We've resurfaced!

Even though we haven't exactly been super busy reading behind the scenes, we figured we'd bring everyone back to speed with a recap of what we've been reading and doing for the past year. Our favourite reads, most surprising books of 2023, DNFs, reading goals for 2024... you know the drill.

Also, if anyone asks what we got each other for our 2023 Book Box, the answer is we don't know; we're late and have bad memories.

So, uh, it's been a while.

We figured we should release something to let you know where we've been and what we've been reading. And to give some life updates and let you know where this podcast is going.

We're not officially back from our hiatus (although we never really announced that we were on a hiatus... so were we ever officially on one?). But we felt like chatting about books! So here we are.

We hope your reading is going well, too :)

cw: pet loss, talk of mental illness

Listen, I think we just needed to have a chill episode.

So, here it is. A chill episode.

Vee talks about an old favourite, Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison, and thinks about how books change over time and reveal new secrets with age.

Jess discusses the importance and heartbreaking reality of This Place: 150 Years Retold, a graphic novel exploring the last 150 years of so-called Canada through the lens of Indigenous voices and experiences.