Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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No duds detected - this was a really good reading week. I also open up a piece of book mail and I edited out a long boring complaint about the Booker Prize so thank me later. I hope you had a great week as well.

Booktubers Mentioned:
The Bard Room, hosted by Melinda @awebofstories
Books and Bocadillos, hosted by Mariandrea @books_and_bocadillos



Shows Mentioned:
Slow Horses
The Great British Baking Show

Books Mentioned:
The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei, translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich
How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
The Original by Nell Stevens
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
The Animal on the Rock by Daniela Tarazona