Year-End Roundup

Here’s to you, 2023. A year of reading and watching (mostly reading for Rea, a LOT of watching for Jess, and the usual extensive amount of both for Joseph). We’re recapping our goals for 2023, how they went, and what we loved most in 2023. We also mention Taylor Alison Swift a lot, because we recorded this episode on her birthday. Happy birthday to Taylor, happy end of year to us, and we’ll see you in 2024!

---

Things we love:

• Storygraph

• Letterboxd

• SCPL’s Adult Winter Reading program

Titles Rea mentioned:

• Great British Bake Off, produced by Love Productions

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Wellness by Nathan Hill

• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

• Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, directed by Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley

• Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig

• Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, directed by Sam Wrench

• Above Ground by Clint Smith

• The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln

• A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

• Babel by R. F. Kuang

Titles Joseph mentioned:

• Trust by Hernan Diaz

• Dubliners by James Joyce

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

• The Bear, created by Christopher Storer

• Slow Horses by Mick Herron

• The Neapolitan Saga by Elena Ferrante

• The Worst Person in the World, directed by Joachim Trier

• Decision to Leave, directed by Park Chan-wook

• Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock

• Petite Manan, directed by Céline Sciamma

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire, directed by Céline Sciamma

• The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen

• The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

Titles Jess mentioned:

• Attack the Block, directed by Joe Cornish

• Iron Flame & The Fourth Wing, both written by Rebecca Yarros

• Reservation Dogs, created by Sterlin Harjo

• The Aaron Falk trilogy by Jane Harper

• The Imperial Radch trilogy by Ann Leckie

• The Comet Cycle by Benjamin Percy

• The Seven-Year Itch, directed by Billy Wilder

• The final speech in The Great Director, directed by Charlie Chaplin

• The opening credits of After Yang, directed by Kogonada

• The final scene of Saltburn, directed by Emerald Fennell

• Spectre, directed by Sam Mendes

• Russian Ark, directed by Alexander Sokorov

• The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

• Translation State by Ann Leckie

• The Jewish Deli: An Illustrated Guide to the Chosen Food by Ben Nadler

Find them in SCPL’s catalog by clicking here!

---

---

Our music: “Budding” by Broke for Free, available through a Creative Commons License