Happy New Year! Jayne and Paula are back with another episode, this time about a quirkily titled short story anthology, Smart Ovens for Lonely People. How will this compare to the last anthology they read which underwhelmed them both? Plus, both ladies have thoughts to share on book-to-screen adaptations they've seen recently.
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Books they mention:
Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan
Rubik by Elizabeth Tan
Runaway by Alice Munro
Certain American States by Catherine Lacey
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
The Best of Me by David Sedaris
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
The Duke and I by Jula Quinn
The Dry by Jane Harper
Penguin Bloom by Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive
Beginners by Tom Vanderbilt
Solo by Rebecca Seal
Gender Swapped Fairy Tales by Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
Push by Sapphire
Movies / TV shows they mention:
Black Mirror
The Twilight Zone
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Bridgerton
Downton Abbey
Gossip Girl
The Dry
Penguin Bloom
Precious
Our book for next month is The Push by Ashley Audrain. Happy reading!