24 The False Friend

Episode 24 is now up! It's about Myla Goldberg's novel The False Friend. I wrote it up ages ago so you can read that here . But read the novel instead! It's available via ebook so you don't even need to acquire stuff. HIGHLY recommended. It follows Code Name Verity logically in that it's about best friends but also it's about narrative we can't trust, though for very different reasons. Such a good book. Update: rereading the novel, I'm surprised to find that I had forgotten nearly all of it. Very funny in a book about memory. Also, the main character is outrageously self-involved, which comes across slowly, but ultimately seems to be what's ruining her life--all of that stemming from the day she lost her best friend, Djuna. A friend and I were just talking about this, how it's not the emotion that gets you, it's the maladaptive coping mechanism that you evolve to avoid having to feel it again. I'm only about a third of the way through,...