Episode 21 - Why We Reach for Some Books Again and Again – with Frazer MacDiarmid
A Little Bit BookedShow Notes
What makes a book perfect for rereading? Does where we are in life influence how we feel about a book? Why do I keep reading books about rabbits? Frazer MacDiarmid joins to talk about what books he rereads (or doesn’t) and how those experiences went.
Books mentioned in this episode: - Watership Down, Richard Adams - The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro - The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro - On Beauty, Zadie Smith (Penguin) - Howard’s End, E.M. Forster - The Safekeep, Yael van der Wouden - The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams (audiobook with Meryl Streep / George Winston) - The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien - The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper - Bringing Down the Duke, Evie Dunmore (Little, Brown Book Group) - Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Talia Hibbert (Avon Romance) - Half a Soul, Olivia Atwater (Little) - Warriors: Into the Wild, Erin Hunter (HarperCollins) - The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton - Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney (Faber and Faber) - Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen - King Lear, Shakespeare - The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien - The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger - The Stranger / L'Étranger, Albert Camus - The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky - Austerlitz, W. G. Sebald
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