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I have such empathy and love for all of you. Being forced to stay home and act like the world might make you sick…I know how scary and uncomfortable it is. Please take a moment and sit in empathy, as you struggle with your new reality of social distancing. This is how I have been living for the last six years. Not as strictly. But still the same. Some weeks I only go out of the house for my therapy appointment and a coffee afterwards. Know that when I say this, I am remembering my first days and weeks home from work, and the first days and weeks after each new diagnosis, and how very difficult they were. I am so sorry; I don’t want anyone else to feel this way. I promise the cabin fever goes away. Take very good care of yourself and each other, see this as an opportunity. That’s the lesson it has taken me years to learn.So let me know how you are doing, please?
Episode link: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/th...In which Carla explores a favorite horror author of Victorian England, and finds an marvelous polymath, an LGBTQ icon, and a woman who rescued ancient Egypt and explored terra incognita.
Story read: “The Phantom Coach”, Amelia B. Edwards
Recommended Reading:
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Amelia B. Edwards
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody no. 1) by Elizabeth Peters
Amelia B Edwards
Referenced episodes:
32: What the Dickens
47: Victorian Christmas: The Goblin and the Paw
Sources:
Egypt Exploration Fund: https://www.ees.ac.uk
Historic England:
University of Pennsylvania: 1 and 2
Brown University
historyswomen.com
Yes, I am working on episode 58 Right This Second (hint: it’s about a Victorian horror author who was also an Egyptologist and a LGBT pioneer and icon in the UK, how cool is THAT), but bless my Sweet Valley Heart, look at this:
amzn.to/2HBIwpM
The books for episode 58 have already been added to the podcast’s bookshelf and the group’s bookshelf; I’m recording tomorrow. I’m talking about Amelia B. Edwards, a true badass not only in the field of Victorian winter horror but in terra incognito exploration and early Egyptology—and she’s a LGBT historical icon in the UK. I am going to tell you all about her and read two of her stories.
Book set to currently reading: James Renner's true crime book on the Maura Murray case, since that case inspired my novel
My third episode reading from my novel-in-progress. Please let me know if you have any questions, critique, anything. I am wide open.Smart link to listen to episode: https://link.chtbl.com/watching3
The other two episodes are 14 and 28, but I did my best to make this episode stand-alone.
Show notes:
And they were all rich. Rich in looks, rich in opportunity, rich in already wasted opportunities, rich in network, and rich in funds. And rich in frustrations, many of which they could not even name.
--Carla Hufstedler, Watching the Detectives
Promo: Rebel Girls Book Club Podcast
Referenced This Episode:
Episode 14: Watching The Detectives
Episode 28: Watching The Detectives, Part 2
Music:
The Peers Playlist, Apple Music
Songs quoted:
“Drive”, The Cars
“Unbearably White”, Vampire Weekend
“Reindeer King”, Tori Amos
“Watching the Detectives”, Elvis Costello
“Watching the Detectives”, covered by Duran Duran
Episode 56 smart link: https://link.chtbl.com/theflameShow notes description:
In which Carla In which Carla tells two stories that explain finding cupcakes in dark places: one is her story, one is Leonard Cohen's.
I am interested to know what you think. Do you celebrate Advent or some other contemplative acknowledgement of this time of year? If so, what do that look like for you?
What did you think about the two revelations here, that changed both of us?
What is everyone reading this holiday week?Just finished on audio: What Red Was by Rosie Price. Great googily moogily, that was bleak. Bleak. No hope, no redemption. I know it’s a novel about rape, but shit gets thrown at the protagonist just for the fun of it—that’s what it feels like. There’s a loss at the end that’s actually pointless—she does it to herself...there’s no tragedy, no job loss, no breakup, she just decides to add one more log to the fire...and scene. 🤦🏻♀️ My review with spoilers is here: review/show/3038876864 2 stars
Reading Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser on the Kindle, the Pulitzer-Prize winner about Laura Ingalls Wilder. I am learning that Rose, her daughter, might have had a personality disorder. Rose once shaved her head in a fit of pique, à la Britney Spears! In the day when all women still had long hair, before the Gilded Age and the Roaring 20’s! Holy moly. Never let ‘em tell you History is boring.
Physical book is The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff (Pulitzer-nominated, I believe), about Salem, a long-distance buddy read with my best friend.
Lay your reads on me. 📚
Episode 55: Finding Fear: In which I read to you a Turkish folktale about a boy who goes out on a quest to find out what fear is.Smart link: https://link.chtbl.com/Fear
Please let me know what you thought!
Main link at Goodreads blog: goodreads.com/blog/show/1697Highlights: Rsising Stars of Horror, highlighting my friend Grady Hendrix
Lovecraft's Long-Reaching Influence
Recommended Graphic Horror Novels
The 50 Most Popular Horror Books on Goodreads
I used to challenge myself to read only horror during the month of October. Doing it again this month--challenged by a #screamathon horror book package exchange on Litsy. Right now I am listening to Deliverance, narrated by Will Patton, the sublime narrator of Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes trilogy. It's been on my bucket list for a very long time.
See any horror in these articles that perks your interest? Do you try to read only horror for the Spooky Month?
Episode 54 smart link: https://link.chtbl.com/gileadShow notes description:
In which Carla investigates why the place in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is called Gilead.
Please let me know what you think!
There Might Be Cupcakes Podcast Episode 48: Universal download link thanks to Chartable: link.chtbl.com/useofsorrowsMary Oliver's poetry
Universal download link for There Might Be Cupcakes episode 47: Victorian Christmas: The Goblin and the Paw, thanks to Chartable: link.chtbl.com/goblinpaw:"The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton", From The Pickwick Papers, the short story that inspired A Christmas Carol;
and "The Monkey's Paw"
In which I further explores the Three Mothers series by examining Luca Guadagnino's 2018 remake, taking a fresh look at Suspiria's influence, the fairy tale "Little Snow White", and taking a deep dive into the themes of identity, sleep and dreams, and, of course, motherhood. https://link.chtbl.com/exquisite
What moments were those, Mike?
Went through the Guardian’s (long-standing UK newspaper) top 100 Nonfiction of All Time list. They state that the average Goodreads user has read five of them; I’ve read eleven of them as of today (many of them, admittedly, thanks to my incredible education). How many have you read?I see several on the list that give me episode ideas, separately or in clusters. ;)
I am going to hunt down other such lists on Goodreads, such as the BBC’s, and I will link them here when I do. Feel free to share your favorite nonfiction reads.
List link: The Guardian’s Top 100 Nonfiction Books
Video: Reading the Writing: A Conversation with Toni Morrison: Cornell University: http://www.cornell.edu/video/toni-mor...
Toni Morrison died yesterday evening.I read Beloved in Yale Summer School—Gender and Political Science class—and it changed the way I looked at the American novel. I also read The Bluest Eye in that class, and it changed how I looked at my own writing, at sparseness of word to tell a powerful gut-punch of a story.
She won the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was such a treasure, as was her work.
obituary on Huffington Post
