Molly and Jamie are ready to shop this holiday season! They share some of the Small Business Saturday events they are excited about around Madison including Downtown Madison's Holiday Open House where you can ride a free trolley to around the capital square and along state street as you shop some great deals from local businesses. The ladies share some of there favorite places including CocoVaa, Madison Chocolate Company, Little Luxuries, The Soap Opera, Table Wine and more. It's also a special time of year with the announcement of this years literary winners.
Molly and Jamie talk about some notable titles and surprise pick from the Booker International Prize, National Book Award, Kirkus, and Nobel Prize for Literature. 


What are they reading?
Molly:
This Will Be Fun by E B Asher
Jamie:
The Snowbirds by Christina Clancy 
Wreck My Plans by Jillian Meadows

Also Mentions in this episode:

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
James by Percival Everett
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
The Vegetarian by Han Kang, Deborah Smith
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: A new fantasy series set a thousand years before The City of Brass by Shannon Chakraborty
Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe


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