EP19: Euro bookstores and reading, wimpy YA heroines, and the problems with time travel

This week, Hannah is back from Europe and ready to talk about a month's worth of bookstore visiting and reading — including books like "Delphi," about working from home and being a mom in academia (not "The Latinist," the book Sam couldn't remember), and "Class Trip," a book that isn't as much about skiing as you'd think from the cover, but does inspire an aside on the trend in ski books. Travelogue and discussions of how European bookstores (Fernando Passoa! "Fortune Men"! "Consent"!) seem to work out of the way, with a sidebar on the publing industry, Sam then engages in a rant about a trend he's seeing in YA where the female protagonists seem particularly wimpy, including in a book his daughter gave up on after three pages. Then things wind up with discussion of books that need 100 pages to get going, "Horse," and a revisit of "This Time Tomorrow" and time travel and zombie books and why we love both of them as a society. Also: If you know of a hope-core, green-punk book we should read, speak up.