Reading Envy 097: Blank Spaces with Lauren Weinhold

Jenny once made a friend on Goodreads. This friend read all the same books Jenny read. They met up in Baltimore at an interesting bookstore and could have talked for days! So we decided to meet up again to talk books for the podcast. I hope you enjoy hearing from Lauren, because I'm so happy for you to meet her.

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Books featured:




Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
Boxers by Gene Luen Yang
Saints by Gene Luen Yang
Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio by Jessica Abel
Ghachar, Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart

Other mentions:
  
Who's Allowed to Hold Hands? by Nicole Dennis-Benn (New Yorker)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Boxer Rebellion
Macarthur Genius Grant - Gene Luen Yang
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
This American Life
Filmish by Edward Ross
Rectify (tv show)
Kannada (language)
Anais Nin
Djuna Barnes
Jeanette Winterson
The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals by Elizabeth Smart
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
Elmet by Fiona Mozley


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Read in September: Books 234 - 256 of 2017

Pictured: 5-star reads for September 2017

234. Ember by Brock Adams *** (eARC from publisher through Edelweiss; my review)
235. Eat Only When You're Hungry by Lindsay Hunter **** (BOTM selection; my review)
236. Love Her Wild: Poems by Atticus ** (audioARC from publisher; my review)
237. The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco **** (ARC from publisher; my review)
238. The Mountain by Paul Yoon **** (eARC from publisher through NetGalley; my review)
239. Out on the Wire by Jessica Abel ***** (library book; my review)
240. Sea Girl by Ethel Johnston Phelps **** (HOOPLA eBook through library; my review)
241. What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons *** (eARC from publisher through NetGalley; my review)
242. Solar Bones by Mike McCormack *** (eARC from publisher through Edelweiss; my review)
243. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart **** (interlibrary loan; my review)
244. When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen ***** (library eBook; my review)
245. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead *** (library eBook; my review)
246. Ties by Domenico Starnone **** (eBook; my review)
247. Second Person Singular by Sayed Kashua **** (personal copy; my review)
248. New People by Danzy Senna **** (eARC from publisher through Edelweiss; my review)
249. Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta **** (audioARC from publisher; my review)
250. The Secret History by Donna Tartt ***** (personal copy; my review)
251. After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones ***** (interlibrary loan; my review)
252. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson **** (personal copy audiobook; my review)
253. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty **** (ARC from publisher; my review)
254. Dinner at the Center of the Earth by Nathan Englander **** (eARC from publisher; my review)
255. Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak *** (eARC from publisher through NetGalley; my review)
256. I Will Love You for the Rest of My Life: Breakup Stories by Michael Czyzniejewski **** (interlibrary loan; my review)

For the Man Booker Prize - McCormack, Whitehead.
For the National Book Award - Chen (also I bailed on the Jennifer Egan which is not represented in this list)
For the Newest Literary Fiction buddy reads - Hunter, Clemmons, Starnone
For the Reading Envy Readalong - Tartt

Books 131-151 of 2017

Pictured: Books rated 5 stars in May

131. The Fall Guy by James Lasdun ** (BOTM personal copy; my review)
132. Vertigo by Joanna Walsh **** (Dorothy Publishing personal copy; my review)
133. A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers ***** (personal copy; my review)
134. El Deafo by Cece Bell ***** (postal book swap; my review)
135. The Protestor has been Released by Janet Sarbanes **** (personal copy; my review)
136. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman *** (eARC from NetGalley; my review)
137. Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times edited by Carolina de Robertis **** (eARC from NetGalley; my review)
138. Bitch Planet vol. 2: President Bitch by Kelly Sue DeConnick **** (eARC from Edelweiss; my review)
139. Through the Woods by Emily Carroll ***** (library book; my review)
140. Creature by Amina Cain *** (Dorothy Publishing personal copy; my review)
141. The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel Borzutkzy ***** (library book; my review)
142. Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield **** (personal copy; my review)
143. Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories by Mariana Enriquez **** (audiobook from Hoopla; my review)
144. Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse by Chris Roberson **** (eARC from Edelweiss; my review)
145. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid *** (BOTM personal copy; my review)
146. Things to do when You're Goth in the Country: and Other Stories by Chavisa Woods ***** (eARC from Edelweiss; my review)
147. Notes on a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin **** (eARC from Edelweiss; my review)
148. Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin **** (eARC from NetGalley; my review)
149. Sourdough by Robin Sloan **** (eARC from Edelweiss; my review)
150. Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy *** (eARC from NetGalley; my review)
151. Dear Fahrenheit 451: A Librarian's Love Letters and Break-Up Notes to the Books in Her Life by Annie Spence ***** (eARC from Edelweiss; my review)

Reading Envy 068: Minisode for Banned Books Week

I kept talking everyone's ear off about Banned Books Week, so I decided to record a little miniature podcast about it. Let me know which banned or challenged books you are reading, and what you think about little minisodes like this one!

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Books discussed:



Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence edited by Marion Dane Bauer
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kiklin
Into the River by Ted Dawe
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (read by Claire Danes!)
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Allison Bechdel
Out Loud: the Best of Rainbow Radio edited by Ed Madden and Candace Chellew-Hodge

(The rest of the books can be found in the links below.) 

Links:
ALA: Banned & Challenged Books - Diverse Content
We Need Diverse Books (aka #weneediversebooks) 
Slate Magazine: Banned Books Week is a Crock (2015)
LA Times: Alan Moore Graphic Novel Banned from South Carolina Library
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund statement on Necronomicon Banning
New Zealand Bans Young Adult Novel
ALA: Banned & Challenged Books - Classics

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Library Books Mid-March 2016

I bring home a lot of books from the library. But I have reasons!! So many reasons. And I think some of these are due soon, so I'd better get reading.

A Reading Diary by Alberto Manguel
The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
Light Years by James Salter
Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
Sinners Welcome: Poems by Mary Karr
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Decolonising the Mind by Ngugi ma Thiong'o
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen
Updraft by Fran Wilde
The Potbellied Virgin by Alicia Yanez Cossio
Memory Wall: Stories by Anthony Doerr
Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
I Call Myself a Feminist: The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty by various
The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman

The Nebula Award nominees were recently announced, and that sent me to the public library for the Jemisin, Schoen, and Wilde. When I got there, Valente jumped off the new books shelf too.

I requested the Karr, Levithan, Salter, and Gawande from interlibrary loan all for different reasons. I was curious about Karr in poetry form, Levithan was recommended to me as a romance I might like, Salter was mentioned on a podcast, and Gawande I was interested in since my Dad is battling cancer. I can't get the nerve to crack the cover, so it may not be the right time for me to read this book about mortality.

The Cossio, Thiong'o, and feminist anthology are for book clubs, and the Doerr, Grushin, Gaiman, and Manguel are just for my curiosity! Actually I had previously read the Grushin as a review copy and wanted to read from it for my podcast, and checked out the library copy. Look for that on an upcoming episode.

Library Books Mid-September 2015

The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times by Pema Chodron
It Will End with Us by Sam Savage
The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri #1) by Colin Cotterill
The Complete Visual Guide to Good Dog Training: The Balanced Way to A Well Behaved Pet by Babette Haggerty
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe
The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
The Chimes by ANna Smaill
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir by Roz Chast

This month has been a busy month of books from the library (libraries, really). Three of the books on this pile are on the Man Booker Prize Longlist (Obioma, Smaill, Tyler) and I was trying to read at least the first 50 pages of as many of those books as I could.

I went to our leisure reading collection to pull the Chast because I was preparing to speak with a librarian who specializes in comics and graphic novels, and I was thinking I would have one fresh in my mind to talk about, and knew the Chast had been a finalist for the National Book Award (USA) last year. I ended up not using it as one of my primary choices, but I can say I have read it! When I was over in that collection, the Helm, Quick, and Toews followed me home. Whoops.

The Savage seemed out of place in the New Books section, a slim black paperback in a sea of academic hardbacks. Reading the description I found it is set in South Carolina, so decided it was worth a try, maybe a quick read.

I had wanted to read another Chodron after reading her book When Things Fall Apart. This one was not as easy of a read, but still great. I requested the Cotterill from interlibrary loan immediately following the recording of Reading Envy Podcast 037, where Juliane mentioned that series in passing. That was enough to peak my curiosity, not to mention that it is set in a country I had yet to read a book from for my Around the World challenge.

The dog training one was a whimsy pick from the new books section at the public library - I have two dogs who badly need training but we haven't taken the time to do a class yet.  I thought maybe it would help!