There is a fair amount of whine in this podcast. Nicole can’t get into Circe, Gayle is tired of sociopath husbands. Are all of the books victim porn or female revenge fantasies? There a lot of bad man books. Gayle’s big book purge. We briefly revisit Gayle’s love of inappropriate relationships. Also, all the books have floral covers.

Books discussed in this podcast:
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Midwife of Hope River: A Novel of An American Midwife by Patricia Harman
Every Other Weekend by Zulema Renee Summerfield
The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent
The Wife Between Us by Sarah Pekkanen
A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage & Betrayal by Jen Waite
Vox by Christina Dalcher 
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
The House on Strand by Daphne du Maurier
Give Me Your Hand by Meghan Abbot
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
The Sense of An Ending by Julian Barnes
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure by Amy Kaufman

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