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#43 - Confessions of a Bookseller & Dream Bookshops | feat. Kelly!

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Join Rosika and special guest host Kelly as we dig deep into hypothetical bookshops and answer burning questions about the business of books! Side quests include Rosika’s jewelry related life crisis, artificial intelligence tries vegan cookery, & endlessly loving petty shots taken at our missing host Kristen!Wanna write in to the show? email us at:[email protected] Creators MentionedKelly @kellyseeksbookshttps://www.youtube.com/@kellyseeksbooksBooks MentionedThe Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle ZevinTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle ZevinA Man Called Ove by Fredrik BackmanThe Westing Game by Ellen RaskinThe School for Good Mothers by Jessamine ChanWild by Cheryl StrayedHow to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Anne PriceThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileyA Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky ChambersA Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky ChambersBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy TanIn the FLO by Alisa VittiInciting Joy by Ross GayLet’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny LawsonPaladin's Grace by T. KingfisherThe Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu MandannaA Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu MandannaThe House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ KluneThe Spellshop by Sarah Beth DurstThe Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth DurstLegends & Lattes by Travis BaldreeThe Starless Sea by Erin MorgensternSourdough by Robin SloanA Deadly Education by Naomi NovikHowl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesYellowface by R. F. KuangHope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit

Join Rosika and special guest host Kelly as we dig deep into hypothetical bookshops and answer burning questions about the business of books! Side quests include Rosika’s jewelry related life crisis, artificial intelligence tries vegan cookery, & endlessly loving petty shots taken at our missing host Kristen!Wanna write in to the show? email us at:[email protected] Creators MentionedKelly @kellyseeksbookshttps://www.youtube.com/@kellyseeksbooksBooks MentionedThe Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle ZevinTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle ZevinA Man Called Ove by Fredrik BackmanThe Westing Game by Ellen RaskinThe School for Good Mothers by Jessamine ChanWild by Cheryl StrayedHow to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Anne PriceThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileyA Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky ChambersA Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky ChambersBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy TanIn the FLO by Alisa VittiInciting Joy by Ross GayLet’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny LawsonPaladin's Grace by T. KingfisherThe Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu MandannaA Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu MandannaThe House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ KluneThe Spellshop by Sarah Beth DurstThe Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth DurstLegends & Lattes by Travis BaldreeThe Starless Sea by Erin MorgensternSourdough by Robin SloanA Deadly Education by Naomi NovikHowl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesYellowface by R. F. KuangHope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit

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