The Bookstore

Hosted ByBecca & Corinne

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.


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188 – The Story of a Goat

Romantic 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…

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187 – Pastoralia

Last 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…

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186 – After You’d Gone

New 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…

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2024 Year in Review and The Bookstore Challenge 2025

We 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…

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HIATUS

Unfortunately, we are not releasing an episode today because we’re going on hiatus. We are fine in terms of physical health and have not experienced personal family tragedy, we just need to take a break right now. I am sorry to be springing this on…

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185 – The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

We 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…

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184 – The Gilda Stories

LESBIAN. 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…

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183 – Swan by Naomi Campbell

This 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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182 – The Morning Show Murders

For September’s prompt to read a book by a celebrity, Corinne has chosen The Morning Show Murders by Al Roker and Dick Lochte. Al Roker is a tv personality and the resident weatherman of NBC’s Today show.  Content warnings: swearing,…

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