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.
Look! You just got another free Patreon Episode of Corinne spoiling the ever living life out of It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover. Next week we will have our discussion of . Then August’s prompt is to read a book that won a translation award and our…
Corinne’s pick for July’s prompt to read a book published 20 years before you were born is The Stud by Jackie Collins. It’s a wild ride with lots of rich and rich-adjacent people exhibiting poor impulse control! Contains: sex, swearing,…
Let this be a sign that if the only Nabokov book you’ve read is Lolita, you should remedy that. Despair is Corinne’s pick for June’s prompt to read a book about twins or doppelgangers. Content warning: mention of suicide, murder, Dostoevsky…
Today we discuss Wise Children by Angela Carter, a book about twins, fulfilling June’s prompt to read a book with twins or doppelgangers. It’s Angela Carter, so everything is in excess, not just one set of twins, but multiple, plus all the twins…
You ready for a messy book? This week we read The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin. Next time we will be reading Wise Children by Angela Carter. Content warnings: sexual assault, domestic violence, fertility issues. If you want to…
We’re back! Becca’s still suffering from a sinus infection, but we’re pressing on anyway. The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams is Corinne’s pick for May’s prompt to read a book recommended by your favorite author. Joy Williams (in general) is…
Due to some unforseen circumstances this week we are bringing you an episode from our Patreon about Colleen Hoover’s massively popular novel It Ends With Us in leiu of our regularly scheduled book discussion. We will hopefully be back with that next…
Perhaps our most referential episode, ever. The book: The art it was created to accompany: Books (many are also Movies/TV shows) Mentioned: by Phillip K. Dick (movie is titled Bladerunner) by William Gibson by James S.A. Corey by Arthur C….
April’s prompt is to read a book of ecofiction, and Becca’s pick is Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup. Content warning: miscarriage, death in childbirth, sexual topics Our next book will be The Employees by Olga Ravn, as chosen by…
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