Overdue Podcast
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Overdue is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. Updates Mondays.
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Andrew: Watch Akira in dub or sub?
Us from the trenches: Well, actually, the debate is between the Streamline dub or the original Pioneer dub.
Andrew: Watch Akira in dub or sub?
Us from the trenches: Well, actually, the debate is between the Streamline dub or the original Pioneer dub.
January 30, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Andrew: Watch Akira in dub or sub?
Us from the trenches: Well, actually, the debate is between the Streamline dub or the original Pioneer dub.
Andrew: Watch Akira in dub or sub?
Us from the trenches: Well, actually, the debate is between the Streamline dub or the original Pioneer dub.
Tokyo Drifters Ep 0 - Akira, by Katsuhiro Otomo
An introduction to our next longread project is on the main feed! To hear this show-within-a-show as it drops, head to patreon.com/overduepod for more!
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An introduction to our next longread project is on the main feed! To hear this show-within-a-show as it drops, head to patreon.com/overduepod for more!
overduepodcast.com/episodes/202...
Tokyo Drifters Ep 0 - Akira, by Katsuhiro Otomo, an introduction — Overdue
For this new show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew will travel to Neo-Tokyo to meet Akira , created by Katsuhiro Otomo. We're going to read this classic manga across six episodes, then close out with ...
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January 30, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Tokyo Drifters Ep 0 - Akira, by Katsuhiro Otomo
An introduction to our next longread project is on the main feed! To hear this show-within-a-show as it drops, head to patreon.com/overduepod for more!
overduepodcast.com/episodes/202...
An introduction to our next longread project is on the main feed! To hear this show-within-a-show as it drops, head to patreon.com/overduepod for more!
overduepodcast.com/episodes/202...
We read these so you don't have it, but if you must: archive.org/details/elso...
Elson Basic Readers - Pre-Primer : Elson, William H. (William Harris), 1856-1935 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Pre-primer lacks title page
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January 30, 2026 at 4:40 PM
We read these so you don't have it, but if you must: archive.org/details/elso...
''There's nothing these book children do that a child couldn't remember having done themselves,'' Miss Sharp once told an interviewer. ''They made the books part of themselves. We made reading easy for them and encouraged them to read more.'' - From Zerna Sharp's 1981 obituary
ZERNA SHARP, 91, DIES IN INDIANA; ORIGINATED 'DICK AND JANE' TEXTS (Published 1981)
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January 29, 2026 at 4:46 PM
''There's nothing these book children do that a child couldn't remember having done themselves,'' Miss Sharp once told an interviewer. ''They made the books part of themselves. We made reading easy for them and encouraged them to read more.'' - From Zerna Sharp's 1981 obituary
Ep 739 - Fun with Dick and Jane, and Other Stories
Ep 739 - Fun with Dick and Jane, and Other Stories by Zerna Sharp and William S. Gray — Overdue
See Andrew and Craig. See Andrew and Craig read. Read, Andrew and Craig, read! The Dick and Jane characters are still widely known, even though their heyday as The Main Way American Kids Learn How To...
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January 26, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Ep 739 - Fun with Dick and Jane, and Other Stories
His exploits *are* glorious!
January 23, 2026 at 10:38 PM
His exploits *are* glorious!
Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 07 - Jessi's Secret Language (The Baby-sitters Club #16)
Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 07 - Jessi's Secret Language (The Baby-sitters Club #16) — Overdue
Another month, another new member of the BSC! This time it's Jessi, ballerina extraordinaire, who also happens to be adept at learning languages. And her first big job involves learning sign language ...
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January 23, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 07 - Jessi's Secret Language (The Baby-sitters Club #16)
This episode of Overdue is brought to you by
John From Cincinnati Opening Credits
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January 22, 2026 at 9:39 PM
This episode of Overdue is brought to you by
"I was tired of ancient Greek characters sounding as if they’ve stepped out of a Merchant Ivory production...The Greek world wasn’t a monoculture: you’ve got different dialects, different classes, immigration, a massive slave trade. The language was a way to try to capture some of that difference."
Ferdia Lennon: ‘I was tired of Merchant Ivory accents’
The recent winner of the Waterstones debut fiction prize on literary friendships, the lucidity of Georges Simenon and Irish writing’s debt to the financial crash
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January 21, 2026 at 9:57 PM
"I was tired of ancient Greek characters sounding as if they’ve stepped out of a Merchant Ivory production...The Greek world wasn’t a monoculture: you’ve got different dialects, different classes, immigration, a massive slave trade. The language was a way to try to capture some of that difference."
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(this thought brought to you by a B&N display in the western suburbs of Phila, but also by the good guys at @overduepod.bsky.social and their dedication to lifting up works newly in the public domain)
I feel like I have been looking at the same few dozen “classics” reprinted for the last 30 years.
Someone has got to start a Public Domain Publishing company that makes handsome editions of the best NEW stuff that enters the public domain every January 1.
I will give you all my money! 📚💙
Someone has got to start a Public Domain Publishing company that makes handsome editions of the best NEW stuff that enters the public domain every January 1.
I will give you all my money! 📚💙
January 19, 2026 at 3:45 AM
(this thought brought to you by a B&N display in the western suburbs of Phila, but also by the good guys at @overduepod.bsky.social and their dedication to lifting up works newly in the public domain)
Ep 738 - Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
Ep 738 - Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon — Overdue
Sometimes you just want to get together with your friend and enlist prisoners of war into putting on a production of Euripides in the quarry, am I right? This is a broadly relatable thing that lots of...
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January 19, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Ep 738 - Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
Agatha (Christie) all along — starting way back at episode 66.
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Ep 066 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie — Overdue
Agatha Christie is the owner of numerous superlatives: best-selling novelist, influential mystery writer, criminally successful playwright. Also, did we mention she's a dame? Her novel,&n...
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January 16, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Agatha (Christie) all along — starting way back at episode 66.
overduepodcast.com/episodes/201...
overduepodcast.com/episodes/201...
"Bit of a bore, but you don't kill someone for that. If you did, there'd be no one left in the village!"
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THE MIRROR CRACK'D - Interview With Angela Lansbury
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January 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
"Bit of a bore, but you don't kill someone for that. If you did, there'd be no one left in the village!"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVss...
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When you know the vicar will need your help every 3-5 chapters via your powers of observation and cryptic bon mots
a man in a blue jumpsuit is standing in a room and saying good morning .
Alt: Hannibal Lecter stands in his cell, smiles, and says "Good morning."
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January 14, 2026 at 9:21 PM
When you know the vicar will need your help every 3-5 chapters via your powers of observation and cryptic bon mots
ahem
🎶Agatha Christie
Made up a neat cozy murder that no one could guess.
Who would confess?
Vicar Len Clement
Works with Miss Marple to find out the killer's ID
Who could it be?
All the Christie mysteries
Whodun all of these crimes?
All the Christie mysteries
Who will get killed this time?🎶
🎶Agatha Christie
Made up a neat cozy murder that no one could guess.
Who would confess?
Vicar Len Clement
Works with Miss Marple to find out the killer's ID
Who could it be?
All the Christie mysteries
Whodun all of these crimes?
All the Christie mysteries
Who will get killed this time?🎶
January 13, 2026 at 9:03 PM
ahem
🎶Agatha Christie
Made up a neat cozy murder that no one could guess.
Who would confess?
Vicar Len Clement
Works with Miss Marple to find out the killer's ID
Who could it be?
All the Christie mysteries
Whodun all of these crimes?
All the Christie mysteries
Who will get killed this time?🎶
🎶Agatha Christie
Made up a neat cozy murder that no one could guess.
Who would confess?
Vicar Len Clement
Works with Miss Marple to find out the killer's ID
Who could it be?
All the Christie mysteries
Whodun all of these crimes?
All the Christie mysteries
Who will get killed this time?🎶
Ep 737 - The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1) by Agatha Christie
Ep 737 - The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1), by Agatha Christie — Overdue
The public domain comes for us all and today it's come for Miss Marple, the elderly busybody and amateur sleuth that Agatha Christie created in the 1920s. In her first proper novel, Marple assists a v...
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January 12, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Ep 737 - The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1) by Agatha Christie
Want to know the other endings? Choose Your Own Consequences with this online version:
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Consider the Consequences by geetheriot
The first ever Choose Your Own Adventure (style) book from 1930 is back! In Interactive Fiction form!
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January 8, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Want to know the other endings? Choose Your Own Consequences with this online version:
geetheriot.itch.io/consider-the...
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Consider the consequences....of not knowing the reading schedule for January
January 6, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Consider the consequences....of not knowing the reading schedule for January
Ep 736 - Consider the Consequences! by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins
Ep 736 - Consider the Consequences!, by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins — Overdue
We’ve been known to choose an adventure for ourselves every now and again, but rarely have we delved into the history of the “gamebook” genre. Until now! Join us for an abbreviated run through Consid...
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January 5, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Ep 736 - Consider the Consequences! by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins
ICYMI: An episode about some different American girls also hit our main feed
Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 06 - Hello, Mallory (The Baby-Sitters Club #14) — Overdue
We jump forward in the series a little bit this month, past the “we’re still setting up each of the core Club members” phase. This episode is all about Mallory, a younger aspiring BSC member whose mem...
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January 2, 2026 at 8:22 PM
ICYMI: An episode about some different American girls also hit our main feed
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so I'm reading Don Quixote and somehow no one ever told me it was hilarious
December 31, 2025 at 9:45 PM
"The American Girl doll was invented in the 1980s by [a] former grade-school teacher and news anchor in her mid-40s named Pleasant Rowland, during a visit to Colonial Williamsburg...Missing from the Barbie-and-baby-doll eighties play landscape was a doll for little girls who was herself a child."
Why Are Millennials Still Attached to American Girl?
From the beginning, Pleasant Rowland’s invention wasn’t just a doll but a brand.
www.newyorker.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"The American Girl doll was invented in the 1980s by [a] former grade-school teacher and news anchor in her mid-40s named Pleasant Rowland, during a visit to Colonial Williamsburg...Missing from the Barbie-and-baby-doll eighties play landscape was a doll for little girls who was herself a child."
Ep 735 - American Girl: Meet Samantha, by Susan S. Adler, and Meet Addy, by Connie Porter
Ep 735 - American Girl: Meet Samantha, by Susan S. Adler and Meet Addy, by Connie Porter — Overdue
It's time to meet Samantha and Addy, two American Girls from the toy brand of the same name. Their time periods and journeys are rather different, but they are united by one thing: American Girl found...
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December 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Ep 735 - American Girl: Meet Samantha, by Susan S. Adler, and Meet Addy, by Connie Porter
More like a daily thing in one particular household
The Best Classic Eggnog
Stirring up a batch of classic eggnog is an annual tradition in many households. A review of recipes reveals five secrets to great homemade eggnog.
www.southernliving.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
More like a daily thing in one particular household
I mean Krampus is immortal so
Aged Eggnog Recipe | Classic Eggnog Recipe | Alton Brown
A winter holiday classic eggnog recipe, Alton Brown's aged eggnog blends rum, bourbon, and cognac with dairy and nutmeg for a complex Christmas cocktail.
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December 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I mean Krampus is immortal so