Reading Envy 089: Hodgepodge

Jenny had to postpone some guests so this is a solo episode. One round of book speed-dating, bookish beach adventures, and 5-star reads that haven't made it into the podcast yet.

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Book Speed Dating Round 5/26/17

The Loved Ones by Sonya Chung
After James by Mark Helms
A Spare Life by Lidija Dimkovska; translated by Christina E. Kramer
Shot Blue by Jesse Ruddock
Dance of the Jakaranda by Peter Kimani
A Cowrie of Hope by Binwell Sinyangwe

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier by Thad Carhart
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
Fish Have No Feet by Jon Kalman Stefansson; translated by Philip Roughton
It's You by Jane Porter
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors; translated by Misha Hoekstra


Beachy Bookish Explorations:

Nye Beach Book House
727 NW Third Street
Newport, OR 97365

Squinting Books
1547 N Coast Hwy
Newport, OR 97365


Five-Star Reads not featured on the podcast (books I read in 2017, not necessarily published in 2017):



Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
El Deafo by Cece Bell
In Praise of Defeat: Poems of Abdellatif Laabi
Rowing Inland by Jim Daniels
Satan Says by Sharon Olds
even this page is white by Vivek Shraya
A Place Called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

Related episodes:
Episode 085 - An Acquired Taste with Thomas Otto 
Episode 086 - The Queen of Bailing with Shawn Mooney

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