Show Notes
Happy New Year! Start the year with Amanda and Joseph as they talk about their reading intentions for 2026.
(2:09) Bookish News
(2:36) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (directed by Emerald Fennell)
(2:46) Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (directed by Chloe Zhao)
(2:59) Die My Love by Ariana Harwicz (directed by Lynne Ramsey)
(3:34) Train Dreams by Dennis Johnson (directed by Clint Bentley)
(3:51) A Pair of Bookends podcast
(7:15) What We’ve Been Reading
(7:19) Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
(8:22) The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
(13:51) Reading Resolutions
(23:28) The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
(24:39) Independent People by Halldór Laxness
(25:05) Death’s End by Cixin Liu
(26:29) Farewell Fountain Street by Selçuk Altun
(26:42) Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü
(26:54) Journey To The Edge of Life by Tezer Özlü
(27:00) Snow by Orhan Pamuk
(28:17) My Clavicle and Other Major Misalignments by Marta Sanz
(31:12) Steering the Craft by Ursula K Le Guinn
(31:21) On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
(31:45) Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
(33:51) Katabasis by RF Kuang
(34:06) The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
(34:14) The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
(35:14) On The Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle
(37:05) Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
(45:17) Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola
(46:26) The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji
(50:31) What We’re Reading Next
(50:44) Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
(52:27) Money by Emile Zola
(53:20) Angel Down by Daniel Kraus
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