The Book Case’s Best of Summer Review

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.7 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes we look back on a season of great podcasts (humble podcasts hosts that we are) and consider what we like best within a season. Today, we look at the summer that was. From the great epistolary novel, The Correspondent by Virginia Evans to non-stop laughs with Dave Barry to the magical world of Leigh Bardugo, there is something for everyone in this episode. Join us as we look back on a truly great summer of reading. Plus we hear from the owners of the recently opened Cranford Bookstore in Cranford, NJ. Find books mentioned on The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned on this week's episode: Six of Crows Duology: Six of Crows & Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo Class Clown by Dave Barry Vianne by Joanne Harris The Correspondent by Virginia Evans Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst Queen Esther by John Irving-On Sale 11/4/25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm John Quignores.
0:02.0	Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old soldier,
0:05.0	vanishes while on duty at an Army base in Texas.
0:09.0	Her family demands answers.
0:12.0	How can she go missing on a military base?
0:14.0	That's too ridiculous.
0:16.0	The search goes on for months.
0:19.0	Where is Vanessa? And a dark story starts to unfold.
0:25.6	She told her family that she was being sexually harassed
0:29.6	and wasn't reporting it out of fear of retribution and retaliation.
0:34.6	What investigators finally uncover is horrifying.
0:40.0	Find out how one soldier, a beloved sister and daughter, ignited a movement and sparked
0:46.5	a reckoning in the U.S. military.
0:50.0	Listen to Vanished.
0:51.7	What happened to Vanessa?
0:53.6	A new series from ABC Audio in 2020. Listen now,
0:58.1	wherever you get your podcasts.
1:04.5	Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back to the podcast, The Bookcase with Kate and Charlie.
1:13.8	We're happy to have you with us. Hope you can stay with us for the rest of this podcast.
1:19.6	Yes, we do hope you can stay with us for the rest of the podcast, and it takes three welcome
1:23.9	backs to welcome you back or welcome you for the first time. We would love to welcome you for the first time. We welcome any and all listeners. And I am the Kate part of the duo.
1:33.5	If you can't stay with us, what's the whole point of this? But we will hope you stay with us.
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