Novel Pairings

Novel Pairings

Welcome to Novel Pairings, a podcast dedicated to making the classics readable, relevant, and fun. Each episode we’ll discuss one classic book and share some recommendations for more contemporary reads that feature similar themes. As two nerdy bookworms, we appreciate the role of classic lit, but we but we won’t get too academic about it. We’ll talk about the books we love and the books we loath, and help stock your TBR pile with old and new reads for every literary taste.

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11. Summer Reading Preview including fast-paced classics, classic YA, and epic adventures for every staycation mood

May 12, 2020 Novel Pairings 24:15

Today Chelsey and Sara are sharing the lineup for Novel Pairings’ summer season. We discuss what makes a great summer read, different readerly tastes in summer books, and then reveal the six classics we’ll be reading and discussing in June, July, and August. The books include a southern literature classic, a class work of young adult fiction, and several epic adventures. All of the books were chosen to suit a variety summer reading moods and to be perfect pairings for the contemporary books we love to read in the summer.

 

To shop all of the books in the summer lineup visit our Bookshop storefront: https://bookshop.org/shop/novelpairings

 

SPOILERS AHEAD

 

Scroll down for time stamps and links to our six summer classics:

 

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith [6:21]

Passing by Nella Larsen [8:06]

The Odyssey by Homer [9:51]

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston [11:24]

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel [13:17]

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein [14:50]

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