The official start of summer is just around the corner, but with kids finishing school and Memorial Day in the past, it feels like summer is already here. Warmer weather, longer evenings, outdoor eating . . . it can be such a lovely time of year.

In this episode, Paul and Trevor devote a good chunk to discussing summer reading in general and plans for our own hot months of 2022.

And part of those plans include a Mookse and Gripes Podcast bookclub! Help us choose which of these four books to read: Speedboat, by Renata Adler; Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges; The Children of Dynmouth, by William Trevor; or A Lost Lady, by Willa Cather.

We also come together in this episode and talk about our second batch of assigned reading, which includes Mauro Javier Cárdenas's Aphasia and Jean Giono's Ennemonde, translated by Bill Johnston.

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