BOOKmarkable
adventures in reading
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BOOKmarkable: adventures in reading
Are you a reader? Or just book curious? There is no doubt that reading can make life richer. But there are so many books, so little time, where do you even start?
Join me on a journey into the remarkable reading possibilities to be found in fiction and non-fiction alike to amplify your reading enjoyment!
Explore the magical adventure and intimate journey of reading. I will share my latest reading adventures and have conversations with other readers to learn about their great finds to help you find yours, with discussions and conversations about my (and your) latest, greatest reads.
Design: inShort Creative
Show theme: CS Jackson.
Episodes
Friday May 03, 2024
Friday May 03, 2024
Welcome back to this solo session where I chat with you about a few highlights from my 60+ books read since January (plus a few from before).
Books mentioned:
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Yours Truly and Life's Too Short by Abby Jimenez
Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake
The Hazard and Somerset mysteries by Gregory Ashe
We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
The Maniac and When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
Friday May 03, 2024
Friday May 03, 2024
Welcome to Bookmarkable: adventures in reading. Thank you for joining this podcast journey of discovery into the expanding universe of books.
This episode - a conversation with Lorraine Smith - was recorded September 8, 2023. Here are the books we discussed or mentioned:
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
At Home: A Short History of Private Life, Bill Bryson
Babel, Yellowface, and The Poppy War RF Kuang
Candide, Voltaire
Choosing to Run: A Memoir, Des Linden
Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
Outsider: An old man, a mountain and a search for a hidden past, Brent Popplewell
Star Wars – many authors; 1970s series by Alan Dean Foster
Sweetland and Galore Michael Crummey
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
Three against the wilderness Eric Collier