Get Swept Away: Books That Transport You

Author: Roni Griffin
Published: Fri 24 Jun 2022
Episode Link: http://www.roniloren.com/radreadingpodcast/2022/6/23/episode-26-get-swept-away-books-that-transport-you

A great book can sweep you away, but some books really take you on a trip. Today, we’re talking about books that transport you either to another place or transport you through time (because one of us is kind of obsessed with time travel/time loop stories.) So grab your suitcase or your flux capacitor and join us!

Highlights:

Cheap travel via books
Australian listeners, please reassure us there aren’t giant man-eating spiders everywhere
Our favorite book settings
Roni wants to read summer camp books but not actually, you know, attend anything involving camping
Time travel books count as travel books because we say so
Watch out, don’t accidentally stumble into a wormhole
If Roni and Dawn were in a book with a grumpy/sunshine trope, it’s clear who would be the grumpy one and who would be the sunshine one
Time loops, and wormholes, and multiverses, oh my
Thoughts on sexy times in cringe-y locations
Dawn feels Outlander shame
Roni needs someone to explain season 2 of Russian Doll to her
Dawn explains reverse harem books
A stack of books we tried for this episode but that didn’t really work for us
Roni gets library hold guilt
Some books on our TBR that fit this theme but that we haven’t gotten to yet
Dawn’s Friday the 13th trauma
If Dawn ends up climbing a mountain, something has gone very wrong in the world
Our RAD Recs of the week