Season 1, Episode 9

In this episode we introduce a brand new segment called 'The quick and dirty' with the latest fun book news you need to know! We also share our top tips on how to get out of a reading slump, our thoughts on the recent Cruel Intentions Musical that came to Sydney, AND we reveal our August book club choice: Salt & Skin by Eliza Henry Jones, which is set in Scotland, and we'll be in Scotland for the virtual book club next month, with Eliza Henry Jones as our guest!

Books mentioned in the show:

The New Yorker magazine
Cat Person by Kirsten Roupenian
The Twenty-seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race by Morris Lurie
The Twits by Roald Dahl
George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
Rowan of Rin by Emily Rodda
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
The Babysitter's Club
Ally's World by Karen McCombie
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Two Weeks with the Queen by Morris Gleitzman
The Folk of the Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton
You by Caroline Kepnes
Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor
Tonight I'm Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Audiobooks mentioned in the show:

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
My Thoughts Exactly by Lily Allen
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Back, After the Break by Osher Gunsberg
This May Hurt a Little by Busy Phillips

TV Shows mentioned in the show:

You (Netflix)

Movies mentioned in the show:

Cruel Intentions

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 land. 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a PhD in English (Creative Writing) and her first novel, Halfway to Nowhere, was shortlisted for the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Prize in 2017.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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