Curious Readers Podcast
@curiousreaderspod.bsky.social
Apple Top 10 Book Podcast hosted by Amanda and Joseph delivering great book recommendations to fellow curious readers.
📚 We love Lit Fic/Speculative/Thriller/Memoir/Horror/GN/Classics + narrative non-fiction
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📚 We love Lit Fic/Speculative/Thriller/Memoir/Horror/GN/Classics + narrative non-fiction
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We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025 is ‘And the Walls Became the World All Around’ by Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing and published by @grantabooks.bsky.social !
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025 is ‘And the Walls Became the World All Around’ by Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing and published by @grantabooks.bsky.social !
Day 27 of #NovellasInNovember is SNOW COUNTRY by Yasunari Kawabata which follows an affair between Shimamura, a detached Tokyo intellectual, and Komako, a young geisha in a remote mountain hot-spring town. A meandering slow burn plot with clean, elegant prose #BookSky #LitFic #Reading #Translation
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Day 27 of #NovellasInNovember is SNOW COUNTRY by Yasunari Kawabata which follows an affair between Shimamura, a detached Tokyo intellectual, and Komako, a young geisha in a remote mountain hot-spring town. A meandering slow burn plot with clean, elegant prose #BookSky #LitFic #Reading #Translation
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Day 26 of #NovellasInNovember is SEA OF INK by German author Richard Weihe. A delicate, fragmentary portrait of the 17th-century Chinese painter Bada Shanren, who survives the fall of the Ming dynasty and retreats into an almost monastic life of art and nature #BookSky #LitFic #Reading #Translation
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Day 26 of #NovellasInNovember is SEA OF INK by German author Richard Weihe. A delicate, fragmentary portrait of the 17th-century Chinese painter Bada Shanren, who survives the fall of the Ming dynasty and retreats into an almost monastic life of art and nature #BookSky #LitFic #Reading #Translation
Day 25 of #NovellasInNovember is Tove Jansson’s MOOMINLAND MIDWINTER, which sees Moomintroll unable to get back to sleep after waking up from hibernation. Adventures with Little My, Sorry-oo, and Hemulen ensue. Arguably one of Jansson’s most elegiac books #BookSky #Reading
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Day 25 of #NovellasInNovember is Tove Jansson’s MOOMINLAND MIDWINTER, which sees Moomintroll unable to get back to sleep after waking up from hibernation. Adventures with Little My, Sorry-oo, and Hemulen ensue. Arguably one of Jansson’s most elegiac books #BookSky #Reading
Day 24 of #NovellasInNovember is PETER HUJAR's DAY in which the titular photographer tells all about his exploits across a single day - December 18, 1974 - among New York's demimonde, featuring Allen Ginsberg, Fran Leibowitz and Susan Sontag #BookSky #LitFic #Reading
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Day 24 of #NovellasInNovember is PETER HUJAR's DAY in which the titular photographer tells all about his exploits across a single day - December 18, 1974 - among New York's demimonde, featuring Allen Ginsberg, Fran Leibowitz and Susan Sontag #BookSky #LitFic #Reading
This is depressing. Can we get AI to do the boring stuff please and leave authors to write the novels? #BookSky #AI
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
More than half of UK novelists believe AI will replace their work
A new study by the University of Cambridge found many authors’ work has already been used – without their permission – to train large language models
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November 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
This is depressing. Can we get AI to do the boring stuff please and leave authors to write the novels? #BookSky #AI
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Just read Craig Thompson’s ‘Ginseng Roots’ for an episode on graphic novels, and… wow. It’s a bit zigzagging at times, but the mix of memoir, global politics and cultural history is just so perfectly balanced. Plus, I’ve learned a lot about ginseng! #BookSky #GraphicNovels #Reading
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Just read Craig Thompson’s ‘Ginseng Roots’ for an episode on graphic novels, and… wow. It’s a bit zigzagging at times, but the mix of memoir, global politics and cultural history is just so perfectly balanced. Plus, I’ve learned a lot about ginseng! #BookSky #GraphicNovels #Reading
Day 23 of #NovellasInNovember is THE FOLLOWING STORY by Cees Nooteboom which starts with our narrator mysteriously waking up in a Lisbon hotel room having gone to sleep the night before in his apartment in Amsterdam. A story of infidelity, love rivals, and unbelievable journeys ensues #BookSky
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Day 23 of #NovellasInNovember is THE FOLLOWING STORY by Cees Nooteboom which starts with our narrator mysteriously waking up in a Lisbon hotel room having gone to sleep the night before in his apartment in Amsterdam. A story of infidelity, love rivals, and unbelievable journeys ensues #BookSky
Adding to my TBR 📚 Robin Myers translated another book I enjoyed recently - in the same series, I think? - THE FORGERY by Ave Barrera. Would recommend.
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Adding to my TBR 📚 Robin Myers translated another book I enjoyed recently - in the same series, I think? - THE FORGERY by Ave Barrera. Would recommend.
Days 20/21/22 of #NovellasInNovember are a triptych of compelling speculative stories by RIE QUDAN, BECKY CHAMBERS and OLGA RAVN featuring laconic AIs, adventures in somaforming, and semi-sentient spaceships #BookSky #SciFi
November 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Days 20/21/22 of #NovellasInNovember are a triptych of compelling speculative stories by RIE QUDAN, BECKY CHAMBERS and OLGA RAVN featuring laconic AIs, adventures in somaforming, and semi-sentient spaceships #BookSky #SciFi
📚 EPISODE 23 OUT NOW - Join Amanda and Joseph for another deep dive, this time into Heart the Lover, Lily King’s tale of first loves and lost opportunities. Plus, as always, they talk about their recent reads and discuss the titles they’re keen to pick up next #BookSky
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November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
📚 EPISODE 23 OUT NOW - Join Amanda and Joseph for another deep dive, this time into Heart the Lover, Lily King’s tale of first loves and lost opportunities. Plus, as always, they talk about their recent reads and discuss the titles they’re keen to pick up next #BookSky
🎧 tinyurl.com/8awj3n99
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When you know some new bookshelves are overdue #notashelfie #tsundoku
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
When you know some new bookshelves are overdue #notashelfie #tsundoku
Patricia Smith’s The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems has won the National Book Award for Poetry! Read more here: buff.ly/HKCSQQQ
Patricia Smith on How a Poet Ages
Nobody—and I mean NOBODY—warned me about my pubic hair. It glistened for years, springy and sprite, an Ivory Soap-scented welcome mat for lucky episodic visitors. I never gave it much thought, cert…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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I came home this afternoon and was greeted by this. I’m still not completely sure how many of my neighbors were involved.
November 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I came home this afternoon and was greeted by this. I’m still not completely sure how many of my neighbors were involved.
Day 19 of #NovellasInNovember is IN THE CAGE by Henry James which follows an unnamed telegraphist working in a fashionable London neighbourhood who becomes involved in the clandestine relationship of two lovers when she comes across their messages #BookSky #reading
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Day 19 of #NovellasInNovember is IN THE CAGE by Henry James which follows an unnamed telegraphist working in a fashionable London neighbourhood who becomes involved in the clandestine relationship of two lovers when she comes across their messages #BookSky #reading
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@gabbybellot.bsky.social explains why Calvin and Hobbes belongs in the canon.
Why Calvin and Hobbes is Great Literature
“To an editor,” Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, wrote in 2001, “space may be money, but to a cartoonist, space is time. Space provides the tempo and rhythm of th…
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November 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
📚 For anyone still working their way through the Booker Prize shortlist and wondering what AUDITION was all about - we have thoughts #BookSky
Listen to us chat about Katie Kitamura's latest on Episode 18
🎧 tinyurl.com/yc678t7k
Listen to us chat about Katie Kitamura's latest on Episode 18
🎧 tinyurl.com/yc678t7k
November 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
📚 For anyone still working their way through the Booker Prize shortlist and wondering what AUDITION was all about - we have thoughts #BookSky
Listen to us chat about Katie Kitamura's latest on Episode 18
🎧 tinyurl.com/yc678t7k
Listen to us chat about Katie Kitamura's latest on Episode 18
🎧 tinyurl.com/yc678t7k
Savaş has a talent for conjuring up a character in 50 words where it would take most other writers 500.
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Savaş has a talent for conjuring up a character in 50 words where it would take most other writers 500.
My coastal walk is delivering some much needed Winter serotonin this morning. Accompanied on my stroll along the tip of South East England by restauranteur Keith McNally's brilliant memoir I REGRET ALMOST EVERYTHING narrated by Richard E. Grant #BookSky
November 19, 2025 at 7:29 AM
My coastal walk is delivering some much needed Winter serotonin this morning. Accompanied on my stroll along the tip of South East England by restauranteur Keith McNally's brilliant memoir I REGRET ALMOST EVERYTHING narrated by Richard E. Grant #BookSky
Top Five Favourite Documentary Genres
1. Agnès Varda tries to make a documentary
2. Wordless rural/urban scenes with occasional human/animal noises
3. Any Chris Marker doc with a Florence Delay VO
4. Poets being poets
5. Day in the life of a factotum, toilet cleaner, park ranger etc.
1. Agnès Varda tries to make a documentary
2. Wordless rural/urban scenes with occasional human/animal noises
3. Any Chris Marker doc with a Florence Delay VO
4. Poets being poets
5. Day in the life of a factotum, toilet cleaner, park ranger etc.
Top Five Favourite Documentary Genres
1. Filmmakers talking about film, preferably with too many clips.
2. Astonishing family secrets keep tumbling out.
3. French high school students have a debate. (Anything focused on French schools.)
4. Frederick Wiseman.
5. The making of [film of your choice]
1. Filmmakers talking about film, preferably with too many clips.
2. Astonishing family secrets keep tumbling out.
3. French high school students have a debate. (Anything focused on French schools.)
4. Frederick Wiseman.
5. The making of [film of your choice]
Top Five Favourite Documentary Genres
1. Oh wait, it was a Ponzi Scheme all along.
2. Terrible U.S. sportsperson is metaphor for entire country.
3. Unknown crackpot was greatest person who ever lived.
4. Old alcoholics talk about famous old alcoholic.
5. Nature is cute but evil.
1. Oh wait, it was a Ponzi Scheme all along.
2. Terrible U.S. sportsperson is metaphor for entire country.
3. Unknown crackpot was greatest person who ever lived.
4. Old alcoholics talk about famous old alcoholic.
5. Nature is cute but evil.
November 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Top Five Favourite Documentary Genres
1. Agnès Varda tries to make a documentary
2. Wordless rural/urban scenes with occasional human/animal noises
3. Any Chris Marker doc with a Florence Delay VO
4. Poets being poets
5. Day in the life of a factotum, toilet cleaner, park ranger etc.
1. Agnès Varda tries to make a documentary
2. Wordless rural/urban scenes with occasional human/animal noises
3. Any Chris Marker doc with a Florence Delay VO
4. Poets being poets
5. Day in the life of a factotum, toilet cleaner, park ranger etc.