Podcast: The Bookstore

It’s like a book club, but we actually read the book. Join hosts Becca and Corinne as they recreate their days working and hanging out at their local independent book store.

164 – Our 2023 Review and the 2024 Bookstore Challenge

Happy New Year! Out with the old (reviewing last years reading) and in with the new (walking through the 2024 Bookstore Challenge prompts). Books we will be reading in January: by Lois Duncan (look for one published before the 2010s to avoid any…

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163 – Y/N

Last book of the year! It’s Becca’s pick for December’s prompt to read a book by an author who shares the first initial of your surname is  by Esther Yi. We follow a young woman as she descends further into an obsession with a member of a…

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162 – Ice

First book for December’s prompt to read a book by an author who shares your surname or first initial of your surname is . This is a sci-fi or slipstream novel about a man searching for a girl in a world that is slowly being consumed by ice. …

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161 – The Yield

November’s prompt is to read a book about death and Becca’s pick is . The novel has three different narratives, one being about August, an Aboriginal Australian woman returning to her hometown after her grandfather, Poppy, dies. The second narrative…

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160 – Death With Interruptions

November’s prompt is to read a book about death and Corinne’s pick is . This book is about an unnamed country where suddenly one New Year’s, death stops happening. It reads like a textbook at times, going over logistical issues and government…

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159 – The Dispossessed

This week was an extra week for October (yes, technically it’s November, apologies, I’ve had some personal stuff going on), so we had our Patreon Patrons pick the book and they chose . The novel is one of the six major novels of The Hainish…

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158 – Babel-17

Recommended titles: and * *These are NOT affiliate links, The Bookstore will NOT receive commission from Bookshop from any purchases made while visiting these links. This is simply the most convenient non-Amazon related listing to link to. Please…

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157 – Present Tense Machine

Our first book for October’s prompt to read a book set in an alternate dimension or different planet is . This is a dreamlike, speculative novel about a woman who is pulled into an alternate universe. Content warnings: None that we can think of. Our…

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Detroit Festival of Books 2023

Just a teeny tiny mini episode about Becca’s experience at the Detroit Bookfest this past summer.  Our next reads will be  by Gunnhild Øyehaug and  by Samuel R. Delaney. You can find them at your local bookstore or library and…

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156 – Gorilla, My Love

We read by Toni Cade Bambara. This short story collection was first published in 1972 and features 15 stories, and the incredible voices of folks in New York City and sometimes in the rural south. Content Warnings (for the book, less so for the…

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