Strange and Beautiful Book Club
Long time partners, Rachel and Matt, bring their unique blend of wit and weirdness to the worlds of sci-fi, horror, and fantasy. From quirky movie reviews to lively book discussions, they keep you entertained and informed with their mature humor and infectious enthusiasm. Join them as they chase their little nerd hearts through the genres they love.
Episodes
We discuss the (for a second time) the second book in the Dune series!
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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 but ...
Post plague out break - we wrap up the rest of Dune just in time to chat about "Dune Messiah"
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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 h...
The shortest Dark Tower content yet and Stephen King still managed to work in a dick.
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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...
Rachel and Matt discuss the final installment of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Part 2 of 2 of our discussion.
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Matt and Rachel discuss the final novel (and in our opinion - the best) in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King
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*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!
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FINALLY CAUGHT UP! We will be back on our regular schedule now so "Song of Susannah" will be out the first Friday in August!
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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.
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We discuss Murderbot Season 1, Episode 7 - Complementary Species.
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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 novel as we did out of Double D...
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!
★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★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.
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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 Chastain, his entire life...
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