Gashouse Gables

Reccer Spotlight: M!

Cocaine Blues

Strange Buildings

Mad Mabel

The Truth About Melody Browne

Your co-host M is an international woman of mystery. I mean, a woman of international mystery recs (and/or crime recs. From three whole countries!) Full text available in her tab of the Bella’s Book Club Summer Reading ‘26 Reclist.

more info on BBC Summer Reading 2026

"See? I told you it was all in your head. You just had to get over it."

"What is?"

"Oh, your asthma. I'm proud of you."

because why stick to book recs when we can give you tv recs, nap recs, and creek recs? 🏆

Want more bonus recs? Check the Bonus Recs tab of the BBC Summer Reading Archive sheet!

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Prepare for men with horns and women with no hope at all - because we are diving into the Bard's Othello, starting with Act 3, Scene 3!

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it's gonna be Green-Eyed Monster May 🐍👁️

It's almost Shakespeare festival season and the denizens of BBC have chosen to read (or watch) Othello by William Shakespeare! Who will win in this tale of racism and backstabbing: truth and virtue or 1 (one) 17th-century Kleenex? Weigh in at our Discord discussion on May 16th! 🍓👩🏼‍❤️‍👨🏿

Discord discussion: Saturday 5/16 8 PM EST | Sunday 16/5 11 AM AEST

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This blog is still active but I can't tell from the posts if the pod is still going or if it ended in 2025?

yes, the pod is still going! we're in our between-seasons hiatus (post-eclipse, pre-breaking dawn) which we knew was gonna be a long one but it's looking like it will take even longer than we anticipated. in the mean time this blog and our other social media are still up and running (including @bellasbookclub.)

(also welcome anyone who's here after hearing about us on Actually Obsessed pod!! we hope you enjoy this crackheaded trip through bella's/beau's/edward's/smeyer's twisted minds🖤)

This podcast demonstrates that ability really well because sex scandals tend to be used as propaganda, so it's difficult to tell if they are true or not. The host will ask the historian guest, "Did he have sex with men?" and the guest will say something like, "Well four sources say so, but three were written after his death and the one from his lifetime was from a dude who REALLY hated him, so I'm going to conclude no."

That is what an expert can do, that we've perhaps forgotten about because we have so much information at our fingertips, an expert can tell which information is good & valid vs. bad & unreliable. An expert can sort much faster than a layman because they've been doing it for years.

It's the same for my field. Some things I am absolutely sure are wrong, like if someone says "We only use 10% of our brains." No, we use all of it and I can even tell you what every part does. But other claims, if I see a news article claiming something that sounds fishy, I can read the research article behind it and judge the validity of the source. I can sort. I know which parameters to sort on. That was the entire point of my education and it was pounded into my head.

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