Strange and Beautiful Book Club

We did it. Frank did not defeat us but let me tell you IT WAS CLOSE. We will be back to regular posting now, I promise. That was ROUGH ROUGH ROUGH.  There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly sp...

YES I KNOW. We are still here. Like a lot of creators, we are struggling to keep making light hearted content in a world that feels a little too heavy lately. It's been tough to read anything much less weaponized ninja sex nuns (I'm looking at you Frank). So we decided to have a little fun with it and get totally and completely wasted and just end the episode when the thoughts were running through...

We are back! Sorry, this is a little quick and dirty. Trying to hold it together and get caught up! Enjoy!  There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting down with girl f...

We're back from break and ready to chat (apparently). Here we discuss the third book in the Dune series - "Children of Dune" There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting...

We discuss the (for a second time) the second book in the Dune series! There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting down with girl friends to chat about hot book boyfrie...

Post plague out break - we wrap up the rest of Dune just in time to chat about "Dune Messiah" There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting down with girl friends to chat...

The shortest Dark Tower content yet and Stephen King still managed to work in a dick.  There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting down with girl friends to chat about...

Rachel and Matt discuss the final installment of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Part 2 of 2 of our discussion.  There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting down...

Matt and Rachel discuss the final novel (and in our opinion - the best) in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting down with g...

*Fixed the Audio* Matt and Rachel discuss the second to last book in the Dark Tower series, "Song of Susannah" by Stephen King. Did anything actually happen in this book? Listen and find out! There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious book...

FINALLY CAUGHT UP! We will be back on our regular schedule now so "Song of Susannah" will be out the first Friday in August! There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting...

Rachel and Matt discuss the remainder of Wolves of the Calla and a bunch of other related (and not related) stuff too. Hug your fluffy pets today for Pip, he will be missed.  There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything...

We discuss Murderbot Season 1, Episode 7 - Complementary Species.  There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in between (but mostly spicy!). It's like sitting down with girl friends to chat about hot book boyfriends...

As some of you may have guessed, Pip crossed the rainbow bridge the weekend before last and it really threw me for a loop. Please enjoy this very lightly edited episode. There's more coming now that I'm in a place to catch up. <3 There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork Listen to Rachel, Kate, and...

Slightly delayed but here it is and we got so excited to chat about this one that it just made sense to split it into parts so it won't be too too long. But don't worry, you won't be waiting a month for the next one.  Without further ado - here is the "Wolves of the Calla" episode from Matt and Rachel of the Strange and Beautiful Book Club There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoy...

Rachel is on the road until next week so our episode on "Wolves of the Calla" will be delayed. Murderbot and our book episode will all be out next week! See you soon!  In the mean time, please enjoy this reprise of our first foray into the world of the Dark Tower  There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnet...

Kate, Matt, and Rachel discuss the third episode of the Murderbot series, "Risk Assessment". As always, we are trying our best to use "it" for Murderbot and I think we improved immensely. Shooting to be even better about "it" next time! There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork Listen to Rachel, Kate,...

Surprise! We're chatting Murderbot today and every Friday while new episodes are airing! As you know, we've already covered these books with Kate back in 2023(?) - A long time ago... so there are bound to be some spoilers although we are going to try and keep it to the show relevant information for anyone who hasn't read the books.  These are fun, lightly edited episodes because we are literally j...

Rachel and Matt discuss the fourth book in the Dark Tower series. Did we agree? Were we both weirded out by the protagonist's ages or was that just Rachel... listen and find out! There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everyt...

Contains Spoilers! Also, we are moving! So there will be no book episode in April or probably May but then you get to hear all about how we moved to an abandoned motel in a remote lake side town in the far, far north. Which sounds like a book premise but it isnt! Matt and Rachel discuss the book, "Black River Orchard" by Chuck Wendig. Did we love it? Did we get the same joy out of this horror nove...

Matt and Rachel discuss the second installment in the Empire of the Vampire trilogy. Did we love it just as much? Does Rachel regret her tattoo? Listen and find out! There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss spicy books, serious books, and everything in betwe...

In honor of the late, great, David Lynch. Here's a repost of our episode on his absolutely bananas adaptation of Dune. Would he be glad to be remembered for this movie? No. Do we love him for it anyways? Also yes.  There's more from the Strange and Beautiful Network! Enjoying our work? Buy a cup of Hot Jala! https://ko-fi.com/strangeandbeautifulnetwork Listen to Rachel, Kate, and Hannah discuss sp...

According to Wikipedia: Twenty-seven years after Daysdeath, a mysterious phenomenon that has cast the world into perpetual darkness, vampires have successfully conquered humanity. Gabriel de Leon, the last living vampire hunter, is held prisoner awaiting execution for killing the Forever King, Fabien Voss. However, the Undying Empress orders Gabriel to tell her personal historian, Jean-Francois Ch...

Enjoy this special bonus episode crossover with our friends at Cinematic Anarchy!  Seasons Greetings from the Hosts of Cinematic Anarchy and The Strange and Beautiful Podcast. It's been a few weeks of rest since we posted and episode (Mostly Because the gifts don't wrap or buy themselves) and now we are back for a holiday episode with our good friends Matt and Rachel to discuss indie vamp flick "R...