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The Bookstore

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...