Bookrageous Episode 58; Reading and Re-Reading

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Intro Music; L.A. by The March Divide

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What We’re Reading

Kevin

[1:56] We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider

[3:56] Fables, Bill Willingham

[5:55] Mo' Betta Blues: The World According to Questlove, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Ben Greenman

[6:40] A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace

[6:55] Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion

Rebecca

[7:12] You Are One of Them, Elliott Holt

[10:24] The Returned, Jason Mott

[12:55] The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta; The Illumination, Kevin Brockmeier

[13:03] Battleborn, Claire Vaye Watkins

[14:15] When Beauty Tamed the Beast, Eloisa James

Josh

[16:02] Solo, DC Comics

[19:00] Songs of Willow Frost, Jamie Ford; Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford

[21:20] American Ski Resort Architecture, Style, Experience, Margaret Supplee Smith

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Intermission; Beer Swindlers by RADSTEWART

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Reading and Re-Reading

[24:08] Practical Classics, Kevin Smokler

[27:28] Why do we re-read? Comfort, education, and elucidation

[29:22] Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

[32:00] Toni Morrison

[33:44] Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

[37:12] You Are Not So Smart, David McRaney

[40:45] The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell

[41:27] There are no have-to's in re-reading

[47:47] When Women Were Birds, Terry Tempest Williams

[51:20] Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn

[54:17] Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut Jr

[55:18] The Secret History, Donna Tartt

[56:15] Skippy Dies, Paul Murray

[56:28] The Hangover and Myst, because reasons

[57:48] The Never List, Koethi Zan

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Outro Music; L.A. by The March Divide

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