EP15: Updike slammed, the rules for bookselling and beach reads, and much more!

This week it's back to just talking about the books we're reading, including "Bloomsbury Girls" and its written and unwritten rules about bookselling (at the Book Shop, the rules are only unwritten).  Oh, and we've got an Updike reading! The Ipswich book club did NOT like "Couples" (mid-career, 1996 release it turns out). Kind of a bummer for John who "treats women terribly. They are just bodies," says Hannah. Then we move in to discussions of "They Called Me Number One" (must read, even if it's hard on the soul), "Vacationland" (beach read; we talk about the rules for this, too, which leads to "Grown Ups"), and "Uncommon Measure" (read if you're a musician, for sure, or if you want your kid to be a musician, or if you want to think about why people can't get out of their heads). We finish up with a discussion of the use of the second person universal. Are there books that use it well?