This week we’re taking it back, way back. Before we were on YouTube, when we were still recording in Kari’s dining room and taking pizza breaks midway through each episode, we cut one of our favorite shows – Animal...
In broad daylight, seemingly for no reason, an old man, recently widowed, shoots a young drug-dealing orphan in the head. What happens next involves nearly everyone, including the Blacks, Italians, in one dying Brooklyn neighborhood.
This week, we return to the story of a dowdy damsel and her lackluster beau, who are forced apart into a cold world of misery. Sound depressing? That’s the Brontë sisters for you. Quite remarkably, however, this book has a happy ending!
If you watch us on YouTube or follow us on IG, you know how much we loved reading The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. This book made us sit with the matriarchs of our family...
After we discuss real-life cases of hostages turned homies, we'll dive into a story about idiots. Yes, idiots. In a way, this is a story about all of us because we're all idiots at times. But this is also a story about a bridge. Also, it's a story about people and how people need people. Actually, this is a crime novel about a bank robber and a room full of terrible captives who each have something in common. More than anything, though, this is a story about kindness.
A dystopian novel that becomes more evocative as reality mirrors its bleak fiction, 1984 is a vision of a world controlled by a totalitarian regime where not even your thoughts are safe.
Readers and friends, we’re proud to bring you a very special bonus episode. Last Tuesday, Kiley Reid’s debut novel, Such a Fun Age, was released in paperback. In celebration of the new format, we were thrilled to interview the awarded author.
A story about life, living, and the regrets in between, The Midnight Library is a unique invention created to tell a universal truth. It allows the reader to make some secret personal applications with the lessons of our protagonist and her desire to end it all. This story is like our better selves, begging us to listen, putting the medicine in the candy, and it does it all within 300 pages.
Freedom is knowing who you are while unobstructedly stretching toward your potential or something like that. Look, we’re not as deep as Toni Morrison, but after reading this, the author’s third novel, we were inspired to wax poetic about existential topics like survival and identity.
As Beyoncé said, "This is for the 30-somethings that didn't turn out exactly how mom and dad wanted you to be." Convenience Store Woman is the deadpan tale of one woman's happy life in a simple occupation before conformity-obsessed friends, family members, and strangers pressure her into confusion and despair.
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