This week Alice and Kim talk ridiculously long subtitles and books about the ocean, from the science of jellyfish to the true story of the mutiny on the HMS Bounty. 

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Washington Post: “Book subtitles are getting ridiculously long. What is going on?”

NEW BOOKS

For the Love of Books by Graham Tarrant

The Weather Machine by Andrew Blum

A Death in the Rainforest by Don Kulick

More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth

I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum

NATIONAL OCEANS MONTH

Spineless by Juli Berwald

The Bounty by Caroline Alexander

Fisherman’s Blues by Anna Badkhen

Poseidon’s Steed by Helen Scales

Hawaiki Rising by Dr. Sam Low

READING NOW

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell

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