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.
A wise woman once said, “Sometimes books can tell you a lot about a person, and sometimes they can’t, but sometimes they really can.” And that wise person was Corinne. This week, Becca and Corinne are inspired by alt-right darling Jordan Peterson’s…
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Today we discuss the wildly popular and relevant I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara. Some topics include: the interesting dilemma of publishing an unfinished manuscript posthumously, being self aware of true crime obsession, and how to be a…
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Sorry for the delay! But I think I’ll get this baby out with about 32 minutes of Tuesday to spare! This week we hear some listen email, talk about how to rate our books, and what we do now that the literary world is coming to terms with #metoo. Our…
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We read the very funny and strange Aetherial Worlds by Tatyana Tolstaya this week. There was so much to love that it was kind of hard not to just quote it for an entire 40 minutes. Also, tune in for the weirdest endorsement of kombucha provided on a…
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Welcome to our new lifestyle podcast where we talk about owning books and where to keep your books and what color of book will be big this spring and how to prepare the best books for your dinner guests and which books make your butt look better and…
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Well, Instagram voted and we read Swing Time by Zadie Smith. It was our first foray into her writing and probably not the best place to start. A paradoxical novel that somehow has a ton going on and nothing at all, we try to pull back the curtain in…
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We watched the Lifetime Original movie version of Lois Duncan’s Stranger With My Face so that you don’t have to, but maybe you should because you know what? We kind of loved it. We talk about why we don’t trust people who wear shoes and pants at home,…
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This week we’re really putting ourselves out there (get it?) discussing Lois Duncan’s 1981 classic suspense thriller about astral projection twins, Stranger With My Face. The book was a childhood favorite of both Corinne and Becca, so there’s all…
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This week Claire Handscome joins The Bookstore to talk about her work on Brit Lit Podcast, Brit Lit Blog, and her upcoming novel Unscripted. She also recommends several incredible new books from the UK that we cannot wait to check out. You can…
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This week we discuss and review a difficult, but beautiful memoir. After the Eclipse by Sarah Perry is the story of a young girl and her mother before and after her mother’s murder. This episode may be difficult for some listeners, please take note…
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