HeyJaredMy Best Friend’s Book Club
Join your new best friend’s dopest book club. We break books down into ~50 pages a week so you can easily read along. If you don’t read, we summarize so you can still follow the story and podcast (we gotchu). Then we swap notes and laugh—a lot.
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S11 | E4: Truth or Dare? | God of the Woods | p.219-307 (opens the original)
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John Paul Jr. has been found — beaten, drunk, and with a very suspicious bag containing a bloody item. Does the blood belong to missing Barbara Van Laar? Louise (camp counselor) is still being questioned in her jail cell, and if you can believe it, John Paul Jr.'s version of events doesn't bode well for her. A new character enters the story with some damning opinions about how the Van Laar family and Captain LaRochelle handled the search for Bear. The main suspect? Honestly, no idea. We discuss
S11 | E3: Forget what we said. Panic. | God of the Woods | p.153-219 (opens the original)
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Alibis are unraveling, evidence bags are turning up with things that shouldn't be in them, and the Van Laar Preserve is collecting casualties across every timeline. Tracy is lost in the woods screaming into the void. Louise is locked in an interrogation room with no lawyer and no options. Alice is sedated while the husband decided what’s best, and Carl wakes up to find out he's the primary suspect in Bear’s disappearance. Timelines are colliding and it’s still ridiculously unclear where this boo
S11 | E2: Don't panic | God of the Woods | p.75-153 (opens the original)
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The Van Laar Preserve has already claimed one child — and nobody who was there during the search for Bear has recovered. We start to get a sense of what happened to Bear, who helped, and who might be carry secrets into his mysterious disappearance. Fourteen years later, Barbara Van Laar is now missing, and the timelines are colliding. We travel from a seventeen-year-old Alice being swept into a marriage with a twenty-nine-year-old Peter Van Laar (woof), through the haunting search for Bear, and
S11 | E1: When lost, sit down and yell | God of the Woods | p.1-75 (opens the original)
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It's 1975 in the Adirondack Mountains, and a girl is missing from her bunk at Camp Emerson. No flashlight. No note. Just gone. The problem? Almost nobody who should have been watching was actually where they were supposed to be. God of the Woods by Liz Moore drops us into multiple timelines and perspectives from page one — a struggling camp counselor covering her tracks, a twelve-year-old girl who knows more than she's saying, a wealthy family with a devastating secret, and an escaped convict he
Lost Girls: Book vs. Movie (opens the original)
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Five women. One unsolved case. And a system that failed them long before a killer did. Robert Kolker's Lost Girls brought these women back to life on the page — and the Netflix film tried to do the same on screen. But did it? We break down the book to screen adaptation, dive into the perception of sex work, how socioeconomic standing shapes who gets justice, and what it means to tell these stories responsibly. We have opinions. We have feelings. And we're not holding back. Follow us, tap that 5-
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