A tangent episode in which Kaisha, Kelsey and Dylan engage in literary madness. Come along as we chat about the fictional character we always wished we could be. Find out our top literary heroes and who we would invite to dinner. We discuss our favorite reads, favorite villains, and the characters we wished were our friends. Kelsey demands never to be called Marmee. Dylan tells bad jokes. Kaisha overanalyzes the questions.We all fall into the Val Kilmer pit of movies and get derailed by melancholy books made into movies. Kaisha tells us who she wants to be her best evil friend. We debate the merits of the prologue.
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This month we will be giving away a book box sponsored by author Abigail Shepherd. To enter, simply follow us on social media and then interact with us or leave us a review! We explain more about how the giveaway works toward the end of the show notes.
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Answer the Proustish Questions!
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Check out these authors’ answers to our Proustish Questionnaire!
- Abigail Shepherd Answers the Proustish Questionnaire!
- Liam Cross Answers our Proust-ish Questionnaire
- Dawn Husted’s Proustish Questionnaire
- Author Andrew Buckley’s Proust-ish Questionnaire
The Proustish Questionnaire
- Q. If not yourself, which fictional character would you be?
- Q. Who are your favorite heroine and hero from fiction?
- Q. If you could have dinner with any three authors, dead or alive, whom would you dine with?
- Q. Do you have a current or “forever” favorite book?
- Q. Which fictional character would you want to befriend?
- Q. What villain from fiction do you love to hate?
Listeners weigh in:
Do you enjoy prologues, or would you prefer to do without them?
Let us know in the comments section below, or by tagging us on social media! Your response might be featured in an upcoming show and you will be entered into our monthly giveaway!
Books, quirks, and intrigues, oh my!
- That “Waste Paper” poem Dylan mentioned by H.P. Lovecraft
- Marcel Proust Swann’s Way
- Because Dylan loves David Bowie, here’s his answers to the Proust Questionnaire
- Outlander
- Ride the Wind by Lucia St Clair Robson
- Madame Bovary
- Odd Thomas
- Little Women
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone series
- The Magic Casement
- The Hobbit
- Heroine Jokes
- Macbeth
- Saga
- Silmarillion
- Georgette Heyer
- Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
- Language Struggles
- William Faulkner
- T.S. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeelliot
- You should read this article: The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx
- Dean Koontz
- Margaret Atwood
- Jonathan Lethem
- Thomas Hardy: Thomas Hardy Society
- James Joyce
- Article: 7 Notable Works by James Joyce You Should Know
- Patrick Rothfuss: Manic Pixie Dream Hobo. Iconoclast.
- The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
- Willow
- The Dark Crystal
- Cryogenically frozen Val Kilmer
- As Mark Twain
- Article: Actor Val Kilmer Explains Why Playing Mark Twain is Such ‘a Bitch’
- Article: Batman: Val Kilmer Would ‘Love To’ Play the Character Again
- Tombstone
- The Island of Doctor Moreau
- Kaisha was, indeed correct. Marlon Brando does star in this cinematic treasure.
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Article: A Lustrous Pinnacle of Hollywood Glamour
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Chuck Tingle
- Mark Twain
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Kelsey said “The Waste Land” but she actually meant to say “The Hollow Men”
- All of a sudden… Cats
- Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
- Cats the Musical
- Cat Tangent
- Ernest Hemingway
- Brother Odd
- The Princess Bride
- The King James Bible
- Harry Potter
- A Voice in the Wind
- Ready Player One
- The Martian
- Moby Dick
- The Stormlight Archives
- Way of Kings
- Oathbringer
- Wheel of Time
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