All Plot Abandoned: A Book Review Podcast

This week, we discuss chapters 49–53 of Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Join us as we talk about Idaho, paramilitary groups, eschatology, food preservation techniques, Little House on the Prairie, the reliability of lesbians, predestination and virtue signaling, nature walks, the Mojo Dojo Casa House, and grizzly bears. Let’s get contemplating! Follow us on Instagram: @all_plot_abandoned Episode...

This week, we cover chapters 44-48 of Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Join us as we discuss Christian nationalism, the Spanish Inquisition, witch hunts, badly designed flags, milk crate speeches, the tolerance paradox, snow globes, a psychotic break, and saying the quiet part out loud. Let’s get contemplating! Follow us on Instagram: @all_plot_abandoned Episode notes available here . Intro and ou...

This week, we discuss chapters 39-43 of Yesteryear. Join us to talk about homeschooling, John Oliver, Onanism, The Great Gatsby, drop shipping, rats, Mose from The Office, selling your soul, monetized hobbies, biblical oceans, and more religious psychosis. Trigger warnings for child abuse and child death. Follow us on Instagram: @all_plot_abandoned Episode notes available here . Intro and outro mu...

In this week's episode, we talk about chapters 34-38 of Yesteryear. Join us as we talk about perfectionism, similarities between humans and horses, truffles, the personal as political, civil war, the male loneliness epidemic, divine amnesia, divinely inspired ecstasy, frogs and ponds, and children as a concept. Let’s get contemplating! Follow us on Instagram: @all_plot_abandoned Episode notes avai...

This week, we discuss chapters 29-33 of Yesteryear. Join us as we talk about mom-fluencers, traditional gender roles, the most personal murder weapon, casual racism, thirst traps, farming crocuses, influencers as missionaries, and religious psychosis. Let’s get contemplating! Trigger Warning: discussion of rape in chapter 29 Follow us on Instagram: @all_plot_abandoned Episode notes available here...

This week, we talk about chapters 24-28 of Yesteryear. Join us as we talk about the manosphere, top hats in the club, Natalie’s lack of people skills, Natalie and Caleb might both be closeted, 1950s Jell-O Recipes, cereal bowls, and individualistic solutions to systemic problems. Let’s get contemplating! Trigger warnings: mention of suicide, drug overdose, and sexual assault. Find us on Instagram...

In this episode, we discuss chapters 19-23 of Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Amelia provides context about "mother's little helpers" and wandering uteruses. Our conversation covers The Parent Trap, the importance of a perfect image, faking it until you make it, Ronald Reagan (regrettably), and the top tier snack that is bread and butter. Let's get contemplating! Find us on Instagram @all_plot_ab...

This week, we discuss chapters 14-18 of Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Join us as we discuss postpartum depression, being a tree, reality TV, idiot husbands, freak husbands, stay-at-home husbands, and internalized misogyny. Trigger warnings for suicidal ideation, Ronald Reagan, and Elon Musk. Let’s get contemplating! Find us on Instagram, @all_plot_abandoned Intro and outro music by Dvir Silvers...

This week, we read chapters 9-13 of Yesteryear. Join us as we talk about courtship, being jealous of children, half-risen bread, fever dreams, ill-advised exercise, and microplastics. Let’s get contemplating! Find us on Instagram, @all_plot_abandoned Intro and outro music by Dvir Silverstone from Pixabay

In this week's episode, we are analyzing chapters 4-8 of Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Amelia presents some research on early marriage in fundamentalist Christianity. We also discuss cows, finding your place in college, the reliability of our narrator, Boss Babes, individualism versus collectivism, and intersectional feminism. Let’s get contemplating! Find us on Instagram, @all_plot_abandoned I...

This week, we begin our read through of Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Join us as we discuss some background on tradwives, Sad Beige Babies, gender roles, Angry Women, first-time motherhood, and time-travel logic. Let’s get contemplating! Find us on Instagram, @all_plot_abandoned Intro and outro music by Dvir Silverstone from Pixabay

In the final episode of our analysis of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, we discuss chapters 22-24 and the epilogue. Join us as we talk about Charlie and Renee’s background, the butterfly effect, an angelic Edward montage, vampiric diabetes, the changeability of vampire emotions, and officially establish our rating system! Let’s get contemplating! Find us on Instagram, @all_plot_abandoned Intro and ou...

This week, we talk about chapters 19-21 of Twilight. Join us for our penultimate chapter of this book as we discuss Bella’s boredom, more baseball, the specifics of vampire death, negotiating with the enemy, and the nobility of dying for a loved one. Let’s get contemplating! Find us on Instagram, @all_plot_abandoned Intro and outro music by Dvir Silverstone from Pixabay

This week we talk about chapters 16-18 of Twilight! Join us to hear about Henry VIII, whether starvation is actually a danger for vampires, horseshoe crabs, vampire sex, and, of course, baseball as a full-contact sport. Trigger Warning: we have a discussion about suicide from [39:23] to [44:58]. Let’s get contemplating! Transcripts available at https://allplotabandoned.substack.com Intro and outro...

This week we talk about chapters 13-15 of Twilight. Join us as we talk about vampiric biology, the ethics of eating humans, whether vampires need to brush their teeth, and Bella’s famous khaki skirt. Let’s get contemplating! Transcripts available at https://allplotabandoned.substack.com Intro and outro music by Dvir Silverstone from Pixabay

This week, we talk about chapters 10-12 of Twilight . Listen in this week as we learn more about some traditional vampire lore, debate the morality of doing good deeds, discuss the sexiness of eye contact, and get more into the questionable fashion choices of our main couple. Let’s get contemplating! Transcripts available at https://allplotabandoned.substack.com Intro and outro music by Dvir Silve...

Join us this week as we read chapters 7-9 of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. We cover the Mormon version of North American history, shoddy internet searching, vampiric body odor, the definition of humanity, Edward’s wardrobe choices, and a wild case of insta-love. Let’s get contemplating! Transcripts available at https://allplotabandoned.substack.com Intro and outro music by Dvir Silverstone from Pix...

This week, we continue exploring Forks as we read chapters 4-6 of Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. We learn about Stephanie Meyer’s writing process, Edward stops avoiding Bella, the eye contact heats up, the existence of Bigfoot is maybe biblically supported, and we meet the very young Jacob. Let's get contemplating! Transcripts available at https://allplotabandoned.substack.com Intro and outro music...

Welcome to All Plot Abandoned! In our first episode, we are beginning our journey through Hell…I mean Forks…by analyzing chapters 1-3 of our favorite young adult classic, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. Forks might literally be Hell. Bella hates the library. Is Charlie in love with Carlisle?? And who exactly is Mormon in this town? Transcripts available at https://allplotabandoned.substack.com Intro...

What happens when two friends who took one too many philosophy classes in college crack open the latest book to go viral on BookTok? All Plot Abandoned is the podcast where best friends Amelia and Laney dissect the books that everyone's reading, but nobody's really analyzing. Inspired by their favorite college course, "Death, God, and Philosophers," they bring a lens of philosophy, religion, and m...