Book Cult

Book Cult

We are the enlightened, the ultimate authority. The prophets who drink wine and spoil books you may or may not have read by answering 10th grade English style book club questions from the internet. Warning: may contain long rants. We’re all team Edward here Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/book-cult--5718878/support.

Episodes

Movie Night 28: Flowers In The Attic

October 31, 2025 • 19 mins
Happy Halloween! Today we are talking about a spooky adjacent movie, the 2014 Lifetime movie Flowers in the Attic! They tone down the incest but keep the bad mother figures at a 10! What is your favorite Kiernan Shipka moment and why is it also her one episode of Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23?

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230-Just Like Mother

October 29, 2025 • 55 mins
Come and experience the joys of Motherhood with us! Today we are talking about Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel. If you also love a female cult leader, creepy dolls, and a very weird version of the conservative love of forcing women to have children then this is the book for you!

WARNING: Death of a child, murder, sexual assualt, forced pregnancy, child abuse, self harm

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229-My Sister, The Serial Killer

October 22, 2025 • 39 mins
Lets celebrate women in mens fields. Today we are talking about My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. If you like blind loyalty, hot girls making great points, and comatose men then this is the book for you! 

WARNING: Murder, domestic violence

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228-Something Wicked This Way Comes

October 17, 2025 • 70 mins
"By the pricking of my thumbs, someghing wicked this way comes." - William Shakespeare. Today we are talking about Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. Calling all fellow Autumn people, this is the book for you and the perfect book to read during the spooky season. We got creepy carnivals, children who are really adults, and lots of tattoos. What more could you ask for?

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227-Less

October 9, 2025 • 61 mins
It's an angsty white man but this time he's international (like pitbull). Today we are talking about Less by Andrew Sean Geer. If you dream of traveling the world just to avoid a possibly awkward moment, then this is the book for you! 

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226-Blame It On The Cowboy

September 24, 2025 • 70 mins
This one's got it all: blackmail, clowns, and big ol titties. Seriously, don't cheat on your boyfriend with a clown in a room that does not have a lock, it can only lead to blackmail. 

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225-How To Sell A Haunted House

September 19, 2025 • 60 mins
it's really not that hard, just get rid of all the dolls and puppets (also wear safety glasses). Today we are talking about How to Sell A Haunted House by Grady Hendrix. If you like puppets, telling the kids about the atrocities of the war against terror, and limb amputation then this is the book for you!

WARNING: death of a child, death of parents, violence

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224-Howl's Moving Castle

September 10, 2025 • 68 mins
Are all wizards from Wales? Today we are talking about Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. This book has everything: scarecrows that knock on doors, angsty goo, and fire demon friendships. Enjoy!

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StoryTime 67

September 7, 2025 • 46 mins
the sexy cowboy recap we've all been waiting for! Listen as Sydney finally gets to hear the plots of all those sexy cowboy books (many apparently not even sexy) that she bought all these past years.

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223-His Country Girl

September 3, 2025 • 62 mins
Don't marry the first guy to be nice to your kid. Today we are talking about His Country Girl by Jillian Hart, the book that has everything you could want: horses, kids with phone access, and a city girl finding love in the country (but as a side story).

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Mini 103-Baby Books

September 1, 2025 • 12 mins
Today we are talking about board books but more importantly we are talking about the whack one star Google reviews for The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. 

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222-The New Deputy In Town

August 14, 2025 • 51 mins
This week we're in small town Montana, which is apparently full of crime, and none of it really makes sense, but don't worry, the cowboy still gets the girl in the end!

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221-Hold Me, Cowboy

July 25, 2025 • 45 mins
Welcome back to Sexy Cowboy Summer! It's Christmas in July this week, and the 12 days of Christmas just got a little more naughty.... this week we're covering two books for the price of one! Hold Me, Cowboy is the classic enemies to lovers but with a slight Christmas twist, and then there's a story about billionaires falling in love, which isn't as exciting. 

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220-A Cowboy's Justice

July 11, 2025 • 54 mins
It's part 2 of sexy cowboy summer! This week we're investigating a 10 year old cold case, and the killer is....maybe who you suspected all along? Tune in for JUSTICE! With a sprinkling of prayer and lots of attempted murder.

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219-Love of a Cowboy

June 28, 2025 • 58 mins
Sydney's on break, so welcome to Sexy Cowboy Summer! We're starting it off with a lot of drama, cults, murder, and child marriage! Don't worry, it wraps up a little too nicely if you ask us. 

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StoryTime 66-With Special Announcement!

June 24, 2025 • 11 mins
It's another Grimms' Fairytale! Another man wanders into a forest and finds a princess, who saw that coming?! Plus an announcement about upcoming episodes and the newest member of the Book Cult team. (Congrats Sydney!)

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218-Lessons in Chemistry

June 11, 2025 • 110 mins
Who is the real genius: the dog, the toddler or the scientist? Today we are talking about Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, a book about feminism, sodium chloride and competitive rowing. Let us know if you had kids reheating leftovers for lunch in elementry school.

WARNING: Sexual assualt, sexism, suicide, child abuse, death, sexual harrassment

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217-The Outsiders

June 5, 2025 • 62 mins
Will Ponyboy stay golden? Listen to find out! Today we are talking about The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, a book written by a teen, about teens and for teens. Since neither of us are teens, we have mixed thoughts on the book. Sympathy for all oldest siblings, we deal with so much.

WARNING: murder, police violence, death of a child, child abuse

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StoryTime 65

June 1, 2025 • 13 mins
What if Little Red Riding Hood had a not so catchy name? Today you get the real story of a little girl who listens to a wolves advice to bring her grandma some flowers and ends up almost dying because of it. Let us know what is the best wine and cake to help cure your elderly grandma's illness!

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216-Breakfast of Champions

May 27, 2025 • 58 mins
A great book for if you want to know if your dick size is average! Today we are talking about Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. A classic book full of wild scifi stories, men thinking they are the only person in the world who matters, and a lot of commentary on how capitalism has destroyed the enviroment. 

WARNING: domestic violence, assualt, racism, homophobia, mental illness

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