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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
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