This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss A Change of Heart, Darling Days, Big Magic, and more books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Ingredient: Unveiling the Essential Elements of Food by Ali Bouzari

A Change of Heart by Sonali Dev

Darling Days by iO Tillett Wright

The Tale of Shikanoko series by Lian Hearn

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

I Hate Fairyland by Skottie Young, Jean-Francois Beaulieu, Nate Piekos

Loose Lips: Fanfiction Parodies of Great (and Terrible) Literature from the Smutty Stage of Shipwreck by Amy Stephenson and Casey A. Childers

Ill Will by Dan Chaon

Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Shadowbahn by Steve Erickson

Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World by Shannon Hale

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti

What we’re reading:

Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins

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