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Episode 6: Book Club FOOD!

In this episode of Book Clubbin, we’re chatting all about book club food. We discuss why food is necessary for book club, and what foods have been served at our book club. We do a “lightning round” of some ideas of what to serve with other popular books to help get you thinking. Sallie shares how she combats the “we’re so busy” mindset, and as always, the episode ends with our current reading situation. 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

6:42 These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy E. Turner
7:54 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
9:19 A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 
9:55 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
11:20 The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
11:58 The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright
12:48 The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
13:32 The Road Back to You by Ian Cron
16:24 We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
18:08 Educated by Tara Westover
21:44 Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: What You Should and Shouldn’t Cook From Scratch -- Over 120 Recipes for the Best Homemade Foods by Jennifer Reese
23:23 The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
24:14 Becoming by Michelle Obama
24:44 Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
26:03 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
26:33 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
27:32 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
28:17 The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
29:55 Wild by Cheryl Strayed
30:50 The Help by Kathryn Stockett
31:22 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
32:57 The Windfall by Diksha Basu
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

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