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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This is going to be interesting for me: not a big fan of graphic novels, so there's certainly room for improvement 😁 at my end.
Happy to jump in today!
#BookSky
Happy to jump in today!
#BookSky
📚🎧 EPISODE 24 OUT NOW - join us as we talk about our favourite graphic novels, this year’s National Book Award winners, reading Stephen King for the first time, radical exteriority, and men in publishing #BookSky
December 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is going to be interesting for me: not a big fan of graphic novels, so there's certainly room for improvement 😁 at my end.
Happy to jump in today!
#BookSky
Happy to jump in today!
#BookSky
📚🎧 EPISODE 24 OUT NOW - join us as we talk about our favourite graphic novels, this year’s National Book Award winners, reading Stephen King for the first time, radical exteriority, and men in publishing #BookSky
December 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
📚🎧 EPISODE 24 OUT NOW - join us as we talk about our favourite graphic novels, this year’s National Book Award winners, reading Stephen King for the first time, radical exteriority, and men in publishing #BookSky
For the final day of #NovellasInNovember Adania Shibli’s MINOR DETAIL is a stark novella set between 1949 and the present, pairing a clinical first section detailing a murder committed by Israeli soldiers, with a second half in which a Palestinian woman methodically retraces that crime #BookSky
November 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
For the final day of #NovellasInNovember Adania Shibli’s MINOR DETAIL is a stark novella set between 1949 and the present, pairing a clinical first section detailing a murder committed by Israeli soldiers, with a second half in which a Palestinian woman methodically retraces that crime #BookSky
Day 29 of #NovellasInNovember is Eric Vuillard’s THE ORDER OF THE DAY, a taut, acidic reconstruction of the events that eased Hitler’s rise to power. A book about people convincing themselves that appeasement is prudent rather than cowardly #BookSky #LitFic #Reading
November 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Day 29 of #NovellasInNovember is Eric Vuillard’s THE ORDER OF THE DAY, a taut, acidic reconstruction of the events that eased Hitler’s rise to power. A book about people convincing themselves that appeasement is prudent rather than cowardly #BookSky #LitFic #Reading
The Margate Bookshop looking very inviting this morning 📚🥸
November 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The Margate Bookshop looking very inviting this morning 📚🥸
Day 28 of #NovellasInNovember is THE COUNTRY WILL BRING US NO PEACE by Matthieu Simard. After the death of their infant son, Simon and Marie move from Montreal to a remote village, hoping the countryside will soothe their grief. Instead, the silence sharpens it #BookSky #Horror #Reading #LitFic
November 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Day 28 of #NovellasInNovember is THE COUNTRY WILL BRING US NO PEACE by Matthieu Simard. After the death of their infant son, Simon and Marie move from Montreal to a remote village, hoping the countryside will soothe their grief. Instead, the silence sharpens it #BookSky #Horror #Reading #LitFic
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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
www.theguardian.com
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