Reading Envy 138: Shared Landscape

Jenny and Lauren get together to talk books one last time in 2018. If Jenny seems loopy at the end, she was recording in a new audio space where she works and the chemicals were strong! We also manage to talk about our preliminary thoughts on 2019 reading goals.

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Books Discussed:



Plum Rains by Andromeda Romano Lax
A Hidden Fire by Elizabeth Hunter
You and I Eat the Same edited by Chris Ying
Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me by Teffi
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
Sonora by Hannah Lillith Assadi


Other Discussion:

Anthem by Ayn Rand
Becky Chambers
#whodunitbymail
Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyers
Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv show)
True Blood (tv show)
Big Little Lies (tv show)
Ugly Delicious (tv show)
Chris Ying on Instagram
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi
Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
Hutterite Study
Joe Rogan with Johann Hari
Robert Sapolsky
The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
Saints of Big Harbour by Lynn Coady
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman

Related episodes:

Episode 067 - Rain and Readability with Ruth(iella)
Episode 097 - Blank Spaces with Lauren Weinhold
Episode 123 - Godlets and Forests with Lauren Weinhold
Episode 133 - To Understand the World with Lauren Weinhold


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Reading Envy Podcast 126: Bernice Bobs Her Hair with Jon Laubinger

Jon Laubinger, of Film Baby Film and recent game show appearances, returns to the Reading Envy pub for a more traditional episode. We chat books, quitting your job, reading books set where you travel, game shows, and some film talk sneaks in from time to time. Bushido!

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A dream come true!

Books Discussed:



Shogun by James Clavell
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Augustus by John Williams
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O'Connell
Passing by Nella Larsen


Other Mentions: 

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (tv show)
Silence (film)
Longform book podcasts:
Backlisted podcast
Overdue podcast
Book Fight podcast
The Broken Earth Series by N.K. Jemisin
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
The Nebula Awards
The Hugo Awards
Locus Awards
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
King Rat by James Clavell
Alaska by James Michener
Hawaii by James Michener
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Hard to Be a God by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Circe by Madeleine Miller
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith 
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Six Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
Black Wave by Michelle Tea
The Overstory by Richard Powers


Related Episodes:

Episode 055 - Too Late for an Autopsy with Julie Davis
Episode 080 - The Wild Things Helped with Jason Roland
Episode 087 - Going Native with Bookclub Social with Amanda and Grace 
Episode 106 - Falling Asleep During Tarkovsky Films with Jon Laubinger
Episode 122 - A Cylon Raider Shaped Hole in Your Heart with Sara Burnett


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Reading Envy 101: A Different Kind of Time Travel

Jenny was so excited to be in the same city as Karen, in October, so we planned reading dates, a meat fest (not a euphemism), and time to record an episode.

Warning: There is a bit of a spoiler for Exit West on here, but nothing you haven't learned if you've read any reviews of the book.

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Books featured:



Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) by David Sedaris
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Nobody Cries at Bingo by Dawn Dumont

Other mentions:

National Book Awards - winners 2017 (spoiler: not Machado)
Room by Emma Donoghue
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
Dr. Paul Koudounaris
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
Glass Beads: Stories by Dawn Dumont
Slade House by David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherice Wolas

Related episodes:

Episode 004 - Home, Frightening and Banned with guest Karen Acosta
Episode 015 - The Time for Exclaiming Over Costumes with Jean and Karen
Episode 051 - Dreaming in Books with Karen
Episode 066 - When Time Stops with Karen


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Read in October: Books 257 - 278 of 2017

Books pictured are 5-star reads for October 2017.

257. Hanna Who Fell from the Sky by Christopher Meades ** (eARC from NetGalley; my review)
258. The Readymade Thief by Augustus Rose **** (eARC from NetGalley; my review)
259. In the Country We Love: My Family Divided **** (audiobook from Audible; my review)
260. Nobody Cries at Bingo by Dawn Dumont **** (interlibrary loan; my review)
261. Elmet by Fiona Mozley *** (personal copy; my review)
262. Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica **** (whodunitbymail book swap; my review)
263. Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf ***** (library book; my review)
264. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado ***** (Hoopla audiobook; my review)
265. Springtime: A Ghost Story by Michelle de Kretser **** (library book; my review)
266. Another Place You've Never Been by Rebecca Kauffman **** (library book; my review)
267. Before We Visit the Goddess by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni **** (book swap; my review)
268. Autumn by Karl Ove Knaussgard **** (library eBook; my review)
269. Sugar Town by Hazel Newlevant **** (eARC from Edelweiss; my review)
270. Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee **** (eARC from NetGalley; my review)
271. Hadriana in All My Dreams by Rene Depestre **** (eARC from Edelweiss; my review)
272. Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions by Amy Stewart **** (eARC from Edelweiss; my review)
273. The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan ***** (personal copy; my review)
274. The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn **** (Goodreads giveaway; my review)
275. Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn ***** (Hoopla audiobook; my review)
276. The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury **** (Hoopla audiobook; my review)
277. Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal **** (interlibrary loan; my review)
278. Juventud by Vanessa Blakeslee ***** (interlibrary loan; my review)

Total books read: 21
Review copies: 7
Audiobooks: 4
eBooks: 7
Print books: 10

2017 Borders Reading Project: 5
Man Booker Prize list: 1
National Book Award List: 1

Reading Envy 096: Not Without Hope

Yanira returns to discuss books with Jenny. We each select three books we've read and liked recently but also manage to throw in other books we like. That's pretty typical! And we agree - talking about books is the best therapy.

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Books featured:



Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening by Manal al-Sharif
Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Leger
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
This Close to Happy by Daphne Merkin
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion


Other mentions:
  

@bookishfeminist and @mauveandrosysky in Litsy
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
Wanda (film)
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Tony Morrison
John Steinbeck
Daphne Merkin on NPR
The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
South and West by Joan Didion
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
A List of Things that Didn't Kill Me by Jason Schmidt
The Secret History by Donna Tartt


Related episodes:

Episode 063 - Desolation Road (book speed dating and books on grief) 
Episode 070 - Words Like Weapons with Yanira Ramirez


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