Chatting Books

Chatting Books

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Chatting Books episodes

  • Breaking our book buying ban for charity

    Charity shop haul!!! In this episode Amy mispronounces a lot of words and we talk about these books:


    After Sappho by Selby Wyn Schwartz

    The Secret History by Donna Tartt (again lol)

    Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

    Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

    Ariel by Sylvia Plath

    A Theatre for Dreamers by Polly Samson

    Out of the Wreckage by George Monbiot


    Thanks so much for listening! We'd love if you would subscribe, like, share and recommend our podcast and socials! We're @chattingbooks on insta and @chatting_books on twitter :-)


    Yours sincerely,

    Amy & Mia xxx

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    36 min
  • Summer is OVER. Autumn is HERE.

    This time we talk about how it's been a year since we started our master's degrees in publishing and where we currently are at with jobs in the industry. Also, Amy celebrates the summer being over and Mia mourns it by talking about autumn books.


    Books mentioned (at length) in this episode:

    • China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
    • It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
    • My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
    • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
    • My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
    • Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin


    Thanks so much for listening!! Please rate/follow subscribe and give us a follow on insta @chattingbooks and on twitter @chatting_books


    Very best,

    Amy and Mia x


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    48 min
  • BONUS: summer reading roundup ! feat. laptop fan

    Here's everything we read from the end of July to August-- it is a BUMPER episode. We really chat books in it.


    Books mentioned this episode:

    • If you think I'm going to type them all up you're bananas
    • If you still really care find us on goodreads


    Apologies for the laptop fan and crackles in the background! The third member of our podcast <3


    Follow us on socials @chattingbooks and chat soon!


    Amy & Mia x

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    1 hr 56 min
  • Reading in cafés for attention

    In this episode we talk about where we like to read and essentially it all comes down to being perceived as a mysterious woman who reads in public.


    Some of the books mentioned this time:

    • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
    • The Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
    • Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
    • Smut by Alan Bennett
    • Bill Nighy was reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath on the tube. Meow x
    • A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
    • The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
    • The Girls by Emma Cline
    • Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
    • The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
    • Exposure by Olivia Sudjic


    Love,

    Amy and Mia x

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    52 min
  • Two tickets to the desert island please x

    In this ep, we talk about our desert island books as a nice little intro into our reading taste. But Mia's a liar, so don't believe a word she says. Her third book is actually My Salinger Year.


    In this ep we talk about a load of books. They include:

    • Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal
    • Smut by Alan Bennett
    • Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
    • When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
    • Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera
    • The Idiot by Elif Batuman
    • The Secret History by Donna Tartt
    • Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
    • The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
    • Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason


    Give us a follow on our socials @chattingbooks & tell us your faves!


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    38 min
  • Prologue

    This is Chatting Books, a podcast where-- you guessed it-- we chat about books. We'll be covering a whole bunch of stuff including our fave titles and authors, talking shit about bad book covers and about getting into publishing. There's no required reading, a lot of digressing and we would love book and topic recs!


    Please forgive the third member of our podcast, Amy's laptop, for breathing so hard in this prologue. It won't be a regular thing, promise x


    Lots of love,


    Amy & Mia x

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    3 min

About Chatting Books

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A lovely little podcast chatting about all things books (reading not required).


Amy and Mia x

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