Not A Bookclub

Happy New Year, everyone!! Goodbye 2020 and hello to 2021! Welcome to the first episode of the year! Come join Deb and Mindy as they discuss the last few books read in 2020. True crime, Joseon(Korea) mysteries, and magic children coming through!

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Books Discussed:

We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper

Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Silence of Bones by June Hur

Straight from the Hourse's Mouth by Meryum Alaoui

The House in the Cerulean Sea By TJ Klune

2020 is coming to an end and what a year it has been! Come join Deb and Mindy as they reflect on their reading year. From changing reading habits to expanding genres to mindless comfort reads. How did reading and books help process this year?

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Happy Holidays, everyone!

Deb and Mindy discuss their reading(or lack of reading) month! 

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Books Discussed:

Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera

Teach Me by Olivia Dade

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi

Missionaries by Phil Klay

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! We hope you were able to enjoy this holiday, dedicated overeating, while socially distanced!

Since the holidays for gift giving is coming up, we decided to highlight some of our favorite indie bookstores in NYC! Come hear us talk about cookbook stores, secondhand wonders, and an entire bookstore dedicated to children's books. 

CORRECTION: Strand Bookstore's tagline is 18 miles of books; not 5 miles of books.

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Bookstores Discussed:

Archestratus Books

The Center for Fiction

Albertine

Books of Wonder

Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe and Bar

BOOKOFF

Rizzoli Bookstore

Powerhouse Arena

Word Bookstore

Three Lives & Company

Strand Book Store

Books Are Magic

The Lit. Bar

Come join Deb and Mindy as they discuss the books that helped distract them in the last month!

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Books Discussed:

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore

Sex With Presidents by Eleanor Herman

You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria

In: A Graphic Novel by Will McPhail

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

No new episode this week. Stay safe, and happy reading!

Deb and Mindy are at it again! It's another CLAMP spotlight episode and it's a doozy. Come join them as they finish off discussing the publish works of one of the most popular manga acts in the world.

Main takeaways: it's beautiful, depressing, and constantly on hiatus.

Timestamps for series discussed:

Legal Drug: 3:54

Chobits: 10:38

Murikuri: 20:42

xxxHolic: 21:38

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles: 34:42

Kobato: 45:01

Gate 7: 47.18

Drug and Drop: 49:07

xxxHolic Rei/Tsubasa World Chronicles: Nirai Kanai-hen: 49:51

Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card: 52:31

Join Deb and Mindy as they discuss their reading month! (Mindy definitely had a mood this month.)

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Books Discussed:

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lourde

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Burning God(The Poppy War #3) by R.F. Kuang

The Fire This Farm edited by Jesmyn Ward

Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

Bestiary by K-Ming Chang

Moms by Yeong-shin Ma

Sisters by Daisy Johnson

Earthling by Sayaka Murata

CLAMP!! One of the biggest names in the manga and anime world. For Deb and Mindy, CLAMP was one of the most influential story-tellers of their old adolescent lives. Come join them as they nerd out, angrily discuss on being mutually broken, and cry out in awe at the beauty of the artwork. Also, missing eyeballs.

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Join Deb and Mindy as they discuss what they have read recently!

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Books Discussed:

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes