A very bookish episode. An AI generated image depicts a woman in a big pumpkin, sitting on a large book, drinking wine. It is a whimsical drawing.
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A very bookish episode. An AI generated image depicts a woman in a big pumpkin, sitting on a large book, drinking wine. It is a whimsical drawing.
Dall-E 2 AI image generator / Dall-E 2 AI image generator

This week, we gab about books with two professional readers, @LupitaReads’ Lupita Aquino and Missing Pages podcast host Bethanne Patrick. We talk about their reading habits, what it means to use books to escape and their favorite books of the year so far.

Plus, Veronica Roth, author of the Divergent series, is out with a new dystopian novel for adults called Poster Girl. She explains how her relationship to social media evolved while researching and writing about surveillance.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode:

  1. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz

  2. The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela

  3. All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

  4. A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

  5. Maria, Maria and Other Stories by Marytza K Rubio

  6. Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

A very bookish episode. An AI generated image depicts a woman in a big pumpkin, sitting on a large book, drinking wine. It is a whimsical drawing.
Dall-E 2 AI image generator / Dall-E 2 AI image generator
A very bookish episode. An AI generated image depicts a woman in a big pumpkin, sitting on a large book, drinking wine. It is a whimsical drawing.
Dall-E 2 AI image generator / Dall-E 2 AI image generator

This week, we gab about books with two professional readers, @LupitaReads’ Lupita Aquino and Missing Pages podcast host Bethanne Patrick. We talk about their reading habits, what it means to use books to escape and their favorite books of the year so far.

Plus, Veronica Roth, author of the Divergent series, is out with a new dystopian novel for adults called Poster Girl. She explains how her relationship to social media evolved while researching and writing about surveillance.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode:

  1. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz

  2. The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela

  3. All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

  4. A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

  5. Maria, Maria and Other Stories by Marytza K Rubio

  6. Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng