Sarah is reading The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward, Sophie is deep into Golden Son by Pierce Brown, and Sallie is working through Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J. Tuli.

We're also bringing our first offerings to the table — Sarah recommends Piglet by Lottie Hazell, Sallie makes the case for Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers, and Sophie champions Red Rising by Pierce Brown.

Then we get into our first theme: reading goals. Do we set them? Do we keep them?

And we kick off our A Little Life read along with chapter one reactions.

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Show music adapted from “What A Wonderful Day” by Shane Ivers (silvermansound.com) and licensed under creative commons BY 4.0

Artwork by Keith Kilpin

Produced by Oscar Rogers

Other books mentioned this episode

• People in the Trees — Hanya Yanagihara
• To Be Taught If Fortunate — Becky Chambers
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet — Becky Chambers
• The Galaxy and the Ground Within — Becky Chambers
• Shark Heart — Emily Habeck
• Priory of the Orange Tree — Samantha Shannon
• Legends and Lattes — Travis Baldree
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold — Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• The Housekeeper and the Professor — Yoko Ogawa
• To Paradise — Hanya Yanagihara