By Kathryn & Eve Matheson
Kathryn and Eve are sisters who love to read books that make them think. Books they can’t shut up about. And if starting this podcast doesn’t prove that they can’t shut up about the books they read
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This Month’s Book: The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
Cops Doughnuts!!!!
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Why We Love by Helen Fisher
Eve’s Substack: Something Eve Read
& Short Books specifically
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
Goose Girl???? Maybe…
Inkheart
Percy Jackson
Confessions of a Shopaholic
The Princess Diaries
Twilight (duh)
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Next Month’s Book: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Closing poem: “Peanut Butter” by Eileen Myles
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This Month’s Book: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Eve’s Substack: Something Eve Read
The Luxe by Anna Godberson
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The Sewanee Review
Romola by George Eliot
Our email: [email protected]
Our instagram: somethingwereadpod
Next Month’s Book: The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
Closing poem: "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley
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This month's book: I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
Some quick notes/corrections:
Links you might want:
The Locavore Variety Store (& The Locavore Guide)
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
All The Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
Romola by George Eliot
Poetry Foundation, Poem of the Day
Corner Bookstore!!
When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
Katherine by Anya Seton
Mary Karr
Ann Pachett
A Heart that Works by Rob Delaney
Our email: [email protected]
Our instagram: somethingwereadpod
Next month's book: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
And if you're interested, the Booker longlist!
Closing Poem: "Go to the Limits of Your Longing" by Rainer Maria Rilke
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This month’s book: Speedboat by Renata Adler
Mixed links from the ep:
Kathryn’s joy journal (that's really just a normal journal) from Leuchtturm1917
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
The 5am Club by Robin Sharma
Questions About Angels by Billy Collins
Eve’s essay on clouds & Billy Collins
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Possession by A.S. Byatt & Eve’s review of Possession
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer & Eve’s Review
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Lofty Pigeon Books
Next month’s book: I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
Our Instagram
Our email
Closing poem: “We Manage Most When We Manage Small” by Linda Gregg
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This month’s book: Table for Two by Amor Towles
Turkey and The Wolf (on Instagram)
DJ Soul Sister (& her playlists on Spotify)
SAVED by the 90’s (not back to the 90’s), playing at Talkhouse on June 7th, July 13th, August 23rd
Faulkner House Books (not William Faulkner House Bookstore, which, upon reflection, would indeed be a mouthful)
Close to Home by Michael McGee
Our Instagram, which we DID remember to mention this week!
Eve’s review of Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Sewanee Review
Middlemarch by George Eliot
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Next month’s book: Speedboat by Renata Adler
"June" by Alex Dimitrov from the collection Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov
Submit all questions, queries and raving praise at [email protected]
And yes, in case you were wondering, Kathryn completed all her tasks and experienced euphoric joy xoxo
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This month Kathryn and Eve read & discuss By the Lake by John McGahern. It’s a humble, pastoral meditation on the rhythms that dictate the lives of Joe and Kate Ruttledge--plus a charming cast of characters that live, like them, around the lake.
Links…
Our email is [email protected] please write to us!
Our Instagram, which we forgot to mention again.
Something Eve Read for Eve’s weekly writings.
Other books & recommendations…
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The specific Something Eve Read post Kathryn mentions: Clams, Fish, Domestic Bliss
Cooking As Though You Might Cook Again by Danny Licht
The Strand (buy online!)
Three Lives & Co. (buy in person!)
Closing Poem: “O sweet spontaneous” by E. E. Cummings
Next Month’s Book…
Table for Two by Amor Towles
And! Special thanks to our sponsors, tulips and dumplings. Don’t forget to get your reservation at Hancock Street for Cha Cha Tang to experience first-hand, dumplings’ most recent work. You can catch Kathryn there…probably every Sunday & Monday night while it lasts.
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On the inaugural episode of Something We Read, Kathryn and Eve discuss Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair by Christian Wiman--a book that the sisters describe as an uplifting gut punch. They share their reading experience and dive into their favorite parts and passages.
Links...
Something Eve Read (self plug!)
Our Instagram, which we didn't mention at all but it does exist
Other Book recommendations...
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan (she's Irish! Also Eve realized after the fact that she has read Megan Nolan's debut novel, Acts of Desperation--which is an absolute BANGER)
Poetry...
Billy Collins, "The Breather"
Sharon Olds, Stag's Leap
Robert Frost, any collection of poetry and/or anthology, but Eve's favorite is "The Silken Tent"
Poetry Today by Maya C. Popa (on Substack)
Closing poem: "What I Didn't Know Before" By Ada Limón
Next Month's Book...
By the Lake by John McGahern
And! Special thanks to our sponsor.........pork chops pounded really thin.......we love you <3
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Welcome to Something We Read! Kathryn and Eve have been reading together their whole lives, and now they want to read with you. Once a month, we'll get together to talk about the books we can't shut up about. First episode coming soon--available wherever you get your podcasts on April 2nd <3<3
April's Book: Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair by Christian Wiman
Closing Poem: "There is no Frigate like a Book" by Emily Dickinson
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