E138: #138: Full-Frontal Ben Affleck

Amanda and María Cristina recommend light books in translation, books for breakups, reads about saints, and more. This episode is sponsored by My Plain Jane and Harry's Trees. Books Discussed The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars by Maurice Dekobra, translated by Neal Wainwright Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer and translated by (wait for it…) Ursula K. LeGuin Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse Sister Teresa by Barbara Mujica The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie My Awesome Japan Adventure by Rebecca Otawa My Neighbor Totoro: A Novel by Tsugiko Kubo and Hayao Miyazaki The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle by Janet Fox Quest for a Maid by Frances Mary Hendry Want by Cindy Pon Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu Bonfire by Krysten Ritter Any Man by Amber Tamblyn