BFL emerges from her reading slump with some fantastic reading updates. Derek picked the film Office Space, which inspires an interesting discussion on their philosophy of work.

Unfortunately the LP team didn’t like the second half of the book as much as the first half - maybe it went downhill right after the main character and the love interest started having sex? Sigh. Jokes aside, reading this book has taught us important lessons, and for that, author Emily Henry, we’re grateful.

00:00 Intro

11:17 Sexual tension

41:05 The fantasy of safe love

54:53 Contrived endings

Take a shot every time we say porn in this episode… Derek asserts that people who think they’re better than this book should read this book. LP’s first venture into the romance genre generated such a productive discussion that we’ve had to split it into 2 episodes!

The title of this episode is to be taken literally. Shoutout to Story Games at https://perchance.org/storygames for providing us with prompts.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

11:29 Improv begins!

01:04:06 Outro

Long time LP collaborator Sofi dials in from Melbourne and discusses American Fiction, a satire-drama film about a Black author ironically using familiar, reductive tropes about the African American experience and end up producing a bestselling novel.

00:00 Intro

10:19 Synopsis

01:06:00 Horny metaphor :)

01:08:00 Outro

This is a special episode of LP where famous poetry hater Derek reads a poem by American writer Charles Bukowski for the first time, and what do you know, he loves it.

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LP’s hosts reveal more about themselves than they ever have before. Fung-Ling was nearly laid off, Derek is in enormous pain, but both have decided to show up despite it all. FL dropped the most ludicrous phrase on LP yet, ‘intellectual interior’, which she is prepared to give up in order to have real friends. Who would have thought living your life would be actually fulfilling?

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:13 Aspiring or not?

13:55 Good quality convos

19:57 P and P watch party

27:59 Corporate sucks

33:34 The popular kids

42:49 Outro

It’s time! LP’s first ever anime club pick is, of course, the industry-defining, culture-shifting, legendary Eva. We began with the 26 episodes available on Netflix, and discussed its themes of abandonment, self-loathing, and daddy issues. Fun! Oh and Derek used to be a member of his university’s anime club.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

08:43 Synopsis

40:46 Spoilers

01:08:12 Outro