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Episode 19 (part 2)
Ep. 19
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Books (and plays) discussed include:
- Far Away (Carol Churchill, 2000)
- Lost Illusions (Honoré de Balzac (1837-43)
- The Marriage Contract (Balzac, 1835)
- The Marquess's Daughter (Alexandre Dumas, 1870)
- The Kindness Workbook (Robin Raven, 2021)
- Sidelined: How Women Manage & Mismanage Their Health (Susan Salenger, 2022)
- Samurais of Fukushima: The Battle Of The Dead (Hugo Cukurs, 2018)
- Peer Gynt; Ghosts (Henrik Ibsen, 1867; 1882)
- A Monster Calls( Patrick Ness, 2011)
- Hans (comics, 1980-2000)
- The Reader (Bernhard Schlink, 1995)
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