Featuring: Mom's pickleball drama, Stanley Tucci, squid brothers, and a lot on top of a lot.

Lindsay and Barbara recap Laurel Hightower's almost-good novella about a mother who'll sacrifice anything to bring back her dead son. Featuring: A hot neighbor, baby sign language, and notes about how the book should have ended.

READ THIS BOOK. Lindsay and Barbara dig into the terrifying depths of Stephen King's iconic novel about a romance author and his utterly unhinged number one fan. Featuring: Slug sister, amateur amputation, and a book in the book.

READ THIS BOOK. Lindsay and Barbara recap Victor LaValle's scary awesome book about homesteading women in 1800s Montana. Featuring: Italian vacation travel plans, second-grade concerts, sisters-as-monsters, blood baths, and more!

Lindsay and Barbara chitchat for 17 minutes before digging into Trang Thanh Tran's novel about an anxious teen living with her dad for the summer in a super-haunted manor in Vietnam. Featuring: Our mother's awards sweep at the senior center art show, French-colonialism-as-cringey-hobby, zombie-ant fungus, and buying bras at Costco.

Lindsay and Barbara discuss Edgar Allen Poe's iconic short story about a perfectly sane not at all wackadoo murderer. Featuring: Uncomfortable Poe facts, the taste of stone fruits, wild speculation, and how Lindsay's dog is "a whore for cheese."

Sorry! We've been taking our time getting back into the swing of the pod. To make up for it, Lindsay and Barbara describe their recent trip to France. Featuring: How Lindsay and her spouse got trapped in Charles De Gaulle Airport, our mom's new car, train wine, Barbara's abandonment trauma, and more.

Lindsay and Barbara chat about Anne Rice's iconic vampire novel. Featuring: Childhood trauma, shroom-level sensory fascination, confusing vampire mysteries, a prelude to our sister trip in France!

Lindsay and Barbara talk through Claire Kohda's not-at-all-scary "literary vampire novel." Featuring: A Baba Yaga puppet, the crushing hierarchies or working in a contemporary art gallery, and overcoming indoctrinated shame about the fact that you crave human blood.