Reading for Attention

In this week's episode of Reading for Attention, we journey north to Sri Lanka for A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam. Krishan receives a phone call to let him know his grandmother's carer has been found dead at the bottom of a well. Krishan travels from New Delhi to attend the funeral, contemplating life along the way. Sarah set us the impossible task of a crafting Sri Lankan cocktail this week and, shockingly, we both failed although Sarah failed more than Paul (as usual).

Afterwards, it's Love Isand, the Rebel Wilson drama and yet another STUNNING email - this time with both a book AND a drink recommendation.

Love yaz bbys xxx

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Morning Attention Seekers. This week's ep is Jennifer Egan's The Candy House. Sazza's been waiting 11 years for this Goon Squad follow up and BY GEORGE is she excited about it. Paul on the other hand... not so much.

We're washing this one down with a nostalgia-tastic Dip Dab-tini (with slight modifications because it was much harder to get our hands on a Dip Dab than we imagined). 

Also in this eppy: Sazza in Lisboa, Platty Joobs and a whoooole lotta fish.

Sherbet kisses xxx

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Sarah is in Lisbon which means we haven't had a chance to record this week. But fear not! We're treating you to an extra speshy bonus eppy where we talk about our fave childhood books and how they helped us become the absolute stunners we are today.

We're not going to reveal what they are because we want you to listen (duh). In this eppy, we say the word 'vivid' a lot. Every memory is vivid AF.

No excuse not to listen this ep hunnies. No excuse not to listen to every ep to be fair #onlylosersdontlisten

Portuguese snogs xo

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Destransition, Baby is this week’s book and it was recommended by one thousand (three) fans. Meet Reese, Ames and Katrina, a trans woman, a trans woman who has detransitioned, and a cis woman, respectively. Katrina finds herself pregnant by Ames even though Ames thought he was sterile due to hormone treatment. Reese is desperate to be a mother. Can they all be parents to the same baby? Fresh, sharp and witty, this is an absolute stunner of a novel. 

After that, we talk 1998 DreamWorks film, Antz, yellow crazy ants, and Sarah’s ant infestation. It’s a very ants-heavy episode tbqhwy. 

Enjoy us in your ears babygurls xxx

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This week's eppylicious is all about two things: The Audacity (Katherine Ryan's hilarious memoir) and Eurovision (the single most important event in the global calendar). We marvel over Katherine Ryan's effortless wit, charm and unapologeticness (Sarah says 'unapologetically' approx. 95 times) while drinking a beautiful glass of Porta (which Paul mispronounces as Porto).

Then it's onto Eurovision. Now, we don't want to be dramatic but Eurovision is better than sex, food, holidays and Jesus put together. It's more unifying than the Paris Peace Treaties and more fabulous than that time Naomi Cambell wore a couture gown to do community service. We love Eurovision.

Enjoy loads chicas xxx

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In this week’s epster, we discuss Margaret Atwood’s latest short story, My Evil Mother. Y’know why? Because it’s dead short. But y’know what? It was dead good. 

Afterwards, we talk about our dream meals. Not like we’ve stolen the format from another famous poddy or anything. LOL. 

Adore you all x

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This week's eppy brings you our Nobel prize-worthy thoughts on Douglas Stuart's second novel, Young Mungo. Set in the East end of Glasgae - Scottish for Glasgow for those who aren't in the know - this beautiful/heartbreaking/stunning/tearjerking novel is all about what it means to be stuck within the confines of a repressive existence. We implore you to read this book and if you don't it means you've not led a full life so there. And trust us, the only bevvie to slosh it down ya neck with is an inordinately strong voddy with Irn Bru.

After Mungo, it's briefly back to Selling Sunset (turns out Sarah was right about witnessing Chrishell and Jason's demise) before we both decide to call our mums/mams like the zany wacky podcasters you know and love.

Naked cuddles x

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In this week's ep of Reading For Attention, we are thouroughly bewildered by Richard Powers' latest offering - a Booker-shortlisted novel about fatherly love, science and a knock-off Greta Thunberg. There's a chance we're also bewildered from drinking bootleg Long Island Iced Tea containing five shots of random spirits we found in our cupboards.

After our intellectual discussion about climate change and neurofeedback, we move onto the far more important issue of Selling Sunset. Sarah hasn't started season 5 yet so Paul gives a crucial update on our favourite fit estate agents. 

Sarah also tells us about an embarrassing club incident involving a bright light and her bum.

We hope you enjoy this ep as much as Christine Quinn enjoys being an absolute twat x

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In this week's eppy, we're talking about Raven Leiliani's millenial debut, Luster. We follow Edie (who knew?), a black woman in her early twenties who gets involved in a love triangle with a fortysomething white man in an open-ish marriage. Bizarre. We wash the story down with a Love and Lust cocktail, and Paul substitutes the watermelon for pomegranate juice in solidarity with Sarah and her attention-seeking allergies. Sarah of course deviates from the recipe as usual, leaving Paul with a hole in his pocket (to the tune of FOUR POUNDS AND TWENTY PENCE). But it's ok because the sun is shining and Michael is making Wednesday night margz. 

We then talk about Paul accidentally flicking a spider onto a commuting business man, the cultural validity of practical jokes, and the perplexing species of 'the heterosexual man'. We hope you very much enjoy, and that you express that joy financially. (By giving us money, if that wasn't clear.)

Big French snoggies x

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In this week’s eppy, it’s Bernardine Evaristo’s Manifesto On Never Bloody Well Giving Up. After winning the Booker Prize in 2019 for her triumphant novel, Girl Woman Other, our Bernadine became an overnight success. But Manifesto stories the 40 plus years of slogging it took to make that happen. Get ready for her work ethic to make you feel like a lazy shite. We pair Manifesto with a gorgeous (and politically correct) skinny bitch cos ya can’t go wrong with a skinny bitch.

You’ll then get to hear us bang on about the Edinburgh weekend that FINALLY HAPPENED and you’ll love it because we talk about all our friends who you’ve never met and don’t care about. 

Hope you’re all having a mortal bank holiday weekend, babies.

Smoochez x

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