Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read a book of literary criticism/history about Gustave Flaubert that (suprise!) turns out to be a novel that's not really about a bird at all (or is it?) - Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
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Stuff We Talked About
- Julian Barnes interview in the Paris Review
- BBC podcast on Flaubert's Parrot
- Barnes on Flaubert at 200 in the LRB
- The always invaluable Pushing Ahead of the Dame
- Buddha of Suburbia
What Are We Reading?
Greg:
- Means of Ascent by Robert Caro (Little Free Library find!)
- The Everlasting by Katy Simpson Smith
- Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino
- No One Else by R. Kikuo Johnson
Kristianne:
- When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
- Little Foxes Took Up Matches by Katya Kazbek
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
Shout to Phoenix Books in San Luis Obispo and Monarch Books in Arroyo Grande!
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
In Between the Sheets - Ian McEwan