We’re popping into the feed with a special episode. Leah and Graylin share their best reads of the year so far along with their least favorite…listen for some hot takes on popular titles!

“Read every day – it is a practice that dignifies humans. Become a great reader of books and it will help you with reality, you’ll more easily grasp the truth of things and that will set you up for life. And don’t expose your brain to low-quality art forms because there will be a certain measure of pollution.” — Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed

THINGS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Best:

A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction by Elizabeth McCracken

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

The Capital of Dreams by Heather O’Neill

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Every Exit Brings You Home by Naeem Murr

Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash

Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden

The Land and Its People by David Sedaris

David Sedaris on his Duolingo obsession: ‘Today is the last day,’ I told myself – but I was powerless to stop

Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children by Mac Barnett