Reading Envy 201: Wrestling with Complexity with Elizabeth and Laurie

Elizabeth and Laurie join me in the pub to chat about books we've read and liked lately, from memoirs to fantasy to YA to poetry. I'd love to hear feedback on the three-person episodes; there will be a few before the end of the year.

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Books discussed:

Voices in the Air by Naomi Shihab-Nye
The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
Eat a Peach by David Chang
The Liars of Mariposa Island by Jennifer Mathieu
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Other mentions:

The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin
Pop Sugar Reading Challenge 2020
MountTBR challenge
#readwhatyouown challenge (in Instagram)
yutori
How to Fly by Barbara Kingsolver
Devotions by Mary Oliver
Elizabeth's review of Devotions
Orangette blog
A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
Delancey by Molly Wizenberg
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
Lucky Peach magazine
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein*
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny
Tides by Jonathan White

*I was foolish and referred to this as "Music Makes Me a Modern Girl"
 

Related episodes:

Episode 033 - An Undulating Thrum with guests Ruth and Elizabeth
Episode 051 - Dreaming in Books with Karen
Episode 061 - Never Do That to a Book with Elizabeth
Episode 136 - Six Pack with Elizabeth
Episode 160 - Reading Plays with Elizabeth
 

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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 061: Never Do That to a Book

Elizabeth (from Episode 033) is back to discuss books she's read recently. We are sometimes joined by children, dogs, and airplanes taking off from a nearby airport, but please just settle in as if you were in a friend's living room with all the ephemera. Welcome!

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Books discussed:



Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
My Last Continent by Midge Raymond
Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Some Day by Shemi Zarhin
Ex Libris: Collections of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel

Other mentions:
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Any Human Heart (miniseries)
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
The History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books  by Fernando Baez
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper by Nicholson Baker
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories by Joy Williams


Related Episodes:
Episode 033 - An Undulating Thrum with guests Ruth and Elizabeth
 
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