Mar 11, 2025
Becca's pick for March's prompt to read a book published by an indie press is Earthlings by Sayaka Murati, translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori, and published by Grove Atlantic.
Content warnings: sexual assault, death, murder, violence, cannibalism
Our next book discussion will be Witches
Feb 25, 2025
February's prompt is to read a book with a non-human narrator or from a non-human perspective. Corinne's pick, that we'll be discussing today, is Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck, which is about a house/plot of land.
Content warning: swearing, Nazism, repressive regimes, book has sexual and physical violence
March...
Feb 12, 2025
Romantic Goat sex on today's episode. We read The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan.
Next time we will read Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck
Content Warnings: Violence, sexual violence
If you want to read along with The Bookstore Challenge 2024, you can join us on The StoryGraph to see what others are reading for each...
Jan 28, 2025
Last episode for January is Pastoralia by George Saunders, this is a book of short stories that all have the trademark Saunders satirical edge.
Content warning: swearing, brief mentions of death and a sick child
Our next book discussion will be The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan. You can find it at your local...
Jan 14, 2025
New year, same us. We discuss (more like complain about, to be honest) Maggie O'Farrell's novel After You'd Gone. January's prompt is to read a book published in the year 2000.
Our next book discussion will be Pastoralia by George Saunders. You can find it at your local bookstore or library and read along with us.
If...