You Should Read: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (with Bekki Fahrer!)

What You Should Read

Hello, Should-Heads! We're back with a longer than usual episode (and a fourth host!) and we have a lot to talk about. It's a book club episode and there are spoilers, but we talk about faith and doubt, purpose, colonialism, the rush to judgment, the perils of re-reading a favorite book and much, much more.

Discussion links:

https://www.themarysue.com/romance-writers-of-america-racism-religion/

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/05/1025195204/romance-writers-of-america-was-doing-better-with-race-until-a-recent-award-choic

Bekki's bag: https://www.instagram.com/p/CSTPV39Nre3/

Currently Reading:

Bekki: Black Sun (Rebecca Roanhorse), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Emmuska Orczy), Not the Girl You Marry (Andie Christopher) and Legendborn (Tracy Deonn)

Julia: Apples Never Fall (Liane Moriarty) and The Book of Longings (Sue Monk Kidd)
Kelly: Conversations With Friends (Sally Rooney)
Rachael: Apples Never Fall (Liane Moriarty)

Recent Acquisitions:

Bekki: The world's cutest bag that looks like a retro phone AND IT WORKS, What Abigail Did That Summer (Ben Aaronovitch), Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro), The Windsor Knot (SJ Bennett), The Mad Women's Ball (Victoria Mas), Lote (Shola von Reinhold), The Devil and the Dark Water (Stuart Turton), Hot Under His Collar (Andie Christopher)

Julia: Obviously: Stories From My Timeline (Akilah Hughes), Well-Matched (Jen DeLuca), All the Feels (Olivia Dade), The Ex Hex (Erin Sterling) and The End of Men (Christina Sweeney-Baird)

Kelly: Billy Summers (Stephen King), The Guilt Trip (Sandie Jones) and Wayfaring Stranger (James Lee Burke)

Rachael: Once There Were Wolves (Charlotte McConaghy), The Wild Ones (Nafiza Azad) and The Other Bennet Sister (Janice Hadlow)

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