73. Bookshelf: What we're reading outside of book club
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It’s a summer sizzler of a Bookshelf with rave reviews from both Laura and Kate for their eclectic books of choice. For Kate, it’s all about hot contemporary reads, including Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House, an eye-opening memoir about an abusive lesbian relationship. Whereas Laura’s enchanted by the African adventures of 1930s aviatrix Beryl Markham, and dazzled by William Melvin Kelley’s portrait of a black musician in Jazz Age America.

Listen in to hear what we made of…

In The Dream House) by Carmen Maria Machado

Uncanny Valley) by Anna Wiener

Morning) by Allan Jenkins

West with the Night) by Beryl Markham

A Drop of Patience) by William Melvin Kelley

The Mirror & the Light) by Hilary Mantel

Also mentioned on this episode:

A Visit From the Goon Squad) by Jennifer Egan

The Snow Leopard) by Peter Matthiessen

Out of Africa) by Karen Blixen

• Mrs Hemingway*) by Naomi Wood

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup) by John Carreyrou – listen in to episode 55) for a full discussion

Then We Came to the End) by Joshua Ferris

Plot 29) by Allan Jenkins

Why We Sleep) by Matthew Walker – listen in to episode 38) for a full discussion

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