We talk why it’s valuable to “go for the no” instead of avoiding rejection and failure. Plus we give our suggestions for excellent same-day books and a hack for making email more efficient.

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• The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt (Amazon, Bookshop)
• Foster by Claire Keegan (Amazon, Bookshop)
• Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark(Amazon, Bookshop)
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Amazon, Bookshop)
• Heartburn by Nora Ephron (Amazon, Bookshop)
• Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor (Amazon, Bookshop)
• Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim (Amazon, Bookshop)
• The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (Amazon, Bookshop)
• Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin (Amazon, Bookshop)
• Strangers by Belle Burden (Amazon, Bookshop)
• Different Seasons by Stephen King (Amazon, Bookshop)
• A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr (Amazon, Bookshop)
• Oh, William by Elizabeth Strout (Amazon, Bookshop)
• The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (Amazon, Bookshop)
• Piranesi by Susanna Clark (Amazon, Bookshop)
• Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (Amazon, Bookshop)
• A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas (Amazon, Bookshop)
• A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie (Amazon, Bookshop)
• Elizabeth is reading: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Amazon, Bookshop) 
• Gretchen is reading: Random Harvest by James Hilton (Amazon, Bookshop) 

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