The Bookstore

Get with it, it's the 90's. This week Becca and Corinne discuss Han Kang's first novel to be published in English, The Vegetarian. They find out that even though it is a mere 150 pages long it is difficult. Some slight content warnings regarding sexual assault and mental illness.

Next time they're reading Hollywood Wives by everyone's favorite sexy aunt, Jackie Collins. Pick it up at your local bookstore or library and read along!

Here's the interview with Book Page that Corinne mentions.

Get with it, it's the 90's. This week Becca and Corinne discuss Han Kang's first novel to be published in English, The Vegetarian. They find out that even though it is a mere 150 pages long it is difficult. Some slight content warnings regarding sexual assault and mental illness.

Next time they're reading Hollywood Wives by everyone's favorite sexy aunt, Jackie Collins. Pick it up at your local bookstore or library and read along!

Here's the interview with Book Page that Corinne mentions.

This week we introduce a new corrections segment and talk about our year in books with some recommended reading you haven't heard us discuss on the podcast.

This week we introduce a new corrections segment and talk about our year in books with some recommended reading you haven't heard us discuss on the podcast.

Books mentioned:

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Infomacracy by Malka Older

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

You Don't Have To Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie

Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd and The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

Our next discussion will be about both Fever Dream (above) and The Vegetarian by Han Kang.

Sorry we're late, and sorry for the inaccuracies, we'll be addressing some of our mis-speaks in next week's episode.

We're back! And this week we are discussing N.K. Jemisin's 2013 fantasy novel The Fifth Season. There are spoilers. It's sometimes confusing, often times great, and we come to a conclusive decision about the Second Person Plural tense.

Our next book discussion will be Han Kang's The Vegetarian and maybe also Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream.

Sorry we're late, and sorry for the inaccuracies, we'll be addressing some of our mis-speaks in next week's episode.

Now that that's out of the way: We're back! And this week we are discussing N.K. Jemisin's 2013 fantasy novel The Fifth Season. There are spoilers. It's sometimes confusing, often times great, and we come to a conclusive decision about the Second Person Present tense.

Our next book discussion will be Han Kang's The Vegetarian and maybe also Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream, we'll see what we can accomplish. You can pick them both up at your local bookstore or library and read along with us.

So we're not actually talking about memoirs, that was just a funny line that I said when we were recording this. But we are talking Literary Scandals! All of the dirty, wordy, fraud you can handle this week on My Favorite Literary Scandal.

We're off next week, but we'll be returning on December 5 with a discussion of NK Jemisin's The Fifth Season. Find it at your library or local independent bookseller and read along with us.

So we're not actually talking about memoirs, that was just a funny line that I said when we were recording this. But we are talking Literary Scandals! All of the dirty, wordy, fraud you can handle this week on My Favorite Literary Scandal.

We're off next week, but we'll be returning on December 5 with a discussion of NK Jemisin's The Fifth Season. Find it at your library or local independent bookseller and read along with us.

This week we have a very special guest: the guy who helps us produce this and also the guy who is married to Corinne, Josh Bourdon. We're discussing Turtles All the Way Down by John Green. And also John Green in general. And also mental illness, and being in high school, and other things tangential to the subject. But mostly Turtles All the Way Down. A reminder that this is a book club-like discussion and spoilers abound, if you're not looking for that, meet back up with us after you've read the book.

Our next book discussion is NK Jemisin's The Fifth Season. Find it at a library or your local independent bookstore and read along with us.

This week we have a very special guest: the guy who helps us produce this and also the guy who is married to Corinne, Josh Bourdon. We're discussing Turtles All the Way Down by John Green. And also John Green in general. And also mental illness, and being in high school, and other things tangential to the subject. But mostly Turtles All the Way Down. A reminder that this is a book club-like discussion and spoilers abound, if you're not looking for that, meet  back up with us after you've read the book.