Spooktober 2024 is here! And we're opening this month's spooktacular with a book about a cannibal dystopia, where people eat other people and where maybe we draw some parallels between how Special Meat is treated and how real-world non-special meat is treated?? Also we deal with the spookiness of a protagonist who Sucks.

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For this new show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew will be learning about the world of babysitting! We're going to read eight books in this seminal series, picking books where we meet new Club members.

This episode is a free teaser for our Sit Me Baby One More Time longread project. Patreon supporters can get new episodes monthly (Episode 1 is up right now!), but the rest won't unlock on the main feed until months after the whole series has wrapped! For more information on how to get these episodes as they are released, head to patreon.com/overduepod.

In this episode, you'll hear us discuss the background of The Baby-Sitters Club and author Ann M. Martin.

The full series reading list:

• Kristy's Great Idea
• Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls
• The Truth about Stacey
• Mary Anne Saves the Day
• Dawn and the Impossible Three
• Hello, Mallory
• Jessi's Secret Language
• Welcome to the BSC, Abby

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Four wounded souls try to endure the end of WW2 in a bombed out Tuscan monastery. Ondaatje's novel digs into these liminal lives as they project themselves onto the blank slate that is [dramatic music] the English patient.

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