On this episode of The Writer and the Critic your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, are tired and cranky but still manage to preamble only briefly in the murk of COVID-19 and bad segues before getting to the point of it all. They think.
The books up for discussion this month are two novels: Devotion by Hannah Kent [5:20] and The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan [35:20].
The review of The School for Good Mothers that Kirstyn mentioned was this one by Ilana Masad in The Washington Post.
If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 109:30 for brief final remarks.
Next month, the two books on the slab will be:
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Read ahead and join in the spoilerific fun!
Episode 47: 'Satin Island' and 'Lament for the Afterlife'
Episode 46: 'Day Boy' and 'Viper Wine'
Episode 45: 'The Godless' and 'The Book of the Unnamed Midwife'
Episode 44: 'The King of Attolia' and 'Growing Rich'
Episode 43: 'The Well' and 'Clade'
Episode 42: 'The Bitterwood Bible' and 'How to Be Both'
Episode 41: 'Hild' and 'Station Eleven'
Episode 40: 'Dust Devil on a Quiet Street' and 'We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves'
Episode 39: 'We See A Different Frontier' and 'Long Hidden'
Episode 38: 'The Lives of Tao' and 'The Curse of Chalion'
Episode 37: 'Lexicon' and 'Fairytales for Wilde Girls'
Episode 36: 'Love is the Law' and 'The Bloody Chamber'
Episode 35: 'Bearded Women' and 'Ancillary Justice'
Episode 34: 'A Tale for the Time Being' and 'Gone Girl'
Episode 33: 'NOS4A2' and 'Sister Mine'
Episode 32: 'Every Day' and 'The Woman Upstairs'
Episode 31: 'Life After Life' and 'The Testament of Jessie Lamb'
Episode 30: 'Hair Side, Flesh Side' and 'Light'
Episode 29: 'A Madness of Angels' and 'Saga'
Episode 28: 'Feed' and 'Some Kind of Fairy Tale'
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