Caitlin and Marie read and discuss the first half of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, AND discuss their shared love for the podcast Alone: A Love Story. We first talk about ELAIC, which we read up to page 186 in the paperback, to right before the chapter, "Happiness, Happiness." We talk about Marie's first impressions, and Caitlin's experience rereading this favorite of her's. We discuss the different narrators, grandma and grandpa's relationships, Oskar's search for clues from his dad, what it would be like if our skin color really changed to show our emotions, and our favorite quotes and scenes.

At the end of the episode, we talk about the podcast Alone: A Love Story, by Michelle Paresi for CBC. This show gave us so much to think about and feel and we hope it will continue! And as always, we finish the show with talking about some of our most recent obsessions, linked below.

Episode music by Ollella: Go listen to her new album, Back Back Back!

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Mentioned on the show:

Music:

• Ollella's album Back Back Back (You can hear her songs Head In The Clouds in the intro and Test of Time in the outro!)
• Maude Latour's EP Twin Flame

Books:

• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
• The Dutch House audiobook

Podcasts:

• Andrea Gibson's interview on We Can Do Hard Things
• Dead Eyes
• Normal Gossip
• Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto
• Classy
• People Who Knew Me

Shows:

• The Silo