Episode 83: Shelf Control

This week’s episode is all about . . . books! To be specific, Trevor and Paul chat about their book shelves, diving into all kinds of fun topics. How many books do they own? Where do they keep them? How are they organized? Buying and culling habits? Even better, this episode features A LOT of great listener feedback as well. It’s the perfect chance to get nosey about your fellow bibliophiles!

Summer Book Club

The book for the Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 is William Trevor’s The Story of Lucy Gault. You can start reading it whenever you want to! We have lined up a guest to join us to discuss the book in Episode 86, coming out on August 8.

Shownotes

Books

* CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, by George Saunders

* Any Person Is the Only Self, by Elisa Gabbert

* The Unreality of Memory, by Elisa Gabbert

* The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros

* Pilgrimage, by Dorothy Richardson

* Treasure Island!!!, by Sara Levine

* Ride a Cockhorse, by Raymond Kennedy

* After Claude, by Iris Owens

* The Towers of Trebizond, by Rose Macaulay

* South Riding, by Winifred Holtby

* O Caledonia, by Elspeth Barker

* Lolly Willowes, by Sylvia Townsend Warner

* Silas Marner, by George Eliot

* Scenes of Clerical Life, by George Eliot

* Romola, by George Eliot

* Felix Holt, by George Eliot

* Middlemarch, by George Eliot

* Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot

* Mining the Skirts of Light: Essays on George Eliot, by Rohan Maitzen

The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you’ll continue to join us!

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