On Broken Spine Social Club, host Zoe Yohn (reader, writer, friend) sits down with the people in her life to chat about their favorite books. No book is off lim...
With 38 books bagged, which were my favorite reads of 2024? I take you through the top 5 books I read this past year, figuring out what my literary theme of 2024 was (hint: nature. A lot of nature.), as well as diving into a few of my not-so-favorite books I managed to get through before year-end! SHOP BOOKS OF THE POD:https://bookshop.org/lists/books-of-the-podINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/bsscpod Best books, favorite books, book recommendations, book club, reading, reading goals, Goodreads, 2024 review, year-in-review
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Episode 25: Priest with FluentlyForward
Oh Father! Shannon of FluentlyForward and I go deep - no pun intended - on Sierra Simone’s ‘Priest’, the spicy story of Father Tyler Bell, a man of the cloth who ditches his when the beautiful Poppy Danforth joins his small town Kansas parish. What makes spicy writing spicy, when is it *not* spicy, and special feature Sin-O-Meter ranking your fave fictional priests! SHOP BOOKS OF THE POD:https://bookshop.org/lists/books-of-the-podINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/bsscpod Sierra Simone, priest, romance, romance books, book club, book chat
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Episode 24: Into the Wild with My Book Friend Lucy
In 1990, Emory graduate Chris McCandless donated his life savings and took off to wander the American West. In 1992, McCandless's remains were found in the back of a bus in the Alaskan bush. The seminal “Into the Wild,” by investigative journalist, climber, and outdoorsman Jon Krakauer attempts to uncover not *what* happened to the off-grid adventurer, but *why* McCandless took off on his own. And from the safety of cozy couch, accompanied by white wine and hot water bottles, two routine-driven girls discuss the same. SHOP BOOKS OF THE POD:https://bookshop.org/lists/books-of-the-podINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/bsscpod Chris McCandless, True Crime, Books, Nature, Nature Writing, Book Club, Adventure Story, Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, Into Thin Air
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Episode 23: A Very Very Very Dark Matter with My Work Wife Clíona
You may know him from the Oscars circuit for films such as “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri” or “The Banshees of Inishierin”. But my work wife Cliona knows him (albeit, slightly mistakenly) as “that local fella” who wrote the plays her Grannie and Aunt took her to in Galway. Today we are talking Hans Christen Andersen, colonialism, and Phoebe Waller Bridge along with Martin McDonough’s very very very funny 2018 play, “A Very Very Very Dark Matter”. SHOP BOOKS OF THE POD:https://bookshop.org/lists/books-of-the-podINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/bsscpod Books, Literature, Culture, Book Club, Books to Read, Favorite Books, Best Books, Plays, Theatre
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Episode 22: A Sand County Almanac with My Nature Friend Alyssa
Calm and calamity meet when my nature friend Alyssa Armbruster joins the podcast to discuss her favorite read, 1949’s ‘A Sand County Almanac’ by naturalist and conservationist, Aldo Leopold. Alyssa and I chat about how to define nature in a contemporary context, how to live seasonally, and the steps we can all take to live Leopold’s ‘Land Ethic’. SHOP BOOKS OF THE POD:https://bookshop.org/lists/books-of-the-podINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/bsscpod nature, ecology, environmental sciences, natural resources, Aldo Leopold, conservation
On Broken Spine Social Club, host Zoe Yohn (reader, writer, friend) sits down with the people in her life to chat about their favorite books. No book is off limits, and from high modernism to high fantasy, Zoe covers it all, getting to the heart of what makes a story last beyond the final page.
Her guests bring her a new read each week, and together, they explore how the books we love shape us on an hour-long podcast that’s a little amateur literary analysis, and a lot of casual conversation between buds.
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