Book Hype is here, with an episode all about classic literature. Jen, Karen and Marama dish on their favourite and least favourite classic books. We go in depth about what makes something a classic, and why there is such a stigma when criticizing these books. Plus, prepare yourself for a mountain of recommendations.

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Show Notes
– What are we reading?
– Today we’re talking about the classics, and we are excited
– What is a ‘classic’?
– It’s a Catch-22 (ha ha!)
– Did we read them because we had to, or because we wanted to?
– Karen has a confession
– Jen goes into teacher mode, and we all get homework
– We are united in Shakespeare love
– In a stunning turn of events, Karen is the one who hates everything
– One of the hosts breaks Marama’s heart
– Why are children’s classics and adult classics viewed so differently?

Books mentioned on this episode
Atlantis Rising by T.A. Barron
Basajaun by Rosemary Van Deuren
Salinger by David Shields and Shane Salerno
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Under The Wide And Starry Sky by Nancy Horan
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
1984 by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Rad Brabury
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Beowulf
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Children’s and Household Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The next book in our Book Hype book club is: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

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