It's a Charlie Thing

Will Send Noods for Books

Today we're seeing if our favourite books from 2018 - the year we first discovered one another's existence - are still favourites today. Books Mentioned: Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb The Hoarder by Jess Kidd The Management Style of the Supreme Beings by Tom Holt Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile Driven by Dane Cobain The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith Dying in Other Words by Maggie Gee The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery Emma by Jane Austen A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Love Simon by Becky Albertalli The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman The Terrible by Yrsa Daley Ward The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Wild Embers by Nikita Gill The Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Flames by Robbie Arnott Potato by Rebecca Earle All the Names Given by Raymond Antrobus Signs, Music by Raymond Antrobus Cursed Daughter by Oyinkan Braithwaite The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson The Book of Birds by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King by JRR Tolkien Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart Fruit Fly by Josh Silver ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Super Massive Ultra Book Haul Storytime Extravaganza

Charlie and Charlie catch up with each other and chat about the books they've hauled. Hear about all the celebrations for Mrs Heathcote's birthday, and how Charlie B saved a bird at a car boot sale. Books Mentioned: Like a Cat Loves a Bird by James Bailey The Gabriel Hounds by Mary Stewart The Echoing Grove by Rosamund Lehmann Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio No Future by Paul Cornell The English Way of Death by Gareth Roberts I'll Never be Young Again by Daphne du Maurier Mary-Anne by Daphne du Maurier Fruit Fly by Josh Silver My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy Glyph by Ali Smith The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

We React to AITA Posts

The Charlies react to AITA posts all about books. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Can You Read With All The Colours of a Charlie?

This week, the Charlies tested themselves to see what colour readers they are. However, they might not have agreed with the findings. Books Mentioned: My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner Long Island by Colm Toibin The Whisperwicks: The Vanished Key by Jordan Lees To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien The Guardian and the Thief by Megha Majumdar Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly Green Dot by Madeleine Gray Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Charlie Fiddles with Technology

In which we talk about expectations in books, and how blurbs can be deceptive. Books Mentioned: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson The Little Friend by Donna Tartt Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli Limberlost by Robbie Arnott The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson The Whisperwicks: The Vanished Key by Jordan Lees Lublin by Manya Wilkinson The House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurier A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon This House of Burning Bones by Stuart MacBride ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.