Beka and Lucas talk about summer reading, getting children to love books early, and what initially draws them to a book. They share their most recent reads, discuss July's Serious Read, Normal People by Sally Rooney, and give a glimpse of what's on their "currently reading" list. 

Beka's Books: 

• The Erstwhile by B. Catling
• Small Spaces: Maximizing Limited Spaces for Living by Elizabeth Wilhide
• New Minimalism by Cary Telander Fortin & Kyle Louise Quilici
• The Very Small Home: Japanese Ideas for Living Well in Limited Space by Azby Brown
• The Host by Stephanie Meyer
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

Lucas' Books:

• The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
• The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
• The Pendragon Series by D.J. MacHale
• The Warden by Anthony Trollope
• American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

August's Serious Read: The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

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