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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.75: Spring Book Preview and the Second Annual Hatening

Happy Wednesday! We’ve got a very giggly episode for you today, in which the Jennys supply a sea-or-space update, run down the books we’re excited about for spring, and launch the Second Annual Hatening. There is also some genuinely gold listener mail. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go! Episode 75 What We’re Reading The Boy is Back, Meg Cabot Monstress, Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda Winter 2016 Books Angel Catbird, Margaret Atwood and Johnny Christmas Cul-de-Sac, Robert Repino Everfair, Nisi Shawl Float, Anne…

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Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates

I got this for Christmas.  Dorothy Parker really liked it, but I didn’t think I would, due to the sadness.  On the other hand, I thought, it has layers, and I like layers.  On the other hand, they are layers of misery and depression and unlikeable characters; which is to say, not my favorite type of layers. Revolutionary Road is all about this couple, Frank and April Wheeler (I just wrote Frank and Alice.  Twice.  Why does that sound so right?), who used to believe in their own independence of thought and action, but now they are living boring, stifling…

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