Well over a year later, Julia and Victoria face their fears of long page counts and return to Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series with The Story of a New Name. They discuss the complexity and ingenuity of Ferrante’s depiction of womanhood, and how much they hate Nino Sarratorre.

Julia and Victoria (and project manager Rebecca) recorded the Q&A session from their first ever LIVE online Book Club members event. Some audio quality may be compromised, but the enthusiasm for reaching the two year mark of making Book Club is not!

Julia and Victoria plumb new psychological (and physiological) depths on the subject of embodiment with The Wisdom of Your Body by Dr. Hillary McBride.

Julia and Victoria, and special guest Chelsea Kuchik, return to the spicy world of contemporary romance fiction with Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert. They find their favorite tropes and consider what Bridgerton did for the acceptance of romance novels.

Julia and Victoria get super excited about sentence structure and contemplate the chaotic nature of grief with The Year of Magical Thinking by the queen of nonfiction, Joan Didion.

Julia and Victoria are joined by Hayley and yet another Victoria (No, this is not confusing at all.) from Gold Plated Girls to chat about creativity and pop culture, choosing your team and fighting imposter syndrome, and--unbelievably--baseball.

Julia and Victoria make another foray into the gothic genre with Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and spend a fair amount of time talking about mushrooms.

Julia and Victoria have an impromptu therapy session discussing And Then We Grew Up by Rachel Friedman about the complicated relationship creative adults have with the art forms they pursued in their youth.

No philosopher ever needs to ponder the nature of humor or ask the question, “What makes something funny?” ever again because Julia and Victoria have definitely solved it with this episode’s discussion of Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade.

Julia and Victoria, along with Julia’s mom, chat about their comfort books and the novel Leave It To Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse.

Julia and Victoria read their favorite (and only) social anthropology book, Watching the English by Kate Fox, which helped Julia tap into her innate anthropological powers.

Julia and Victoria try to solve the Who, the How, and the Why of Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu and may or may not reach a verdict. Victoria invents a new grammatical tense.