Well-Read

Who doesn't love a book about books? (Possibly Ann.) Listen to our picks for the ultimate reading angle for book-lovers. We'll end with what we're reading this week and some news.

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry (releases August 15)

Ann's picks:

• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
  - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  - Books by Isak Dinesen
• The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman
  - Voynich Manuscript
  - The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life by Andy Miller
  - Andy Miller's blog
  - Moby Dick, or, The Whale by Herman Melville
  - The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Halle's picks:

• My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul
  - The New York Review of Books
  - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
  - The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley

What We're Reading This Week:

• Ann: The Education of Margot Sanchez by Lilliam Rivera
  - Episode 51 - Summer Reads
• Halle: Caraval by Stephanie Garber
  - The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer
  - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  - Episode 28 - Our All-Time Favorites

We’re starting a new series where we’ll play tourist through books! Our first stop is Southeast Asia. As always, we’ll end with what we’re reading this week.

 

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Ann’s picks:

• The Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill
  – Dr. Siri Paiboun series by Colin Cotterill
  – No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith
  – The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
• The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee
• The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, tr. Willem Samuels

Halle’s picks:

• Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
  – Newbery Medal
• In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
  – Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Lauren Hillenbrand
• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

What We’re Reading This Week:

• Ann: Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls’ Escape from Slavery to Union Hero by Cate Lineberry (releases June 20)
  – Materials about Robert Smalls at Beaufort County Library
  – Be Free or Die events at Beaufort County Library
• Halle: Your Perfect Life by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke

The temperature is rising and we’ve got books to get you in that summertime radness! As always, we’ll end with what we’re reading this week.

 

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Episode 1 – Beach Reads

Ann’s picks:

• Austenland by Shannon Hale
  – Austenland (film)
  – Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  – Pride & Prejudice (TV)
  – Jane Austen books
  – Regency House Party (TV)
  – Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale
• The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer
  – The Tourist series by Olen Steinhauer
  – The Yalta Boulevard Sequence series by Olen Steinhauer
• The Weekenders by Mary Kay Andrews
  – Mary Kay Andrews books
  – Dorothea Benton Frank books

Halle’s picks:

• On Folly Beach by Karen White
  – Karen White books
  – The Night the Lights Went Out by Karen White
• Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
  – Fargo (TV)
  – Legion (TV)
• Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
  – Morgan Matson books

What We’re Reading This Week:

• Ann: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
  – Episode 4 – Winter 2016-17 Book Previews
• We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby
  – Bitches Gotta Eat (blog)
  – Jenny Lawson books