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Episode 50: What We Read In November

Ep. 50

The Books Boys turn 50! I think that's how it works. Welcome back for our November reviews. Dean and Alex have both read some Guy De Maupassant, plus Dean goes back to his old faithful Dickens' deputy, and we have some feminist discussion from Virginia Woolf. 


Books discussed include:


- Our Hearts (Guy De Maupassant, 1883)

- Une Vie / A Life (Guy De Maupassant, 1883)

- Dr Heraclius Gloss (Guy De Maupassant, 1921)

- A Room Of One's Own (Virginia Woolf, 1929)

- Man And Wife (Wilkie Collins, 1870)

- Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe, 1722)

- Thérèse Desqueyroux (François Mauriac, 1927)

- The End Of The Night (François Mauriac, 1935)

- Surrounded By Idiots (Thomas Erikson, 2014)

 

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