Bonus Ep: Narratives in the News - March 2023

We're back with another round of narrative and novel-related headlines! First, we (specifically Brie) CANNOT wait for Happy Place by Emily Henry to be released in April 2023. We're talking about the January 2023 issue of Book Page magazine and the article "Our Most Anticipated Books of 2023." https://www.bookpage.com/features/2023-preview-most-anticipated-romance/ Two - audio books versus reading books. Where do you stand? We've been having many conversations related to this topic for a few months now, so we decided to take a deeper dive by discussing these two articles: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/opinion/sunday/audiobooks-reading-cheating-listening.html https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/friendly-interest/201812/why-listening-book-is-not-the-same-reading-it Finally, a recently published article has brought to our attention a role in publishing that we didn't even know existed. It's thought-provoking to say the least. While we don't have all of the answers, we sure enjoyed talking about it. Check it out: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/15/sensitivity-readers-what-publishings-most-polarising-role-is-really-about CHEERS