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Save Me From My Shelf

Save Me From My Shelf

Written by: Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith
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 We're friends and academics who take classic literature off its pedestal by making fun of it.

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Episodes
  • SMFMS Bookends 27: The Phantom of the Opera

    SMFMS Bookends 27: The Phantom of the Opera
    Jan 21 2026
    The twenty-seventh episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Phantom of the Opera episode.

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    31 mins
  • Episode 75 - The Phantom of the Opera

    Episode 75 - The Phantom of the Opera
    Jan 14 2026

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our seventy-fifth episode and opener for Season 7 (a whole year of fan favourites and camp classics), we look at something a bit highbrow (the opera) in the pulpiest, trashiest way (through this book). We introduce our new imaginary producer, Diane, wonder if this should be our first musical episode, and learn that Raoul is more than just the most hated man on all of Broadway: he's also the most hated man in literature.


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Verdi, 'Overture' in La Forza Del Destino.

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 26: Uncle Tom's Cabin

    SMFMS Bookends 26: Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Dec 24 2025
    The twenty-sixth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Uncle Tom's Cabin episode.

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    35 mins
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