Speed-reviewing everything we read in 2024

Welcome back to Espresso Epilogues, a podcast where two besties talk about books over coffee. It's time to speed-review everything we read in 2024 (okay, almost everything). We tried to keep summaries and reviews to around a minute each, so if you're looking for book recs, you're about to get a whole lot of them. Here are all the books mentioned: Clara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro Good Material - Dolly Alderton Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 - Cho Nam-ju The Rachel Incident - Carolin o’Donoghue A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro  Ghosts - Dolly Alderton Conversations on Love - Natasha Lunn Kierkegaard: A Single Life - Stephen Backhouse? Boy Parts - Elisa Clark The Symposium - Plato Milkfed - Melissa Broder Transparent Things - Vladimir Nabokov My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante Story of a New Name - Elena Ferrante Essays in Love - Alain de Botton Perfume - Patrick Suskind Indelicacy - Amina Kane Yellow Face - R.F. Kuang Ask the Dust - John Fante Almond - Sohn Won-Pyung The Lost Daughter - Elena Ferrante The Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante The Age of Magical Overthinking - Amanda Montell Killers of the flower moon - David Grann Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov The Wager - David Grann Your Story is Your Power - Elle Luna & Susie Herrick Design Your Life: Your Career, Your Way - Erifili Gounari Thank you for listening! Connect with us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ for memes and other good things ;) For partnerships, ideas or feedback: [email protected]