137: Back in the Saddle or, Reading Snapshot

In This Episode:

Drew and Christopher actually talk at one another in this one — OVER ZOOM! The very first episode of So Many Damn Books where Christopher and Drew aren't actually in a Damn Library together. The resulting episode is probably the closest to what it's actually like to hang out with them when the microphones are off. How books are providing comfort, project reading, Stephen King, audiobooks, and culling shelves all get touched on, along with lots of other bookish subjects.Stay safe, we love you.

The Ep. 137 Bookshelf

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: Cujo by Stephen King (from bookshop.org) // In the Distance by Hernan Diaz (Community Bookstore)
Christopher: What’s It Like to Be a Bird by David Allan Sibley (from bookshop.org) // Death on the Aisle by Frances and Richard Lockridge (from Mysterious Bookshop)

ALSO MENTIONED:

No Holds Bard
Hearts & Bones Rescue
Find Me by Laura van den Berg
Severance by Ling Ma
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Plague by Albert Camus
Verso Books
Mysterious Press
The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
Insomnia by Stephen King
Tomorrow by Damian Dibben
Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
The Dark Half by Stephen King
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
Glenn Ganges in: The River at Night by Kevin Huizenga
How Not to Be a Boy by Robert Webb
Back Story by David Mitchell
Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth
Long Live the Post Horn by Vigdis Hjorth

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Christopher: New Waves by Kevin Nguyen // Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
Drew: Flake by Matthew Dooley // Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell