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Strange & Unusual Book Club!
Strange & Unusual Book Club!
We're Hayley and Kayla (and Pipkin the redrump tarantula). We read horror, fantasy, and science fiction books and discuss them on our podcast.
We read a new book every two weeks. Read along with us, then check out the podcast. We post new episodes every week.
Join us as we peruse the stacks of Matt Haig's The Midnight Library. We'll be examining the themes of depression in the novel, giving our reviews, and sharing our picks for the top 5 books we would want in our own Midnight Library.
Listener Discression: The episode discusses suicide, depression, loss of loved ones, and mental health.
Georgetown, Washington D.C., Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience 'difficulties' with her usually sweet-natured eleven-year-old daughter Regan. The child becomes afflicted by spasms, convulsions, and unsettling amnesiac episodes; these abruptly worsen into violent fits of appalling foul-mouthed curses, accompanied by physical mutation. Medical science is baffled by Regan's plight and, in her increasing despair, Chris turns to troubled priest and psychiatrist Damien Karras, who immediately recognises something profoundly malevolent in Regan's distorted features and speech. On Karras's recommendation, the Church summons Father Merrin, a specialist in the exorcism of demons . . . (from Goodreads)
Read by November 25th