Happy New Year! Start the year with Amanda and Joseph as they talk about their reading intentions for 2026. 

(2:09) Bookish News

(2:36) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (directed by Emerald Fennell)

(2:46) Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (directed by Chloe Zhao)

(2:59) Die My Love by Ariana Harwicz (directed by Lynne Ramsey)

(3:34) Train Dreams by Dennis Johnson (directed by Clint Bentley)

(3:51) A Pair of Bookends podcast 

(7:15) What We’ve Been Reading 

(7:19) Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

(8:22) The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

(13:51) Reading Resolutions

(23:28) The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

(24:39) Independent People by Halldór Laxness

(25:05) Death’s End by Cixin Liu

(26:29) Farewell Fountain Street by Selçuk Altun

(26:42) Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü

(26:54) Journey To The Edge of Life by Tezer Özlü

(27:00) Snow by Orhan Pamuk 

(28:17) My Clavicle and Other Major Misalignments by Marta Sanz

(31:12) Steering the Craft by Ursula K Le Guinn

(31:21) On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

(31:45) Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk

(33:51) Katabasis by RF Kuang

(34:06) The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

(34:14) The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong

(35:14) On The Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle

(37:05) Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

(45:17) Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola

(46:26) The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji

(50:31) What We’re Reading Next

(50:44) Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy

(52:27) Money by Emile Zola

(53:20) Angel Down by Daniel Kraus 

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