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Book Recs and Rules on the Bayou

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Today's episode is quite spicy! Get it? Bayou? New Orleans? Cajun? Sorry...

ANYWAY! Jill is going to New Orleans for ALA so we're handing out book recs set in the Big Easy. We then dive into a very important conversation about our own personal book rules. Have book rules of your own? Join our Reading Community on Viber and let us know about them! https://vb.me/pbn

Books mentioned in this episode:

Interview with the Vampire & The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Preacher by Garth Ennis

Hot Blooded by Lisa Jackson

Voodoo Season by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

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