On November 25th Kasie and Rex were back in the studio with a plan to get on the same page in 2024. Here are the show notes:

Theme for the day

Read Better: the 6 book challenge

Agenda

• Where ya’ll been?
• What are you reading?
• Why challenge each other?
• What are the rules?

Segment 1

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We’ve had the last three weeks to do something other than this on Saturday mornings and I gotta say, this is a better use of my time (laughing emoji). 

November 4th was Storyfest and that was awesome.

November 11th was the SC Libertarian Party state convention and that was interesting.

November 18th Kasie went Clemsoning.

So we’re back here, live on November 25th and we’ve decided to challenge one another to read better books. Really we just want to have read some of the same books. Longtime listeners know we have a few go-tos: Gone With the Wind, The Great Gatsby, Star Wars. But other references are a little one-sided.

So we’ve decided in 2024 to get on the same page with at least 12 books. So I’ll challenge Rex to 6 and he’ll challenge me to 6. Today’s show we reveal what those books will be. Should be fun.

So here’s the list:

Kasie gave Rex:

Wicked, by Gregory Maguire

The Floatplane Notebooks, by Clyde Edgerton

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers

The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff

The Lords of Discipline, by Pat Conroy

A Promise of Fire, by Amanda Bouchet

And Rex gave Kasie:

1984, by George Orwell

A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess

Day of the Locust, by Nathanael West

Ladies in the Parlor, by Jim Tully

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, by John LeCarré

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov