Season 7, Episode 6: CR Merch + A Conversation with Bill Largent

2:00 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

2:26 - @thewilltoread on Instagram

3:55 - Currently Reading Zazzle store

3:58 - Scary Books Are My Jam mug

5:47 - Our Current Reads

6:03 - The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rasha (Bill)

7:30 - Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjeh-Brenyah

8:03 - Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

8:05 - Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

9:31 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy

11:57 - The Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland (Meredith)

13:26 - The Novel Neighbor

15:30 - The Girls from Corona Del Mar by Rufi Thorpe (Bill, amazon link))

16:55 - Margot’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

18:38 - The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe

19:20 - First Contact by Kim Harrison (Meredith, amazon link)

23:00 - Contact by Carl Sagan

23:59 - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell (Bill)

27:32 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

27:36 - The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

28:20 - Instructions for a Heat Wave by Maggie O’Farrell

29:22 - The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden (Meredith)

30:33 - Booker Longlist 2024

30:59 - Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

33:13 - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

33:15 - Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill

33:17 - Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati

34:32 - Deep Dive: Bill’s Reading Life

35:42 - Currently Reading Patreon

36:18 - Ms. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien

36:30 - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’engle

38:48 - Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and John Rutherford (translator)

38:48 - The Shining by Stephen King

39:56 - The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson

41:17 - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

41:20 - The Storyteller by Dave Grohl

41:26 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

41:38 - @bookishbetsie on Instagram

47:18 - Dune by Frank Herbert

48:08 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy

48:44 - Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

49:11 - Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

49:41 - Meet Us At The Fountain

49:47 - I wish you’d go into a book blind more often. (Bill)

50:18 I wish that more men would read out loud and find bookish community. (Meredith)

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