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September 23, 2024 48 mins

one slump to rule them all, one slump to find them. one slump to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. if you, like us, have found yourself caught in the shackles of a mid-year reading slump then find comfort in this episode. we discuss our respective months-long slumps, the perfect formula to finding a book that will lift us out of the murky depths of literary ambivalence and try to define what exactly it is that makes a book a real stinker and the circumstances that lead to a slump in the first place. 

books mentioned:

big little lies - lianne moriarty
the bad beginning - lemony snicket 
the perks of being a wallflower - stephen chbosky
green dot - madeleine grey
love and virtue - diana reid
the rachel incident - caroline o'donoghue
olive kitteridge - elizabeth strout  
no hard feelings - genevieve novak
the paper palace - miranda cowly-heller
twilight - stephenie meyer
the goldfinch - donna tartt
the list - yomi adagoke
the imaginary friend - steven chbosky
the burning chambers - kate mosse
the white album - joan didion
the luminaries - elena catton
a court of silver flames - sarah j. maas
all the light we cannot see - anthony doerr
midnight sun - stephenie meyer    

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