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.


All Episodes

14.5 – BFFs (Book Friends 4-Ever!)

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…

14 – The Best We Could Do

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…

13.5 – The Canon Can Do Better

13 – Future Home of the Living God

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…

12.5 – Feuds – Please Don’t Ruin Marlon James For Us

Since scandals were so much fun, we thought we’d try our hand at talking literary feuds! It’s sort of like an episode of Ryan Murphy’s Feud, but in a podcast and about people who write books instead of a TV show about glamorous actresses. Next week we…

12 – Hollywood Wives

Happy New Year! We’re kicking 2018 off by chatting about Jackie Collins’ catty bonkbuster Hollywood Wives. Content Warning! This episode talks about sex. Like a lot, because we’re talking about a book by Jackie Collins. It’s not hot sex, it’s not even…

11.5 – We Love Flightless Birds (The New Zealand Episode)

Becca and Corinne talk about a being tourists in the country of New Zealand, about how some english words don’t mean what you think and others mean a lot of things, and about the book Corinne went there to buy (j/k that would be an irresponisble…

11 – The Vegetarian

10.5 – 2017 In Review: Words is Hard

This week we introduce a new corrections segment and talk about our year in books with some recommended reading you haven’t heard us discuss on the podcast. Books mentioned: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Infomacracy by…

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