If you like books, you might like this. Book Chat, the brand new podcast from the brilliant Pandora Sykes and I, launched today.
First, some context. Pandora and I met earlier this year when she interviewed me about my novel, Isaac and the Egg. We hit it off over a shared love of books, and were pretty soon exchanging long emails filled with reading recommendations.
So, we decided to start a podcast…
In every episode of Book Chat, Pandora and I each suggest a book we like. We read them. Then, as the title suggests, we chat. The idea is to open up that conversation, and to create a virtual book club where listeners can read along with us and share their thoughts, too.
Book Chat is all about slowdown reading, in that we’re not focusing on the most-hyped new releases. In fact, our one rule is that the books featured have to be more than two years old.
And it’s about slow podcasting, too: we’re only going to be releasing once a month, to give you time to digest each episode – and to read the books we’re talking about in the next one.
It’s a passion project for us, so we really hope you enjoy it. In our inaugural episode, we’re discussing Tin Man by Sarah Winman and Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin.