The Debate We've All Been Waiting For — Is ACOTAR a Classic? Plus Haunted Houses and DNF Culture
Sarah braves a haunted house, Sallie puts A Court of Thorns and Roses on trial as a modern classic, and Sophie champions The Song of Achilles — plus DNF culture and Section Four of A Little Life.
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Books Discussed
Show Notes
Sarah brings The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, and explains why reading it alone in a hotel room was a terrible decision. Sallie attempts to canonise A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas as a “modern classic” — prompting one of our most heated debates yet — while Sophie argues for the heartbreak and brilliance of The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.
We also get into DNF culture, book guilt, and our refusal to abandon books, before continuing the A Little Life readalong with Section Four — The Axiom of Equality.
⚠️ Content note: the latter half of this episode contains discussion of heavy themes from A Little Life, including trauma, abuse, self-harm, suicide, addiction and mental illness.