Books & Chat

By: Christina Young
  • Summary

  • Books & Chat 🎙️from Gloucester Book Club 📚 Your perfect literary companion in two formats: ☕ Bitesize Book Bites 10-minute solo episodes featuring: - Quick, thoughtful book reviews - Standout passages worth revisiting - Personal reflections from our club shelves 📖 Book Club Chats 30-minute community conversations with: -Our book club members and occasionally local authors - Lively discussions about themes and characters Be part of our story! Find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts ~ follow to never miss a chapter. Happy reading from our bookshelf to yours!
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Episodes
  • The Bitesize Book Review: We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
    Mar 24 2025

    Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your strange imperfect self?

    Edi and Ash have been best friends for over forty years. Since childhood they have seen each other through life's milestones: stealing vodka from their parents, the Madonna phase, REM concerts, unexpected wakes, marriages, infertility, children. As Ash notes, 'Edi's memory is like the back-up hard drive for mine.'

    So when Edi is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Ash's world reshapes around the rhythms of Edi's care, from chipped ice and watermelon cubes to music therapy; from snack smuggling to impromptu excursions into the frozen winter night. Because life is about squeezing the joy out of every moment, about building a powerhouse of memories, about learning when to hold on, and when to let go.

    For fans of Nora Ephron and Sorrow & Bliss, We All Want Impossible Things is a deeply moving, jubilant celebration of life and friendship at its imperfect, radiant, and irreverent best.



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    11 mins
  • Go As A River by Shelley Read
    Feb 24 2025

    When a moment changes everything, how do you live the rest of your life?
    1940s Colorado: Teenage Victoria Nash is the only woman in a family of troubled men.
    When she meets Wilson Moon, a young drifter with a mysterious past, on a street corner, their connection is immediate. And dangerous.
    But then tragedy strikes, and Victoria is forced to leave her home and face a decision that will change her life forever.
    Loved deeply by readers, this is the epic coming-of-age adventure of Victoria Nash, determined to save her family’s generational peach farm from destruction, as she falls in love, faces devastating tragedy, and finally faces what she must do to survive.

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    32 mins
  • Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
    Jan 31 2025

    an affair between a young Catholic woman and a married Protestant barrister drives this brilliant novel set in 1975 Belfast.





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    32 mins
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