What we’re reading

In this episode, Eve and Corinne discuss a favorite topic among translators: books, and what we’re reading: what genres we enjoy, how we make time for reading, how we choose new books, what formats we enjoy and don’t enjoy reading or listening to, how we track what we read, and book recommendations for our listeners!

Websites mentioned in this episode:

Eve’s Global Reads book club
Real Simple magazine’s best books of 2020, and 2021
Letterfolk’s Book Passport (“another book in the books”)
Boulder Book Store (our local, independent bookstore!)
Librairie Gourmande, an all-cookbook bookstore in Paris
Peppercorn, a cooking store that sells cookbooks in Boulder, Colorado
The Tattered Cover, a large independent bookstore in Denver, Colorado
The Read Queen bookstore and cafe in Lafayette, Colorado
Articles on the closing of the iconic Paris bookstore Gibert Jeune, in English and in French

Our book recommendations (we are deliberately not including links, so that you can purchase them from the outlet of your choice!)

Transformations: Harriet and Helena Scott, Colonial Sydney’s Finest Natural History Painters by Vanessa Finney
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
My Life in France by Julia Child
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston
This Close to Okay: A Novel by Leesa Cross-Smith
It Would be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo
French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris by Scott Dominic Carpenter
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott H. Young
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Humans, by Brandon Stanton
The Translator, by Nina Schuyler
Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe
L’Arabe du futur/The Arab of the Future, by Riad Sattouf
Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light (Henry VIII trilogy) by Hilary Mantel
A Place of Greater Safety, by Hilary Mantel
Icebound, by Andrea Pitzer
Good Words Fast, by Oliver Dirs
Pancakes in Paris, by Craig Carlson
All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr