In this week's episode, Vanessa and Alyssa introduce who they are as humans, readers, and writers.

Music by Ben Sulzinsky.

Books Mentioned:

Circe by Madeline Miller (Little, Brown and Company)

Epic of Gilgamesh, translated by David Ferry (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)

Contemporary Life and Witchcraft: Magic, Divination, and Religious Ritual in Europe by Alexandra Tartan (Ibidem Press)

Get in Trouble by Kelly Link (Random House Trade Paperbacks)

Bluets by Maggie Nelson (Wave Books)

The Tempest by William Shakespeare, edited by A.R. Braunmuller (Penguin Books)

Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood (Hogarth Press)

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Random House Audio)

Sin Eater by Megan Campisi (Simon Schuster Audio)

The Iliad by Homer

The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson (W. W. Norton)

The Diviners by Libba Bray (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Mexican Gothic by Silva Moreno-Garcia (Penguin Random House)

Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang (Alfred A. Knopf)

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen (Boa Editions Ltd)

Space Struck by Paige Lewis (Sarabande Books)

If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar (Penguin Random House)

How to Train Your Cactus: A Guide to Raising Well-Behaved Succulents by Tonwen Jones (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

Other Notes:

DNF: Did not finish

Lore 

January LaVoy

Libba Bray

Agatha Christie

Dan Brown

Sarah Kay

Phil Kaye

paperbackdreams

Ellias

VS

Kaveh Akbar

Franny Choi

Danez Smith