There aren’t a lot of books I DNF, but “Catch-22” is one of them

Red Wine Reads

This week, we read Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

This classic novel follows Yosarian, a bombardier in the army who faces a Catch-22 where he can’t leave the army until he proves he’s crazy, but he can’t prove he’s crazy without actually proving he’s sane.

Abby Williams, who Googled Catch-22 before we hopped on this podcast recording, joins me today to talk about a book that had us scratching our heads and re reading pages to make sure we didn’t miss anything.

In this episode we cover:

• Why Jenna couldn’t even finish the book
• Why we never knew where or when we were in this novel
• Why we couldn’t relate to any characters because there were wayyyyy too many of them

Open your book and press play on a podcast episode that will have you wondering, “Why did we have to read this book in school?”

Mentioned in the Pairings section of the podcast:

• DRINK: MREs, Long Island Iced Tea
• TV SHOW - Riverdale, Catch-22
• BOOK - Slaughterhouse-Five, The Sympathizer
• MOVIE - Across the Universe, Hacksaw Ridge

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