Reading Envy 191: Stealthy Yet Sparkly with Gail Carriger

Author Gail Carriger sits down with me at the Reading Envy Pub, and we discuss her voracious reading habits, and topics in books ranging from little squiddies to magical chocolate pots. Ms. Carriger must have a happy ending, and Jenny is content with fragmentary reads.

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Books discussed:

 

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
Sorcery & Cecelia by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera, translated by Christina MacSweeney
Warprize by Elizabeth Vaughan

Other mentions:

Defy or Defend by Gail Carriger
Romancing the Inventor by Gail Carriger
Meat Cute by Gail Carriger
Soulless by Gail Carriger
The Lightning-Struck Heart by TJ Klune
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ranson Riggs
Wolfsong by TJ Klune
Court of Fives by Kate Elliot
LitHub The 50 Best Contemporary Novels under 200 Pages
The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
My Enemy the Queen by Victoria Holt
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
Grace Draven
Taji Beyond the Rings by R. Cooper
The 5th Gender by G.L. Carriger
Earth Fathers are Weird by Lyn Gala
White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn

Related episodes:

Episode 015 - The Time for Exclaiming Over Costumes with Jean and Karen
Episode 060 - A Good Era for Communists with Rose Davis
Episode 187 - Sentient Snails and Spaceships with Paula


Stalk us online:

Gail Carriger website (includes more social media links)
Gail Carriger on Twitter
Jenny at Goodreads
Jenny on Twitter
Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Reading Envy 131: Tartan Noir and More with Claire Duffy

Claire Duffy is a crime writer in Glasgow, and overall interesting person who came on the Reading Envy podcast to chat books. We talk about how tartan noir has very little to do with tartans, the crime community in Scotland, and how classics change as we get older.

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Books Discussed:



Garnethill by Denise Mina
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Finding Peggy by Meg Henderson
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell


Other Mentions: 

Dark of Night, Episode One by C.S. Duffy
The Bridge (tv show)
Mary Higgins Clark
Bloody Scotland Festival
Mark Billingham
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Trainspotting (film)
Ian Rankin
Val McDermid
Noir at the Bar, Edinburgh
Noir at the Bar: An Oral History
National Book Award (USA)
Man Booker Prize
Not the Booker Prize
I See You by Clare Mackintosh
Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores by Jen Campbell
Downton Abbey (tv series)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (film)
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler

Related Episodes (those with crime):
Episode 058 - Wishing for a Sequel with Scott D. Danielson
Episode 060 - A Good Era for Communists with Rose Davis
Episode 062 - Olfactory Stimuli with David Galloway
Episode 072 - Books Are My Bag with Sarah K
Episode 074 - The Books We Didn't Love in High School with Blaine DeSantis
Episode 108 - Venn Diagram with Yanira Ramirez 
Episode 110 - The Accidental Love Episode with Casey Stepaniuk
Episode 114 - Raised by Wolves with Karen Acosta
Episode 115 - Quote, Unquote with Scott Eaton 

Stalk us online:

Claire is @csduffywriter on Instagram
Claire is also @writer.on.the.go on Instagram if you want to check out her dictating while exercising project
Claire on Twitter
Claire on Facebook
Claire on the internet
Jenny at Goodreads
Jenny on Twitter
Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Reading Envy Podcast 112: Reset Button

Eleanor Thoele has participated in the two Reading Envy Readalongs, but this is her first time as a featured guest. We talk about the comfort of cozy mysteries, the challenge of graphic novels, understanding Japanese culture, and more.

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Books Discussed:

 

Japanese Destroyer Captain by Captain Tameichi Hara
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Jason Reynolds
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family & Place by Terry Tempest Williams
The Sleeping Beauty Killer by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
Winter by Ali Smith


Other Mentions: 

Rizzoli & Isles (tv series)
Anna Pigeon series by Nevada Barr
#whodunitbymail
USS Juneau
USS The Sullivans
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu
Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J. Maas
A Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson
When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams
The Hour of Land by Terry Tempest Williams
Mary Higgins Clark Award
The Wife by Alafair Burke
The Boat People by Sharon Bala
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones


Related Episodes:


Episode 014 - Flannery O'Connor With Zombies with guest Jason Roland
Episode 079 - Deliberately Silenced and Preferably Unheard with Rima Abunasser
Episode 088 - Author Head Space with Sara Moore 
Episode 090 - Reading Envy Readalong: East of Eden with Ellie and Jeff
Episode 094 - House Arrest with Libby Young
Episode 099 - Readalong: The Secret History 

Stalk us online:

Jenny at Goodreads
Ellie at Goodreads
Jenny on Twitter
Ellie is @elliedottie on Litsy
Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy  

Reading Envy 062: Olfactory Stimuli

David Galloway returns to the Reading Envy pub to discuss more books. He previously appeared on Episode 028: The Room of Requirement and there are some fun connections to our last discussion. You don't need to hear 028 first! This episode is posting a few days early because Jenny is going off the grid for a week or so.

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Books discussed:



The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (2008)
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1955)
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress (1993)
Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand (2007)
The Mussorgsky Riddle by Darin Kennedy (2015)
The Country of Marriage: Poems by Wendell Berry (1971)

Game Night, first and last, from Jenny's viewpoint, circa 2008

Other mentions:

Settlers of Catan (board game)
Ticket to Ride (board game)
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Newberry Award
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (in audio)
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Martian (film)
Bridge to Terabithia by Kathleen Paterson
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Nightmare Before Christmas (film)
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Gattaca (film)
Ramez Naam on the Sword and Laser podcast
More than Human by Ramez Naam
Dragon*Con
Modest Mussorgsky
How to be a Poet by Wendell Berry
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
Enchanted Islands by Allison Amend

Related episodes:

Episode 028 - The Room of Requirement with guest David Galloway

Stalk us online:

Jenny at GoodReads
David on his blog
Jenny on Twitter
David on Twitter

Reading Envy 040: Proustian Ratatouille

Jenny stayed closer to home for this episode, to talk comics with local teen services librarian and Secret Stacks podcaster, Thomas Maluck. The podcast starts and ends with comics but if that isn't your speed, there are other books discussed in the middle.  Jenny isn't really an expert in comics either, and soon learned she may never be as much of an expert as Thomas! Talk about envy - this is an entire genre practically unexplored.

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Books discussed:



Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War by Richard Stacewicz
All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists by Terry Gross
Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Hank Johnson: Agent of Hydra #1 by David Mandel

Other mentions:

ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens - 2015 list
Comics, Cosplay, and Geek Culture in Libraries blog
How to Do Free Comic Book Day at Your Library - blog post by Kristin from Secret Stacks
Mark Millar
Neonomicon by Alan Moore
Secret Stacks Podcast Episode 6 - Fun Home and Duke, etc.
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
New York Comic Con
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick by Matt Fraction
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
Dykes to Watch Out For (web comic) by Alison Bechdel
Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio edited by Ed Madden and Candace Chellew-Hodge
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir by Roz Chast
In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way: A Graphic Novel
Ratatouille (movie)
Cages by Dave McKean
The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle and Hope Larson
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (movie)
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Spirited Away (movie)
Princess Mononoke (movie)
From Up On Poppy Hill (movie)
The Goshawk by T.H. White
The Once and Future King by T.H. White

Thanks for listening!

Here's Thomas as Ms. Marvel:

Stalk us online:
Jenny at Goodreads
Jenny on Twitter
Thomas on Twitter
Secret Stacks on Twitter
Secret Stacks Podcast ("YOUR comics in libraries podcast")
Thomas's graphic novel reviews at No Flying No Tights

Related Reading Envy Episodes:
Episode 004 - Home, Frightening and Banned with guest Karen Acosta
Episode 005 - The Second Definition of Geek with guest Tamahome