Show Notes
This week’s episode is a brief encounter with short contemporary classics and the lilliputian tomes under 200 pages we recommend if you’re looking for something to get you out of a reading slump. We also talk book news, what we’ve been reading recently, and the titles we’re looking forward to picking up in May.
Recent reads
Ministry Of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Playworld by Adam Ross
Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
Short classics
Fair Play by Tove Jansson
The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid
The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
Ben, In The World by Doris Lessing
We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Tenth Man by Graham Greene
What we’re reading next
Soft Core by Brittany Newell
Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley
The Emperor Of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Let Me Tell You by Paul Griffiths
Let Me Go On by Paul Griffiths
Also mentioned
@LadiesLitSquad
Disney+ Dying for Sex
Dolly Alderton and Netflix’s Adaptation of Pride & Prejudice
Can You Ever Forgive Me
Dune
A Complete Unknown
Wellness by Nathan Hill
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
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