Book Eaters Podcast
by Michele Karsk, April Freeman
Listen as middle-aged women drink custom, crafted cocktails and debate with enthusiasm the merits of storytelling through its various mediums. The focus is on audio books and how it contrasts with movies, television, paper and e-books but we may wander into comic and online serial web novels. And, if we have too many, maybe raconteurs.
Episodes
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Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus: Book Eaters discusses the Barnes and Noble 2022 Book of the Year
In the final episode of season four of Book Eaters Podcast April and Michele drink classic gin martinis and discuss the Barnes and Noble Book of the Year. Will April's love of cooking affect how she feels about the book? Will Michele ever pronounce the main character's name correctly? Join them…
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Never Lie by Frieda McFadden: Book Eaters Podcast discusses the Amazon Chart Topper
Michele and April dive deep into the Amazon charts and come up with Never Lie by Frieda McFadden. Discussion around unreliable narrators and the contract between readers and authors is discussed. Is it okay for an author to purposefully lead a reader astray, or must they never lie? The drink in...
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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver: Book Eaters Podcast discusses the Nobel Prize Winning Novel for Fiction
In this episode, April and Michele discuss Demon Copperhead the Nobel Prize Winning Novel for Fiction written by Barbara Kingsolver. Pour a Rusty Nail and join them as they discuss what butters their bread about this book based on the classic Charles Dickens Novel, David Copperfield. Is this the...
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Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka: Book Eaters Podcast discuss the Edgar Award-Winning Novel
In this April led episode the Book Eaters discuss the Edgar award-winning novel Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka. April and Michele imbibe the classic cocktail Suffering Bastard as they discuss what butters their bread about the New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year. No book is…
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Book Eaters Podcast discusses the USA Today's Best Selling Novel It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
Michele and April finally agree on a book. Do they love or hate the best selling novel IT Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover? In this episode, Book Eaters podcast talks about the former USA Today best-selling list and the author who made many marks upon it. Pour yourself a Cape Cod and listen in as...
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Babel by R.F. Kuang: Book Eaters Discusses the Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel 2023
Michele and April discuss what butters their bread about Babel: Or, The Necessity of Violence An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators Revolution by R.F Kuang. They discover the minty freshness of a Stinger classic cocktail and delve deep into conversation about pronunciation and their love of...
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Happy Place by Emily Henry: Book Eaters discusses a Goodreads most shelved book
April and Michele discuss Goodread's most shelved book Happy Place by Emily Henry. They drink margaritas and discuss the envious friendships and relationships in the first romance book to be reviewed this season.
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Finding Me by Viola Davis - A Discussion on the Audie Award Winning Memoir
June is Audiobook appreciation month. So it is apt that Michele and April discuss the Audio Publishers Association's AudioBook of the Year. Several awards called Audies are given for multiple categories, but this year's top nod went to Viola Davis for her memoir Finding Me. The banter and the...
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Fan/Slash Fiction
Book Eaters Podcast invites fan fiction writer Lea, to discuss the ins and outs of fan fiction and slash fiction. Michele and April learn from Lea where to access fan/slash fiction and the various ins and outs of the tags and warnings involved. They discuss who they "ship" Rum with in a cocktail,...
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The Serious Problem with Series
In this episode, Michele and April talk about how it seems like there are fewer stand-alone books and more series. Instead of a cocktail, they drink a series of shots. They discuss the pros and cons of book series.
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Were They High?
Tracy Stegall rejoins the Book Eaters Podcast to discuss the vast world of speculative fiction and the interesting book premises whose origination is difficult to understand. April leads the discussion with a rum-based twist of the White Russian cocktail in honor of a beloved stoned character…
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Banned in the USA
April and Michele talk about banned books. The cocktail is the Rosemary Pickford, a pun on a cocktail based on the sweetheart of the 1920s Mary Pickford, and the cocktail with her namesake.
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Lost in Translations
In this episode, April and Michele talk about books that have been translated from another language into English. They ponder why Americans don't read more translated stories. April expresses her desire to be closer to the text and Michele challenges her to learn another language. April crafts a...
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Robots Have Feelings Too
April and Michele enjoy a cocktail fashioned after M-Bot, a character from the Brandon Sanderson penned Skyward book series. They discuss the many times that robots showed up as characters in their favorite novels, what a robot is, and where our fear of sentience in robots originates. The…
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Wheel of Time
April and Michele welcome Cayte Peach to join them as they discuss the book series the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. In this spoiler-heavy episode, the Book Eaters Podcast takes a myriad of avenues, discussing in detail parts of the book series, the audiobook adaptions, Jordon Con, as well as…
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Six Drinks
In the first episode of Season Three of Book Eaters Podcast, Michele and April join forces with April's long-time friend and soon-to-be sister-in-law, Marcia Hudson. They discuss the book A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage. Join them as they drink their way through history. The...
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Book Eaters Podcast- Labor: How an Audiobook Gets Delivered
Special Guest Agnes Gomillion joins the Book Eaters Podcast to talk about publishing from an authors perspective. We take a deep dive into 'The Record Keeper" including some content that might be considered a spoiler and Agnes hints at what is to come in the 'Seed of Cain' scheduled for release…
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Book Eaters Podcast: World of Libraries
In this episode we are joined by our friend and library professional Christina to talk through all things library. We talk about where our love for libraries originated, what kind of programs and offerings are available and how library lending works.
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Book Eaters: Under the Influence
In this Iris lead episode Michele and April are joined by thriller author E. A Aymar, who also writes under the pseudonym of E.A. Barres. Michele explains why she doesn't enjoy books about the love of New York City, April talks about her recent obsession with historic crime novels, our guest Ed...
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Book Eaters Podcast: Story Mechanisms
For those of you who said we were editing out all the drunk bits, this episode is evidence that we are listening to your feedback. In this episode Michele speaks passionately as only a person who has had to many drinks can, about literary mechanisms including creating copies of characters,...
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Book Eaters Podcast: Coming Of Age Stories
In this episode we discuss coming of age books. April, Michele, and Iris share stories about the first time that they over imbibed. Questions around if aliens or robots can have coming of age stories are debated and the definition and pronunciation of bildungsroman is discussed. Michele confesses...
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Book Eaters Podcast: A Tale As Old as Time
In this episode April and Michele pre-game a little before the episode starts, where they then join Iris in discussing stories that have been retold many times. Discussion centers around fairy tales, mythology and Jane Austen. Iris attempts to have an intelligent conversation about Science…
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Book Eaters Podcast: Single vs Cast Recordings
In this episode we discuss the differences between audio books recorded by a single narrator vs those recorded by a full cast.
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Book Eaters: Books for Every Generation
In this episode we discuss books across all generations. How stories maintain relevance and continue to be read and influence books into the next generation. A conversation develops regarding religious texts and their translations as well as beloved books from our childhood.
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Book Eaters - LOL
In this episode April, Michele and a special guest, Tracy Stegall, talk about the books that have made them laugh. They discuss how their personal preferences for humor impact the stories that they choose and the medium in which they choose to consume them. We learn that April has a dark side and...
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Book Eaters Podcast : White Fragility
In this episode we discuss White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and narrated by Amy Landon. Due to the sobering nature of the book, we chose not to imbibe or create a specific drink.
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Book Eaters: Triple Play
We each read, listened and watched the story of Where'd You Go Bernadette just so we could talk about the different mediums. Spoilers included
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Book Eaters: Book Eaters Tangle
Please join us in our most indulgent and delightful episode yet, where we discuss the first Trilogy in Robin Hobbs Realm of the Elderlings. We talked about the experiences in listening and reading the Farseer trilogy while we enjoyed a few Sandsedge Slings.
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Book Eaters: Modern Day Romance
Listen as we discuss the romance genre with our special guess Jess Brent who has well thought out opinions regarding the feminist aspect of the romance genre and who loves these stories with her whole heart and can speak to them in a respectful and endearing way. Content Warning: Sexual Content,...
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Book Eaters: Thin Line
We didn't pull our punches – in this episode we talk about the audio book narrators we love and those we love to hate.
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Book Eaters: First Love
In this episode we talk about the first time we listened to audio books and how those experiences helped us fall in love.
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Book Eaters: Prologue
In our inaugural episode we talk about how the podcast came about and discuss the art of skimming while reading or listening to books.
About this show
Listen as middle-aged women drink custom, crafted cocktails and debate with enthusiasm the merits of storytelling through its various mediums. The focus is on audio books and how it contrasts with movies, television, paper and e-books but we may wander into comic and online serial web novels. And, if we have too many, maybe raconteurs.
Hosted by
Michele Karsk, April Freeman