Welcome back to The Low Battery Book Club, a bonus monthly three-parter in collaboration with Charley from Book Smut, where we consume way too much culture and talk way too much trash. If you need to play catch up on the first episode of this series, you can find it here.

On the show today:

• We share our favourite recs of the month (something old, something new, something high, something low)
• We deep dive The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done by Clare Stephens, talking pile-ons, cancel culture, phone addictions and the tension between our private and public lives.
• Plus, we talk all things smutty, horny reading – Charley gives us the stats on the rise of the dragon porn genre and what to read next if you need more libido stirring reads. 
• We pick our December book club pick and land on the extra books we promise to read before we meet again.

And here’s our ‘something old, something new, something high, something low’ for November…

Charley:

Old favourite: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

New: CANNOT WAIT for The Mushroom Tapes (Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper, Sarah Krasnostein) and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Nov 13, Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien)

High: Ghost Cities by Siang Lu

Lowbrow but loving: Love is Blind 

Lu:

Old: Re-watched The Family Stone in honour of Diane Keaton. Grab a tissue box and do yourselves a favour.

New (for her, anyway): Nymphet Alumni podcast. (Fave episodes: Magazine Girl & Fashion and Psychoanalysis w Dr Valerie Steele) 

High(s): 

In Vogue: The 90s – Disney, six episodes. 

Sentimental Garbage’s episode on Diane Keaton, especially the excerpt at the end from her book ‘Then Again.’ 

The Pitt on HBO Max, finally watching and loving. 

Low: Losing Jane Goodall AND Diane Keaton since we last recorded. RIP icons.

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In this episode, we cover the below topics: 

Clare Stephens, internet pile-ons, cancel culture, Diane Keaton, Jane Goodall books, book club, new movies, pop culture, sentimental garbage, Caroline O’Donoghue.

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