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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 103 – Summer Book Preview and The Nakano Thrift Shop

Come my own ones, come my fair ones, come now unto me, would you fancy a new podcast that has just come from WELL NOT REALLY THE SEA but for the sake of the rhyme. It’s Podcast Wednesday, and Whiskey Jenny is back and y’all maybe (maaaaaaaaaaaaybe) missed her almost as much as I did! We resume rereading Lord of the Rings, get slightly heated on the topic of Goldberry, chat about the summer books we’re looking forward to, and review (kinda) Hiromi Kawakami’s The Nakano Thrift Shop.

Nakano Thrift Shop

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Episode 103

Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around!

2:38 – What we’re reading
8:29 – What we’re making
12:09 – Fellowship of the Ring, Book 2, Chapters 7-12
21:54 – Spring book preview evaluation
25:42 – Summer book preview
36:10 – The Nakano Thrift Shop, by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Allison Markin Powell
44:43 – What we’re reading next time!

Media we discussed:

The House of Broken Angels, Luis Alberto Urrea
Hamilton’s Battalion, Rose Lerner and Courtney Milan and Alyssa Cole
A Change in Energy,” kvikindi
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Whiskey Jenny’s little calendar:

the recipe box I own
the recipe box I’m kind of jealous of

Spring books we read:

The Widows of Malabar Hill, Sujata Massey
The House of Broken Angels again!, Luis Alberto Urrea
Happiness, Aminatta Forna
The Wedding Date, Jasmine Guillory
The Prince and the Dressmaker, Jen Wang

Summer books we want to read:

Armistice, Lara Elena Donnelly (also, the musical Cabaret) (also the first book in this series, Amberlough)
Undead Girl Gang, Lily Anderson
The Poppy War, R. F. Kuang
The Ensemble, Aja Gabel (also, Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones)
Witchmark, C. L. Polk
On the Come-Up, Angie Thomas
A Duke by Default, Alyssa Cole
Number One Chinese Restaurant, Lillian Li
Temper, Nicky Drayden
Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik

The Nakano Thrift Shop, by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Allison Markin Powell
Halsey Street, Naima Coster

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Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour

Transcript is coming soon!