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It's Summer Reading season! You know what that means…beach reads, sunshine, and good times! So of course, on this episode of Shelf Motivated you'll hear about: Late capitalism and the Potemkin City Limits of the Ikea apartment, books about the Supreme Court, supermarkets, Multi-Level Marketing, a collection of poetry by a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant and Pulitzer Prize winner, and tales of Sarah's missed opportunities as a grocery store manager! Add a wildly expensive horror novel hardcover edition, and of course… Proust. Throw in a cozy mystery about a Hungarian Tea House for good measure and you get the Shelf Motivated Summer Reading Spectacular! Books discussed: Lion by Sonia Walger Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico Lawless by Leah Litman Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz Cozy Mystery selection: Death in a Budapest Butterfly by Julia Buckley TBRs: Gila! By Kathryn Ptacek Valley of Decision by Marcia Davenport Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya
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