Hi Pandora, I love Book Chat! You can really hear how much you both enjoy making it, and I love the older book reccos. On that note, I also recommend the New York Times newsletter read like the wind - it comes out around every two weeks and always recommends at least one book I’ve never heard of and have to track down via a used bookstore or eBay, and I love it. You also must read Laurie Colwin; she is one of my all time favorites and I so wish she was still alive and writing. The New Yorker recently published a new posthumous story by her if you’d like more of a taste https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/17/evensong-fiction-laurie-colwin
I recently listened to fuck the pain away for the first time in years - such a tune! Takes me back to my early 2000s (what the kids would call) ‘indie sleaze’ days 😂
Oh goodness - please read Laurie Colwin’s Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. They will give you so much joy. It’s laugh out loud reading and makes me wish I could have a dinner party with Colwin at the table.
I love the Book Chat podcast. Doing it monthly is perfect and I love the choices you guys pick although I could not get through Orlando either!
My latest favourite is Burnham Wood by Eleanor Catton. It’s a new book but I absolutely loved it for its sheer ‘plotness.’ So many new books are introspective, emotional and often depressing (I find) but not this one. It’s a brilliant yarn. I would recommend!
As always, loved this! Yours & Bobby’s Book Chat is such a comforting listen to me, you can really sense how relaxed you both are making it and your conversations are so joyous. Also if you have any tips on monetising a podcast, would LOVE to hear them!
Hi Pandora, I also share your piles-of-proofs guilt (I own an independent bookshop). Trying to keep on top of The Next Big Thing can make reading feel fraught and I find myself longing to just be a customer browsing and buying something to take home to read that day. Non Existent First World Problems, etc.
In terms of the workload - I realised what was meant to be my side hustle (the bookshop) had actually become my entire life, so now I am a bad bookseller but a more successful writer. I think you're right that Quitting isn't the answer, but The Balance has to be constantly monitored and redressed before you've spent 5 years missing the mark. Not time wasted but time not spent with intention, or something. Anyway, I wrote about my decision to be worse at my job on purpose; https://katieclapham.substack.com/p/grateful-and-guilty
Hi Pandora, I love Book Chat! You can really hear how much you both enjoy making it, and I love the older book reccos. On that note, I also recommend the New York Times newsletter read like the wind - it comes out around every two weeks and always recommends at least one book I’ve never heard of and have to track down via a used bookstore or eBay, and I love it. You also must read Laurie Colwin; she is one of my all time favorites and I so wish she was still alive and writing. The New Yorker recently published a new posthumous story by her if you’d like more of a taste https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/17/evensong-fiction-laurie-colwin
I recently listened to fuck the pain away for the first time in years - such a tune! Takes me back to my early 2000s (what the kids would call) ‘indie sleaze’ days 😂
Oh goodness - please read Laurie Colwin’s Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. They will give you so much joy. It’s laugh out loud reading and makes me wish I could have a dinner party with Colwin at the table.
I'm also enjoying And Just Like That. It's been a welcome distraction.
Pandora,
I love the Book Chat podcast. Doing it monthly is perfect and I love the choices you guys pick although I could not get through Orlando either!
My latest favourite is Burnham Wood by Eleanor Catton. It’s a new book but I absolutely loved it for its sheer ‘plotness.’ So many new books are introspective, emotional and often depressing (I find) but not this one. It’s a brilliant yarn. I would recommend!
As always, loved this! Yours & Bobby’s Book Chat is such a comforting listen to me, you can really sense how relaxed you both are making it and your conversations are so joyous. Also if you have any tips on monetising a podcast, would LOVE to hear them!
Hi Pandora, I also share your piles-of-proofs guilt (I own an independent bookshop). Trying to keep on top of The Next Big Thing can make reading feel fraught and I find myself longing to just be a customer browsing and buying something to take home to read that day. Non Existent First World Problems, etc.
In terms of the workload - I realised what was meant to be my side hustle (the bookshop) had actually become my entire life, so now I am a bad bookseller but a more successful writer. I think you're right that Quitting isn't the answer, but The Balance has to be constantly monitored and redressed before you've spent 5 years missing the mark. Not time wasted but time not spent with intention, or something. Anyway, I wrote about my decision to be worse at my job on purpose; https://katieclapham.substack.com/p/grateful-and-guilty