#48 | Nice Books for Dark Days

11/16/16 • 35 min

Election season has been stressful. It’s getting darker earlier, too. We thought up some nice books to read when the world is feeling dark – literally or figuratively. –– What We’re Currently Reading –– Nicola The Wangs vs the World by Jade Chang Swing Time by Zadie Smith Holly Nothing :( –– Books We Recently Acquired –– Nicola East of Eden by John Steinbeck State of Wonder by Ann Patchett Brain on Fire: My Month of by Susannah Cahalan The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros And a few others – check out her library book sale haul here | Holly Nothing :( –– Our Recommended Books for Dark Days –– All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple The Harry Potter series Roald Dahl books A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley The Princess Bride by William Goldman Winter, an anthology curated by Melissa Harrison Bonkers by Jennifer Saunders Dear Fatty by Dawn French Heartburn by Nora Ephron Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell Agatha Christie novels Anything by David Sedaris or Augusten Burroughs Also books by Simon Rich and Jesse Eisenberg Everything's Perfect When You're A Liar by Kelly Oxford Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson (also Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir) Happy by Derren Brown Paranormality and Night School by Richard Wiseman The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert The Antidote: Happiness for People who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman –– Follow us! –– You can subscribe to Bookish Blether on SoundCloud, iTunes and Stitcher, or your podcast app of choice. Love our podcast? Leave us a review and share it with a friend! Twitter: http://twitter.com/BookishBlether Instagram: http://instagram.com/bookishblether Tumblr: http://bookishblether.tumblr.com Email: [email protected] Holly: http://twitter.com/hollyjunesmith http://instagram.com/hollyjunesmith http://www.heyhollyjune.co.uk Nicola: http://twitter.com/robotnic http://robotnic.co http://youtube.com/robotnic https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6523767.Nicola_Balkind

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#49 | Our Favourite Non-Fiction Books & TBRs

As we say goodbye to another Non-Fiction November, we decided to share some of our favourite non-fiction books, as well as many more that are still sitting atop our TBR piles. –– What We’re Currently Reading –– Nicola Bluets by Maggie Nelson | http://amzn.to/2fH0vhL Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys | http://amzn.to/2gxfcBw Night Waking by Sarah Moss | http://amzn.to/2fH5Sx5 Holly Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple | http://amzn.to/2fUK0fA See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt (sent by Tinder Press for review) | http://amzn.to/2gNvJ8s –– Books We Recently Acquired –– Nicola The Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson | http://amzn.to/2gAAbV9 Also mentioned her novels, Gilead & Housekeeping Essays of E.B. White | http://amzn.to/2gxfzMt A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women by Siri Hustvedt (sent by Simon & Schuster for review) | http://amzn.to/2gxdWhx Holly The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante | http://amzn.to/2gxe14P Winter: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons by Melissa Harrison | http://amzn.to/2gmdQKj Notes From No Man’s Land by Eula Biss | http://amzn.to/2gAHD2q His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet | http://amzn.to/2g8F9KD –– Our Non-Fiction Favourites & TBRs –– In order mentioned... Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty Also mentioned: her YouTube channel, Ask a Mortician | https://www.youtube.com/user/OrderoftheGoodDeath Election / death video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNSdNvm16Fg The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison Also mentioned Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 edited by Teresa Carpenter The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Sidewalks by Valeria Luiselli Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton The Moth: 50 True Stories edited by Catherine Burns The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson How to Travel Without Seeing by Andrés Neuman –– Follow us! –– You can subscribe to Bookish Blether on SoundCloud, iTunes and Stitcher, or your podcast app of choice. Love our podcast? Leave us a review and share it with a friend! Twitter: http://twitter.com/BookishBlether Instagram: http://instagram.com/bookishblether Tumblr: http://bookishblether.tumblr.com Email: [email protected] Holly: http://twitter.com/hollyjunesmith http://instagram.com/hollyjunesmith http://www.heyhollyjune.co.uk Nicola: http://twitter.com/robotnic http://robotnic.co http://youtube.com/robotnic https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6523767.Nicola_Balkind