The FULL EPISODE is here!

It feels more than right to read a dystopian lit fic right now, given the state of the world. And this one is a doozy - we talk a lot about the fact we don't recommend reading this alone. There's a lot to unpack, and it reminds us that it's important to have friends close by to lean on for memories, insight into what the heck the author means, and in case you're feeling like abandoning your novel. We will talk about all that in more in our episode on The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. Grab a warm beverage and take a listen. Have your own thoughts? Let us know! Submit a footnote!

For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod, on tiktok @bookedonsundays, and on substack @bookdonsundays. That is a wrap on Season 3, thank you so much for reading with us and listening to our many many words! We will catch up with you next year for Season 4! In the meantime, don't forget to book your Sundays!

The Memory Police book blurb:

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses—until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten.

When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards. As fear and loss close in around them, they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past.

A surreal, provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language.

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It feels more than right to read a dystopian lit fic right now, given the state of the world. And this one is a doozy - we talk a lot about the fact we don't recommend reading this alone. There's a lot to unpack, and it reminds us that it's important to have friends close by to lean on for memories, insight into what the heck the author means, and in case you're feeling like abandoning your novel. We will talk about all that in more in our SPOILER FREE episode on The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. Grab a warm beverage and take a listen. Have your own thoughts? Let us know! Submit a footnote!

For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod, on tiktok @bookedonsundays, and on substack @bookdonsundays. Don't disappear just yet, tune in to our full episode The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, coming soon! In the meantime, don't forget to book your Sundays!

The Memory Police book blurb:

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses—until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten.

When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards. As fear and loss close in around them, they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past.

A surreal, provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language.

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Our thoughts are in, the episode is here - it's Katabasis!! The Full Length Episode!!

When the leaves start to change, I always get nostalgic for school. Walking between classes with friends, studying together in the library, happy Friday afternoons chatting about plans for the weekend that obviously include at least two school-sponsored events, and of course journeying to hell to recover a professor with my academic rival, right? Dive into this fantasy, questionably romantic, adventure/academic think-piece with us in our episode on Katabasis by R.F Kuang. Tune in to see if you should read on or hear us descend further into the layers of hell, I mean this book! Have your own thoughts? Let us know! Submit a footnote!

For more bookish content, check us out on instagram @bookedonsundayspod, on tiktok @bookedonsundays, and on substack @bookdonsundays. And tune in next month for our episode on The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. In the meantime, don't forget to book your Sundays!

Katabasis book blurb:

Two graduate students must set aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul, perhaps at the cost of their own.

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality—her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world—that is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands, and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the same conclusion.

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