Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy Episode 16
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Books discussed:
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo
A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
Other books or topics that came up:
Library of Water
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
James Thurber - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty in The New Yorker, 1939
Newberry Award
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
"Cancer novels" by Lurlene McDaniel
Henri le chat noir
I'm sure I've bored everyone with this before, but the 1927 Newbery Medal winner was written by my great-grandfather, Charles J. Finger. I read one of the stories on Forgotten Classics for my first episode. Not necessarily the easiest stories to read. I find the style a bit difficult. But we all had copies of the book as kids because it was part of our family heritage. :-)
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