Something We Read

Note: This episode was recorded at the end of December, hence all the chat about the new year & related resolutions. In the grand scheme of things, it still is the new year, so I don’t wanna hear it. This was also recorded before we revised our publishing schedule to make actual sense, so ignore all the confusing discussion about when the books are being read vs. discussed. Look to our instagram as your guide. XOXO 

January’s book: The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Eve’s 2025 planner is from New Chapter Studio 

Special shout out to Appointed

Other books: 

Anything by Helen DeWitt. She’s literally a goddess. The Last Samurai, The English Understand Wool, Some Trick 

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson 

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron 

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February’s book: White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky 

Closing poem: “At the New Year” by Kenneth Patchen

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This month’s book: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 

The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride

Our pod on The Lesser Bohemians in case you missed it 

Liars by Sarah Manguso 

Good Energy by Casey & Calley Means

Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh

The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell 

The Art of Running by Andrea Marcolongo

Lady Isabella’s Scandalous Marriage by Jennifer Ashley 

“Unspoken” by Pamela Roystan Macfie in The Sewanee Review

The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis 

Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos by Nash Jenkins

Eve’s review of Foster Dade

Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin 

Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner 

The Hurting Kind Ada Limon

Metamorphoses by Ovid 

Cooking as Though You Might Cook Again by Danny Licht 

Romola by George Eliot 

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Next month’s book: The Waves by Virginia Woolf 

This month’s poem: “Like You” by Roque Dalton

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This month’s book: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 

Ghost Pains by Jessi Jezewska Stevens

The collection of poetry that Eve referred to and didn’t end up writing about (yet) is Eating Bread and Honey by Pattiann Rogers 

Happy Poems

Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmide, Jonathan Rosenberg & Alan Eagle

Our email: [email protected] (send us questions!) 

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Next month’s book: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 

Closing poem: “October” by Robert Frost

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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:

• Finn is from Illinois
• The body farm is in Tennessee
• The mysterious boarder is PRO-secessionist

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

• &&& one more correction: Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man was, of course, James Joyce

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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 

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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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