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