Welcome to the another episode of Readers’ Co, where we nurture your reading culture. 

In this episode, I’m joined by communication expert, writer, creative director, workshop curator and reader Reslane Lounici for a conversation challenging the way we see and treat books.

We explore the idea of “sanctifying” literature, why we put books on pedestals, and how that can hold us back from engaging with them. We talk about writing, annotating, and interacting with books as living objects, and the way books are marketed and consumed today.

A big thank you to  Dojo Alger for hosting my podcast and supporting my mission to nurture a better reading culture. Check their instagram dojo_alger

Here’s a list of the books we discussed in the episode:

• Daughter of the Moon Goddess – Sue Lynn Tan

• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

• Le Maître et Marguerite – Mikhaïl Boulgakov

• Nouvelles – Anton Tchekhov

• Nous – Evgueni Zamiatine

• Amine – Samir Toumi

• Aménorrhée – Salah Haidar

• Sorcières – Mona Chollet

• Tristan Garcia (multiple works)

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari

• Bai’ Al-Hawa (بيع الهوى) – Jameel Nahra (جميل نهرا)

• Noktat Ennour (نقطة النور) – Bahaa Taher (بهاء طاهر)

• Salah Badis (multiple works)

• Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

• Le sermon sur la chute de Rome – Jérôme Ferrari

• Mémoires d’Hadrien – Marguerite Yourcenar

• Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

• The Museum of Innocence – Orhan Pamuk

• Alda Merini (multiple works)

• The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron

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