Left On Read

“She just wants her clam chowder, man. What is this heirloom tomato basil reduction?”Next read: The Bear and the Nightingale (Katherine Arden)Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepodContact us: [email protected]

"Subliminumal messabaging."Next read: Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby Van Pelt)Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepodContact us: [email protected]

"Sean's clocked in on the bunny gossip."Next read: Cult Classic (Sloane Crosley)Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepodContact us: [email protected]

“We’ll probably die never getting humanity, but there’s beauty in always trying.”Next read: Watership Down (RIchard Adams)Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepodContact us: [email protected]

"I just would be less mean, ok?! I'm just a girl!"Next read: Playground (Richard Powers)Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepodContact us: [email protected]

"Big dad type no nonsense."Next read: The Dispossessed (Ursula K Le Guin)Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepodContact us: [email protected]

"If I knew things I would know."Next read: The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepodContact us: [email protected]

"What is love to a rich man in the 1920s if not just possession?"Next read: We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepodContact us: [email protected]

"We just don't live in a value driven society anymore, man."Next read: The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald)Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepodContact us: [email protected]

Happy holidays and happy new year 2026! Getting another year in for the podcast feels amazing. Thank you so much for making us a part of your days. We appreciate all of you immensely. Stay tuned for our first episode of 2026 - and more exciting expansions of the pod - when we return on 1/9.Stay warm, stay safe.Love, Sean + Meg

"Going around killing mentally ill people might not be best."Next episode: End of Year Review

"All I remember about him was that he cared more about teeth than anything else."Next read: Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck) 

"Suck blood, don't sleep, live long."Next read: As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)

"Security-sized window, only for little boys."Next read: Carmilla (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)

"Who up jerkin' their homunculus??"Next read: Cell (Stephen King)

"What if the universal truth is that nothing will ever get fixed?"Next read: Saturnalia (Stephanie Feldman)

"Oh my god, she's 30! She's a spinster!"Next read: Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World (Sasha Fletcher)

“I’m building worlds your tiny brain can’t comprehend!”Next read: Tender is the Night (F Scott Fitzgerald)

"He should have been a better bug."Next read: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (Walter Moers)

"Bring your white man British names. Call it Johntown."Next read: The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)

"I don't judge you for your spoonless behavior."Next read: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)

"I only have so much heart to cut up and send out to these individual stories."Next read: Against Technoableism (Ashley Shew)

"It's good we're reading this as adults and we're not two children with a mic."Next read: How High We Go in the Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu)

"I did not review the Queen with my adult eyes."Next read: The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)

“Relish in the depressive child realm with me.”Next read: The BFG (Roald Dahl)

"You shouted in your heart, and that's what matters."Next read: The Wide Window (Lemony Snicket)

"Unlegliness is close to godliness."Next read: Bloomability (Sharon Creech)

"I would rather we not exist if it meant that everything here could thrive the way it did."Next read: Omon Ra (Victor Pelevin)

"I'm not a fucking octopus, Will!"Next read: The Good Rain (Timothy Egan)

"No matter who you are, no matter what is stripped away from you, love is at the center of everything."Next read: Neuromancer (William Gibson)

"No more free range thought. Thought in cage. Thought bad."Next read: Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut)

"Pay the fuck attention to the language people use."Next read: 1984 (George Orwell)Plugs:- Bluesky! lorpodcast.bsky.social- Meg's Etsy! etsy.com/shop/eggstuph

"Vibing as the uncarved block."Next read: Why I Write (George Orwell)

"Oh boy, did it technothrill me!"Next read: The Tao of Pooh (Benjamin Hoff)

"War is about the friends you make along the way."Next read: Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)

"Are we just gonna fly by the seat of our pants again? I dunno, it's 2025 - anything can happen."Next read: The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)Books mentioned:- Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)- Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond)- I Who Have Never Known Men (Jacqueline Harpman)- Migrations (Charlotte McConaghy)- White Nights (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)- It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth (Zoe Thorogood)- Perfume (Patrick Süskind)

"Goin' down to the guy and gettin' the geese."Happy holidays and happy new year 2025. We're happy to reach another year of podcasting with you guys, thank you for making us a part of your day :) Stay tuned for new and exciting reads when we return on 1/10.

"An impression of Edgar Allan Poe is just raven squawks."Next read: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Hey man, maybe everything isn't gonna go to shit?"Next read: William Wilson (Edgar Allan Poe)

"If he dies, he dies, and that's pretty human."Next read: The Prepper (Morgan Talty)

"Big therapy time."Next read: The Bicentennial Man (Isaac Asimov)

"If the shadow attaches you to the idea of being a real human, what does it mean when your shadow dips?"Next read: Tender is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica)BOOKS ARE POLITICAL; READING IS RADICALhttps://pen.org/report/beyond-the-shelves/https://pen.org/book-bans/2023-banned-book-list/https://lithub.com/the-republicans-project-2025-is-disastrous-for-books/

"Direct a porno. Would have been better, probably."Next read: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami)

"Victor, with all his delicate sensibilities, would never be able to handle a penis."Next read: The Hellbound Heart (Clive Barker)

"It was vivid, visceral, vibe."Next read: Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

"He's on hella fire."Next read: Parable of the Sower (Octavia E Butler)

"We need to hole up in a cabin, get belligerently drunk, and rewrite Brave New World: Women's Edition."Next read: Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

"He guzzles the worm piss and suddenly he's everyone's man."Next read: Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

"Time long as shit."Next read: Dune (Frank Herbert)

"I wish I had the ability to draw really well so that I could draw how we picture the abortion clinic on the waterfall."Next read: A Short Stay in Hell (Steven L Peck)