Reading Envy 120: Summer Reading - Challenges, My List, and Speed Dating.

I decided to record a bonus episode. Inside I'll talk about the Reading Envy Summer Reading Challenges, and give you some suggestions of books for those. I'll talk about books in a few categories for more general summer reading, a list if you will, and then move into the third round of book speed dating for 2018. Some of the books mentioned are backlisted titles, while others might not come out until June 2018, or in one tiny case, August.

Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 120: Summer Reading - Challenges, List, and Speed Dating.

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Challenges: Reading Envy Picnic and Reading Envy Roadtrip

Books Discussed:

Off-Season: Discovering America on Winter’s Shore by Ken McAlpine
Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky
Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey through Chile by Sara Wheeler
Thrilling Cities by Ian Fleming
A Literary Tea Party: Blends and Treats for Alice, Bilbo, Dorothy, Jo and Book Lovers Everywhere by Alison Walsh
The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South by John T. Edge
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty
Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee
Super Sushi Ramen Express by Michael Booth

Even more recommended foodie memoirs

Summer Reading List:

Canada and Alaska
The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban
Home to Woefield by Susan Juby
Miriam Toews
Lynn Coady
Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw by Will Ferguson
Alaska by James Michener
Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

The New Western is Female
West by Carys Davies
American Hippo by Sarah Gailey
Rough Animals by Rae DelBianco

Light reads, funny reads
Other People’s Houses by Abbi Waxman
Less by Andrew Greer
Stray City by Chelsey Johnson
Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett

Prairie Reading (forget beach reading!)
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Biography by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Caroline: Little House Revisited by Sarah Miller
The Prairie Trilogy by Willa Cather
The Dry by Jane Harper
The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America by Sarah Kendzior
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich

Translated fiction
Brother in Ice by Alicia Kopf
Moon Brow by Shahriar Mandanipour
Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Leger
August  by Romina Paula
The 6:41 to Paris by Jean-Philippe Blondel
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante


Speed Dating Round 3

Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership by Michael Ventura 
Sisters’ Entrance by Emtithal Mahmoud
Sexographies by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Jennifer Adcock and Lucy Greaves
Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude by Stephanie Rosenbloom
Tonight I’m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson
The Honey Farm by Harriet Alida Lye
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
The Waters & The Wild by DeSales Harrison
Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
An Intentional Life: Five Foundations of Authenticity and Purpose by Lisa Kentgen


Related Episodes:

Episode 024 - The Attention of Humanity with guests Seth Wilson and Barret Newman 
Episode 067 - Rain and Readability with Ruth(iella) Episode 095 - Lose the Outside World with Lindy Pratch
Episode 096 - Not Without Hope with Yanira Ramirez
Episode 110 - The Accidental Love Episode with Casey Stepaniuk
Episode 113 - Speed Dating 2018, round 1
Episode 117 - Speed Dating 2018, round 2
Episode 119 - Bread and Butter Writing with Paula 

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