Monday, June 9, 2025

#89 June 2025


Steph and Candice talk about their TBR lists, how things make it on there, and why reducing decision fatigue and reading with intention are good things. And then also remind each other, and listeners that social contact with other humans is actually okay.

Books

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel by Joseph Fink, and Jeffrey Cranor

Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen by Suzanne Scanlon 

Turn Around Bright Eyes: A Karaoke Journey of Starting Over, Falling in Love, and Finding Your Voice by Rob Sheffield  

Billy Summers by Stephen King 

The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher

The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams (the book about two strangers sharing a reading list)

On Book Banning: Or How The New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy by Ira Wells 

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollen 

52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing by David A. Robertson 

Music

The Halluci Nation

Snotty Nose Rez Kids

Links

Full Circle Foods - low waste, local grocery delivery

Timestamps

4:00 How we approach our To-Be-Read piles

14:00 Steph & Candice’s book updates

37:00 Talking to people in real life is good, including your delivery drivers

 

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