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.
Becca’s pick for March’s prompt to read a book published by an indie press is Earthlings by Sayaka Murati, translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori, and published by Grove Atlantic. Content warnings: sexual assault, death,…
Read MoreFebruary’s prompt is to read a book with a non-human narrator or from a non-human perspective. Corinne’s pick, that we’ll be discussing today, is Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck, which is about a house/plot of land. Content warning: swearing, Nazism,…
Read MoreRomantic Goat sex on today’s episode. We read by Perumal Murugan. Next time we will read by Jenny Erpenbeck Content Warnings: Violence, sexual violence If you want to read along with The Bookstore Challenge 2024, you can join us on The StoryGraph to…
Read MoreLast episode for January is Pastoralia by George Saunders, this is a book of short stories that all have the trademark Saunders satirical edge. Content warning: swearing, brief mentions of death and a sick child Our next book discussion will be…
Read MoreNew year, same us. We discuss (more like complain about, to be honest) Maggie O’Farrell’s novel After You’d Gone. January’s prompt is to read a book published in the year 2000. Our next book discussion will be Pastoralia by George Saunders. You can…
Read MoreWe are back and we have a recap of our reading in 2024, along with the challenge prompts for 2025, since I don’t know how we chose books before we starting following these prompts. The challenge prompts start around 37:04. Our books for January…
Read MoreWe were in Chicago during the week we should have been recording and editing this episode, so apologies for the lateness! Today we talk about The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk. Next time we’ll be talking about our…
Read MoreLESBIAN. VAMPIRES. We read The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez for October’s prompt to read a book in one of the following genres: monster/vampire/gothic. Content warning: We briefly talk about violence and murder. The book also contains…
Read MoreThis book has everything, except for an idea of how novels are formulated. Our next read will be The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez.
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