RazzleFrat

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! While endings are bittersweet, we made sure to stay true to our weird selves. This episode we wrap up with the end of the year goals and thoughts for the future. A quick run-down of novellas from November and all the last of our 2024 reads. We discuss the play The Seagull by Anton Checkhov for our last book club. Be sure to follow us on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_a...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This is our penultimate episode, and we had the election blues. BUT we knock them out (sort of) by looking ahead to our most anticipated reads of Spring 2025. Join us for our last review in our next and final episode. We’ll be reading The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, life is back to kicking our asses, but at least it’s fall? Then, we dive straight into our October book club pick: The Orchard by David Hopen! We talk faith, philosophy, the inexorable march of time… the usual suspects. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @razzlefra...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, sweater weather is back (and so are the muppets?). Then, we play a round of “Lifetime Movie or Commercial Thriller?” and all we have to say is: Lifetime, call us. We can help you. Join us next time for our book club read, The Orchard by David Hopen! Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and als...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, Tumblr is BACK, baby, and so is #soupszn. Also, we had a 24-hour readathon because we don’t do anything at half speed and reading is lifeeee. Then, we discuss this month’s film adaptation: Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh. We chat violence, alcoholism, and obsession—it’s very fun and light. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, Allie gets into chess and Ashtin continues her Sarah J Maas evangelism. Then, the fall weather has us putting on our professor hats. We discuss books we think should be studied in school as well as books that make you feel like you’re on a campus. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, we’re recording IRL (!) and trying to manifest fall through Gilmore Girls rewatches and booking trips to Vermont. Then, we discuss this month’s book club pick, Memory Piece by Lisa Ko. We talk about gender, legacy, the nature of time, and whether a book can do TOO much (spoiler: it can). Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, we’re willing fall into existence. Then, Build-a-Bookworm with us! Finally, we discuss our most anticipated fall 2024 reads. Join is next time for our analysis of our August book, Memory Piece by Lisa Ko. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @razzlefratpod ! Until ne...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, Allie is headed to the beach for her annual getaway and Ashtin is sucking it up through jet lag and a cold. Then, because we know you’ve all been dying to know, in the wake of the NYT’s Top 100 Books of the 21st Century list, we reveal our own ballots. Then, a closer look at Breakfast at Tiffany’s starring Audrey Hepburn, our summer adaptation watch! Be sure...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, Allie’s taking measures to beat the NYC heat and Ashtin is dramatically jet setting to Europe to get away from it. Then, we play a round of bookish smash or pass: Summer Edition. Join us next time for our summer adaptation watch: Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat—our 50th episode! This week, our lives are jointly dominated by Bridgerton and Lizzy McAlpine. Then, in honor of our Golden Episode, we assign books to each of the Golden Girls and find out which GG we are in a very official, very academic quiz. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint acco...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, while Ashtin lazes on the beach, Allie runs a half marathon. Then, we travel back and forth in time with Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse Five . We chat about the construct of time, time travel as a metaphor for PTSD, the inevitability and omnipresence of war, and lots of other fun stuff! Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, Allie is out of hibernation and Ashtin is in the office. Then, we play a new game—Hallmark Movie or Romance Book?—and mourn the state of literature. Join us next time for our red-flag-read, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @r...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, we’re spring cleaning like our lives depend on it while listening to new Dua Lipa and Taylor Swift. Then, we discuss Get Over It , an iconic early ‘00s chaotic Shakespeare adaptation—right on brand. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @razzlefratpod ! Until next tim...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, we’re obsessing over Sabrina Carpenter and all things Espresso. Plus, Allie gives us all a lesson in proper subway etiquette. Then, we play a round of “Yes If or No If” with our favorite reads from last year! Join us next time for our adaptation watch of Get Over It. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresin...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, Allie is listening to albums galore and Ashtin is back from Texas and we’re both a little frazzled (we blame the planets). Then, we dig in (pun intended) to our latest book club pick, FAMILY MEAL by Bryan Washington. We chat about narrative form, the duality of food, and the under discussed interstitial spaces in grief and love. Be sure to follow us in betwee...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, we’re dodging punches in NYC and Allie’s Bookstagram has RISEN! Then, we play a round of everyone’s favorite game: FMK (Bookish Edition). Finally, our most anticipated summer 2024 releases showcase our… wide array of interests, let’s say. Join us next time for our book club reading of FAMLY MEAL by Bryan Washington. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, we rly said TREAT YO SELF (we had a Friday night out that made our bank accounts super mad but our hearts super happy). Also, daylight is BACK, baby. So long, depression, we’re totally healed. Then, we discuss our latest film adaptation watch: The Grapes of Wrath! Ashtin is insane and Allie is a really good sport. Join us next time for our book club reading o...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, we celebrate awards season with our own and go a few rounds in the bookish ring. We discuss the realities of Colleen Hoover stans going to bat with nonfiction bros. This one is a fun time, each roster runs the gamut from literary authors to fictional character ships. Welcome to the Thunderdome of our minds. Go sports. Be sure to follow us in between episodes...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, we smell snow! (AKA it’s cold and we’re crafty.) Then, we discuss this month’s book club pick, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins. We get into the sweeping—how the patriarchy infantilizes women—and the granular—all the meanings of the color yellow. It’s a good time. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @th...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, Pluto is in Aquarius and it shows . Ashtin is spiraling about consumer algorithms and Allie has picked up book binding. Then, we play “blind date with a book” and it goes… not according to plan, as you might expect. Join us next episode for our discussion of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins! Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta acc...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, *Ashtin* is getting over being sick and Allie is on flood watch. Then—we smell snow! And finally, our adaptation watch of Sally Rooney’s Normal People (spoiler alert: we love her). Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts @grapes_of_ash and @theresinkonmyhands and also our joint account @razzlefratpod ! Until next time, we bid you fare...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, Allie is getting over being sick (physically, but also of the universe’s BS) and Ashtin is working double time to stave off The January Abyss™. Then, we break down some common literary tropes and discuss our faves and least faves (trope jail, anyone?). Join us next time for our masochistic Normal People watch/breakdown! Be sure to follow us in between episode...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week Allie is treating herself to a well-deserved spa day and Ashtin finally attends a book event for *not* one of her authors. Then, we discuss our final 2023 book club pick— The Awakening by Kate Chopin. We discuss how Chopin flips Victorian conventions on their head, what feminism, friendship, and depression look like for women then and now, and, ofc, what an ic...

Welcome back to Razzlefrat! This week, Allie is in mom-meal-making mode and Ashtin continues the thankless work of converting people into SJM stans. Then, we categorize books into Taylor Swift eras and things get even more unhinged than usual! Join us next time for our final 2023 book club discussion of The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Be sure to follow us in between episodes on our booksta accounts...