Night Cheese Bookclub - The Writing Retreat & Competition

The Writing Retreat & Competition

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08/07/23 • 42 min

Night Cheese Bookclub

Have your ever read a book you loved so much it irked your soul that you hadn't written it yourself? ....yeah us neither(this is when we look around to disperse suspicion). "The Writing Retreat & Competetion" gets into all that and more! This book by Julia Bartz brings to life Alex, a New York writer floudering for inspiration, recently out of a friend breakup who gets invited to a secluded writing retreat hosted by a famous horror author. This combined with the fire of competetion- which leads of course to hashing out the details of The Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan story. And as always, come for the Haiku's, stay for the cheese pairing. Happy listening!!

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