Shared Pages

Shared Pages is a book club for couples and anyone else who wants to read along. Hosted by Ian and Ronnie, they alternate choosing a book to read together every other month, and then discuss. Created as a jumping off point for couples who want to read together, Shared Pages is a place for book lovers to come together and discuss a text together!

Shared Pages is a arts podcast hosted by sharedpagespodcast, with 62 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #61

  #60 Karen Russell's: The Antidote

  Aug 1, 202644 min

  The Antidote by Karen Russell was a National Book Award Finalist, as well as Ian's choice for our July read! He seems to have accidentally picked a theme this summer for historical texts set in the west that have to do with land use. The Antidote follows Harp and Asphodel, an uncle and niece who inexplicably have a crop of wheat growing during the dust bowl. Harp took in Asphodel after her mother's murder. There is also The Antidote, a prairie witch who can take and store people's memories, unburdening them of their past sins. Cleo Allfrey is a black photographer from the Resettlement Administration who finds a camera capable of taking photographs of the past and future. All of this adds up to explore the history of North America, the United States acts of violence against its native inhabitants, the role of memory and forgetting, and what it means to move forward toward a better future. We hope you enjoy our conversation! Next month's choice is Ronnie's and she chose Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee.

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  Episode #60

  #59 K. Ancrum's: Icarus

  Jul 1, 202636 min

  For June and Pride, Ronnie chose a modern retelling of Icarus by K. Ancrum! We'll spoil the discussion a little bit and let you know here that we loved the novel! Still, there's a lot to discuss. Icarus retells the classic myth, but instead, Icarus is an art thief, his father is a man seeking revenge, and Helios is a boy trapped in a mansion with an abusive father. There's a lot to unpack in this short novel, and we had a great discussion. We hope you enjoyed reading Icarus, or this inspired you to pick it up! Icarus made both of want to look at more art, and it's powerful story of young, tragic love. For July, Ian picked The Antidote by Karen Russell. A magical realism novel that came out in 2025. The story takes place in a fictional town in Nebraska where a prairie witch stores people's memories! We hope you get a chance to check it out before our next episode on August first.

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  Episode #59

  #58 Sheldon Costa's: The Great Work

  May 31, 202639 min

  The Great Work by Sheldon Costa is a debut novel, and it was also Ian's pick for the month of May. The novel follows a man named Gentle Montgomery who is a self styled alchemist living in the American west just before Washington became a state. A salamander or dragon has been seen in the countryside and is driving animals to act strange, causing hallucinations, and water to go bad. Gentle also believes this salamander has killed his friend Liam, and so he sets off with Liam's body, his nephew, Kitt, and their donkey, Abe, in search of the salamander. Gentle believes this creature to be "prima material" which can be used to complete The Great Work and create the Philosophers Stone which can then resurrect Liam. Along the way the encounter a frontier warlord, a town of progressives called the Harmonites, and many other strange things. This novel has a very original plot and we enjoyed reading and discussing it! Next month's pick is Ronnie's, and she choose: Icarus by K. Ancrum.

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  Episode #58

  #57 Toshikazu Kawaguchi's: Before the Coffee Gets Cold

  Apr 30, 202637 min

  For April, Ronnie chose a novel that was recommended to her by a friend, and that novel was Before the Coffee Gets Cold! Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a collection of four short stories that take place in the same café. The stories involve the employees and people who frequent the space, and each of them involves time travel! If a person sits in the correct chair they can travel back in time, but there are a few specific rules. The big one being: you must return to the present before your coffee gets cold, otherwise you'll be trapped in the past. Along with this, nothing one does in the past will change the future which lends a unique aspect to the idea of time travel! These stories deal with lost opportunities, lost loved ones, and disease, and each has a rather unique premise. We also recently learned that Kawaguchi is primarily a playwright which changes some of our interpretation of these stories. Also, Ian spent a bit of time learning how to mix audio better, so hopefully this is an enjoyable listen! For next month, Ian chose a debut novel: The Great Work by Sheldon Costa!

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  Episode #57

  #56 Tara Westover's Educated

  Apr 1, 202645 min

  Ian's pick for March 2026 was Tara Westover's memoir: Educated. He chose this book partially because he had read excerpts from it, partially because was a guest at the Babel reading series in Buffalo, NY this year, and partially because it's an interesting read. Babel is the story of Westover's childhood in Buck's Peak, Idaho. She was raised by her strictly religious parents along with her siblings, some of who left home, and some of whom stayed. Westover goes from rural Idaho to King's College and Harvard, and her story is one that facilitates thought, belief in the self, and a desire to grow. We hope you enjoy our discussion! April's pick is Ronnie's and she chose Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.

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