Come for memories via Istanbul, stay for satire via Norway! This time around on the show we get into the subject of re-reading, Sharon’s inability to picture anyone other than David Mitchell as Proust, Eric reading a proto-cozy-thriller (and a weird book about Shakespeare for good measure), and Sarah’s dawning realization that satire in 2024 reads more like… well, a regular novel. All this, the cozy corner, our ever-growing pile of To-Be-Reads, and more on Episode 20!
Books discussed:
Ghostwriter: Shakespeare, Literary Landmines, and an Eccentric Patron’s Royal Obsession by Lawrence Wells
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
Cozy: The Big Chili by Julia Buckley
TBR: The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser
Within a Budding Grove: In Seach of Lost Time Vol. II by Marcel Proust Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk Translated by Maureen Freely
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund De Waal
Europe in Sepia by Dubravka Ugresic Translated by David Williams
TBR: James by Percival Everett
The Goodby People by Gavin Lambert
Natural Causes by Nina Lykke
TBR: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
