The girlies gather in the stu for a roundup of this month’s media intake, covering everything from the sheer power of Toni Morrison’s pen to the movies they watched through their fingers, abandoned books, and one shonklingly musical octopus. They also talk tarot, celebrate Tana French season, and confront the horrifying truth that Max Martin is the Ryan Murphy of pop.

BOOKS

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgård

Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani

Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle by Carl Jung

DNF

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

MOVIES

Weapons

It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

The Alabama Solution

Bugonia

Atonement

Sentimental Value

VIDEOS

I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)

LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching 

TV SHOWS

Pluribus

The Sopranos

All Her Fault

Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers

PODCASTS

Beth’s Dead

In the Dark