Episode 18: Food for the Soul

<p>Our longest episode yet! Perry and David discuss the Australian bushfire crisis and look back at the best books they read in 2019:</p> <ul><li>Australian bushfire crisis</li> <li>Overview of 2019 reading -- David</li> <li>Overview of 2020 reading -- Perry</li> <li>SF & Fantasy -- David <ul><li>Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis</li> <li>Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman</li> <li>The Power by Naomi Alderman</li> <li>The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North</li> <li>The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North</li> </ul> </li> <li>SF -- Perry <ul><li>Blackfish City</li> <li>Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson</li> <li>The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal</li> <li>Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury</li> <li>Embers of War by Gareth Powell</li> </ul> </li> <li>Honourable Mentions -- Perry</li> <li>Honourable Mentions -- David</li> <li>Fantasy -- Perry <ul><li>Summerlong by Peter S. Beagle</li> <li>Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik</li> <li>Fire And Blood by George R. R Martin</li> <li>Witchmark by C. L. Polk</li> </ul> </li> <li>Literary Fiction -- David <ul><li>Standard Ebooks</li> <li>Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells</li> <li>Middlemarch by George Eliot</li> <li>All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr</li> <li>Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton</li> <li>Honourable Mentions -- David</li> </ul> </li> <li>Literary Fiction -- Perry <ul><li>To the Islands by Randolph Stowe</li> <li>Possession by A. S. Byatt</li> <li>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon</li> <li>The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway</li> <li>The Plains by Gerald Murnane</li> <li>Honourable Mentions -- Perry</li> </ul> </li> <li>Horror -- Perry <ul><li>Experimental Film by Gemma Files</li> <li>Doctor Sleep by Stephen King</li> <li>The Outsider by Stephen King</li> </ul> </li> <li>Crime/Thriller -- David <ul><li>The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn</li> <li>Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. Braddon</li> <li>Moskva by Jack Grimwood<