32 - Finding Comfort in Narrative

Overdueing It: The Rhode Island Library Podcast

We're back! On this hostful episode, Lauren, Emily, and Dave dig into their approach to comfort reads. They also discuss engaging ideas in nonfiction and the need for intermissions in long movies and TV episodes. In the Last Chapter they spill some tea: What's a book you did not finish and what made you dump that book?

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Books My Friends by Fredrik Backman The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler I Want to Burn This Place Down by Maris Kreizman Democracy's Data by Dan Bouk The Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi Browse books by Sarah Dessen The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Mi-ye Yi The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie All Systems Red by Martha Wells Set My Heart to Five by Simon Stephenson Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz East of Eden by John Steinbeck A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Media The Naked Gun (2025) Mickey 17 (2025) Anne with an E (2017-19) WondLa (2024- )