EP32: The books you love with all your hearts

Live from the Book Shop: John Updike's Ghost

It's a jam-packed episode this week, as Hannah is knee-deep in sticky (sorry, POST-IT) notes full of the books we and you love with all your hearts. It's a bit of Valentine's Day fun that has taken on a life of its own in the Book Shop windows, thanks to Twitter (a friendly wasteland), and offers up some great suggestions for books to check out that you might love, too. Can you believe Hannah has never read "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"? That done, we get into a long discussion of works in translation and whether translators get enough credit, Murakami's brand of humility that makes Hannah feel bad (also, Kotaro Watanabe is sorta famous, with lots of voiceover credits, but Sam probably hadn't actually heard of him), and a book about going on a writers' retreat only to get murdered (side note: Jericho is on Route 15 not Route 25 and Amtrak does appear to come near to Burlington, anyway). But there's more! Hannah's reading the feminist dystopia "Ice," though she doesn't know why; Sam's starting the late Russell Banks' last novel ("Affliction" is probably the movie Hannah's remembering); and we're celebrating the three-year anniversary of signing the papers on the Shop!