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Episode 151 – The Life-Changing Magic of DNFing Books

Friends, a sea change has befallen Whiskey Jenny in this plague year. Not to spoil the thing I find out on air this episode, but Whiskey Jenny has made a shift! a change! from being a determined non-DNFer to DNFing books left and right. In but the last few days prior to recording this episode, she DNFed two entire books! I didn’t even know this when I proposed this topic, but needles to say I’m thrilled about it. I think everyone should abandon books they’re not enjoying. You’d all find it so cleansing! We chat about that, get a polar explorer update that really underlines how little we know about the sea, and review Uzma Jalaluddin’s new novel Hana Khan Carries On. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 151

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

1:33 – What we’re reading
5:43 – What we’re doing on the weekends
14:17 – Polar explorer update!
17:19 – DNFing (Did Not Finish) books
31:07 – Hana Khan Carries On, Uzma Jalaluddin
47:27 – What we’re reading next time

What We Talked About

The Devil You Know, Kit Rocha
A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske
Arsenic and Adobo, Mia P. Manansala
A Bad Day for Sunshine, Dorinda Jones

here is a BMW E30:

a very sweet yellow boxy car

The Italian Job (new one)
The Italian Job (old one)
Leverage (IMDBtv via Amazon Prime)
Leverage: Redemption (IMDBtv via Amazon Prime)
Enough (movie)

The scientists lost the submarine! (link) But they are going to try again. (link)

About Time (movie)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
The Whole Art of Detection, Lyndsey Faye
A Royal Pain, Rhys Bowen

Hana Khan Carries On, Uzma Jalaluddin

You’ve Got Mail (movie)
Accidentally Engaged, Farah Heron
French Kiss (movie)
Dial A for Aunties, Jesse Q. Sutanto
This Close to Okay, Leesa Cross-Smith

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Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour
Transcripts by Sharon of Library Hungry

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