Juliet and Amanda’s 2023 Book Recommendations | Jam Session

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🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The ladies return with a special episode of Jam Session and their 2023 book recommendations! They break down some of the few books that didn’t hit all the marks for their taste (0:42), discuss the ways in which current modern literary fiction is being portrayed (6:49), share their 2023 book recommendations (11:29), and finally share which books they are most looking forward to reading this year! (29:31) Hosts: Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins Producer: Jade Whaley See book recommendations below. Amanda's Recommendations Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai and The English Understand Wool Jennifer Egan, The Candy House Michael Schulman, Oscar Wars Rumaan Alam, Leave The World Behind, Plum Sykes, Party Girls Die In PearlsEmma Cline, The Guest Viet Thanh Nyugen, The Sympathizer Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood Juliet's Recommendations Anderson Cooper, The Vanderbilts Candice Millard, Destiny of the Republic Hampton Sides, Hellhound on His Trail Sophie Cousen, This Time Next Year Jennifer Egan, Manhattan BeachAnn Napolitano, Hello Beautiful Tessa Hadley, The Past Peng Shepherd, The Cartographers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Erica Ramirez, founder of Illy, and host of What About Your Friends, a podcast
0:05.8	dedicated to the many lives of friendship and how it's portrayed in pop culture.
0:09.7	Every Wednesday on the Ringer Dish Feed, I talk to my best friends, Stephen Othello, and
0:13.4	your favorites from within the ringer and beyond about friendships on TV, in movies, pop
0:17.8	culture, and our real lives.
0:19.5	So join me every Wednesday on the Ringer Dish Feed, where we try to answer the question
0:22.8	TLC asked back in the day.
0:24.8	What about your friends?
0:30.0	Our next session is our Summer Books Extravaganza, I'm Juliet Littman, I'm Amanda Dobbins,
0:35.7	Amanda, it's one of our favorite topics, books, we love to read.
0:39.9	We do love to read.
0:40.9	We like to talk to each other about books, I recently saw the film book club too, Juliet,
0:45.5	are you?
0:46.5	Oh, how was that?
0:47.5	I planned to see that, how was it?
0:48.5	You planned to see it, interesting.
0:50.9	I would not say it's the best film that I have seen this year, however it does feature
0:56.9	Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Marystein Bergen, and Diane Keaton, traveling to Italy, and
1:05.4	very nominally mentioning three books that they read as a part of their book club.
1:10.4	What were they?
1:11.4	The three books, thanks so much for asking, because I made a list.
1:14.5	There was actually one where I didn't, they moved so quickly that I didn't recognize
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