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Welcome to Book Club With Julia and Victoria, the podcast for book friends! If you just finished a book and HAVE to talk about it with someone, if you’re a casual reader looking for book recs, or if you’re the type of deep thinker who has formative memories of their high school English teacher, you’re in the right place. We believe a good book can come from anywhere, so we read classics and recent releases, bestsellers and little-known gems. But ultimately, this podcast is for the books we j ...
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Julia and Victoria get very hungry talking about the trope-flipping, contemporary vampire novel Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda. Views expressed on Book Club with Julia and Victoria and bookclubwithjv.com are solely those of the hosts and not necessarily those of their employers, clients, guests, and collaborators. Disclosure: This post may contain a…
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Julia and Victoria discuss Sea Change by Gina Chung and how authors use the octopus to contemplate loneliness and change. They discover that life really is about the friends we made along the way in this first book of The Vampire & the Octopus series. Views expressed on Book Club with Julia and Victoria and bookclubwithjv.com are solely those of th…
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Victoria teaches Julia all about the origins, tropes, and metaphors of vampire lore that create the undead monster we read about today. They discuss the origins of vampire stories in Slavic folklore, the Great Vampire Epidemic of the 18th century, the blood-sucking breakup novel Lord Byron’s “travel companion” wrote about him, and lament the loss o…
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Julia takes Victoria on a deep dive of octopus stories throughout time and space in this first episode of The Vampire & the Octopus series. We tackle questions like “Are octopus stories a form of colonizer horror?” and “What’s with all the octopus books coming out recently?” and “Why did the 19th century French think the octopus was the physical em…
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Julia discusses disability, comedy, creativity, and treating people like people with Steven Verdile, the founder of the disability satire publication The Squeaky Wheel. Views expressed on Book Club with Julia and Victoria and bookclubwithjv.com are solely those of the hosts and not necessarily those of their employers, clients, guests, and collabor…
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Julia and Victoria learn what the word “flannel” means in British English and formulate their own theories about what happened to a stranded deep-sea researcher in the devastatingly beautiful novel Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield. Views expressed on Book Club with Julia and Victoria and bookclubwithjv.com are solely those of the hosts and…
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Julia and Victoria conclude that How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu is a very good book–Julia is just sad. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episo…
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Julia and Victoria grapple with the grotesque narrative choices in Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan, translated by Chi-young Kim. Julia incorrectly uses the word “epigraph” when she means “epitaph” approximately 25 times. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club…
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Julia and Victoria try to decipher the rules of Eight Billion Genies, the newest comic book series from Charles Soule and Ryan Browne, because Julia likes rules. They also learn about how one random French guy playing fast and loose with a One Thousand and One Nights translation made up most of what the “Western” world “knows” about “genies.” Tale …
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Julia and Victoria are surprised to find hope and belonging in a new story of humanity with The Dawn of Everything by “the Davids” (Graeber and Wengrow), the anthropological clapback to Sapiens by Harrari. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Juli…
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Julia is truly bamboozled, Victoria embraces that she is a vampire girlie, and they both dig into the context of Joseph Sheridan LeFanu’s Carmilla, edited with commentary by the absolute legend Carmen Maria Machado. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club…
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A Suga bias (Julia), a Jungkook bias (special guest RJ), a V bias (special guest Adam), and a person who knows almost nothing about K-pop (Victoria) have a spirited conversation about the style and silences of Beyond the Story: A 10-Year Record of BTS by Kang Myeong-seok and translated by Anton Hur, Clare Richards, and Slin Jung. There are… emotion…
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Julia and Victoria get into the weeds of cultivating a creative life while also having to pay bills with Nate Ragolia—writer, podcaster, and publisher at Spaceboy Books. They also decide which zoo animals they would be. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book …
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Exploring anarchism, feminism, and the Cold War, Julia and Victoria unpack the context of The Dispossessed by the brilliant and sassy Ursula K. Le Guin. Join for the sci-fi, stay for Barbenheimer, alien Jesus, and a confusion of Ursulas. Also Julia has minor microphone problems. (She sincerely apologizes). Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.…
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Julia and Victoria wrestle with their frustrations with The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki and try to get to the bottom of important questions like, “What happened?” and “Who is this book for?” Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Julia …
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Victoria interviews Julia about her master’s thesis in Anthropology on Autistic social groups, disabled futures, and how to make Autistic friends by exchanging fun facts. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Readi…
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Julia and Victoria apply a postcolonial perspective to Ayana Lloyd Banwo’s When We Were Birds, a novel about death, magical matriarchs, love, and VIBES. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on The StoryGraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book …
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Julia and Victoria talk about the marriage of message and form in the “memoir situation” by one of their favorite human beings: 10 Steps to Nanette by Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1…
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Julia and Victoria are joined by their new literary friend Caleb Tankersley to discuss Caleb’s debut story collection Sin Eaters. They enjoy a lovely ramble about the process of creativity and the value of writing what makes you happy. Plus: some important Oreo discourse. Become a Member! Shop with us on Bookshop.org! Follow the podcast on Instagra…
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Julia and Victoria make their case as to why Babel by R. F. Kuang should be two (or three?) books. Point #1: It is amazing, and the people want more. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes …
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Julia and Victoria have an epiphany, answer their lingering questions, and discuss major series themes of time and the legacy of oppression while discussing The Stone Sky, conclusion of the Broken Earth trilogy, by N. K. Jemisin. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victor…
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Hold on to your runny sacks. We are wrapping up our discussion of The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin! We’ll be re-releasing episodes on book one and two over the next two weeks. Stay tuned for our concluding discussion of book three, The Stone Sky, coming your way May 2023. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Vi…
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Hold on to your runny sacks. We are wrapping up our discussion of The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin! We’ll be re-releasing episodes on book one and two over the next two weeks. Stay tuned for our concluding discussion of book three, The Stone Sky, coming your way May 2023. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Vi…
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Victoria just got back from AWP where she spent five days geeking out with fellow book nerds. Julia and Victoria talk about networking and finding your people as an adult. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia…
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Julia has questions. Victoria does some digging. They both gain context on the voice of author Cho Nam-Joo of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 and the impact the novel had on the life and politics of South Korea in 2016. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100)…
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Julia and Victoria meet up with their internet friend Sofía Syntaxx (of the ANGR podcast) to talk about how much they loved Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, swap stories, compare languages and knowledge systems, and laugh about all the things American scientists “discovered” which indigenous peoples have known for thousands of years. A g…
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Julia and Victoria learn about the history of mental health stigma in the United States and have some lightbulb moments with Nobody’s Normal by Roy Richard Grinker. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Vict…
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Reality and Representation Julia and Victoria lose their minds talking about reality and worldviews in Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Chall…
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Julia and Victoria reflect on their winding work histories and the rise of pointless labor with the help of Bullshit Jobs by anthropologist David Graeber. They get very excited about it. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book …
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Julia and Victoria imagine new stories for the future. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 101+) Reading Challenge Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commis…
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Julia and Victoria talk inevitability and unreliable narrators in The Story of the Lost Child and celebrate finishing Elena Ferrante’s iconic Neapolitan series. They try and fail to solve the unsolvable ending. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100)…
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It’s finally happening. We are going to finish our discussion of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series! To catch you up on the conversations about books 1-3, we’ll be re-releasing those episodes over the next few weeks. Stay tuned for the discussion of book 4, and our wrap up of the entire series coming your way NEXT WEEK! Become a Member! Follow the …
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It’s finally happening. We are going to finish our discussion of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series! To catch you up on the conversations about books 1-3, we’ll be re-releasing those episodes over the next few weeks. Stay tuned for the discussion of book 4, and our wrap up of the entire series coming your way in a couple of weeks. Become a Member! …
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It’s finally happening. We are going to finish our discussion of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series! To catch you up on the conversations about books 1-3, we’ll be re-releasing those episodes over the next few weeks. Stay tuned for the discussion of book 4, and our wrap up of the entire series coming your way next month. Become a Member! Follow the…
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Julia and Victoria acknowledge that they do not always know what is going on while diving headfirst into the incredible debut poetry collection from Ocean Vuong: Night Sky With Exit Wounds. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Bo…
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103 This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone — Lord Byron’s Letters of the Future
Lord Byron’s Letters of the Future Julia and Victoria needed to scream about how much they loved crying over the romantic, angsty sci-fi novella This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, so now it is an episode. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Jul…
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Julia and Victoria explore the Dark Ages with writer, historian, and former professor Rebecca Stott. They discuss Rebecca’s new book Dark Earth: about two sisters who run away to a ruined Roman city in 6th century Britain. They talk genre, archaeology, breaking boundaries, and Julia gets very excited about swords. Become a Member! Follow the podcas…
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Julia and Victoria talk with author Evan James Sheldon about his new book of gloriously weird flash fiction, Children and Their Cages, and his creative process. Julia learns that flash fiction is not, in fact, a story written very fast. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and hang out with Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia &…
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Julia finds herself of an age somewhere between Jane Eyre and Miss Marple, and she’s asking herself: Does she have money and/or prospects? Remains to be seen.By Book Club With Julia & Victoria
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Happy Virgo Season! Victoria sits down to share six little (ish) reflections she is carrying with her as she waves goodbye to age 26 and steps into age 27. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and join Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 100…
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Julia and Victoria parse through all the bizarre takes by professional critics and writers on Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata. Become a Member! Follow the podcast on Instagram and join Victoria on Storygraph: Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 1-100) Reading Challenge Book Club with Julia & Victoria (Episodes 100+) Reading Challenge…
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Become a Member! Follow Us on Instagram or Storygraph! Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Mentioned in this episode: The Wisdom of Your Body by Dr. Hilary McBride Laziness Does Not Exist by Dr. Devon Price “My Pleasure” by Ross Reagan…
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**Check out our 100th Episode Celebration Giveaway on Instagram!** Read the Contest Rules here. Become a Member! Follow Us on Instagram or Storygraph! Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Mentioned in this Episode: “Inside the Push to D…
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Dark Academia and the Elements of Fiction Julia and Victoria step into their English Teacher Mode™ to review the elements of fiction from Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé’s dynamic debut book, the dark-academic thriller Ace of Spades. Become a Member! Follow Us on Instagram or Storygraph! Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commis…
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Visual Narration and Heist Stories Julia and Victoria discuss the complexities of graphic novels and other visual media as they talk about The Banks by Roxanne Gay and Ming Doyle. Victoria narrates several comic panels, and they both try to figure out what male the love interest’s name is. Become a Member! Follow Us on Instagram or Storygraph! Disc…
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Julia and Victoria talk about reading and traveling whilst they read and travel. Become a Member! Follow Us on Instagram or Storygraph! Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn more. Mentioned in this Episode: Our episode Re-Release: Educated by …
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Julia and Victoria bring on one of their favorite pop culture experts Victoria Edel to talk about the Pachinko series and the pros and cons of book-to-TV adaptations. Become a Member! Follow Us on Instagram or Storygraph! Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional co…
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097 Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy by Larissa Pham
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Julia and Victoria explore how and why they connected so much to Pop Song by Larissa Pham, a memoir exploration of art, adulthood, love, and theory. P.S. A lawn mower was making a ruckus in the background of Victoria’s audio. We apologize for the nuisance! Become a Member! Follow Us on Instagram or Storygraph! Disclosure: This post may contain affi…
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096 The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
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Julia and Victoria discuss autism theory in relation to The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin and try to figure out whose sides the characters are on. Become a Member! Follow Us on Instagram or Storygraph! Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that give us a commission if you decide to make a purchase at no additional cost to you. Learn mor…
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095 Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
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Julia and Victoria discuss book three in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and explore the complications of living life according to your principles. This is the last episode of Season 9! We’ll be back in late May with more books and more obsessions. In the meantime, you can watch our book-to-TV reviews of Pach…
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