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Well, well, well, if it isn't us us us and if we aren't reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.
As a special Hallowe'en treat, we finally managed (a month ago) to record an ep especially for you you you. Join us as we dive into the wonderfully weird world of video games and, more importantly, their creators. Zevin has really pulled it out ze bag for this one.
Also, Paul has the meat sweats from 8 courses of Greek food, and Sarah barely mentions the weather, so it's business as usual in the Reading for Attention studio (our flats), and isn't that just music to your gorgeous little lugs?
Anyway, love you. We'll be back soon with our correct opinions on Eliza Clark's hotly anticipated SOPHMORE novel, Penance.
Spooky songs and haunted hugs <3
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Guess what - we've finally bothered to record a pod! Aren't we just SO great? We're back with bang, talking about Monica Heisey's Really Good, Actually, and washing it down with a Chardonnay which is usually minging but every once in a while you find one that's really good, actually. Aside from that, we catch up with international travel maven, Sarah Jane Hopkins who has just returned from Mehico where she had a sexy run-in with the cartel. Fabulous. Paul then reads aloud from his mam's food diary which will one day win a Pulitzer prize. To be honest, we're not sure how it hasn't already.
It's good to be back, babies. MWAH x
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First things first! Paul, I'm sorry I haven't recorded a new intro yet. It's on the TDL babes.
Second things second! We're both really sorry about the sound qual of this one. It's poor. It's only cos we get too excited and start deepthroating our microphones, which we're sure you'll understand, and would do too if you were one half of an internationally famous, publicly, privately, and critically acclaimed podcast.
OK. This week we have read Madeline Miller's ancient (soz, 'new releases' now means anything from the last quarter-century obvy) retelling of an ancient myth, The Song of Achilles. If you haven't read this one, get ya tissues ready. It's a real t-jerker, and a total sole flasher. We wash it down with stories of gorgeous, gorgeous Benidorm and fond memories of small circles of bread with faux-prawns pasted atop. Oh, and a bloody mary.
We've missed you! Have you missed us? Of course you have. But fear not, once all the excitement around the biggest date in the Gregorian/Lunar/Julian/Mayan/etc. etc. calendar has dissipated in a big puff of multicoloured glitter (Eurovish, duh), we'll be BACK with a brand new ep where we say really intelligent things about Monica Heisey's Really Good, Actually. Until then, though, big snugs and snogs xxx
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Well folx, hold on to your tits because this one is chaos. This week we're chatting about Yara Rodrigues Fowler's Stubborn Archivist, a form-bending piece of autofiction perfy for all you millennial minxes. Sarah didn't like it but Paul did so Sarah likes it now, and we're both certain that you'll love it. Then we talk about tits, kidneys (lack of), Succession (no spoilers though, we aren't dickheads) and, most excitingly, Sarah's foray back into Death Valley/meeting men on Hinge. It might be hot, but it's incredibly dry.
We'll be back soonish from Benidorm and the pub, with our take on Madeleine Miller's Song of Achilles. You'd be a bimbo to miss it!
Love you more than Paul hates culture!!!!!!!!
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We're baaaack!
Hiya hunnies, welcome home. The first ep of season 4 is all about Emily Henry's bestselling stunner of a book Book Lovers. It has all the ingredients for a gorgeous flirty summer read - a sexy, high-achieving, powerful woman, a sexy, high-achieving, powerful man (in a suit), and... well, does the rest even matter? Get it READ!
Then we talk about what seems like litchurally everything that ever happened on planet earth. We cover icks, Paul's work pal Tyler, horror films, Tyler, Guantanamo bay, Tyler, Gran Canaria, Tyler, passive aggressive work emails and, that's right, Tyler. We hope you enjoy, we really do. But mostly we just hope you've missed us as much as we've missed you.
Love you! Sloppy snogs! Tickly titty tweaks! Mwah!
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Well hunnies, it's the season/series/season three finale and we have truly saved the best till last. We're treating your lugs to our musings on Keira Andrews' Kidnapped By The Pirate, a swashbuckling tale of romance, shagging and umbilical cords. Since Christmas is but a distant memory, we've ditched the mulled wine for whatever drink we could find in our cupboards + rum.
You can also hear us natter about our New Year's Resolutions - which are aplenty - and our intense emotional response to the best television show of all time (bar none): THE TRAITORS.
We love and adore you and we'll see you soon for series four xxxxxxxx
P.S. We're the 25th most popular comedy podcast in Senegal so we're basically made it.
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Hello gorgies! Today, we're talking about why Jennette McCurdy is glad her mom (mam) died. This is a harrowing story of years-long maternal abuse but our Jen tells it with wit and charm. Saz didn't think she was a fan but by the end of the ep she sort of changes her mind? It's a goodun if you ask me (Paul) so have yourself a merry little read. I'd recommend an accompanying cosmopolitan. And if you don't have Cointreau, do a Sarah and pop in one segment of an easy peeler.
We go on to talk about how strongly we felt emotions as kids (and adults). Sarah had to take a day off school after the tragic (but quite funny) demise of Flower the meerkat, and Paul missed a family trip because Mary Pierce tore her ACL and he cried so much it made him sick. I don't know why I'm talking about myself in the third person.
See you next week for a SHEKSHY pirate who kidnaps a young man and has his booty. Adore you xxx
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Why hello Jane! We're back and better(ish) than ever! We've read the 2022 BOOKER PRIZE WINNER this week, Shehan Karunatilaka's The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. And, wow, do we have a lot of thoughts on it. Espesh Saz.
We wash* it down with a 7&7 OC style baybay. Delish.
Then we chat our usual swivel, and my god aren't you happy to hear it? We cover ear infections, BLACKPINK, Aftersun, Aftersun, Charlotte, work Christmas parties, Serena William - THE YOOZJH.
LOVE YOU, YOU NAUGHTY LITTLE ELVES. (Petition for elf bar to do a Christmas range? Sorry, that's genius. They're litchurally already halfway there with the name alone.) We promise to be here next week. In the meantime, pay us a compliment on insta @readingforattention. We're feeling needy.
*Sarah took a method approach and, like Ryan Attwood, doesn't have a 7&7. Him because he was under 21, her because she's her.
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Hiya huns! Apols not apols for the late upload, we're busy live laugh loving (TM) our way through Autumn and we think you should be too (but, let us accompany you on your hunventures).
This week we read/glanced at Hunsnet's sensash The Hundamental Guide to Life and, let us tell you, if you are a hun-in-training or fully-fledged Hun royalty, you're going to want to wrap your eyes around this crucial/necessary/important piece of literature. The second we've finished this glass of prosex we're going to start a petition.gov.uk to get it added to the canon.
We chat some absolute swivel, but that's what you've come to expect by now isn't it, you gorgeous little sows, including reminiscing about our night on the Toon for Paulie's 21st and Sarah's gorgeous hallowe'en soiree where the theme was Catching Covid-19.
Catchye next week, where we're back to bizniz as extremely well-regarded critics (of everything).
Mwah mwah mwah xxx
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ATTENTION ALL ATTENTION SEEKERS - WE HAVE A GUEST. This week we are reading The Enhancers, the debut novel by Anne K Yoder. But we're not just chatting about it, we're interviewing the author herself! Tune in to hear all about Anne's other life as a pharmacist and how it influenced this dystopian tale set in the fictional near-future town of Lumena Hills. We had a gorgeous chinwag over a Chlorophreeze G&T (Anne's recommendation).
After we've come back down to Earth, we talk about Kim K (again, we know) and her disastrous attempt to explain away her tone-deaf Variety Magazine comments. To be fair though, I reckon you should all get off your f**** asses and work.
LOVE YOU ALL xxxx
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We’re back from our one week hiatus and Sarah is now fully recovered from her hangover. This week we’re reading Raven Smith’s Men and having two pints of lager and a packet of crisps like the blokes we are. Stunning.
There's also a highly exclusive, incredibly elusive tale from Sarah's weekend involving an Academy and Grammy award-winning actress, but if you want to find out more, you'll have to email in hehe.
We also have an exciting announcement about next week’s ep. CHOON IN to find out what it is.
Mwah mwah xxx
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Bonjour hunnés. This week we’re reading Piranesi by Susannah Clarke. Piranesi, the poor lad, is stuck in an endless labyrinth of rooms and statues with no knowledge of the outside world. To be fair, he seems pretty content about it, until he starts uncovering the truth. To drink, we’ve got a mystical creation, and Paul is smug about his.
We counterbalance the (vaguely) academic chat with our absolute bread and butter – The Kardashians and Molly Mae. If you haven’t heard, Molly Mae is with child, which is the most entertaining and confusing news of the year.
We hope you enjoy (and we know you will because we’re class) xxx
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This week, speshes, we're chattin' Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley. Leila is the youngest EVER nominee for the Booker Prize aka a massive show off. Nightcrawling is challenging, heart wrenching and bloody brilliant.
Afterwards, to lighten the mood, Sarah and Paul recommend some good horror films then go on to discuss the funniest film moments of all time - objectively.
See ya next week chickies xxx
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This week, we're discussing Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados. And it's happy hour, so we're drinking an espresso martini with a prosecco chaser. Isa and Gala flit around New York without a care in the world, except the next time they're going to get their hands on a French martini. This book is light-hearted, hilarious and gives Paul extreme anxiety.
Next, it's into the good stuff - Selling the OC and a full rundown of the Harry Styles/Olivia Wilde/Florence Pugh dramz. You don't want to miss this one hunnies. Kisses xxx
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This week, friends and enemies, we've read Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid. Emira babysits for a posh white woman who thinks she's woke AF. She has a white boyfriend who thinks he's woke AF. But the woker they reckon they are, the more problematic it all feels. All Emira wants is to make a bit of money and spend some time with Briar, her favourite (strangely advanced) little baby child. We discuss this one with SUCH a fun drink - Skittles voddy of course! After, we weigh up the pros and cons of interviewing authors on the pod (because we're in extremely high demand) and then think about what we'd say to our younger selves. Big snuggles xxx
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It’s series 3 baby! We. Are. Back. And we’re funnier, cleverer and FITTER than ever before. Join us for another rip-roaring hour of prestige podcast chat. To kick off the series, we’re reading Gay Bar by Jeremy Atherton Lin, which interrogates the institution of (you guessed it) the gay bar. This book is sexy, it’s naughty, it’s educational, and for Paul and Sarah it’s oh so nostalgic. We wash the filthy anecdotes down with a stunning voddy coke.
Paul then delivers a heartfelt speech to Serena Williams who is ‘evolving away’ from professional tennis after the US Open. Sob. We also catch up about our summer jollyhollydays – Paul went island hopping around the Canaries and Sarah visited lots of important museums in Beefa.
We’re so glad to be pouring back into your external auditory meatuses (I googled a fancy word for ear canal). Love yaz xxx
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Attention Seekers, we have come to the end of series 2. I hope you've all booked in weekly therapy sessions over the summer to cope with the planet-sized chasm we are going to leave in your lives. In this eppy, we talk tit licking, holiday reading, and our top 3 books of the series. Why not test your Paul/Sarah fandom by guessing along?! We are going to miss you hunnies but fear not - we'll be back in late August and in the meantime, you can always dm us on Instagram @readingforattention or email us at [email protected]. Love you forever. Thanks for listening xxxx
PS. Sorry this is late, but I am so so hungover so I'm mostly sorry for myself ok xxx
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Hi Girlies,
Well, the season finale is upon us!* And what better way to end a fabulous sophomore spree than recounting the delicious nuggets of filtered but otherwise completely unedited wisdom bestowed upon us by the Queen of Instagram - Molly-Mae Hague. That's right followers friends, we've read (and LOVED) the Love Island break-out star's memoir. Jam-packed with 23 whole years of... stuff... this truly is a gorgeous and hilarious read. Read it too if you want to learn about Instagram, Ellie Bellie, pooing while your boyfriend's in the bath, Instagram, hard work, and the wonder that is Instagram.
Then we talk about alcohol. Obvs.
Instasnoggies xxx
*Not technically, as we'll be doing and end of SZN roundup in next week's ep, but it just felt more dramatic this way, y'know?
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Hiya gorgeous baby cakeys!
This week we've had a good old read of the mega CATCHY Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Polish literary sensash Olga Tokarczuk. Don't let the title put you off because despite all the murders and the bleak pontifications on animals not being as important as humanz, and the stuff about stars, this is actually a really funny and rather cosy read. Think The Thursday Murder Club but set in Poland and better.
We chat about some other stuff, but frankly darlings, that was a while ago now (11AM on Thursday) and I can't remember a single word of it. But you know what that means don't you? It was utter shite and thus utter MAGIC.
Tune in next week for Pulitzer/Man Booker/Nobel Literature AND Peace Prize-winning Molly-Mae Hague's debut, Becoming Molly-Mae. What a fabulous name for a memoir?! I bet she was the First Lady ever to think of that!)
Love you loads, sleep well, think of us often, and whatever you do, DON'T MENTION SERENA'S WIMBLEDON KNOCK OUT. Soggy-crotch smooches xxx
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So apparently everyone is talking about No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood. Except us. Well, now we bloody well are. This is the story of a woman who lives her life inside the portal. In other words, she’s in a perpetual world of YouTube holes, Tiktok swiping and Instagram doomscrolling. I can’t relate, myself. We wash this one down with a DELICIOUS, fan-recommended gin basil smash - *chef’s kiss*.
Other things we go on about: Hay fever (for probably too long so sorry about that), Serena Williams, the origin of the word ‘meme’ and just loads more fabulous stuff, y’know?
Big smackaroos xxx
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