Episode 24:What Smelly Books Have You Been Smelling?

This week, we kick things off with another Reading Roundup: two books we’ve finished, two we’re currently reading, and two that are up next. After a brief rant about technology refusing to cooperate, we tackle an important literary debate by assigning book genres to different meals (because nonfiction is clearly breakfast). We then embark on an entirely unnecessary mission to correct a book blurb’s understanding of Shakespearean conspiracy theories before wrapping things up with a Spotlight Segment on the books we’ve DNF’d so far this year.  Books We Mentioned:  2:35- Spur of the Moment Question: What genres would each meal be? 10:00- Reading Round Up: 10:30- Well Met, Jen DeLuca  Well Played Well Matched Well Travelled  25:00- The Safekeep, Yael van der Wouden 35:00- Scandalized, Lauren Billings (of Christina Lauren author duo) 46:00- The Authenticity Project, Clare Pooley Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting How to Age Disgracefully Friends You Haven’t Met Yet 55:00- The House of Now and Then, Edward Underhill 1:05:37- The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow Starling House The Once and Future Witches 1:10:15- The Book of Doors, Gareth Brown 1:11:00- The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern  1:13:35- Babel, R.F. Kuang 1:16:55- Weyward, Emilia Hart 1:19:15- Spotlight Segment- Books We’ve DNF’d this year Meet Me Under the Mistletoe, Jenny Bayliss Good Spirits, B.K. Borrison Harlem Rhapsody, Victoria Christopher Murray Wolf Gone Wild, Juliette Cross Babel, R.F. Kuang Alien Tyrant, Ursa Dax Scandalized, Lauren Billings Northwoods, Daniel Mason The Poet Empress, Shen Tao