Are you an underliner? Tab-user? A worshiper of the unblemished page? A *gulp* dogearer? This week, Trevor and Paul discuss marginalia and the various other ways readers engage with what they’re reading. As always, the conversation takes some very unexpected detours!

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Shownotes

Books

• The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares, translated by Ruth L.C. Simms
• A Month in the Country, by J.L. Carr
• Grand Hotel, by Vicki Baum, translated by Basil Creighton with revisions by Margaret Bettauer Dembo
• My Phantoms, by Gwendoline Riley
• Cold Enough for Snow, by Jessica Au
• First Love, by Gwendoline Riley
• The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy
• Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy
• Young Man with a Horn, by Dorothy Baker
• Devil House, by John Darnielle
• Wolf in White Van, by John Darnielle
• Universal Harvester, by John Darnielle
• Black Sabbath: Master of Reality (33 1/3), by John Darnielle
• War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
• True Grit, by Charles Portis
• Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, by Anne Fadiman

Other Links

• The Mookse and the Gripes Goodreads Page
• Rohan Maitzen’s Review of Cold Enough for Snow
• Rohan Maitzen’s Review of My Phantoms
• Paul’s tweet thread asking for how people mark their books
• Chris Via’s Leaf by Leaf Youtube Page
• Book Cougars Podcast
• Winsor & Newton Fineliner Find Point Pen Set, Cool Grey
• Fun Book Tabs
• Storygraph for Book Tracking
• “Reading is precious—which is why I’ve been giving away my books,” by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett in The Guardian
• “Marginalia,” by Billy Collins
• “Marginal Obsession with Marginalia,” by Mark O’Connell in The New Yorker

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