Season 1, Episode 2

Written By Amy Lovat

In this episode... in defence of the beauty of hate-watching Twilight (don't hate us coz you ain't us), secret questions to test the strength of our relationship, and we share our top 5 desert island favourite books of all time, as inspired by High Fidelity (the novel by Nick Hornby and subsequent movie starring John Cusack and Hulu show with the babetown Zoe Kravitz).

Books mentioned in the show:

  • Felicity by Mary Oliver

  • Hold Your Own by Kae Tempest

  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

  • Tonight I'm Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson

  • High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

  • Insomnic City by Bill Hayes

  • Animal People by Charlotte Wood

  • Hot Little Hands by Abigail Ulman

  • Betty by Tiffany McDaniel

  • White Oleander by Janet Fitch

Thanks for listening to Reading makes you better (in bed) by Amy + Laura from Secret Book Stuff. You can find us at www.secretbookstuff.com or @secretbookstuff on Instagram.

This podcast is recorded on unceded Awabakal and Gadigal Country. We pay our respects to elders past, present and future. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.

Amy Lovat

Amy Lovat is a freelance writer, editor and academic based in Australia. She has a PhD in English (Creative Writing) and her first novel, Halfway to Nowhere, was shortlisted for the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Prize in 2017. She is the creator of the random act of kindness project Secret Book Stuff, and founder of the Newcastle-based blog Cool People Doing Cool Things.

http://www.amylovat.com
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