Curious Readers Podcast
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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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Just finishing The Correspondent by Virginia Evans and about to start The Written World: Essays and Reviews by Irish novelist Kevin Power.
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Just finishing The Correspondent by Virginia Evans and about to start The Written World: Essays and Reviews by Irish novelist Kevin Power.
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
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
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
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
🎧 tinyurl.com/8awj3n99
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
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
📚 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
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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
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
Day 18 of #NovellasInNovember is THE GOVERNESSES by Anne Serre which follows three governesses in an isolated country mansion as they prepare a party for their young male wards. An initially deceptively simple story which slowly becomes an unnerving fable about control and sexual desire #BookSky
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Day 18 of #NovellasInNovember is THE GOVERNESSES by Anne Serre which follows three governesses in an isolated country mansion as they prepare a party for their young male wards. An initially deceptively simple story which slowly becomes an unnerving fable about control and sexual desire #BookSky