Reading Envy 240: Air Quotes with Chris Carey

Chris visits the podcast for the first time, where we discuss web comics and where they live, book clubs and book goals, book slumps and book challenges. We also manage to discuss several debut novels across a wide range of genres, but all with strong representation!

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Books discussed:

The Wolf at the Door by Charlie Adhara
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, performed by Tantoo Cardinal
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

Other mentions: 

Gotham Outsiders
Thirsty on Toon
Talking Comics
My Gentle Giant
WEBTOON
Batman: Wayne Family Adventures
Wattpad
Reading Glasses Podcast
Reading Glasses Challenge
Heaving Bosoms Podcast
Heaving Bosoms' Reading Embrace
Big Bad Wolf Series by Charlie Adhara
Gail Carriger
Nagamatsu playlist at Largehearted Boy
Stiff by Mary Roach
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
Sunshine Cleaning (film)
The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnosteinrom
Indigenous Reading Circle in Patreon
Noopiming by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Bojack Horseman (tv show)
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
Woman Eating by Claire Kohda
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
The Employees by Olga Gavn, translated by Martin Aitken

Related episodes: 

Episode 060 - A Good Era for Communists with Rose Davis
Episode 148 - Multiple Lives with Jeff
Episode 191 - Stealthy yet Sparkly with Gail Carriger
Episode 231 - Psychological Terrorism with Reggie

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Reading Envy 217: Lesson Plan with Kim

Jenny sits down with Kim, another new guest, who describes herself as having the opposite reading life from her host. From history to baseball, debut novels to space, we discuss books we've read and liked recently.

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Books discussed: 

Anthem by Deborah Wiles
If or When I Call by Will Johnson
Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui
Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
The Chicken Runs at Midnight by Tom Friend

Other mentions:

Countdown by Deborah Wiles
Revolution by Deborah Wiles
Nomadland (film)
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
The Frozen Crown by Greta Kelly
Blueberries by Ellena Savage
Currently Reading Podcast
Lori & Julia Radio Show
The Popcast
Sarah's Bookshelves Podcast
What Should I Read Next? Podcast

Related episodes:

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Reading Envy 182: Reading Slump with Ellie

Ellie is back and we get honest about reading slumps. We all have them, and it's a pretty bad feeling when books betray you. What can you do? We talk about how we have found our way out of reading slumps (or hope to) and then talk about some books we've read and liked recently.

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Books discussed:



Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson
Virtuoso by Yelena Moskovich
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey


Other mentions:

Black Wave by Michelle Tea
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
Mary Higgins Clark
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Slade House by David Mitchell
Oranges Aren't the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy, When You Can Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
2020 Tournament of Books


Related episodes:

Episode 046 - Books for Your Kitty Party with Libby Young and many other guests
Episode 090 - Reading Envy Readalong: East of Eden with Ellie and Jeff
Episode 099 - Readalong: The Secret History
Episode 112 - Reset Button with Eleanor Thoele
Episode 121 - Love, Lust, Loss, and Longing with Casey Hampton


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Reading Envy 169: Simulacrum with Jon Sealy

Jenny sits down in the Reading Envy Pub with author and publisher Jon Sealy. After we talk about the state of publishing and Jon's current projects, we also discuss books we've read and liked recently. Some books are just better in audio, some are necessarily dark, while others clear away the gloom.

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Books discussed:



The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Circle of Karma by Kunzang Choden
Faithful Place by Tana French
The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
The Restaurant of Love Regained by Ito Ogawa, translated by David Karashima


Other mentions:

Jenny's trip to the South Carolina Book Festival in 2014 (where she saw Jon Sealy talk about his book right before a panel of Pat Conroy's siblings)
The Whiskey Baron by Jon Sealy
Hub City Press
Eureka Mill by Ron Rash
Like a Family by Jacquelyne Dowd Hall et al
Fate Moreland's Widow by John Lane
The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
The Edge of America by Jon Sealy
Haywire Books
Hummingbird House by Patricia Henley
Firebird by Mark Powell
Small Treasons by Mark Powell
The Good Luck Stone by Heather Bell Adams
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Orfeo by Richard Powers
In the Woods by Tana French
The Witch Elm by Tana French
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Neopolitan Novels #1)
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Tiny Love: The Complete Stories of Larry Brown by Larry Brown (forthcoming)
All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates


Related Episodes:

Episode 012 - Some Bookers and Some Madness 
Episode 024 - The Attention of Humanity with guests Seth Wilson and Barret Newman 
Episode 130 - All the Jennifers with Fern Ronay
Episode 167 - Book Pendulum with Reggie


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Jon's website with tour info
Haywire Books website
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Some of these links are Amazon affiliate links, where I do get a minor kickback when people click on them. But many of the links on today's post link to the small presses publishing the books, and although I receive no kickback on those links, I would love for you to support those publishers and writers.

Reading Envy 164: Character Driven with Carol Ann

Carol Ann is back to talk books with more reading in her rearview. We each talk about books we've liked lately but also end up talking about cheese at the end. Jenny did feel she'd spoiled too much for one book so that discussion has been removed!

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Books discussed:



The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Bunny by Mona Awad
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson


Other mentions:

Plainsong by Kent Haruf
John Irving
Barbara Kingsolver
Beach Music by Pat Conroy
My Reading Life by Pat Conroy
The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
The Captured by Scott Zesch
The Pat Conroy Cookbook by Pat Conroy
Tillamook Cheese Cookbook by Kathy Holstad

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Maresi Red Mantle by Maria Turtschaninoff


Related Episodes:

Episode 099 - Readalong: The Secret History
Episode 103 - Duchess Potatoes with Carol Ann Ellison
Episode 116 - Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again with Jeff Koeppen
Episode 118 - Reading Envy Readalong: To the Bright Edge of the World 
Episode 161 - Women in Translation Month Recommendations with Lauren


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Reading Envy 157: Joint Readalong - Gone with the Wind with the Book Cougars

Jenny received Chris Wolak and Emily Fine (known as The Book Cougars) at the Reading Envy Pub for mint juleps and a discussion of Gone with the Wind, a book many of us have been reading along in May and June.

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Book discussed:



Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell


Other mentions:

Reading Envy Goodreads Group - Gone with the Wind discussion
The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
Ruth's Journey by Donald McCaig
My Reading Life by Pat Conroy
Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel (documentary)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
O Pioneers by Willa Cather
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Carol Burnett Show: "Went with the Wind" 
Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather (upcoming readalong over on Book Cougars!)

Book Cougars Goodreads Group - Sapphira and the Slave Girl discussion


Related Episodes:

Episode 085 - An Acquired Taste with Thomas Otto
Episode 090 - Reading Envy Readalong: East of Eden with Ellie and Jeff
Episode 099 - Readalong: The Secret History
Episode 118 - Reading Envy Readalong: To the Bright Edge of the World
Episode 137 - Reading Envy Readalong: The Golden Notebook


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Reading Envy 104: Uppity Lives and Jelly Melons

Jason Roland is back to chat books, and we travel from Alaska to Czechoslovakia to the spooky Oregon woods to the spookier suburbs of Ohio in our discussions.

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I am scheduling guests for 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ
I am also collecting best reads of 2017 for episode 105. More info here.

Books featured:



To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan

Other mentions:

Victuals: An Appalachian Journey by Ronni Lundy
David Joy
Jim Minnick
Olio by Tyehimba Jess
Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Book Fight Podcast
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn
Crapalachia: A Biography of Place by Scott McClanahan
Hill William by Scott McClanahan
The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
So Much Blue by Percival Everett

Related episodes:

Episode 014 - Flannery O'Connor with Zombies
Episode 025 - Mule and Plow
Episode 042 - It Begins with Rain
Episode 054 - Retired Pirates 
Episode 073 - Buried Under the Beets with Jason Roland
Episode 080 - The Wild Things Helped with Jason Roland


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