Hi Deadliners

We hope you enjoy this latest edition of Reading Between Deadlines.

It’s come to our attention that some of you don’t realise that we still DO post a video but due to something to do with Apple and Spotify we post the audio at the top and the video at the bottom. So if you’d rather watch than listen, scroll to the end of this post.

Anthea writes the FUNNIEST timestamps for the show – honestly, we’re not even sure what these are for but the wonderful Virtually Annie told us to do these so we do and I really hope people read them, cos they make me laugh so much!

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Love lots,Rach and Anthea

This episode’s pick:WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConoghy is the book EVERYONE in Australia (and we think the world – thanks Reese) has been reading and talking about lately, so we thought we’d better see what all the fuss is about. We’re in awe that Charlotte is so accomplished so young and proud she’s Aussie. We rarely read books by Aussie authors because we’d never want to diss a compatriot and we want to talk honestly about our thoughts and feelings here, but because WILD DARK SHORE has been such a HUGE success, we felt it would be remiss of us not to take a read.

In this episode, we cover:

Climate fiction – is it a thing?

Writing style – fancy or over-written

Romance/love story in lit fiction

How expectations going into a book influence reading experience

💋 And, of course, we rate it: Kiss, Kill, or Marry

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⏰ Timestamps

00 – Welcome to a windswept island – where two authors have been swept up on a rocky beach. (and Anthea wonders why she keeps saying yes to Rachael’s crazy schemes..)

2.58 – Anthea inserts MAFS into the conversation (any excuse) Rach has no time for the television, because she is classy – and insanely busy!

4.04 – Anthea complains about being busy. Rachael nearly passes out – then realises she doesn’t have time.

5.12 – Wild Dark Shore, please come to reception! It’s time to be judged. (and bring a couple of fur seals with you..)

9.06 – Award nominations for Wild Dark Shore. Who is Booktok Boy anyway? Anthea’s finger creeps further from the pulse every day.

10.13 Wake up and smell the turtle-necks – it’s Literary bio time! But does this bio deal in LIES??

14.26 – Kiss, Kill, Marry… Anthea does her civic duty and dobs Rachael in for trying to cheat…!

15.47 – Anthea’s rollercoaster relationship with Wild Dark Shore.

18.55 – Fancy writing – hot or not? And why Rach is captivated by lyrical renderings and Anthea is looking over Wild Dark Shore’s shoulder to see if ML Stedman is at the bar…

21.15 – Was Rach just in a really good mood when she read this novel? And is the honeymoon is over.

23.20 – They called it Wild DARK shore for a reason. Murder, suicide, dead penguins in a barrel. Shiz gets DARK.

25.34 – Hank. Your classic narcissist. And then some. Hang on, just how romantic is the love story? Rach wonders if we need the love story at all…

30.00 –Rach ponders low expectations and their ability to really make literature sing.

36.52 –Rach questions global warming, and likens Dark Shore to a long poem.

39.30 –The seed bank question. Which ones get off the island?

40.46 – Next month The Only One Left by Riley Sager. Rach reminds Anthea what books she’s read. Anthea is very interested!

👉 Watch the episode above and let us know your feelings about WILD DARK SHORE.

📖 Coming up next:

👉Next Ep we’re chatting to Mercedes Mercier about The Only One Left by Riley Sager.

In May, we’re diving into Half His Age by Jeanette McCurdyand chatting to Sara Foster about The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell.

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