Sand By Me: Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman - Books 5 and 6

July 28, 2023 / Guest User

Welcome to our newest show-within-a-show! We're working our way through Neil Gaiman's signature graphic novel series THE SANDMAN. Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption.

In Episode 5: A GAME OF YOU, the story is about Barbie, her fantastical dreams, Barbie's friend Wanda, their neighbors Hazel and Foxglove, a vengeful witch named Thessaly, an authoritarian cuckoo bird, and MARTIN FLIPPING TENBONES.

In Episode 6: FABLES AND REFLECTIONS, Gaiman penned another set of one-off stories. Some are fables, others are reflections. Tune in to find out which is which!

Find out more about how to get these episodes monthly at patreon.com/overduepod.

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Ep 601 - An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon

July 24, 2023 / Guest User

Imagine a version of the spaceship from Wall-E, but with racial and class divisions that mirror those in our own society. That's a (dramatically oversimplified) one-line summary of what's going on in this week's book.

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Ep 600 - The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1), by Rick Riordan

July 17, 2023 / Guest User

It's episode 600, baybee!!! To celebrate, we're embarking on a voyage through Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, some middle-grade fantasy-but-in-the-real-world fiction that passed us by when it came out in 2005. We'll be reading the first five books in the series, starting with The Lightning Thief.

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Ep 599 - Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack Vol. 1

July 14, 2023 / Guest User

We're talking Mondays. We're talking lasagna. We're talking annoying dogs and bumbling owners. We're talking Lyman — wait what? Join us as we dive into the Garfield deep lore (and learn to make a Garf of our very own).

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Ep 598 - A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

July 10, 2023 / Guest User

Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? If you're a wizard of Earthsea, you can make it smell however you want if you know it's TRUE name. LeGuin's beloved fantasy novel is notable for how it plays both against and into common fantasy tropes, delivering a proper hero's journey without the same Sturm und Drang we've come to expect in the genre.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Join us for our 600th episode recording at bit.ly/overdue600. We're talking PERCY JACKSON!

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Ep 597 - The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho

July 03, 2023 / Guest User

We've covered vaguely spiritual self-help books before on the show, but The Alchemist is unique insofar as it attempts to wrap the broad platitudes of a The Secret up in a there-and-back-again adventure story. Please listen, as long as it fits with your Personal Legend.

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Ep 596 - The Roaches Have No King, by Daniel Evan Weiss

June 26, 2023 / Guest User

Our Patron's Choice Poll for June had a theme: Junebugs! And this novel by Weiss about a roach colony attempting to assert control over the apartment in which they live is uhh...well it won the poll. So Craig read it. And now he's going to talk about it.

Caveat lictor: this book is a strange one (also it's got more explicit sexual content than you might expect!)

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Ep 595 - Summerwater, by Sarah Moss

June 19, 2023 / Guest User

It's summer, and we all need water to live, two things that make Sarah Moss's Summerwater feel timely this week. One other thing the book reflects is the Simmering Anxiety of Our Times!

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Ep 594 - Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift

June 12, 2023 / Guest User

Meet Gulliver, a traveling English surgeon. First he's big, then he's small. Next he's wise, then he's a Yahoo! To wit, Swift's seminal satire is realer, grosser, and really grosser than either of us knew.

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Ep 593 - Less, by Andrew Sean Greer

June 05, 2023 / Guest User

This week’s book tackles aging and writing and the author’s determination to write a book about a gay character who is allowed to experience joy. These are all themes that hit us where we live as we trundle into early middle age ourselves.

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