Join Frank and Adam as they catch up after a brief vacation to reminisce over some favorite children's books, causing Adam to neglect the recording process and add a Crockett Johnson biography to his Amazon cart. It won't be the last time, folks. Children's Books Discussed: The Goosebumps Series by R. L. Stein Charlotte's Web by E. B. White Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss, Crockett Johnson (Illustrator) George and Martha: The Complete Stories of Two Best Friends by James Marshall A Boy in the Doghouse by Betsy Duffey Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman by Marc Tyler Nobleman, Ty Templeton (Illustrator) Non-Children's Books Discussed: Pulp by Ed Brubaker, Sean Philips (Art) Criminal, Vol. 1: Coward by Ed Brubaker, Sean Philips (Art) Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus by Aaron Cometbus Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature by Philip Nel Join our Discord server to read along with our future book club selections: https://discord.gg/C94HKC96ky  Looking to add to that to-read list? Sign up for our newsletter and receive micro-reviews of our recent reads: https://makeshiftpress.org/podcast Email the show: [email protected]

Frank and Adam discuss their summer reading lists. Adam provides tech support to the elderly, and Frank provides tips on how to get out of said tech support. Books Discussed: Written in Bone - Sue Black Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Winner Takes All - Christina Binkley The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 & 2 - James Tynion IV, Alvaro Martinez Bueno (Artist), Jordie Bellaire (Colorist) Batman One Bad Day: Ra’s al Ghul - Tom Taylor, Ivan Reis (Art), Danny Miki (Art), Brad Anderson (Art) Brad Warner’s Audible Audiobook Collection Join our Discord server to read along with our future book club selections: https://discord.gg/C94HKC96ky  Looking to add to that to-read list? Sign up for our newsletter and receive micro-reviews of our recent reads: https://makeshiftpress.org/podcast Email the show: [email protected]

Join Frank and Adam as they discuss Le Guin’s 1973 short philosophical story about a utopian society whose functionality depends upon—let’s not get ahead of ourselves, folks. This one packs a punch. Want to read (or re-read) before listening? Here’s a PDF: Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Plus, more movie talk from a so-called book podcast! Join our Discord server to read along with our future book club selections: https://discord.gg/C94HKC96ky  Looking to add to that to-read list? Sign up for our newsletter and receive micro-reviews of our recent reads: https://makeshiftpress.org/podcast Email the show: [email protected]  Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fully-booked6/message

Join us as we dive headfirst into the most acclaimed novel of one of America's most influential and controversial voices, Charles Bukowski. Adam has read a fat stack of Bukowski's poetry books and a few of his novels, and Frank is initiated. Will Frank regret putting Adam in charge of choosing this round's novel? Find out! Also, we hunt some ghosts and discuss this new-fangled Max app from a promising start-up called the Home Box Office. Interested in reading along? Visit our Discord for updates on what we're reading and when we're reading it. From the back of the book: In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D. H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression. Looking to add to that to-read list? Sign up for our newsletter and receive micro-reviews of our recent reads. Email the show: [email protected]

It’s a national holiday! We just attended the annual Free Comic Book Day (est. 2002) at our respective shops. Join us as we reminisce over FCBD past and present. Is FCBD an effective way to broaden the comic book market or does it needlessly cost shops extra $$$ every first Saturday in May? Also, one of us is treated like a shoplifter and the other spends an exorbitant price for a Swamp Thing painting just to deny a fellow human some happiness. Free Comic Book Day’s Official Website Four Color Fantasies (Adam’s Shop) Fourth World Comics (Frank's Shop) Join our Discord server to read along with our future book club selections. Looking to add to that to-read list? Sign up for our newsletter and receive micro-reviews of our recent reads. Email the show: [email protected]

Drug-smuggling submarines. Ill-advised scuba diving. High-end escorts. Government overreach. The kitchen sink. This week, we turn a critical eye to the second half of Andrew Mayne's The Girl Beneath the Sea. Join us as we come to consensus and disagreement, closing out our first book club read! Join our Discord server to read along with our future book club selections. Looking to add to that to-read list? Sign up for our newsletter and receive micro-reviews of our recent reads.

Join us as we sort through the second half of a big ol' pile of recent purchases and discuss our weekly reads. Also included is some light kidnapping humor and some small talk about the meaning of life. Just another day in the life, folks. Books Discussed & Hauled: Dardevil - Chip Zdarsky Amazing Spider-Man - Zeb Wells Venom, Lethal Protector -  David Michelinie Piranesi by Susannah Clarke The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien Max Ernst - Gaston Diehl The Mighty World of Marvel - Taschen Publishing The Paris Apartment - Lucy Foley Animal Man: Books One & Two - Grant Morrison The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson - E. M. Forster Anthem, Rush in the 70's - Martin Popoff Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett 50 States 5000 Ideas - Text by Joe Yogerts - National Geographic DOODAAA - Ralph Steadman Join our Discord server to read along with our future book club selections. Looking to add to that to-read list? Sign up for our newsletter and receive micro-reviews of our recent reads.

Join us as we sort through a big ol' pile of recent purchases and discuss our weekly reads. We also wish happy birthday to a dead raccoon. Books Discussed & Hauled: 1) The Amazing Spiderman - Zeb Wells 2) Daredevil - Chip Zdarsky 3) Kaiju, No. 8 Volume 6 - Naoya Matsumoto 4) The Midnight Ride - Ben Mezrich 5) Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore - Lance Parkin 6) Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein 7) Milk and Cheese: Dairy Products Gone Bad - Evan Dorkin 8) Hyperion - Dan Simmons 9) Action Philosophers - Fred Van Lente, Ryan Dunlavey 10) Three Hours in Paris - Cara Black 11) Thinking with Type: Ellen Lupton 12) Written in Bone - Sue Black Join our Discord server to read along with current and future book club selections. Looking to add to that to-read list? Sign up for our newsletter and receive micro-reviews of our recent reads.

Our inaugural episode is also our first book club episode, covering the first half of Andrew Mayne's thriller, The Girl Beneath the Sea. This one's got it all: murder, mystery, and alligator bodyguards. Hang out with two former college roommates and current bookworms as they delve into an eclectic mix of genres. This thriller is fast-paced and action-packed, keeping you on your toes with every page turn. Andrew Mayne is a master of engagement--trust us. Let's dive in! Join our Discord server to read along with our future book club selections. Looking to add to that to-read list? Sign up for our newsletter and receive micro-reviews of our recent reads.