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.
We discuss and review Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and… well, we can’t like them all. Next time we will be reading False Bingo: Stories by Jac Jemc. You can find it at your local bookstore or library and read along with us.
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We attempt a timeline of the events that have been shaking up Romancelandia, and rhapsodize about the genius of Greta Gerwig and her version of Little Women. Sources: (and lots of time spent refreshing Twitter!) Next book discussion will be Silvia…
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Catch us drinking framboise and pousse-cafes and calling each other “toothsome dishes.” Just kidding, we did none of those while discussing Judith Krantz’s debut novel Scruples, but the novel does make those sound fun. There’s some silliness and some…
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Here we are with reflections on our year in reading and talking about books. Auld Lang Syne and all that, too. Next time we will be reading Scruples by Judith Krantz. You can find it at your local library or bookstore and read along with us.
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What’s this? Another new episode this week! Recently we had the chance to chat with graphic novel writer Mariko Tamaki (Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, This One Summer, Skim) about her latest novel for DC Ink, Harley Quinn: Breaking…
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Alternate title: WE ARE NOT HISTORIANS. Jenny Erpenbeck’s The End of Days blew us away with how masterful she ties everything together. It’s so good, we trip over our words and maybe have a slight existential crisis. We will not be releasing an…
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Correction: We stated that this novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, but that is wrong. One of Susan Choi’s previous novels was a finalist, not Trust Exercise. Sorry for destroying your trust in us. However, this novel DID win the…
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Check out for their Brilliant Books Monthly book subscription service! We are here to tell you what to buy! All the books mentioned will be on the website, which you can find here: Our next book discussion will be Trust Exercise by Susan…
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We rave about Olga Tokarczuk’s genre-defying novel, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, which also has the best book title possibly ever conceived. Our next read will be either Trust Exercise by Susan Choi or Autumn by Ali Smith (our…
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Becca’s in DC so we have an actual mini-length mini this week. It’s a quick news round-up and also there’s a NaNoWriMo quiz so you’ll know all of the NaNoWriMo facts! But not necessarily all of the other regular facts because Corinne said that Citrus…
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