The Bookstore

I wanted to drop a point that you may not have considered here—you talked about how you don’t understand Singer’s fixation on Antonopoulos, but his fixation on him totally mirrors all of the other characters’ fixation on Singer. They come to him to project all of their thoughts and feelings, never sure how much he understands but reassuring themselves that he understands all. Singer does the same thing to his friend. All of these lonely hearts make a god of Singer, and he in turn does this to Antonopoulos. We can see that Singer is just a man and doesn’t have any more understanding of the world than anyone else, and we can see that Antonopoulos is severely ill and incapable of living up to Singer’s impression of him, and that’s kind of the point.

Juvenile and superficial discussion. ‘Weird to me’ is not a useful critical term.

I enjoy how Becca and Corinne focus on female authors purposefully and also focus on multicultural books. Their intentions are much appreciated. I don’t often enjoy many of the books they feature, but I suppose that’s more my problem. I also like how they have minisodes that don’t necessarily review books. One constructive comment: I think it would be great if they created more of a dialogue with their listeners. They can be a little annoying sometimes when they get giggly. Again, probably more my problem.

If you are announcing a book in advance the audience has time to read it or listen to the archived episode after they have read it. Not discussing the end of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is so disappointing. Avoiding spoilers irritates the listener who spent 50+ mins anticipating a full discussion of the book.