Reading for Attention

We’re back from our one week hiatus and Sarah is now fully recovered from her hangover. This week we’re reading Raven Smith’s Men and having two pints of lager and a packet of crisps like the blokes we are. Stunning. 

There's also a highly exclusive, incredibly elusive tale from Sarah's weekend involving an Academy and Grammy award-winning actress, but if you want to find out more, you'll have to email in hehe.

We also have an exciting announcement about next week’s ep. CHOON IN to find out what it is. 

Mwah mwah xxx

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Bonjour hunnés. This week we’re reading Piranesi by Susannah Clarke. Piranesi, the poor lad, is stuck in an endless labyrinth of rooms and statues with no knowledge of the outside world. To be fair, he seems pretty content about it, until he starts uncovering the truth. To drink, we’ve got a mystical creation, and Paul is smug about his.

We counterbalance the (vaguely) academic chat with our absolute bread and butter – The Kardashians and Molly Mae. If you haven’t heard, Molly Mae is with child, which is the most entertaining and confusing news of the year.

We hope you enjoy (and we know you will because we’re class) xxx

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This week, speshes, we're chattin' Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley. Leila is the youngest EVER nominee for the Booker Prize aka a massive show off. Nightcrawling is challenging, heart wrenching and bloody brilliant.

Afterwards, to lighten the mood, Sarah and Paul recommend some good horror films then go on to discuss the funniest film moments of all time - objectively.

See ya next week chickies xxx

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This week, we're discussing Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados. And it's happy hour, so we're drinking an espresso martini with a prosecco chaser. Isa and Gala flit around New York without a care in the world, except the next time they're going to get their hands on a French martini. This book is light-hearted, hilarious and gives Paul extreme anxiety.

Next, it's into the good stuff - Selling the OC and a full rundown of the Harry Styles/Olivia Wilde/Florence Pugh dramz. You don't want to miss this one hunnies. Kisses xxx

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It’s series 3 baby! We. Are. Back. And we’re funnier, cleverer and FITTER than ever before. Join us for another rip-roaring hour of prestige podcast chat. To kick off the series, we’re reading Gay Bar by Jeremy Atherton Lin, which interrogates the institution of (you guessed it) the gay bar. This book is sexy, it’s naughty, it’s educational, and for Paul and Sarah it’s oh so nostalgic. We wash the filthy anecdotes down with a stunning voddy coke.

Paul then delivers a heartfelt speech to Serena Williams who is ‘evolving away’ from professional tennis after the US Open. Sob. We also catch up about our summer jollyhollydays – Paul went island hopping around the Canaries and Sarah visited lots of important museums in Beefa.

We’re so glad to be pouring back into your external auditory meatuses (I googled a fancy word for ear canal). Love yaz xxx

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Attention Seekers, we have come to the end of series 2. I hope you've all booked in weekly therapy sessions over the summer to cope with the planet-sized chasm we are going to leave in your lives. In this eppy, we talk tit licking, holiday reading, and our top 3 books of the series. Why not test your Paul/Sarah fandom by guessing along?! We are going to miss you hunnies but fear not - we'll be back in late August and in the meantime, you can always dm us on Instagram @readingforattention or email us at [email protected]. Love you forever. Thanks for listening xxxx

PS. Sorry this is late, but I am so so hungover so I'm mostly sorry for myself ok xxx

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Hi Girlies,

Well, the season finale is upon us!* And what better way to end a fabulous sophomore spree than recounting the delicious nuggets of filtered but otherwise completely unedited wisdom bestowed upon us by the Queen of Instagram - Molly-Mae Hague. That's right followers friends, we've read (and LOVED) the Love Island break-out star's memoir. Jam-packed with 23 whole years of... stuff... this truly is a gorgeous and hilarious read. Read it too if you want to learn about Instagram, Ellie Bellie, pooing while your boyfriend's in the bath, Instagram, hard work, and the wonder that is Instagram.

Then we talk about alcohol. Obvs.

Instasnoggies xxx

*Not technically, as we'll be doing and end of SZN roundup in next week's ep, but it just felt more dramatic this way, y'know?

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Hiya gorgeous baby cakeys!

This week we've had a good old read of the mega CATCHY Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Polish literary sensash Olga Tokarczuk. Don't let the title put you off because despite all the murders and the bleak pontifications on animals not being as important as humanz, and the stuff about stars, this is actually a really funny and rather cosy read. Think The Thursday Murder Club but set in Poland and better.

We chat about some other stuff, but frankly darlings, that was a while ago now (11AM on Thursday) and I can't remember a single word of it. But you know what that means don't you? It was utter shite and thus utter MAGIC.

Tune in next week for Pulitzer/Man Booker/Nobel Literature AND Peace Prize-winning Molly-Mae Hague's debut, Becoming Molly-Mae. What a fabulous name for a memoir?! I bet she was the First Lady ever to think of that!)

Love you loads, sleep well, think of us often, and whatever you do, DON'T MENTION SERENA'S WIMBLEDON KNOCK OUT. Soggy-crotch smooches xxx

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So apparently everyone is talking about No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood. Except us. Well, now we bloody well are. This is the story of a woman who lives her life inside the portal. In other words, she’s in a perpetual world of YouTube holes, Tiktok swiping and Instagram doomscrolling. I can’t relate, myself. We wash this one down with a DELICIOUS, fan-recommended gin basil smash - *chef’s kiss*.

Other things we go on about: Hay fever (for probably too long so sorry about that), Serena Williams, the origin of the word ‘meme’ and just loads more fabulous stuff, y’know?

Big smackaroos xxx

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