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Happy holiday weekend!! For this one-off special episode, we are talking allll about Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman. This book sure seems like the book of the summer and you KNOW we have thoughts. Spoilers abound! 

Next week, we start reading our next book club read - The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill. For the first week, we are reading chapters 1-9. The first episode comes out on July 17th!

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Other books and articles mentioned in this episode: 

Chris Evans: American Marvel (GQ Article)

The Club by Ellery Lloyd

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score

Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers 

This is the last episode about Writers & Lovers by Lily King! Next week, we will have a special, one-off episode about Funny You Should Ask, the buzziest romance book of the summer! 

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Other books mentioned in this episode:

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner 

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay 

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 

Annie and the Wolves by Andromeda Romano-Lax 

My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows 

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman

Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave 

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller 

Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine 

We cannot decide if Casey is the most sympathetic character or the least... you decide! Next week, we are finishing the book, can't wait to see how this all wraps up.

In this episode, we also announce our next book club read - The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill. We start reading on July 10th!

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Other books mentioned in this episode:

California Blood at Gettysburg by Mig Gallagher

The Club by Ellery Lloyd

What You’re Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman

One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score

My Body by Emily Ratajowski

Bunny by Mona Awad

Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur

HELLO FRIENDS AND LOVERS, we are back with part two of Writers & Lovers by Lily King. We are feeling marginally better in this episode! Next week, we are reading pages 170-250. See you then <3 <3 <3 

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Other books mentioned in this episode: 

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Mosfegh 

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

The Club by Ellery Lloyd 

Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann 

Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza 

So We Meet Again by Suzanne Park

Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

We're back baby! This is the first episode about Writers and Lovers by Lily King. Erica keeps wanting to call this book "Friends and Lovers" and... fair. In this section, we have lots of friends and lots of lovers and lots of in between possible lovers? Erica and Katie are both sick in this episode sadly, sorry about the sniffles! Next week, we are reading pages 86-169. 

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Other books mentioned in this episode:

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner 

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

In this special episode, we read Girl on the Train in one day and record as we go! Spoilers are OUT THERE. We have .... feelings ......

Next week, we start reading our next book club read: Writers and Lovers by Lily King 

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Other books mentioned in this episode: 

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

This book was a real whirlwind! In this episode, we wrap up the end of Honor by Thrity Umrigar! In the second half of the episode, Sri from @browngirlbookshelf joins us to talk more about the themes of this book. 

Our next bookclub read is Writers and Lovers by Lily King! Grab your copy, we start reading on 5/22

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Other books mentioned in this episode: 

The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara

Mirror Made of Rain by Naheed Phiroze Patel

A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam 

Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Anxious People by Fredrick Backman

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Vladimir by Julia May Jonas

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler

The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis

this episode is about the third section of Honor by Thrity Umrigar and our hearts were broken then mended then broken then mended again in this section! next week, we are finally (hopefully??) going to find out what happens in this court case because we are FINISHING the book!

We also announced our NEXT book club read: Writers and Lovers by Lily King! we hope you'll join us. 

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Other books mentioned in this episode:

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

Probably Ruby by Lisa Bird-Wilson

This love story has us feeling a lot of feelings. Next week, we are reading chapters 20-31 of Honor by Thrity Umrigar!

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Other books mentioned in this episode:

Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia 

A Woman is No Man by Etaf Frum 

Sooley by John Grisham

Live Laugh Kidnap by Gabby Noone

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart 

Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

We are BACK baby! This episode covers the first section of Honor by Thrity Umrigar. Next week, we are reading chapters 9-19!

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Other books mentioned in this episode: 

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 

Sooley by John Grisham

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

Pure Colour by Sheila Heti

Stay and Fight by Madeline Fitch

Educated by Tara Westover

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 

There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura

Milk Fed by Melissa Febos

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo 

House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 

Haruki Murakami (author)

Verity by Colleen Hoover

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan