Ep 693 – Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
Welcome to the infinite halls of Piranesi’s House. Don’t mind the flooded basement, or the cloudy attic, or the fact that staying here more than a day starts to...
Overdue is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. Join Andrew and Craig each week as they tackle a new title from their backlog. Classic literature, obscure plays, goofy children’s books: they'll read it all, one overdue book at a time.
Welcome to the infinite halls of Piranesi’s House. Don’t mind the flooded basement, or the cloudy attic, or the fact that staying here more than a day starts to...
It’s not every day you run across this skillful an abridgment of S. Morgenstern’s classic tale of love and adventure, one that was also turned into a beloved feature...
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This book’s heavier social commentary is… leavened? Heightened? By being juxtaposed with some borderline-goofy corpse-hiding heist stuff. We think it works! Not all reviewers of the book agree. This...
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Sometimes you read a book that you heard about in high school, something that was taught as a sort of historical document that helped to explain why things are...
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A prime example of the “healing fiction” genre, Before The Coffee Gets Cold has uncharacteristically low stakes for a time travel novel: no future of humanity to save, no...