Lauren is back and fresh from June’s Read Caribbean challenge and July’s Sci-Fi July. We also talk summer reading, Women in Translation Month, and colonization.

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Books discussed:

Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow by Fabienne Josaphat
That We May Live edited by various
Soviet Milk by Norah Ikstena
Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell
The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull

Other mentions:

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Chef by Jaspreet Sing
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Hadriana in All My Dreams by Rene Depestre
Everything is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia by Sigrid Rausing
Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
Dublin Murder Squad by Tana French
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
Clea by Lawrence Durrell
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
The Durrells in Corfu (tv show)
Arc of a Scythe trilogy by Neal Shusterman
Wayfarers by Becky Chambers
Dawn by Octavia Butler
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

Related episodes:

Episode 097 – Blank Spaces with Lauren Weinhold
Episode 123 – Godlets and Forests with Lauren Weinhold
Episode 133 – To Understand the World with Lauren Weinhold
Episode 138 – Shared Landscape with Lauren Weinhold
Episode 147 – Bonus Poetry Recommendations with Lauren
Episode 161 – Women in Translation Month Recommendations with Lauren
Episode 163 – Fainting Goats with Lauren

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