Podcast terbaik Book Discussions (2026)

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Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 28:53

9d ago28:53

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Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet has stayed with me ever since I first read it — a story so tender, so exquisitely imagined, it felt like it settled into my bones. With the new film adaptation about to arrive, it felt like the right moment to bring back this episode I recorded five years ago, when the book had just swept through my life and my book club. …

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Bitesize episode - A Review of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney and Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck 11:19

21d ago11:19

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A reflective exploration of Intermezzo and Kairos - the pause that gives the meaning and the moment that matters. In this solo episode, Christina shares insights on how timing and intervals shape our experiences.

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Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver 27:55

2M ago27:55

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Christina sit downs with Ang for a candid conversation about what it means to live on the margins - socially, physically, and politically. From the realities of housing insecurity to the quiet resilience of those navigating systems not build for them, this dialogue blands lived experience with sharp insight and gentle wit.…

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Bitesize Episode: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker 10:00

4M ago10:00

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The non~negotiable superpower! This book, the first of its kind written by a scientific expert, Professor Matthew Walker explores twenty years of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why sleep matters. Looking at creatures from across the animal kingdom as well as major human studies, Why We Sleep delves in to everything from what really h…

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The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden 32:34

6M ago32:34

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Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for July 2025 An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian McEwan's Atonement. It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a…

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The Bitesize Book Review - The Book Club by CJ Cooper 7:45

7M ago7:45

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Can you trust the woman next door? The book club was her idea, of course - Alice's. It was her way into our group. A chance to get close. I knew from the day she arrived that she couldn't be trusted. And I was right. Because Alice didn't come to the village for peace and quiet. She came for revenge. Absolutely love addictive psychological thrillers…

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The Bitesize Book Review: Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst 14:24

8M ago14:24

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Bored of 1970s suburban life, Maurice and Maralyn plan their escape: sell the house, build a boat, set sail for New Zealand. Then, halfway around the world, their beloved boat is struck by a whale and the pair are cast adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Alone on a tiny raft, their love is put to the test. This is a book about human connecti…

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Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan 38:26

8M ago38:26

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Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month for June 2021 Shortlisted for the Portico Prize 2022 Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, James and Tully ignite a friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over, they rush towards a magical weekend of youthful excess in Manchester playe…

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The Bitesize Book Review: We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman 10:49

10M ago10:49

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Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your strange imperfect self? Edi and Ash have been best friends for over forty years. Since childhood they have seen each other through life's milestones: stealing vodka from their parents, the Madonna phase, REM concerts, unexpected wakes, marriages, infe…

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Go As A River by Shelley Read 32:17

10M ago32:17

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When a moment changes everything, how do you live the rest of your life? 1940s Colorado: Teenage Victoria Nash is the only woman in a family of troubled men. When she meets Wilson Moon, a young drifter with a mysterious past, on a street corner, their connection is immediate. And dangerous. But then tragedy strikes, and Victoria is forced to leave …

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Trespasses by Louise Kennedy 32:20

11M ago32:20

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an affair between a young Catholic woman and a married Protestant barrister drives this brilliant novel set in 1975 Belfast.

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Christopher Bland Prize winner The Salt Path by Raynor Winn 27:42

11M ago27:42

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The Salt Path is a 2024 British biographical drama film directed by Marianne Elliott based on the book of the same name and one read in book club a few years ago. We revisit it here in our podcast. The book was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2018 and won the Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize.Just days before Raynor lear…

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Gloucester Book Club's Top 3 Books of 2024 10:26

12M ago10:26

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This episode by host, Christina Young, talks about the top 3 books Gloucester Book Club read together in 2024, as voted for by book club members. Crow Lake by Mary Lawson Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng In Memorian by Alice Winn

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In Memoriam by Alice Winn 29:33

1y ago29:33

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Waterstones Novel of the Year 2023 A gripping, heart-shattering love story between two soldiers in the First World War. It's 1914, and talk of war feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. At seventeen, they're too young to enlist, an…

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Any Human Heart by William Boyd 31:02

1y ago31:02

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Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and betrayed in the war and as an art-dealer in '…

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Crow Lake by Mary Lawson 28:04

1y ago28:04

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The Morrison siblings have been haunted by tragedy since the sudden death of their parents in an accident when they were young. Kate found an escape from the legacy of their dark past in her passion for the natural world. Now a zoologist far away from the small farming community where she grew up, she thinks she's outgrown her three brothers, who w…

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Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng 30:33

1+ y ago30:33

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Our Missing Hearts is the third novel by the American author Celeste Ng. It was published in 2022 by Penguin Press. The novel follows Noah Gardner (known as Bird) on a bus trip from Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he lives with his father, to New York City in search for his mother. The novel takes place in a dystopian future under PACT (The Preserv…

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A Chat with Rachel Sargeant author of the Gloucestershire Crime Series 36:01

1+ y ago36:01

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Rachel Sargeant is the author of The Roommates, The Good Teacher, and The Perfect Neighbours. She also writes the Gloucestershire Crime Series, which includes Her Deadly Friend and Her Charming Man. She won Writing Magazine’s Crime Short Story competition and has been shortlisted in various competitions including the Bristol Short Story Prize. Her …

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Hard By a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili 30:14

1+ y ago30:14

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Shortlisted for the Wilbur & Niso Smith Adventure Prize for Fiction - could this be the winner? An extraordinary tale of family, scarifice and our never-ceasing battle with the past, Vardiashvili's mesmerising and unique novel about a boy looking for his father who's returned to his native Georgia for the first time since the war blends gripping my…

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Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang 34:01

1+ y ago34:01

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Athena Liu is a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. But when June just happens to witness Athena die in a freak accident, she realises now is her chance to find fame.So what if that means stealing her friend’s work? So what if that means creating a new, racially ambiguous identity? So what if a social media scandal is about to blow …

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Stolen Focus by Johann Hari 39:32

1+ y ago39:32

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Is your ability to focus and pay attention in free fall? You are not alone. The average office worker now focuses on any one task for just three minutes. But it’s not your fault. Your attention didn’t collapse. It has been stolen. Internationally bestselling author Johann Hari shows twelve deep factors harming our focus. Once we understand them, to…

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The Dust That Falls From Dreams by Louis de Bernieres 36:45

1+ y ago36:45

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In the brief golden years of King Edward VII's reign, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Pendennis boys on the other. Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the Great War?…

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Being Mortal by Atul Gawande 35:06

1+ y ago35:06

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is a 2014 non-fiction book by American surgeon Atul Gawande. The book addresses end-of-life care, hospice care, and also contains Gawande's reflections and personal stories. He suggests that medical care should focus on well-being rather than survival.…

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The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak 34:26

1+ y ago34:26

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Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled.Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and…

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95-A Podcast Update, 3 Impactful Spiritual Books for Christians, and "push as hard as the age that pushes against you." 53:19

2y ago53:19

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There’s a different tone on the show today as we bring you an update on the state of the show in the first section. Next, we bring you three of the Christian Spiritual books that have impacted us most deeply. It was uncanny how much these three “talked” to one another and were so appropriate for today! Stay to the end to hear our closing thoughts! …

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94-Do You Want to Read a Classic but Don’t Know Where to Start? Top 6 Literature Recommendations + Quick Tips to Help You Get Started! 31:12

2y ago31:12

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Is the idea of reading the Great Works of Western Civilization intimidating or daunting? Did you read classics in school and just didn’t get it or didn’t like them? Is it difficult to know where to begin? Well start where you are – here with us! We will walk you through a Baker’s Dozen Quick Tips, and give you 2 recommendations each from Children’s…

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93-What Are the Best Detective Fiction Books on the Planet? Start here! 36:29

2y ago36:29

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Today we dive into Detective Fiction Recommendations - after last week's Detective Fiction Primer. If you love mysteries (like Amanda) or even if it's not your favorite (like Elizabeth and Tricia), you will find a recommendation to start with. What did Elizabeth read as homework for this episode? Does Tricia read any besides Nero Wolfe? And HOW MAN…

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The Dutch House by Ann Patchett 31:29

2y ago31:29

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Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives, they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage. But when at las…

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92-The Definitive Detective Fiction Primer You’ve Been Waiting For! Cozy Mysteries, Setting, and the Moral Universe. 37:45

2y ago37:45

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How can Murder be a Cozy Mystery? How is Detective Fiction like Fairy Tales? What do Superheroes, The Western Cowboy Hero, and Dad TV have to do with Detective Fiction? We present to you The Definitive Detective Fiction Primer! Walk with us thru the birth and growth of the genre, focusing on The Golden Age of Detective Fiction, talk about what the …

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91-Hidden Depths of Humor and Satire: Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest 37:15

2y ago37:15

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Have you ever felt like everyone around you is being fake? Do you ever think conventional manners are ridiculous? Have you ever felt like people just need to WAKE UP?!? Then this discussion is for you! Today, in our first Book Club of 2024, we discuss Oscar Wilde's brilliant play The Importance of Being Earnest. From the funniest moments to some cu…

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90-Happy Galantine’s Day! Female Friendships in Literature: The Ideal, The Complicated, and the Frenemy! 43:31

2y ago43:31

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From the sweet first friendships of girlhood to the deep, sometimes complicated friendships of womanhood, we talk about what Friendship is, why we need it, and how it relates to Community. This episode also features a short and sweet interview with Amanda’s daughter, Ruby, talking about one of her favorite friendship books and great quotes from Gur…

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The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell 34:58

2y ago34:58

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Shortlisted for The British Book Awards 2023 Fiction Book of the Year. ‘O'Farrell paints as evocative a picture of Renaissance Italy as she did Shakespearean England in the former Waterstones Book of the Year Hamnet, as Cosimo de' Medici's third daughter learns to navigate an opaque Florentine court and an enigmatic new husband’ ~ Waterstones…

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89-I Want My Kids to Read More...How Do I Create a Family Culture of Reading? 34:10

2y ago34:10

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Today we're talking about making reading a part of our family cultures. But what does that mean? You may picture your whole family sitting down quietly at night before bed, and that and other idyllic pictures may seem impossible, but today we're talking about how simple and fun it can be! We share relatable stories and easy tips to start making rea…

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88-What Does It Take to Have A Great Marriage? Podcaster and Christian Women’s Business Guru Stefanie Gass’ Top Marriage, Business, and Life Books! 32:47

2y ago32:47

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If you could ask one the Top 20 Podcasters in the world to share one book, what would it be? Our guest today is Stefanie Gass, who is not only one of the Top 20 Podcasters is the world, but is also aChristian who is passionate about helping other Christian Women to grow their online businesses using podcasting. We discuss some of our favorite marri…

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Heaven My Home by Attica Locke 41:35

2y ago41:35

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The thrilling follow-up to the award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird: Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is on the hunt for a boy who's gone missing - but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target9-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now he's alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor jus…

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87-Live Coaching On Reading Goals!! How Do You Make a Reading Plan That's Right For YOU? 36:40

2y ago36:40

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Have you looked at this year and thought, "Why should I set a reading goal (or any goal) - it's never worked before!" Friend, we hear you! We have all been in places where goal setting is discouraging and hard. Today, we tackle the problem of unwieldy goals with a Book Fare first! Tricia is putting on her professional coaching hat to walk Elizabeth…

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86-How To Form Great Reading Goals for 2024 or Just Enjoy Reading More This Year 26:33

2y ago26:33

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Have you set any reading goals for 2024? It can be confusing to know how to set reading goals that won't be too much or too discouraging. We've been there! Today we talk about the reading goals we're exploring for the new year, what they might be, and why we've chosen them. We're also discussing all the new things coming down the pike this year, li…

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85-What Are the Best Habits for Good Reading? Our Top Three Will Surprise You! 38:09

2y ago38:09

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Happy 2024! This is the time of year we're all thinking about goals and habits. What are the best habits for a great reading life? This year, Amanda leads us in a new way to think about that question, and her habits may look a bit more like virtues... Episodes mentioned today: Episode 38- Guest Heidi White and the Glory of the Classics Episode 48- …

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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 26:30

2y ago26:30

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It is the tale, simply told, of one ordinary middle-aged man - Bill Furlong - who in December 1985, in a small Irish town, slowly grasps the enormity of the local convent's heartless treatment of unmarried mothers and their babies (one instance of what will soon be exposed as the scandal of the Magdalene laundries).…

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Top 4 books from 2023 9:33

2y ago9:33

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Gloucester Book Club’s top 3 books read and discussed in 2023 and voted for by members of book club

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84-New Year, New Reading Challenge! How Will We Grow Together This Year? 35:31

2y ago35:31

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Are you ready for new?? We have so many new things coming down the pike this year! First, a brand new reading challenge for 2024. In this episode, we reveal the categories and talk about how we can work through them together! We also have a new reading group coming- listen to the end of the episode to find out what... There's new contests, new merc…

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83-Our Top 8 Books of 2023! How do we keep our humanity in the face of great fear and evil PLUS what a book written by CS Lewis and Robin Williams would be like! 38:34

2y ago38:34

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How do we keep our humanity in the face of overwhelming fear and great evil? If CS Lewis and Robin Williams wrote a book together, what would it be like? What is the Moral Imagination and why is it so fundamental to a child’s character development? How can one come out of a difficult season of life at peace? These and other topics and themes come f…

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‘Twas the Night Before Christmas by Kate Nivison 10:21

2y ago10:21

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From Stories For Christmas and the festive season - British Library

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82-The BEST Family Christmas Book You May Have Never Read! Book Club: Christmas Jeopardy and Letters from Father Christmas by Tolkien! 34:25

2y ago34:25

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What does Santa have to do with Faerie Land? What was Tolkien like as a father? What REALLY goes on at the North Pole? Welcome to our Christmas Book Club episode featuring Letters from Father Christmas, by JRR Tolkien! We havethe sweetest, coziest family book club ya ever did see, including Christmas Jeopardy! This is one to listen to with your chi…

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Ticket for a Carol Concert by Audrey Burton 13:34

2y ago13:34

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Taken from Stories for Christmas and the festive season - British Library Women Writers

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81-What have you read this year? 2023 Book Fare Challenge Wrap-up, Plus YOUR Voice Messages 54:56

2y ago54:56

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Today we look back on the 2023 Reading Challenge - first by listening to some voicemails from you, then by talking about some of our favorites. We cover topics from Great Classics to contemporary Sci-Fi to non-Fiction, and everything in between. You'll hear Elizabeth's hot take on Tiger Woods, Amanda's comedy favorite, and Tricia goes deep into lis…

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80-Our Top Parenting Book Recommendations: Teens, Habit Training, and Encouragement that it's Never Too Late with your Adult Children!! 33:22

2y ago33:22

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Who doesn't want to be a better parent? What if you have adult children and regrets that you didn't do x or y with them? There are SO many wonderful parenting books out there, how's a girl to decide what to read next? Here's a curated list of our six favorites right now. We've created a list for you that includes books for Toddlers to Teens, Charlo…

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French Braid by Anne Tyler 34:56

2y ago34:56

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Redhead by the Side of the Road returns with a luminous new novel that paints a joyous and painfully truthful portrait of family life ~ Waterstones

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79-Are we truly unnerved? The Book of Genesis, WWI, and the Utopia of Dystopian Literature. 39:02

2y ago39:02

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Today we discuss Dystopian books- why do we love them so much? What's the appeal of reading about a disastrous future? Are there redeeming messages and themes? Today we cover all the exciting, disturbing, thought-provoking aspects of dystopian stories, and uncover some surprisingly redeeming truths along the way... Dive in! Books mentioned in this …

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A Visitor by Holly Crawford from Spooky Ambiguous 13:03

2y ago13:03

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The second episode of our Halloween series of short stories from Spooky Ambiguous, ghost stories and poetry fangs and fairy tales, published by Crumps Barn Studios. Suitable for children.

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