Radio Book Club - Fiction that Surprises, Enchants (and sometimes gets tossed across a room)

What do you expect when you pick up a work of fiction? Have you read something lately that both surprised and enchanted you? Or, have you just felt like throwing books across the room? These are the central questions to the latest discussion in Radio Book Club. This three-year anniversary episode hinges on emotional truths, journeys down wonderful rabbit holes, and as always - lively book reviews. Tune in! Show Notes: Andy’s Reviews + Mentions Mary Jane Wilde: Two Walks and a Rant by Brook Williams Works by Peter Heller: The Dog Stars, The Painter, Celine, The River, The Guide The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson Overstory by Richard Powers Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef 12 Bytes: How We Got Here, Where We Might Go Next by Jeanette Winterson Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke Paint by Numbers: A Charles Bloom Murder Mystery Series by Mark Sublette Shari’s Reviews + Mentions World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography by Laurie Woolever In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain by Tom Vitale Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi Jessie’s Reviews + Mentions Cast, the Origins of Our Discontent Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper Daughter of the Morning Star: A Longmire Mystery by Craig Johnson Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead Deacon King Kong by James McBride A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy