Episode 6: What we talk about when we talk about summer reading

(Title reference to short story writer Raymond Carver and his story collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love and Haruki Murakami’s play on that in his memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running).

 

Books mentioned:

Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane Holly, Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers and The Outsider by Stephen King The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher Dark Matter by Blake Crouch The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jouad The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro (Steven Price) (Also mentioned Esi Edugyan) The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King The Darkest White: The mountain legend and the avalanche that took him by Eric Blehm James and Erasure by Percival Everrett The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriofa A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer The Caretaker by Ron Rash  I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue  Beautyland by Marie-Helen Bertini The Body in Question by Jill Cement  If You Only Knew by Kristin Higgins The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown A Thousand Doors of January and Starling House by Alix E. Harrow Spellbound by Allie Therin The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin Slippery Creatures by K.J. Charles Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti Funny Story by Emily Henry Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow