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Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Reading Envy 121: Love, Lust, Loss, and Longing

This is Casey's first time as a guest on the podcast, although his voice may sound familiar from the Best of the Year episodes. Our original conversation was over three hours long, so Jenny is hoping the holes aren't super obvious, but that you enjoy our chat about northern lit and what we look for in books.

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Books Discussed:

I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
Two in the Far North by Margaret Murie
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
Jaws of Life by Laura Leigh Morris
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao

Picture of the carving Casey mentions:

Other Mentions:

Kwakiutl, self-name Kwakwaka'wakw
Frank Muller, audiobook narrator
The Home Front by Margaret Craven
One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Richard Proenneke
Waterland by Graham Swift
Iris Murdoch
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Downton Abbey (tv series)

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Scott McClanahan
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, 2018 West Virginia episode
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
Circe by Madeleine Miller
Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel

Related episodes:
Episode 070 - Words Like Weapons with Yanira Ramirez
Episode 105 - Best Reads of 2017

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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Reading Envy 033: An Undulating Thrum

Jenny sits down with Ruth and Elizabeth, two readers who connected via Goodreads. As listeners of numerous reading podcasts, their reading experiences are varied and rich. I hope you enjoy our conversation!

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Books featured:

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
The Aloe by Katherine Mansfield
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt
Stoner by John Williams
Armadale by Wilkie Collins

Other mentions:

"The Readers" podcast and group in Goodreads
Virginia Woolf
Elizabeth von Arnim
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Wonders by Paddy O'Reilly
Lost and Found by Brooke Davis
D.H. Lawrence
BookTubers (Google it!)
Firefly (TV show)
The Gentleman Bastard series by Scott Lynch
A-Team (TV show)
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
Keeper by Kathi Appelt
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
#thrumspotting
Wake by Maia Sepp (can you spot the thrum?)
Dear Sugar Radio
The Case of the Missing Moonstone by Jordan Stratford
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Anthony Trollope
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Virago Publishing
Persephone Books
NYRB Classics
Nancy Pearl

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Ruth at Goodreads
Elizabeth at Goodreads

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Reading Envy 026: It Ended Well

Scott returns, or was he there all along? Episode 026 is a return to the founding members of Reading Envy and the books they have read lately.

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Books discussed: