Episode Twenty: Ferrante Fever!

In This Episode:

Ferrante Fever strikes the SMDB boys after reading My Brilliant Friend. But they do not eat Neapolitan ice cream. Still, that’s probably for the best.

Also, it’s our twentieth episode! Huzzah!

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The Ep. 20 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE’S BOOK: MY BRILLIANT FRIEND BY ELENA FERRANTE

WHAT’D YOU BUY?

Christopher: Armada by Ernest Cline and I Want to Show You More by Jamie Quatro
Drew: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon and A Planet for Rent by Yoss

ALSO MENTIONED:

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Betsey-Tacy Treasury by Maud Hart Lovelace
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
My Struggle: Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante

THE NEAPOLITAN NOVELS:
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: Make Something Up: Stories You Can’t Unread by Chuck Palahniuk
Christopher: Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement