Reading Envy 202: Jacket Flap with Chris and Emily of the Book Cougars

Chris and Emily, known fondly as Book Cougars, join me to discuss books we've read and liked recently. We address the controversy of one of the books selected, new books by well-loved authors, and authors that we're just discovering (and whose back files we need to read.) Links to Book Cougars are included at the end of the shownotes so check out their podcast too.

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Books discussed:

 

All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny
Rage Baking edited by Kathy Gunst and Katherine Alford
Tides by Jonathan White
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Other mentions:

Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
Book Cougars Goodreads Group - Sapphira and the Slave Girl discussion
Hurma by Ali Al-Muqri (book mentioned from Yemen)
Booktopia (at Northshire Bookstore)
Ann Kingman
Michael Kindness
Books on the Nightstand podcast (no new episodes)
Powells City of Books
Library of Congress - National Book Festival
Bloody Scotland Festival
Decatur Book Festival
Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
Circe by Madeline Miller*
Emily's Lists
Tangerine Jones @ragebaking
Jenny's video playlist to accompany Tides
Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Bestiary by K. Ming Chang
Trumbull Park by Frank London Brown
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman

*I kept referring to Madeline Miller as a translator. I do think she has the scholarly chops to translate, but her works that I've read and loved are novels that are retellings of myths. I know this, but misspoke during our discussion. Sorry!

Related episodes:

Episode 037 - Breakdancing to Bach with Juliane Kunzendorf
Episode 131 - Tartan Noir and More with Claire Duffy
Episode 133 - To Understand the World with Lauren Weinhold
Episode 157 - Joint Readalong of Gone with the Wind with Book Cougars
 

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Book Cougars website/podcast
Book Cougars are @bookcougars in Instagram

Reading Envy 187: Sentient Snails and Spaceships

Paula joins Jenny from New Zealand, where everyone is getting a little antsy from having to stay home. Jenny chats poetry and non-fiction while Paula brings historical and science fiction, and one gritty regional novel winning all the awards in Australia. In fact, we talk about several book awards. One of these books doesn't come out in the USA until June, but that's publishing for you!

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Books discussed:



Shadowplay by Joseph O'Connor
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko


Other mentions:

Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera
@cathythoughts and @carolynm on Litsy
Costa Book Awards
Dracula by Bram Stroker
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Nebula Award
Hugo Award
Arthur C. Clarke Award
When My Brother was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
See the poet read "Ode to the Beloved's Hips"
Miles Franklin Award
Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko
Tim Winton
Books on the Go podcast
Stella Prize
Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi


Related episodes:

Episode 119 - Bread and Butter Writing with Paula
Episode 154 - Is If If with Paula
Episode 176 - Best of 2019
 

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Paula is @centique on Litsy

Reading Envy 179: Think of the Bees

Courtney is a listener who contacted me to chat books on an episode (you can do this too!) She talks about herself as a reader, including a unique book club, and then we talk about books we've read and liked recently - three are fantastical and two are far more realistic.

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Books discussed:



A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Islanders by Christopher Priest
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 edited by Sam Kean



Other mentions:

The Missing by Sarah Langan
The Hunger by Alma Katsu
The Deep by Alma Katsu
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Annihilation (film)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Let Her Fly: A Father's Memoir by Ziauddin Yousafzai
Fashion is Freedom by Tala Raassi
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
The Deep by Rivers Solomon et al
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Kingkiller Chronicles
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019 edited by Sy Montgomery
Caitlin Doughty
The People of the Mist by Kathleen and Michael Gear
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
Flags in the Dust by William Faulkner


Related episodes:

Episode 115 - Quote, Unquote with Scott Eaton
Episode 167 - Book Pendulum with Reggie
Episode 172 - The It Book of NYC with Jon Laubinger 


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Courtney at Goodreads
Courtney is @conservio on Litsy
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Reading Envy 136: Six Pack with Elizabeth

I wanted to call this episode "Raised by Wolves" for obvious reasons, but Episode 114 already did that! Whoops. Both Elizabeth and I seemed to be in an animal reading mood lately, and that permeates our picks. Elizabeth talks about some YA book events she attended in Houston, and Jenny talks about her home library, and both of us talk about books we've read and enjoyed lately.

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Books Discussed:




Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
Far from the Tree by Robin Benway
American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee
Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd by Karsten Heuer
Foe by Iain Reid
Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones


Other Discussion:

Tweens Read - Houston
Lumberjanes chapter books version (first one is Unicorn Power!)
Rick Riordan
Storm Runner series by J.C. Cervantes (first one is The Storm Runner) - this is the Mayan myth series Elizabeth mentions
Becky Albertelli
Adam Silvestri
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Ron Rash
George Singleton
Carmelo by Sandra Cisneros
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathy Appelt
The Underneath by Kathy Appelt
Maybe a Fox by Kathy Appelt
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean
Kings of the Yukon: One Summer Paddling Across the Far North by Adam Weymouth
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
And the Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
More Than This by Patrick Ness
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Saturday by Ian McEwan


Related episodes:

Episode 010 - YA Literature: Death and Mayhem with guests Alex and Carissa
Episode 033 - An Undulating Thrum with guests Ruth and Elizabeth
Episode 061 - Never Do That to a Book with Elizabeth 
Episode 065 - Creeping through the Uncanny Valley with guest Bryan Alexander 
Episode 098 - Just a Bunch of Stuff that Happened with Bryan Bibb
Episode 114 - Raised by Wolves with Karen Acosta
Episode 128 - Poetry and Whale Guts (Bonus episode; Speed Dating 2018, round 3)

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Reading Envy 133: To Understand the World with Lauren Weinhold

Just in time for Non-Fiction November, Lauren and Jenny get together to talk about their reads for Science September (#scienceseptember) and the reads we envied from other people. The title of the episode comes from Carl Sagan, referring to taking children to the library to help answer their questions: "Every question is a cry to understand the world."

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Pictured: Only some of the fantastic science books read in September

Books Discussed:

Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
The Great Quake by Henry Fountain
The Song of Trees by David George Haskell
The Forest Unseen by David George Haskell
The Hidden Life of Trees: What they Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
1997 article in Nature about mycorrhizal fungal networks
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the art of growing a backbone by Juli Berwald
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush
Galileo's Middle Finger by Alice Dreger
Darkness in El Dorado by Patrick Tierney (not linking because this has been debunked and should be considered shenanigans)
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
Waking Up Podcast #135: Navigating Sex and Gender (Sam Harris)
Light of the Stars by Adam Frank
How to Tame a Fox by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean by Jonathan White
The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One by Sylvia A. Earle
Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter by Ellen J. Prager
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean M. Carroll
The Physics of Everyday Things by James Kakalios
The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics by Susskind
Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics by Tanya Bub and Jeffrey Bub
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith
How We’ll Live on Mars by Stephen Petranek
Your Kids Might Live on Mars. Here's How They'll Survive. (Stephen Petranek TED Talk)
Mars (tv series on NatGeo)
The Poetic Species by Edward O. Wilson and Robert Haas
Machines of Loving Grace by John Markoff
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Science and Power of Dreams by Matthew Walker
Descartes’ Error by Antonio Damasio
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boys’ Club by Eileen Pollack
It’s All Relative by A.J. Jacobs
Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey through the World’s Strangest Brains by Helen Thomson
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist by William Maples
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Seeds by Thor Hanson
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
The Seabird’s Cry by Adam Nicolson
H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species by Richard Ellis
The Beauty in the Beast: Britain’s Favourite Creatures and the People Who Love Them by Hugh Warwick (not available in the USA)
The Coming Storm by Michael Lewis


Thanks to the following readers in Instagram for sharing their #scienceseptember reads!

@loreofbooks @reallifereading @rhode_reads @madeoflightandsound @books_and_biology @shatterlings @dinsdalekep @greenteareads @unwildrumpus @books.and.beers @wynreads @dryapyapi @readmorescience

And thanks to @conservio in Litsy


Related episodes:

Episode 093 - Spewing Science with Jeff Koeppen
Episode 097 - Blank Spaces with Lauren Weinhold
Episode 123 - Godlets and Forests with Lauren Weinhold
Episode 131 - Tartan Noir and More with Claire Duffy


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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 

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Claire is @csduffywriter on Instagram
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Jenny at Goodreads
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