About this podcast
Every week, we'll discuss a different book. The setting is casual and the words are inappropriate, but we'll always tell it how it is.
Episodes
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- Episode 113: Pachinko · 1 h 25 min · Season 3 Episode 113This week, we read Min Jin Lee's Pachinko, a multigenerational story that (episode spoiler ahead!) one reviewer thinks we get way too intimate with. We ruminate over the mafia…
- Episode 112: The Women of Wild Hill · 1 h 14 min · Season 3 Episode 112This week, we read Kirsten Miller's The Women of Wild Hill, and this is a rare occasion where both the one- and five-star reviews make the book sound equally appealing. We're…
- Episode 111: The Dinner · 1 h 15 min · Season 3 Episode 111This week, we're digesting Herman Koch's The Dinner, and we're just wondering exactly how long a Dutch dinner is. Long enough for some field trips, flashbacks, and lots of…
- Episode 110: Washington Black · 1 h 20 min · Season 3 Episode 110This week, we read Esi Edugyan's Washington Black, and if you've ever thought that stories about enslaved boys in the 1800s really needed some more scenes of the Arctic circle…
- Episode 109: Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil · 1 h 17 min · Season 3 Episode 109Listen, some people can get a burger when they were expecting pizza and still really, really enjoy the burger. Some people will have pizza or nothing. So if you pick up this…
- Episode 108: Julie Chan Is Dead · 1 h 9 min · Season 3 Episode 108Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang has some surprises in it, but perhaps the biggest surprises are our coverage of math and spelling this week. We're also discussing the amenities…
- Episode 107: The Storied Life of AJ Fikry · 57 min · Season 3 Episode 107This week we revisited old friend of the pod Gabrielle Zevin, and read The Storied Life of AJ Fikry. This book has us learning New England geography, some music history, and a…
- Episode 106: The Leavers · 56 min · Season 3 Episode 106This week we're talking about Lisa Ko's The Leavers, work mistakes, being too silly, and the merits of layered tops. We'll meander through our thoughts about this book and the…
- Episode 105: Theo of Golden · 59 min · Season 3 Episode 103Come sit by the fountain, we need to bestow our thoughts onto you about Allan Levi's Theo of Golden. We're going to sketch out our feelings about it for you, and we ain't holding…
- Episode 104: Between The World and Me · 1 h 18 min · Season 3 Episode 103This week, we read Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me, and we are really digging around for some levity, so we really want to point out that greeting people across a…
- Episode 103: Project Hail Mary · 57 min · Season 3 Episode 102Get in the spaceship, loser, we're going to save Earth! This week we went along for a long, treacherous ride with Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary. We're making friends, doing…
- Episode 102: Klara and the Sun · 59 min · Season 3 Episode 102Kazuo Ishiguro brings us into the mind of an artificial friend with Klara and the Sun, and we have some lingering questions about this world we're looking into. What does it mean…
- Episode 101: The Lion Women of Tehran · 1 h 25 min · Season 3 Episode 100Marjan Kamali's The Lion Women of Tehran has us talking about how insane it is that far less than half the people can decide how a country can be run, to the detriment of pretty…
- Episode 100! · 1 h 6 min · Season 2 Episode 100This week we're celebrating our 100th episode! We have games, we have snacks, and we almost have an idea of the books we've read for these last 100 episodes! Join us as we try to…
- Episode 99: Gone Girl Part II · 55 min · Season 2 Episode 99We finished up Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl this week, and who knew we'd be talking about Doritos two weeks in a row? The biggest lesson we've learned in this second half is that…
- Episode 98: Gone Girl Part I · 50 min · Season 3 Episode 98Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl is half over, and while we aren't totally sure how we feel, we know one thing: Nick is gross. We have thoughts about his grossness, frito pie, Cheba…
- Episode 97: I Who Have Never Known Men · 1 h 30 min · Season 3 Episode 97Jacqueline Harpman's I Who Have Never Known Men has left us with, conservatively, approximately one million questions, and we couldn't be happier to get into the non-existent…
- Episode 96: Year End Extravaganza · 1 h 35 min · Season 2 Episode 96Today we're celebrating two years of reading books together! We're giving you a recap of the books we've read this 'semester' and deciding how they've aged in the last week. If…
- Episode 95: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo · 1 h 0 min · Season 2 Episode 95This week, Taylor Jenkins Reid brings us the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo...and with that many spouses, we obviously have to spend some time on some 'bedroom' talk. We're…
- Episode 94: Geisha, A Life · 1 h 7 min · Season 2 Episode 94New year, new illnesses, and a new take on last week's book topic! This week, we read Mineko Iwasaki's not-quite-clapback to last week's book with her Geisha, A Life. We're…
