Reading Envy 156: Introvert Intentions with Scott

Jenny and Scott chat books they've read and liked lately, from travelogues to medical/cultural miscommunication, from introvert tales to science fiction short stories that are really more about philosophy than anything else. You'll have to excuse them as they nerd out over journaling and planners for a while (and Jenny deleted half that conversation, so you don't even know!)

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Books discussed:



Exhalation by Ted Chiang
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come by Jessica Pan
The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap


Other mentions:

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Game of Thrones (tv show)
Arrival (film)
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Gardner Dezois
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
This is Paradise by Kristiana Khakauwila
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K.J. Parker
Ordinary People by Diana Evans
Chronicles of a Radical Hag by Lorna Landvik


Related Episodes:

Episode 004 - Home, Frightening and Banned with guest Karen Acosta
Episode 014 - Flannery O'Connor with Zombies with Jason and Scott
Episode 052 - The Man with the Eyebrows with Philip and Scott
Episode 058 - Wishing for a Sequel with Scott
Episode 071 - Bad Priest, Good Priest, No Priest with Scott
Episode 082 - Reading Envy Envy with Scott
Episode 109 - Stuxnet Pancakes with Scott Danielson

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Reading Envy 153: Reading Envy Summer Reading Challenge 2019

Jenny repurposes a summer wedding rhyme for this year's summer reading challenge. You get to pick which books fit each category, and make your own square.

Something swampy

Something blue

Something translated

Something true

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Books discussed:

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell by Nathan Ballingrud
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Minnow by James E. McTeer II
The Story of Land and Sea by Katy Simpson-Smith
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush
St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Florida by Lauren Groff
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
Area X trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer (starts with Annihilation)
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Anthropology of Turquoise by Ellen Meloy
The Condomnauts by Yoss
Fired Up: Kindling and Keeping the Spark in Creative Teams by Andrew Johnston


Other mentions:
DCL Blue Book List
Daily Mayo - Books with Blue Covers
Listopia - Best Books with Blue Covers
August is Women in Translation month #WITMonth @Biblibio in Twitter
May is Asian Pacific Islander Heritage month #apicelebrasian
Lost in Translations
Man Booker International Prize


Related Episodes:
Episode 034 - The Liminal Space Between with guest Paul Weimer
Episode 041 - Grotesque Beauty with Nathan Ballingrud
Episode 054 - Retired Pirates with Jason Roland
Episode 131 - Tartan Noir and More with Claire Duffy
Episode 133 - To Understand the World with Lauren Weinhold
Episode 151- The Stories They Tell with Karen
Episode 152 - Kill 'em and Leave with Nadine

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New Books In, May 2016

The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Likeness by Tana French
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Leaving the Fold by Marlene Winell

I purchased the Ballingrud, French, and Winell from Amazon, for entirely different reasons! I had recently acquired French #3 and #4 at a used book sale, previously read #1, and wanted to remedy missing a volume, so just bought a random used copy that I could use Amazon Prime to ship. Ballingrud of course has been on my podcast and I would have ended up reading this one, but then he was nominated for an award, and I wanted to read it sooner rather than later! The Winell is for my own personal journey, about dealing with a past laden with fundamentalism.

I staged a readathon for my Reading Class and one of the things we did was have a book swap. I snagged the Eggers and Lindbergh from the table - I actually don't want to read the Eggers but it was on the nomination list for my book club, and I thought if it ended up on the list I might as well have a copy! I know I've heard about the Lindbergh but can't exactly remember in what context. Probably a quick read.

The Brooks-Dalton is a review copy from a publisher, a post-apocalyptic novel featuring an astronaut and a scientist. It sounded kind of like a less funny version of that tv show, Last Man on Earth. I was up for it!