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91 - Temporary

FromThe Bookstore

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Our first pick for February's prompt is Temporary by Hilary Leichter, published by Coffee House Press. It gets us talking about the mundanity of office life and the strangeness of life under capitalism. Next week we are reading Frontier by Can Xue. Find it at your local bookstore or library and read along with us! Get two months for the price of one at Libro.fm with code 'bookstore' at checkout. Website | Patreon

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It's like a book club, but we actually read the book. Join hosts Becca and Corinne as they recreate their days working and hanging out at their local independent book store.

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04 - My Sweet Audrina: These People Should Go To Jail by The Bookstore
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01 - The Idiot: Becca and Corinne welcome you to The Bookstore's first episode and discuss Elif Batuman's 2017 novel, "The Idiot." Segments: Working at a a bookstore "The Idiot" discussion Translation Game Find "The Idiot" at a local bookseller near... by The Bookstore
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6.5 - Award for Best Clone Fiction Goes To...: Book Awards by The Bookstore
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05 - Gilead: This week Becca and Corinne read Gilead by Marilyn Robinson because their first guest, Josh Weston, told them to! Today's episode includes thoughtful discussion of a novel about an intentional and intelligent elderly pastor, weird anecdotes about... by The Bookstore
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19 - Stranger With My Face: This week we're really putting ourselves out there (get it?) discussing Lois Duncan's 1981 classic suspense thriller about astral projection twins, Stranger With My Face. The book was a childhood favorite of both Corinne and Becca, so there's all... by The Bookstore
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14 - The Best We Could Do: This week Becca and Corinne talk about graphic memoirs and specifically about Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do. Corinne also remembers the name for the pages of the book that are immediately after the cover. It felt like a big deal at the time. More... by The Bookstore
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15.5 - Ursula K. Le Guin: Corinne and Becca discuss two short stories by the late Ursula K. Le Guin and fall in love. The stories read for this episode: She Unnamed Them and The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Our next discussion will be about An American Marriage by Tayari... by The Bookstore
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7.5 - Mah Fravrit Thing is Gersberms: The Berkstore Talks Goosebumps by The Bookstore
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14.5 - BFFs (Book Friends 4-Ever!): This week we're celebrating gal pals in real life and in book life with the help of Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home. You'll find a review, some great suggestions for books about friends, and some friends from books. Books mentioned: The... by The Bookstore
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02 - Parable of the Sower: This episode Becca and Cori discuss the Hulu series that everyone was talking about two months ago, play a game of Title Mashup, and really get into Octavia E. Butler's "Parable of the Sower." If you've got a Title Mashup for us, send it to and... by The Bookstore
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Welcome To The Bookstore: Welcome to The Bookstore. It's like a like a book club but we actually read the book. Take a listen to our series promo to hear more about the show and highlights from upcoming episodes. by The Bookstore
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9.5 - Literary Scandals 101: Never Trust a Memoir: So we're not actually talking about memoirs, that was just a funny line that I said when we were recording this. But we are talking Literary Scandals! All of the dirty, wordy, fraud you can handle this week on My Favorite Literary Scandal. We're off... by The Bookstore
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03 - Voices from Chernobyl: Welcome back to The Bookstore, citizens of Earth! This time Becca and Corinne talk about their Read Around the World Challenge and discuss Svetlana Alexievich's Nobel Prize winning oral history, Voices from Chernobyl. Becca's actually been there!... by The Bookstore
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06 - Go Tell It on the Mountain: This week we discuss Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin, one of the American Civil Rights Movements lesser taught leaders. We look adoringly at his treatment of women, and wrack our brains to understand some more obscure Biblical references.... by The Bookstore
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13.5 - The Canon Can Do Better: A Little Shade to Mark Twain by The Bookstore
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08 - My Favorite Thing is Monsters Vol. 1: Doing Justice By Grendel by The Bookstore
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07 - Stay With Me: Your Weekly Reminder by The Bookstore
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19.5 - Stranger With My Makeup: We watched the Lifetime Original movie version of Lois Duncan's Stranger With My Face so that you don't have to, but maybe you should because you know what? We kind of loved it. We talk about why we don't trust people who wear shoes and pants at home,... by The Bookstore
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12 - Hollywood Wives: Happy New Year! We're kicking 2018 off by chatting about Jackie Collins' catty bonkbuster Hollywood Wives. Content Warning! This episode talks about sex. Like a lot, because we're talking about a book by Jackie Collins. It's not hot sex, it's not even... by The Bookstore
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5.5 - 2nd Best Audrina: We're back for a new mini episode! Like Audrina we just couldn't leave Whitefern. This week we watched Lifetime's movie adaptation of My Sweet Audrina. You can own for just $2.99! Next week we'll be discussing an actual classic, and... by The Bookstore
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4.5 - What's Norman Mailer Going To Do With a $100 Bill?: On our first ever between the book episode (a minisode, a .5, whatever you want to call it!) we bring you the story of the Native American literature world's very own Rachel Dolezal. Becca and Corinne try to break down John Smelcer's many grifting... by The Bookstore
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09 - Turtles All the Way Down: This week we have a very special guest: the guy who helps us produce this and also the guy who is married to Corinne, Josh Bourdon. We're discussing . And also John Green in general. And also mental illness, and being in high school, and other things... by The Bookstore
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12.5 - Feuds - Please Don't Ruin Marlon James For Us: Since scandals were so much fun, we thought we'd try our hand at talking literary feuds! It's sort of like an episode of Ryan Murphy's Feud, but in a podcast and about people who write books instead of a TV show about glamorous actresses. Next week we... by The Bookstore
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11 - The Vegetarian: It's The 90's by The Bookstore
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8.5 - Okay - Look - We Know We're Wrong About Romance: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller, Literary Fiction, Horror, NEW WEIRD. There's a lot of genre out there. But what does any of it even mean? We have a lot of questions. And maybe some answers. (No guarantees). This episode was inspired by two... by The Bookstore
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15 - A Week To Be Wicked: Becca and Corinne make good on their promise from Episode 8.5 to read a romance novel. This week they discuss how the literature world at large has often maligned romance and they talk about the book they chose, A Week To Be Wicked by Tessa Dare.... by The Bookstore
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16.5 - Cheating On Our Taxes: Because of a bit of a vacation we didn't have a lot of time to prepare a typical topic episode for this mini. So we're going to brag about the fact that we've actually been reading some extracurricular stuff! And we've really really liked some of it!... by The Bookstore
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18 - After the Eclipse: This week we discuss and review a difficult, but beautiful memoir. After the Eclipse by Sarah Perry is the story of a young girl and her mother before and after her mother's murder. This episode may be difficult for some listeners, please take note... by The Bookstore
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18.5 - As You Do - Interview with Claire Handscome of Brit Lit Podcast: This week Claire Handscome joins The Bookstore to talk about her work on Brit Lit Podcast, Brit Lit Blog, and her upcoming novel Unscripted. She also recommends several incredible new books from the UK that we cannot wait to check out. You can... by The Bookstore
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13 - Future Home of the Living God by The Bookstore
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162 - Ice: First book for December's prompt to read a book by an author who shares your surname or first initial of your surname is . This is a sci-fi or slipstream novel about a man searching for a girl in a world that is slowly being consumed by ice. ... by The Bookstore
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160 - Death With Interruptions: November's prompt is to read a book about death and Corinne's pick is . This book is about an unnamed country where suddenly one New Year's, death stops happening. It reads like a textbook at times, going over logistical issues and government... by The Bookstore
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156 - Gorilla, My Love: We read by Toni Cade Bambara. This short story collection was first published in 1972 and features 15 stories, and the incredible voices of folks in New York City and sometimes in the rural south. Content Warnings (for the book, less so for the... by The Bookstore
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155 - The Book of Goose: Our first book for September's prompt to Read a Book with an Animal in the Title is . We loved reading about this obsessive, codependent relationships between two girls in post-war France. Content warnings: mentions of violence and sexual... by The Bookstore
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154 - Crazy Brave: For our last book in August, Corinne picked . Content Warning: racism, abuse, alcoholism Our next book discussion will be . You can find it at your local bookstore or library and read along with us. If you want to read along with The... by The Bookstore
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153 - Woman of Light: Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine follows several generations of a family in the Colorado area. Fair warning, we have some criticisms about this book's writing, so if you loved it, you may want to skip this episode. Content advisory:... by The Bookstore
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152 - The Books of Jacob: Or: A Fantastic Journey Across Seven Borders, five languages, And Three Major Religions, not counting the minor sects. Told by the DEAD, supplemented by the AUTHOR, drawing from a range of BOOKS, and aided by IMAGINATION, the which being the greatest... by The Bookstore
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151 - Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands: July's prompt for The Bookstore Challenge 2023 is to Read a Book Over 500 Pages, and/or a Graphic Novel. Our pick for the 500 pager is coming up later this month, but in the meantime, we have a graphic novel, . Is it this... by The Bookstore
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