Tea or Books? #83: Comfort Zones (Yes or No?) and Two Willa Cather Novels

Comfort zones, comfort novels, and two novels by Willa Cather – welcome to episode 83! In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I talk about whether or not we have comfort zones when it comes to reading –

Comfort zones, comfort novels, and two novels by Willa Cather – welcome to episode 83!

In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I talk about whether or not we have comfort zones when it comes to reading – and what our comfort reading is, which isn’t quite the same question. In the second half, we pit two Willa Cather novels against each other: A Lost Lady and Lucy Gayheart.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel

The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart

Tension by E.M. Delafield

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

Denis Mackail

Rose Macaulay

Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm

Virginia Woolf

Gertrude Stein

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Two Lives by Janet Malcolm

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Remarkable Life of the Skin by Monty Lyman

Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Love Child by Edith Olivier

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The People on the Bridge by Wisława Szymborska

Circe by Madeleine Miller

Miss Read

Agatha Christie

Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill

The Illustrated Dustjacket 1920-1970 by Martin Salisbury

Penguin By Design by Phil Baines

When I Was A Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson

The Child That Books Built by Francis Spufford

The Road to Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead

The Shelf by Phyllis Rose

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Phantoms on the Bookshelves by Jacques Bonnet

A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel

The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel

Packing My Library by Alberto Manguel

Jorge Luis Borges

The Professor’s House by Willa Cather

Alexander’s Bridge by Willa Cather

So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather

Death Comes to the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Aunt Mame by Patrick Dennis

Her Son’s Wife by Dorothy Canfield Fisher