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
Rachel and Matt discuss the 2011 film, "Drive". Let me convince you that Drive is a better vampire movie than most actual vampire movies.
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We did it. Frank did not defeat us but let me tell you IT WAS CLOSE. We will be back to regular posting now, I promise. That was ROUGH ROUGH ROUGH.
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YES I KNOW. We are still here. Like a lot of creators, we are struggling to keep making light hearted content in a world that feels a little too heavy lately. It's been tough to read anything much less weaponized ninja sex nuns (I'm looking at you Frank). So we decided to have a little fun with it and get totally and completely wasted and just end the episode when the thoughts were running through our fingers like galaxies or howev...
We are back! Sorry, this is a little quick and dirty. Trying to hold it together and get caught up! Enjoy!
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We're back from break and ready to chat (apparently). Here we discuss the third book in the Dune series - "Children of Dune"
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We discuss the (for a second time) the second book in the Dune series!
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Post plague out break - we wrap up the rest of Dune just in time to chat about "Dune Messiah"
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The shortest Dark Tower content yet and Stephen King still managed to work in a dick.
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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.
These are fun, lightly edited episodes because we are literally just too excited about this show...
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