Reading Envy 077: No One Messes With a Wolf

Shawn Mooney joins Jenny for a chat about books in the Reading Envy pub, braving snow storms and earthquakes! Stay tuned for a mid-podcast announcement!

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Books discussed:



Hide by Matthew Griffin
The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky
The Break by Katherena Vermette
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
A Paper Son by Jason Buchholz
Enigma Variations by Andre Aciman


Shawn's list of recommended gay novels and memoirs:

A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
Safe as Houses by Alex Jeffers
Breakfast with Scot by Michael Downing
Heaven's Coast by Mark Doty
Now and Then by William Corlett
Memory Board by Jane Rule
Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil Bartlett
The Body and Its Dangers and other stories by Allen Barnett

Other mentions:

Book Riot podcasts
Scribd
Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel
Ulysses by James Joyce
Neil Gaiman
Tournament of Books longlist 
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Governor General's Prize (Canada)

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Monterey Bay by Lindsay Hatton
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
Autumn by Ali Smith
The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant
Book Riot Read Harder 2017 Challenge
One Native Life by Richard Wagamese
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie 

Related Episodes:
Episode 074 - The Books We Didn't Love in High School with Blaine DeSantis
Episode 076 - Borderlands (Reading Goals 2017) 

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Reading Envy 072: Books are my Bag

Jenny sits down in the Reading Envy pub with another new guest she recruited from Litsy - Sarah K. We discuss medicine, Man Booker Prize runners up, book swaps, and genres people don't read all that often. (But we think they should!)

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Books discussed:



Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Now You See Me by Sharon Bolton
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
My Misspent Youth: Essays by Meghan Daum
The Sea of Light by Jennifer Levin

Other mentions:

Karin Slaughter
Mo Yan
Nobel Prize for literature
The Blackhouse by Peter May
Fringe Festival (Edinburgh)
International Book Festival (Edinburgh)
Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories by Terrence Holt
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Man Booker Prize
Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson
Alex Delaware series by Jonathan Kellerman
The Americans (tv show)
Dr. Who (tv show)
The Troop by Nick Cutter
The Many by WYl Menmuir 
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids edited by Meghan Daum
Unspeakable by Meghan Daum
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Books on the Nightstand podcast
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Frasier
Orphans at the Carnival by Carol Birch
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin

Related episodes:

Episode 063 - Desolation Road (book speed dating and books on grief)


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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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Books I Read in August 2016 (197 - 222)

Pictured: 5-star reads in August

197. Falling by Jane Green (review copy audiobook; my review)
198. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (library book; my review)*
199. Watching Edie by Camilla Way (review copy audiobook; my review)
200. Xala by Ousmane Sembene (interlibrary loan; my review)
201. Meat by Opal Carew (eARC from NetGalley; my review)
202. The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield (eARC from Edelweiss; my review)*
203. The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Sambach (eARC from NetGalley; my review)
204. Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves (library book; my review)
205. Indelible by Adelia Saunders (eARC from Edelweiss; my review)
206. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle (library book; my review)
207. Mathilda by Mary Shelley (Serial Reader; my review)
208. Angel Catbird Vol. 1 by Margaret Atwood (eARC from Edelweiss; my review)
209. The Girls by Emma Cline (own from BOTM; my review)
210. My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (library book; my review)
211. The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester (own; my review)
212. The Seventh Elephant by Alexis Stamatis (own; my review)
213. The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian (own in audio; my review)
214. My Own Cape Cod by Gladys Taber (interlibrary loan; my review)
215. My Antonia by Willa Cather (interlibrary loan; my review)
216. The Last Wish by Andrzei Sapkowski (own; my review)
217. Indiana by George Sand (own on Kindle; my review)
218. A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler (eARC from NetGalley; my review)
219. The Rain in Portugal: New Poems (eARC from NetGalley; my review)
220. If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo (interlibrary loan; my review)
221. Lady Susan by Jane Austen (Serial Reader; my review)
222. The Many by Wyl Menmuir (library book; my review)


Abandoned:
The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
Hystopia by David Means
Eileen by Ottesa Moshfegh
Storm Rose by Corina Bomann

Reading Envy 059: Are You Inspired Yet?

Jenny follows through on her 2016 reading goals and brings you another book speed dating project! This time, she is determined to be more cutthroat.

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Books discussed:

Heart of the Original by Steve Aylett
Murder in the Stacks by Marion Havighurst
The Curfew by Jesse Ball
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian
Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
Life is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
The Believers by Zoë Heller
Surpassing the Love of Men by Lillian Faderman
Ophelia and the Great Idea by Deborah Levy
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

Related Episodes:
Episode 015 - The Time for Exclaiming Over Costumes with Jean and Karen
Episode 036 - The Reader Sense of Ann VanderMeer with guest Ann VanderMeer
Episode 035 - Speed Dating Books
Episode 047 - Sex with Elvis: Bonus Book Speed Dating Episode 
Episode 050 - Open to Suggestion bonus episode 
Episode 056 - The Wall of Romance 
 
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