This week we discuss the idea of being a completist in our reading. We discuss the authors whose works we’ve finished completely, as well as those we’re working on (or hoping to…). Do you savor your favorite authors’ works slowly or gobble them all down? Have you read the entire catalog of any authors?

We also have a special giveaway, so please join us!

Giveaway!

This week we have four books to give away! And we want to choose four winners! Do any of these books call to you? Please enter to win one of them!

* Rock Crystal, by Adalbert Stifter, translated by Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore

* Divorcing, by Susan Taubes

* Notes of a Crocodile, by Qiu Miaojin, translated by Bonnie Huie

* The End, by Attila Bartis, translated by Judith Sollosy

To enter, send us an entry by email or DM or however you wish, but please include two things!

First, list the books you are interested in winning in preferential order because we don’t want someone to win a book they already have.

Second, tell us if you’re a completionist or aspiring completionist with any authors.

We will be drawing when we record the morning of March 30, so have entries to us by then!

Shownotes

Books mentioned prior to the Completion Discussion

* Rock Crystal, by About the Podcast

* Divorcing, by Susan Taubes

* Notes of a Crocodile, by Qiu Miaojin, translated by Bonnie Huie

* Last Words from Montmartre, by Qiu Miaojin, translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich

* The End, by Attila Bartis, translated by Judith Sollosy

* 40, by Alan Hancock

* The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by

* Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia, by Rebecca West

* Adam Bede, by George Eliot

* Phineas Finn, by Anthony Trollope

* Lesser Ruins, by Mark Haber

* Reinhardt’s Garden, by Mark Haber

* Saint Sebastian’s Abyss, by Mark Haber

* 2666, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer

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