We're doing something a bit different this month! Do you ever have trouble getting into reading? Have you found yourself in a book slump? When you're stressed, distracted, overwhelmed with life, does it affect your reading habits? It happens to even the most bookish book worms too!

Join Paula and Andrea as they chat about when life gets in the way of reading, how it makes you feel and what to do about it, if anything!

Books they mention:

Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz

Ice by Anna Kavan

Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

Trust by Hernan Diaz

Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet

Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Babel by R.F. Kuang

The Poppy Wars Series by R.F. Kuang

Everything Feels Like the End of the World by Else Fitzgerald

Marlo by Jay Carmichael

TV shows they mention:

Succession

Links:

The Guardian Long Read https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-long-read

Mental Illness and Reading

https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-illness-and-reading

Book Prize Longlist

https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/2022

Our book for next month (still!) is Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz. Happy reading!