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    What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend reading and listening

    Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery series, Good One podcast and The Kaiju Preservation Society.
    by Margaret Willison Aug 18, 2023 3 minutes
    Source: Macmillan

    This week a movie's real-life story took an upsetting turn, Netflix's DVD business decided to go out with a bang, and a film adaptation soared.

    Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.

    The Right Sort of Man and other books in the Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery series by Allison Montclair

    The is a series ofbooks by Allison Montclairset immediately after World War II. The main characters are Gwendolyn Bainbridge, a war widow who's trying to regain custody of her son, and her friend Iris Sparks, who is basically like a codebreaker and spy during the war at Bletchley Park and who's kind of processing her PTSD. They come together because they're starting a marriage bureau called The Right Sort — and their first client gets accused of murder. The mysteries are really tight, and fun, and compelling. I listened to them all on audio, and they worked great that way, but I think they would also read really well and really fast.

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