Reading Envy 132: Whimsy and Density with Anna Baillie-Karas

Anna Baillie-Karas is a reader and podcaster from Adelaide, Australia. She joins Jenny in the Reading Envy pub to talk about book award lists, expanding our range, organizing our home libraries, and books we've read lately!

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Books Discussed:



Milkman by Anna Burns
Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
There There by Tommy Orange

Other Mentions:

Books on the Go (podcast)
The First Tuesday Book Club (Australian tv show)
Man Booker Prize
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
Circe by Madeleine Miller
Book Riot Read Harder Challenge
National Book Award (now includes translated literature award)
Disoriental by Negar Djavadi
Tricks by Domenico Starnoni
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Winchester
Shawn Mooney (Booktube)
Kendra Winchester (Booktube)
Simon Savidge from the Readers (Booktube)
What Kamil Reads (Booktube)
No Bones by Anna Burns
Women's Prize for Fiction
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
ScotiaBank Giller Prize
Get Booked (podcast)
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Mythos by Stephen Fry
Heroes by Stephen Fry
Ulysses by James Joyce
Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky
The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin #1) by Boris Akunin
Before Sunrise (film)
Before Sunset (film)
Before Midnight (film)
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
Annie Muktuk & Other Stories by Norma Dunning


Related Episodes:
Episode 002 - Return of the Euthanized Book with guest Bryan Alexander
Episode 006 -  Bailey's Women's Prize 2014
Episode 074 - The Books We Didn't Love in High School with Blaine DeSantis
Episode 086 - The Queen of Bailing with Shawn Mooney 
Episode 098 - Just a Bunch of Stuff that Happened with Bryan Bibb 
Episode 123 - Godlets and Forests with Lauren Weinhold

Stalk us online:

Books on the Go Podcast
Anna is @abailliekaras on Instagram
Anna on Twitter
Anna at Goodreads
Jenny at Goodreads
Jenny on Twitter
Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Reading Envy 017: Homeric Radiation at Lake Inverness

In this episode we bring our pal Luke Burrage, who was recording past midnight in Berlin for Episode 017.

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Books discussed:

 

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark by Dennis Ronald MacDonald
what the world will look like when the water leaves us by Laura van den Berg
Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
The Son of God in the Roman World by Michael Peppard
As They Were by M.F.K. Fisher


Other books and topics that came up along the way:
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, the new audiobook
The "Bryan List" of post-modern literature (see comments on Reading Envy Episode 003)
SFF Audio Odyssey readalong (first of six episodes)
Engaging the Powers by Walter Wink
Find Me by Laura van den Berg
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
George Singleton, author
George Saunders, author
The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
The Persistence of Vision by John Varley
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Gladiator, the movie, which Jenny has never seen
Les Miserables, the movie, where Russell Crowe sings
Les Miserables, the 25th anniversary tv special

You can find Luke Burrage, international juggler and entertainer, on his website.  He is also known for the Science Fiction Book Review Podcast, where he reviews every single science fiction book that he reads.

More stalking:
Jenny at GoodReads
Scott at GoodReads
Jenny on Twitter
Scott on Twitter
Scott on his blog