Boy, do we know the feeling of THIS episode title after the past few weeks! Technical glitches and daily-life dramas have tied us up the past few weeks, but now we're back... and Amy and Jacinta firmly believe this book is worth the wait! They uncover and unpack Mary Roberts Rinehart's 1915 emotional ensemble drama, "K"—primarily because who can resist a book title that's only one letter?? Plus the all-new history segment profiles a little-known master from the Golden Age of Illustration, Charles E. Chambers.
Other books and authors mentioned in this episode include:
Poor Dear Theodora!
Jan of the Windmill
The Notting Hill Mystery
Hearts and Masks
P.G. Wodehouse
Agatha Christie
Anna Katherine Green
The Circular Staircase
Little Women
Cranford
Little Dorrit
Pearl S. Buck
W. Somerset Maugham
Other topics and shout-outs in this episode include: the Golden Age of Illustration, WWI, Castle, Murdoch Mysteries, Bob Newhart, Jeeves & Wooster, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, The Andy Griffith Show, I Love Lucy, Gilligan's Island, Steinway & Sons, Chesterfield Cigarettes, Fannie Munsell, Pauline True, Winston Churchill, King Albert & Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, Queen Mary and King George V of England, The Saturday Evening Post, Melrose Place, Coronation Street, Ballykissangel, Forrest Gump, Lark Rise to Candleford, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Richard Munsell Chambers, Pearl Harbor, Norman Rockwell, the Art Institute of Chicago, soap operas, the friend zone, nursing school, Pittsburgh, breast cancer, and rental cars.
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