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We Discuss Greek Lessons by Han Kang Sep 18, 2023

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In this week’s episode, we discuss our May/June read Greek Lessons by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won.

Highlights:

🎙 You don’t have to be in love with a book in order to deeply appreciate it.
🎙 Did the decision to have unnamed narrators make the story stronger?
🎙 We chat a bit about the books we’d like to read this Fall.

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Add these books to your Fall tbr! Sep 11, 2023

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In this week’s episode, we share some books we think would be great to read this Fall season.

Highlights:

🎙 We chat a bit about Empire of Pain and its TV adaptation Pain Killers.
🎙 Naomi is back in her sci-fi bag!
🎙 Alyssa revisits an old favorite trilogy.

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We chat with CJ Leede, author of Maeve Fly! Aug 28, 2023

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We were so psyched to have a chat with CJ Leede, author of the debut novel Maeve Fly. If you haven’t read it, we highly recommend you get your hands on it and enjoy the wild ride that is Maeve Fly!

Highlights:

🎙 CJ has received some very weird creepy gifts.
🎙 Let’s talk about being obsessed with eyeballs.
🎙 CJ shares a surprise with us!

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Welcome Back and Hello Season 3! Aug 21, 2023

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Welcome back to Season 3! We’re back from our summer break and we catch up and share what we’ve been up to.

Highlights:

🎙 Naomi shares her massive book project!

🎙 We dive deep into Bindery to see what it’s all about.

🎙 Alyssa tells us about her string of crazy weird luck.

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[REBROADCAST] An Interview w/Charles A. Bush, author of Every Variable of Us Jun 26, 2023

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This is a rebroadcast interview with Charles A. Bush, debut author of Every Variable of Us.

Highlights:

🎙We share how our bookshelves are organized or not so organized

🎙Charles shares his admiration for John Green and finding his own voice

🎙The writing processes Charles has borrowed from other authors

REMINDER: Our 2023 Summer Read is Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. JOIN OUR DISCORD!

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[REBROADCAST] We Discuss The Maleficent Seven by Cameron Johnston Jun 19, 2023

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This is a rebroadcast of a book discussion we had about The Maleficent Seven by Cameron Johnston.

Highlights:

🎙 It was kinda cool to see these older villains getting back to doing villainous things.
🎙 If you didn’t like Orcs before, you’ll love them after reading this book.
🎙 The number of solid plot twists in this book had us shooketh!

REMINDER: Our 2023 Summer Read is Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. JOIN OUR DISCORD!

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[REBROADCAST] We Discuss The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Jun 12, 2023

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This is a rebroadcast of a book discussion we had about The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall.

Highlights:

🎙 Our current issues surrounding the lgbtqia+ community are not new. They’ve always existed.
🎙 Having means was definitely a factor that allowed her to live life on her terms.
🎙 The religious tension that played throughout the book.

REMINDER: Our 2023 Summer Read is Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. JOIN OUR DISCORD!

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[REBROADCAST] We Discuss Giovanni’s Room, Our February Book Club Pick Jun 05, 2023

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This is a rebroadcast of a book discussion we had about Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin.

Highlights:

🎙What was the deal with the photograph of David’s mother?
🎙 There was a definite disdain for women throughout this book.
🎙 Past trauma runs deep in some of these characters.

REMINDER: Our 2023 Summer Read is Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. JOIN OUR DISCORD!

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[REBROADCAST] We Discuss Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell May 29, 2023

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This is a rebroadcast of the discussion about the book Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell.

Just by Looking at Him is one of those books you read in a day. It’s that good and that funny. You start it and before you know it, you’re at the end.

Highlights:

🎙 We chat about disability rep in books.

🎙 Threesomes. Good or bad?

🎙 We had a good laugh running over some of the funniest lines in the book.

REMINDER: Our 2023 Summer Read is Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. JOIN OUR DISCORD!

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Classics we want to read this year May 22, 2023

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We have so many classics on our shelves we've been talking about reading for so long, but have not even cracked one book open. So, on this episode, we put ourselves on notice and share some of the classics that are on our list!

Highlights:

🎙 Will George Eliot be a winner for Naomi?

🎙 Alyssa shares how she’s been getting through these “LitBro” books.

🎙 We chat about different translations for some classics.

🎙 We both want to read all the books by Anthony Trollope. Should we have a year of Trollope read-along?

REMINDER: Our 2023 Summer Read is Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Out from Pantheon on May 2. PRE-ORDER IT NOW!

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