Mark is enthusiastic about Brendan Kerner’s skyjacking nonfiction The Skies Belong to Us.  It’s our first live show! Mark and Jon record in the same room for the first time ever. (We’d fooled you, hadn’t we?) This episode we also talk about our most notable takeaways from the unplanned ‘hiatus year’, and–and!–we fulfill our long ago promise to each read a book  recommended by the other that is outside our comfort zones. Oh, they were.

• Derek Landy’s Skullduggery Pleasant series
• Jon’s original recommendation of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The beep you hear around this point is Jon’s phone letting him know how things are going in Clash of Clans; they’re going well, thanksEnthusiasticast Episode 88Christopher Priest’s The Adjacent and The Prestige
• The movie version of The Prestige
• Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men
• Brad Stone’s The Everything Store
• Margaret MacMillan’s Paris 1919, The War That Ended Peace
• Ian Buruma’s Year Zero
• Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl
• Jeannette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
• Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper
• Our discussion of Never Let Me Go
• Our discussion of Jodi Picoult, re: Franzenfreude
• Jodi Picoult’s book about a school shooting is Nineteen Minutes
• Brendan Kerner’s The Skies Belong To Us
• Howard Marks believes that he is Mr. Nice