Mr Elton is a topic of conversation again and Emma has to console Harriet

Check out the Intrepid French Film Festival Aotearoa and especially Jane Austen Wrecked My Life throughout t...

Emma thinks she's in love with Frank. We talk a lot about slogans for t-shirts (and I made one)

Does Mrs Weston love Mr Weston?Does Jane love Frank?We mention the webseries Rational Creatures which you can find on YoutubeIf you'd like to stay updated on the boo...

Emma is judgy, Miss Bates is the least selfish character and Mrs Weston may be the original matchmaker.

Highbury is a one horse town where Miss Bates takes no breaths.There's even a journal article about Winnie-the-Pooh: Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neurodevelopmental p...

Perhaps we could learn a couple of things from Emma. We decide Emma might be bi or ace. Rachel has a meet cute in a supermarket

Emma (Queen of Highbury) decides to grace the Coles with her presence just as the Queen (of England) once went to a wedding. Also Frank gets a haircut and Mr Woodhouse is a child...

Frank is trying his hardest to see Jane (and we only see that because we know the ending)

Frank Churchill arrives! He's an inconvenient surprise (apologies to everyone ever as I'm always early).Where the hell does Emma get her snobby ideas from?Rachel mentions

We learn more about the future Mrs Elton and their courtship with a segue to Taylor Swift (let me have my special interests)

Gossip! Mr Elton is engaged and we discuss Jane Austen's own brief engagement

We tackle the important questions:- Does Austen name characters after herself?- Why is Jane a better heroine than Emma?- Was Austen secretly gay?- Is Emma secretly gay?

We ask the tough questions:- Is Mrs Bates hearing loss simply selective hearing? - Are the Bates scamming their neighbours for free things?We also discuss engineering hacks, the mail and how the story pivots to focus on Jan...

We complain that Frank is a dick, compare him to Fabio; discuss Austen’s version of “if he wanted to, he would” and how Emma and Knightley love to argue-flirt.

Rachel and I tackle such important questions as:why has Emma never seen the sea if she lives on an island?when did Mr Woodhouse last leave Hartfield?why does Mr Elton suck so much?what's the best way to ge...

Emma requires an entire chapter to process Mr Elton's disastrous proposal

Rachel and I are joined by a canine co-host, my niece, Daisy. We discuss the pains of managing family, politeness and unwanted male attention. 

Rachel and I discuss the difficulties of being polite and how Mrs Weston may be the best mother figure in Austen. 

We launch into the new year with un/lucky chapter 13, mixed signals, unclear communication, the Victorianisation of Austen, and the secret horror novel at the centre of Emma.We mention

Let's pretend I was drunk when we recorded to explain my many mistakes... we discuss gross age differences and segue into talking about Typhoid Mary.

As a nod to Christmas we discuss Rachel's Christmas socks (as the Christmas chapter is a couple of chapters away), we discuss visiting the sea for health and forget that we do know one of the middle Knightley children is named George.

We discuss charity, and how Emma is a woman ahead of her time. 

Rachel and I talk about communication (ha), compare Mr Collins to Mr Elton (again), I attempt to compare Harriet's book to a mix tape, Rachel tells a story about flat earthers and we talk about the different meaning of charade(s).Correct...

Emma and Knightley fight about Harriet (who thankfully doesn't turn up till after they've finished). Rachel and I compare Mr Elton to Mr Collins (again) and decide Miss Bates would make an excellent matchmaker.