The Side Quest Book Club Podcast

One of us has a theory that this book was ghostwritten and badly edited.Part 1 of 3 on SUNRISE ON THE REAPING by Suzanne Collins — the plot, top to bottom, full spoilers.Jules walks through the prose inconsistencies that made her suspect a second hand on the manuscript. Slava reread all three Hunger Games books and watched four movies out of spite, and still landed at 3.5 out of 5. We argue about whether Snow is a Disney villain, why Haymitch works as a foil to a character who isn't in this book, how much Edgar Allan Poe is too much Edgar Allan Poe, and the inventory scene that made someone physically facepalm. Ratings from all four of us at the end, plus the movie scenes we want most. Part two takes on themes and character arcs.—📺 SUBSCRIBEhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/@sidequestpodcast🎧 LISTEN TO THE AUDIO VERSIONAll platforms: https://linktr.ee/asidequest🌐 JOIN THE GUILDOfficial website / Quest Log: https://www.thesidequestpodcast.com/💬 FOLLOW OUR ADVENTURESInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesidequestpodcastTikTok: https://tiktok.com/@sidequestpodcastDiscord: https://discord.gg/WAPRX9Hbq🎬 CREDITSHosts: Slava and JonathanEditing: CharacterNorth6081 — https://www.instagram.com/parasss.__Music: HoliznaCC0Distribution: Transistor.fm — https://transistor.fm/how-to-start-a-podcast/?via=slavaSide Quest Book Club is a podcast about books, the people who write them, and the tangents in between.Some links above are referral links. If you sign up through them we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.#SideQuestBookClub #SunriseOnTheReaping #HungerGames

We finally finished Pride & Prejudice and have thoughts. In this season finale, Shiara, Jonathan, and Slava are joined by guest Lindsay to break down Volume 3: Darcy's secret intervention, the Lydia and Wickham disaster, the Pemberley awkward run-in, and whether Elizabeth Bennet deserves her happy ending (jury's still out).We also get into why gossip is the engine of the whole book, what makes Mr. Darcy the most underrated character in classic lit, and why texting would have solved literally everything.In this episode: Darcy's Pemberley behavior explained · The "I did it for you" moment · Lydia and Wickham: who's actually worse · Lady Catherine's unhinged house call · Elizabeth vs. Charlotte Lucas · Jane Austen's real life vs. the novel · BBC vs. Keira Knightley — which adaptation wins · Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, explainedSubscribe so you don't miss it.ABOUT THE BOOKWhen Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows us the folly of judging by first impressions. She superbly evokes the friendships, gossip, and snobberies of provincial middle-class life. This Penguin Classics edition, based on Austen's first edition, contains the original Penguin Classics introduction by Tony Tanner and an updated introduction and notes by Viven Jones.ABOUT THE AUTHORJane Austen was born in 1775 in the small Hampshire village of Steventon, where her father was a Church of England clergyman. The household was large, creative, and deeply literary. This childhood shaped everything she would become as a writer. She began writing seriously as a teenager and spent the following decades crafting some of the most beloved novels in English, publishing them anonymously, identified only as "A Lady."She accepted a marriage proposal once but changed her mind the following day. She never married. In 1809, she settled into a cottage in Chawton, Hampshire — offered by her brother Edward — where she spent her most productive years, writing, revising, and publishing all six of her major novels. In 1817, she fell ill, moved to Winchester to be closer to her doctor, and died on July 18 of that year at just 41 years old. The world didn't learn her name until after she was gone. Today, she is considered one of the most famous and influential writers in English literature, celebrated for her elegant style, dry humor, and timeless explorations of love, reputation, and what it meant to be a woman with a mind of her own. More info here:  https://janeaustens.house/jane-austen/jane-austen-a-life/ABOUT THE SIDE QUEST BOOK CLUB PODCAST Reading is the ultimate side quest. Side Quest is a casual book club podcast full of literary adventures. Join Slava and Jonathan as they discuss the books they are reading, life, history, belief systems, and more. Explore world-building, characters, and story development, and share some laughs along the way.New episodes drop every TUES.LISTEN TO THE AUDIO VERSION This is a video version of our audio podcast. Want to listen on the go?Find *Side Quest Book Club* on your favorite podcast app.🎧 **Subscribe on Any Platform https://linktr.ee/asidequest JOIN THE GUILD 🌐 Official Website / Quest Log:https://www.thesidequestpodcast.com/ 💬 Follow Our Adventures on Social Media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesidequestpodcast TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@sidequestpodcast CREDITS Hosts: Slava and JonathanPodcast Hosting & Distribution by Transistor.fm https://transistor.fm/how-to-start-a-podcast/?via=slava Intro/Outro Music: HoliznaCC0vEditing by: CharacterNorth6081Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/u/CharacterNorth6081/s/k3mFE9aGqh  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/parasss.__---Boost your YouTube audience with vidIQ. Use this link to unlock 500 bonus credits when you upgrade to a premium plan: https://vidiq.com/r/?code=39eAGs

Volume 2 of Pride and Prejudice delivers the most talked-about proposal in English literature and Darcy somehow manages to insult the woman he's proposing to while doing it. In this episode of Side Quest Book Club, Shiara, Slava, and Jonathan break down Charlotte's calculated decision to marry Mr. Collins, Jane's disappointing trip to London, Darcy's awkward courtship strategy, and the moment Elizabeth finally learns the full truth about Wickham.Plus: a hot take on Bridgerton that may cost us some subscribers.Next week we will finish the book with a special guest.Subscribe so you don't miss it.0:00 Intro & Volume 2 Overview2:52 Regency Marriage Markets: Age, Heirs & Power9:26 "Being Out" in Society Explained13:19 Boys vs. Girls: A Different Coming-of-Age18:08 Jane in London: A Friendship Revealed as Fake18:23 Rosings Park: Darcy's Awkward Courtship25:52 Marrying for Love Was Radical30:25 Darcy Proposes And Gets Rejected39:10 Darcy's Letter, Wickham's Truth & The Road to PemberleyABOUT THE BOOKWhen Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows us the folly of judging by first impressions. She superbly evokes the friendships, gossip, and snobberies of provincial middle-class life. This Penguin Classics edition, based on Austen's first edition, contains the original Penguin Classics introduction by Tony Tanner and an updated introduction and notes by Viven Jones.ABOUT THE AUTHORJane Austen was born in 1775 in the small Hampshire village of Steventon, where her father was a Church of England clergyman. The household was large, creative, and deeply literary. This childhood shaped everything she would become as a writer. She began writing seriously as a teenager and spent the following decades crafting some of the most beloved novels in English, publishing them anonymously, identified only as "A Lady."She accepted a marriage proposal once but changed her mind the following day. She never married. In 1809, she settled into a cottage in Chawton, Hampshire — offered by her brother Edward — where she spent her most productive years, writing, revising, and publishing all six of her major novels. In 1817, she fell ill, moved to Winchester to be closer to her doctor, and died on July 18 of that year at just 41 years old. The world didn't learn her name until after she was gone. Today, she is considered one of the most famous and influential writers in English literature, celebrated for her elegant style, dry humor, and timeless explorations of love, reputation, and what it meant to be a woman with a mind of her own. More info here:  https://janeaustens.house/jane-austen/jane-austen-a-life/ABOUT THE SIDE QUEST BOOK CLUB PODCAST Reading is the ultimate side quest. Side Quest is a casual book club podcast full of literary adventures. Join Slava and Jonathan as they discuss the books they are reading, life, history, belief systems, and more. Explore world-building, characters, and story development, and share some laughs along the way.New episodes drop every TUES.LISTEN TO THE AUDIO VERSION This is a video version of our audio podcast. Want to listen on the go?Find *Side Quest Book Club* on your favorite podcast app.🎧 **Subscribe on Any Platform https://linktr.ee/asidequest JOIN THE GUILD 🌐 Official Website / Quest Log:https://www.thesidequestpodcast.com/ 💬 Follow Our Adventures on Social Media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesidequestpodcast TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@sidequestpodcast CREDITS Hosts: Slava and JonathanPodcast Hosting & Distribution by Transistor.fm https://transistor.fm/how-to-start-a-podcast/?via=slava Intro/Outro Music: HoliznaCC0vEditing by: CharacterNorth6081Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/u/CharacterNorth6081/s/k3mFE9aGqh  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/parasss.__

In this episode, Shiara, Slava, and Jonathan dig into Volume 1 of Pride and Prejudice, and things get surprisingly heated. We break down why Jane Austen was basically living her own novel, why Mrs. Bennet is actually more tragic than she is crazy, and why Mr. Darcy is either the most misunderstood man in literary history — or just a really well-dressed snob.Also: Jonathan was not bamboozled by Wickham (for the wrong reasons), Slava almost ruined Thanksgiving, and we had a full debate about the Georgian vs. Victorian era that started before church and ended on air.Part 2 is coming. There is a lot more book to get through.ABOUT THE BOOKWhen Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows us the folly of judging by first impressions. She superbly evokes the friendships, gossip, and snobberies of provincial middle-class life. This Penguin Classics edition, based on Austen's first edition, contains the original Penguin Classics introduction by Tony Tanner and an updated introduction and notes by Viven Jones.ABOUT THE AUTHORJane Austen was born in 1775 in the small Hampshire village of Steventon, where her father was a Church of England clergyman. The household was large, creative, and deeply literary — a childhood that shaped everything she would become as a writer. She began writing seriously as a teenager and spent the following decades crafting some of the most beloved novels in the English language, publishing them anonymously, identified only as "A Lady." She accepted a marriage proposal once but changed her mind the following day. She never married. In 1809, she settled into a cottage in Chawton, Hampshire — offered by her brother Edward — where her most productive years followed and where she wrote, revised, and published all six of her major novels. In 1817 she fell ill, moved to Winchester to be closer to her doctor, and died on July 18 of that year at just 41 years old. The world didn't learn her name until after she was gone. Today she is considered one of the most famous and influential writers in English literature, celebrated for her elegant style, dry humor, and timeless explorations of love, reputation, and what it meant to be a woman with a mind of her own. More info here:  https://janeaustens.house/jane-austen/jane-austen-a-life/ABOUT THE SIDE QUEST BOOK CLUB PODCAST Reading is the ultimate side quest. Side Quest is a casual book club podcast full of literary adventures. Join Slava and Jonathan as they discuss the books they are reading, life, history, belief systems, and more. Explore world-building, characters, and story development, and share some laughs along the way.New episodes drop every TUES.LISTEN TO THE AUDIO VERSION This is a video version of our audio podcast. Want to listen on the go?Find *Side Quest Book Club* on your favorite podcast app.🎧 **Subscribe on Any Platform https://linktr.ee/asidequest JOIN THE GUILD 🌐 Official Website / Quest Log:https://www.thesidequestpodcast.com/ 💬 Follow Our Adventures on Social Media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesidequestpodcast TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@sidequestpodcast CREDITS Hosts: Slava and JonathanPodcast Hosting & Distribution by Transistor.fm https://transistor.fm/how-to-start-a-podcast/?via=slava Intro/Outro Music: HoliznaCC0vEditing by: CharacterNorth6081Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/u/CharacterNorth6081/s/k3mFE9aGqh  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/parasss.__

Debbie Show joins the SideQuest crew to talk about all of it — what really happened, what she changed, and why she hired a developmental editor for two years instead of just writing the book she could have written the day her sister was arrested. We get into bibliotherapy, writing as trauma processing, the Kirkus review, and why developmental editors might be better than therapists. Slava also drops one of the most honest things anyone has said on this show. If this book moved you — leave Debbie a review. She earned it.ABOUT THE BOOKWhen Abigail Jones learns of her sister Nikki’s third arrest, she’s pulled into a spiral of questions: Was it fate, family, or something buried even deeper? As Abigail begins to piece together the past, she uncovers a trail of silence and survival that stretches across continents and generations.From a 1940s Moroccan household where a young maid bears witness to the origins of a generational wound, to the sun-washed suburbs of 1970s California, and finally to 2023—told through podcast transcripts, court documents, and splintered memory—Paper Roses follows Abigail’s search for answers, her confrontation with the sister she thought she knew, and her reckoning with a legacy neither of them could escape.A haunting story of loyalty, silence, and the cost of breaking free, Paper Roses is perfect for readers of The Vanishing Half, Little Fires Everywhere, and The Paper Palace.ABOUT THE AUTHORAuthor Debby Show is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and School Psychologist based in California. With years of experience working with individuals and families, she brings a deep understanding of human behavior, relationships, and generational dynamics to her fiction.Though Paper Roses is her debut novel, Debby has honed her craft through coaching, writing workshops, and a lifelong passion for storytelling. Inspired by real history and intimate truths, her work explores how the past shapes who we become.She also happens to be the sister of a rather infamous public figure—a detail that has made family gatherings interesting, to say the least. While this is a work of fiction, it draws inspiration from real-life experiences. That said, the spotlight in this story belongs to the generations of women whose legacies are woven across time.ABOUT THE SIDE QUEST BOOK CLUB PODCAST Reading is the ultimate side quest. Side Quest is a casual book club podcast full of literary adventures. Join Slava and Jonathan as they discuss the books they are reading, life, history, belief systems, and more. Explore world-building, characters, and story development, and share some laughs along the way.New episodes drop every TUES.LISTEN TO THE AUDIO VERSION This is a video version of our audio podcast. Want to listen on the go?Find *Side Quest Book Club* on your favorite podcast app.🎧 **Subscribe on Any Platform https://linktr.ee/asidequest JOIN THE GUILD 🌐 Official Website / Quest Log:https://www.thesidequestpodcast.com/ 💬 Follow Our Adventures on Social Media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesidequestpodcast TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@sidequestpodcast CREDITS Hosts: Slava and JonathanPodcast Hosting & Distribution by Transistor.fm https://transistor.fm/how-to-start-a-podcast/?via=slava Intro/Outro Music: HoliznaCC0vEditing by: CharacterNorth6081Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/u/CharacterNorth6081/s/k3mFE9aGqh  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/parasss.__