Curious Readers
Curious Readers
Podcast Description
A bi-weekly bookchat podcast by Joseph Dance and Amanda Moulson, two time-poor curious readers with eclectic TBRs. Every two weeks we meet to talk all things books and deliver some recommendations for new, classic, and contemporary titles you might want to read next. We cover everything from backlist to frontlist, prize winners to debuts, and we are generally spoiler free. Follow us on Instagram @curiousreaderpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
Focuses on diverse literary themes including reading as a form of resistance and exploration of backlist titles with episodes covering topics like crisis literature and essential reads for escape. Specific examples from episodes include discussions on 'Demon Copperhead' by Barbara Kingsolver and 'Standard Deviation' by Katherine Heiny, alongside themes like prize-winning and debut works.
A bi-weekly bookchat podcast by Joseph Dance and Amanda Moulson, two time-poor curious readers with eclectic TBRs. Every two weeks we meet to talk all things books and deliver some recommendations for new, classic, and contemporary titles you might want to read next. We cover everything from backlist to frontlist, prize winners to debuts, and we are generally spoiler free.
Follow us on Instagram @curiousreaderpodcast
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this week’s episode, we respond to our listeners with all our deepest, darkest DNF secrets: why we do it, when we do it, and how we feel when it happens. We also talk about the books we’ve read recently as well as the backlist titles and new releases we hope to explore in the coming weeks.
Book News
(2:31) The Sealey Challenge
(4:25) The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
(4:48) Midden Witch by Fiona Benson
(5:16) Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams
(6:02) That Broke Into Shining Crystals by Richard Scott / What The Earth Seemed To Say by Marie Howe / Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
(6:44) So I Got To Thinking podcast
Current Reads
(11:11) Child Of My Heart by Alice McDermot
(14:19) The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
(18:15) Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry
DNFs
(23:43) Middlemarch by George Eliot
(26:43) Let The Great World Spin by Column McCann
(27:17) Apeirogon by Column McCann
(27:48) Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
(30:28) 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
(30:58) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
(35:39) Twist by Colum McCann
(39:23) Neuromancer by William Gibson
(40:06) Butter by Asako Yuzuki
(43:25) Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stewart
(44:48) The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
(46:38) A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
(54:06) This Other Eden by Paul Hardy
(55:02) Rouge / All’s Well / Bunny by Mona Awad
(56:17) The Ishiguro Effect
(59:06) Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
(59:28) I Gave You Eyes And You Looked Towards Darkness by Irène Sola
What We’re Reading Next
(1:01:03) We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad
(1:01:37) Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Qudan
(1:02:11) Maggie; Or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar: A Novel by Katie Yees
Curious Readers is mixed by the incredibly talented James Whiting @fishislandstudio
Follow us on Instagram @curiousreaderspodcast for more recommendations in between episodes
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