Carla’s Comments (group member since Nov 21, 2018)

Carla’s comments from the There Might Be Cupcakes Podcast Group group.

Episode link: theremightbecupcakes.podbean.com/e/everything-that-was-hidden-now-surfaces: interview with Mike Bockoven about Pack and FantasticLand: A Novel.

Dread Central: Best Books of the Halloween Season #8: FantasticLand

I will be interviewing Mike Bockoven, the author of the horror novels FantasticLand and Pack, tomorrow for an upcoming episode. I am so excited! Please leave questions you have for him in a comment here, or email them to me at carla@theremightbecupcakes.com by Thursday evening, around 4 EST, so I can have time to gather my thoughts.

Thank you, Mike! Looking forward to it!

Anyone undertaking any reading challenges this year—or this summer? I am doing the GR summer challenge and the Early Bird Books summer challenge. Anyone else want to play along with me?
The GR challenge has two levels, oddly named “beginner” and “expert”. Details here: https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1...

Episode 51 is live! It’s entitled Elegant Nastiness, after a quote in Horror!: 333 Films to Scare You to Death. It’s the first episode of at least two on Dario Argento’s Three Mothers series: Suspiria, Inferno, and Mother of Tears. I cover the 2018 reimagining of Suspiria, the fairy tale tropes explored throughout the series (and there are more than you would imagine), the nature of witchcraft in this series—and it is quote original—and architecture itself as spellcraft. Also, yes, you’ll notice that the Grimm Brothers are on the bookshelf. Yes, a specific fairy tale ties in, and i end this episode by reading it to you. I’ll come back here late, after people have had a chance to listen, to discuss the unstated horror in the fairy tale intself. Enjoy! This episode is longer than usual, and I think it is one of my best.
direct listen link
theremightbecupcakes.podbean/ElegantNastiness

Episode 50 link from host: theremightbecupcakes.podbean.com/e/proust-and-the-meaning-of-cupcakes

I am getting ready to record episode 50! Okay, a frustratingly almost-three weeks late, thanks to a massive EDS flare-up (including a swollen and painful jaw, which is the worst option for a podcaster, eh?) and a technology blackout. In the same week, my senior iMac, middle-age MacBook, and teenage iPad all acted up! The former two completely refused to boot, and the iPad’s keyboard died. So my mouth refused to work and so did my podcasting equipment. I think the universe told me to take a big pause.

So, I am recording a very special episode to make up for it, and to celebrate 50 episodes: I am exploring the Proust Questionaire, made famous by, of course, the author Marcel Proust, then shows like James Lipton’s Inside the Actors’ Studio. In doing so, I will be comparing some of my answers to of my favorite intellectuals’: David Bowie and Joan Didion. Recording shortly now: will post link to my host in this thread once the episode is published. All of the relevant books have already been added to the group’s bookshelf and to the Goodreads bookshelf.
Thank you for all your support! I am excited to record number 50!

Episode link at Podbean: theremightbecupcakes.podbean.com/e/books-and-threads

In which Carla talks about where she has been--in complex PTSD therapy and in major EDS flareup--and reviews the very best books she has read this year, in therapy and, of course, for fun. Much horror and true crime was enjoyed.

Bookshelf: episode 49

Episode link from Podbean: theremightbecupcakes.podbean.com/e/48-the-use-of-sorrows

In which Carla celebrates two lives well lived, one in letters, one in play, both in finding and making cupcakes. Both lives have anniversaries in January: Mary Oliver, and Carla's younger brother, Eric.

Bookshelf: Episode 48

I will be shelving the main books for each topic here, but continuing to add all books involved--quoted, referenced, suggested, etc.--to the podcast bookshelf on my shelves. Things may change as Goodreads gives more organizational features to groups, or as I get more comfortable here, or both. For now, here's that bookshelf link: every book mentioned on the podcast .

Additional book for this episode:
Episode link from Podbean: theremightbecupcakes.podbean.com/e/47-victorian-christmas-the-goblin-and-the-paw

In which Carla revisits the Victorian Christmas tradition of scary stories at Christmas by reading two classics of the era--and, in doing so, explores the not-well-known genesis of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, to boot. Things get silly and eerie in turn. Come sit by the fire and enjoy some cupcakes and wassail.

Bookshelf: Episode 47