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Episode 45: What We Read In June

Ep. 45

 Back from their galivanting, Dean & Alex are here to talk about their June reads! Dean's books are surprisingly similar and naturalistic, Alex gets mad at Kafka, and author C.L. Lauder (cllauder.com) surprises us with a call-in! 


Books discussed include:

- The Quelling (C.L. Lauder, 2024)

- Winterset Hollow (again!) (Jonathan Durham, 2021)

- Metamorphosis & Other Stories (Franz Kafta, 1915)

- The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer, 1387-1400)

- Kipps (H.G. Wells, 1905)

- Nana (Émile Zola, 1880)

- Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser, 1900)

- Dubliners (James Joyce, 1914)


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