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’re fangirling hard this week, so you know it’s serious because we don’t do that unless Becca is talking about Bones. Patti Smith is great and a beautiful writer and I wish I could dress like her and she has done a lot of cool things. So listen to…
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Ripped right from the headlines, we’ve read and are discussing The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani. If you’re looking to read the book and some how have not had the very first line, or premise “spoiled,” you might want to read the book first. Will…
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Because of a bit of a vacation we didn’t have a lot of time to prepare a typical topic episode for this mini. So we’re going to brag about the fact that we’ve actually been reading some extracurricular stuff! And we’ve really really liked some of it!…
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We’ve got a spoiler free discussion and review of Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage for our newest episode. It’s a beautiful novel that changes every time we think about it. We picked this before Oprah announced it, so we’ll be owning knowing that…
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Corinne and Becca discuss two short stories by the late Ursula K. Le Guin and fall in love. The stories read for this episode: She Unnamed Them and The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Our next discussion will be about An American Marriage by Tayari…
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Becca and Corinne make good on their promise from Episode 8.5 to read a romance novel. This week they discuss how the literature world at large has often maligned romance and they talk about the book they chose, A Week To Be Wicked by Tessa Dare….
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This week we’re celebrating gal pals in real life and in book life with the help of Kayleen Schaefer’s Text Me When You Get Home. You’ll find a review, some great suggestions for books about friends, and some friends from books. Books mentioned: The…
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This week Becca and Corinne talk about graphic memoirs and specifically about Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do. Corinne also remembers the name for the pages of the book that are immediately after the cover. It felt like a big deal at the time. More…
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Get prepared to hear us use our English degrees when we say “textual support” 1,000 times, friends. This week we discuss Louise Erdrich’s misguided foray into the world of speculative fertility fiction with Future Home of the Living God. We gave it a…
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