The Astute Macaron
Episodes
11 episodes
10 - Emmett Till and TKAM with Bridget and Wyatt
Join me for my very first discussion episode! Yes I did forget to introduce myself! Wow. My name is Misty, and I am joined by the awesome Bridget and Wyatt to discuss the tragedy of Emmett Till and his place in U.S. History. We also discuss To ...
09 - Metamorphosis
I'm back! And this time I'm gonna talk about BUGS! SO MUCH! SO much more than I ever wanted to talk about bugs.I also tried some new segments! And forgot some old ones, oops. Hey, this is all a process, right? Dig deep with your...
SHORT ANNOUNCEMENT
Hey everyone! This is just a super short announcement pod about some changes in format and release schedule. I'm still reading classics and still baking, but I'll be doing it every two weeks going forward, and shows will generally ...
08 - To Kill A Mockingbird
Wow, I really liked this book! But also i think teaching it in schools is hecka problematic! Let's discuss!I made a cherry cobbler, from the recipe on this 7...
07 - 1984
Oh boy, this one was a doozy. Lots of politics, lots of learning about the joys of living through a young lady's naughty bits. Yep, that really happens, and yep, I really read some of it out loud on my podcast. This is getting weirder and weird...
06 - Wide Sargasso Sea
I read a book that is very confusingly a prequel to a book that someone else wrote a hundred years prior! What? Yeah, that's how I felt.Luckily it was short, because it was super racist. Very uncomfortable. I didn't read much out of thi...
05 - Age of innocence
Listen to me mix up the main character name - He's Newland Archer, or Newland, or Archer, depending on the sentence. Sorry. Also I really hate The Great Gatsby. Like, really really.I modified
04 - Rashomon
In this episode I get to experience the crushing weight of terrible humanity - in Japanese! Okay, not actually in Japanese, I read a translation.This one is short because Rashomon is a short story! Yay, I needed that after last week's i...
03 - Mists of Avalon Part 1
Join me as I read through this retelling of the Arthurian legends from Morgaine's perspective! This book is so long that I had to split up the episode... and it took me 40 minutes to get through 300 pages of it. Oh boy.I also had my fir...
02 - A Christmas Carol
Join me as I read through the Christmas classic by Charles Dickens and utterly destroy a yule log.I modified this cake recipe and utterly failed to make
01 - Catcher in the Rye
In this episode, I read Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, and I bake Holden's Not-Phony Goddam Crumby Cake. It's... pretty crumby, not gonna lie. Spoiler alert: this book was a slog. It did inspire some actual murders, so somebody must've ei...