The Bookstore

The episode is a little late, but Happy New Year! We're talking about book resolutions, what we learned from our last year of reading, and our January reading project. Next week we're discussing Shirley Hazzard's Transit of Venus.

UPDATE 1/7/2020 - A listener reached out to us on twitter to ask why we believed Hannah Mullet to be black. As she, rightly pointed out, Hannah is Irish. Corinne clearly read the dialect Hannah speaks in incorrectly. It's been a good opportunity to re-examine biases and a reminder to read the text more closely.  The episode has been edited to remove that part of the conversation in order to avoid...

It's that time of year again! Everyone's working on their best of lists and thinking about all of their reading accomplishments. It's basically an episode straight from high school: first we chat a little about some recent literary world scandals and internet gossip, and then we assign our book superlatives for 2018 readings. Let us know what your favorite books were! You can reach us through www....

This time we read one of the most talked about books of the year, and one sure to be on lots of year end lists, as well as a contender for plenty of awards. Does There There by Tommy Orange stack up to the hype? Next time we'll be chatting about Little Women, so brush off the copy you got for your birthday in 3rd grade and read along with us!

Want to take bets on whether or not we liked this book by James Baldwin? Next time we will be reading  There There by Tommy Orange, which was longlisted for the National Book Award. You can find it at your local library and read along with us.

This week we bring you weirdly specific book recommendations for some people that might be on your list. As well as solid book giving advice (read that picture book all of the way through before you give it). You can find our list of recommendations - with links for where you can buy them - on our blog post for this episode. www.thebookstorepodcast.com Next week: If Beale Street Could Talk by Jame...

This week we read and discuss the new novel Melmoth by Sarah Perry. It's a little spooky just to ease you out of that All Horror October hang over. Our next discussion will be If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin. Get it and read along with us.   Books mentioned: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe, and A Discove...

They say that women apologize for way too much stuff, and so I'm just going to come out and say NOT SORRY and also SUPER PROUD to bring you this episode in which my mic is a little wonky, but not that bad promise, where we talk about Halloween stuff, short spooky stories you can find online, and try to explain bad internet jokes to one another. Here's the link to this years jezebel scary story con...

This week we read both The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle and the Lovecraft story it was a response to, The Horror at Red Hook. You'll hear our thoughts and SPOILERS on this week's episode. I am too tired to make this witty. Why can't I ever get enough sleep? This is my own horror story. Our next book discussion will be about Melmoth by Sarah Perry. Get a copy and read along with us!

This week's All Horror October installment: Short Stories inspired by our worst fears. What scares us most? And were we able to find stories that evoked that fear? Find out! We read The Raft by Stephen King , and The Screwfly Solution by James Tiptree, Jr. Next time we will be discussing The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle, and The Horror at Red Hook by HP Lovecraft.  

Sorry we're late, but here's the all new discussion of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House ! How does it compare to other scary stories? Is it the first American Haunted House novel? Is it SCARY? What about the Mystery Spot? I didn't even make a joke about female orgasm and I said Mystery Spot like 15 times!!! Our next discussion will be about The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle. Yo...

It's All Horror October and you know what that means: we're talking all horror, all October. This week we cover 2017's banned books and the scariest collection of stories aimed at 10 year olds ever written, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz with legitimately bone chilling illustrations by Stephen Gammel. This is a truly fun packed episode. We've got anecdotes, an original song re...

In an attempt to read a great feminist classic, we chose to discuss Erica Jong's Fear of Flying. Is it a classic, does it hold up, do we even feel good calling it feminist? Look no further, the answers are here. We'll be reading Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark for our next episode, and then doing a full discussion of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House for the following week. Remember t...

We attempt to make cozy fall reading recommendations, but we're not exactly the coziest gals. We talk about tea, a tweet, and several books that remind us of fall, as well as what we'll be reading for All Horror October (Awoooooo!). You can find all of our reading recommendations and what we will be reading for All Horror October (awoooooo!) on the website: www.thebookstorepodcast.com. Our next bo...

Oh shit we just discovered that detective novels are our romance. This week we read Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke. Next time we will be discussing  Fear of Flying by Erica Jong. Your grandma probably has it around here somewhere... Check out www.thebookstorepodcast.com for more info related to the episode.

The long awaited call-in episode is here! We finally get to hear your beautiful voices and answer your questions/respond to your stories and we have absolutely the most fun we've ever had recording an episode. Also there is a thunderstorm in the background - so it's basically one of those white noise CD's, too!! If you'd like to give us a call (you do.. you know you do) our phone number is 616-730...

So we're back from our unexpected break to talk about Haruki Murakami's first ever novels, Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973.  The title of the anthologized English version is Wind/Pinball . Our next book discussion will be about Attica Locke's  Bluebird, Bluebird.  It's available today in paperback!

We read this year's YA sensation, Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, and... we've got some questions. Next time we will be discussing Wind/Pinball by Haruki Murakami. Get it and read it and talk to us about it. Check out the website! www.thebookstorepodcast.com  

We celebrate one year of podcasthood by answering your burning questions. We laugh a lot and talk about ourselves, truly a millennial woman's dream come true. We have read Children of Blood and Bone for next week's episode, you have probably heard of it.

We talk about our call in contest, reading Brooke Bolander's The Only Harmless Great Thing, and how   easy she made it to believe in a world where Elephants use sign language. CALL US AND maybe WIN BOOKS 616-730-1656. Next time we are reading Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi.

Hey! This week we've got some news about a call in contest - our number is 616-730-1656, call us with a question or comment and win some books (so long as you live in the US)! We also talk about The Detroit Festival of Books AND bring you some field recordings from our trip! Next week we're discussing The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander.

This week we discuss Terese Marie Mailhot's memoir  Heart Berries . Listen to find out why it's unlike any memoir we've ever read. A list of media related things we bring up: -Roxane Gay's  Hunger - Native American memoirists Joy Harjo and Leslie Marmon Silko -Native American poet Natalie Diaz -Chimamanda Ngozie Adiche's TED Talk "The Danger of A Single Story" -Hannah Gadsby's Netflix special  Nan...

We've reimagined the childhood fortune telling game MASH to be about our dream bookstore. Play it with your friends and tell us what wonderful places you dream up! Highlight this week: Becca calling children's story time "a reading to children event." Next week we will discuss Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot.

This week on The Bookstore: fairy tales, scary stories to tell in the dark, and how large format cameras work. We read Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado and mostly don't know what we think. Next read: Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

Scandals are back in this all new STAR STUDDED episode of The Bookstore! Learn how to game The NYT Bestseller List, and how to befriend your favorite author with the help of just a fax machine and a party city wig. If you're new to the podcast and like this episode, we recommend you check out episodes 9.5 and 12.5 for more scandals and literary gossip.