Reading Envy 223: Cicada Season with Rachel Mans McKenny

Jenny and Rachel discuss books that didn't get as much attention as they deserved during the early days of the pandemic, science in fiction, a new podcast, and more.

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Books discussed: 

 

Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed
While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams, narrated by Adenrele Ojo
Lakewood by Megan Giddings
Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

Other mentions:

The Butterfly Effect by Rachel Mans McKenny
Blind Date with a Book Podcast (first episode posts June 30, 2021)
@bookmeetcute on Instagram and Twitter
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
A Broken Darkness by Premee Mohamed
Selena Montgomery
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Pisces by Melissa Broder
Bunny by Mona Awad
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

Related episodes:

Episode 008 - Gone Rogue with guests Steve Richardson, Libby Young, and Mike Winiski
Episode 150 - Rife with Storytelling with Sara
Episode 164 - Character Driven with Carol Ann
Episode 186 - This is Gravity with Jeff
Episode 190 - The Good Life with Alex

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Rachel's website
Rachel is @rmmckenny on Twitter; @rachelmansmckenny on Instagram; @rachelm on Litsy
Jenny at Goodreads
Jenny on Twitter
Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Reading Envy 173: Expecting a Lot from a Book

Jenny was happy to welcome Sarah Tittle in person to chat books we have read and liked recently. Sarah's past in publishing, her own writing, and her book club experiences all come together to form the reader she is today. We found our way to a few unintentional themes of female empowerment and radicalism, with a little reader's memory lane of one Nicholson Baker.

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Books discussed:



The Gloaming by Melanie Finn
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
Unfollow by Megan Phelps
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy


Other mentions:

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
Vox by Nicholson Baker
The Fermata by Nicholson Baker
Double Fold by Nicholson Baker
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
Away from You by Melanie Finn
Women's Prize for Fiction
Antigone by Sophocles
Circe by Madeleine Miller
Headscarves and Hymens by Mona Eltahawy
Agent Running in the Field by John Le Carré
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward


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Sarah is @sarahcrosbytittle on Instagram
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Sarah at Goodreads
Jenny at Goodreads
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Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Reading Envy 102: The Reading Women and Reading Envy Crossover Episode

Sometime in this past year, I realized that another podcaster, Kendra, lived in the same city as me. Her co-host is Autumn and they host the Reading Women Podcast (more info and links below.) We decided to use the opportunity to talk about the best books we read by women this year.

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And check out the Reading Women Podcast:
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"The goal of the Reading Women podcast is to bring previously anonymous women to the forefront of your TBR stack. Each month Kendra Winchester and Autumn Privett pick a theme and then discuss several books in a book club-style podcast. Subscribe today to discover amazing female authors who are giving voice to a part of the world's population that has been largely overlooked."


I (Jenny) am scheduling guests for 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ


Books featured:



The Mothers by Brit Bennett (Riverhead)
Black Wave by Michelle Tea (Feminist Press)
Human Acts by Han Kang, Translated by Deborah Smith (Hogarth)
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay (Grove Atlantic)
Juventud by Vanessa Blakeslee (Curbside Splendor)
Himself by Jess Kidd (Atria)
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (FSG)
Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Deep Vellum)
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf)


Other mentions:

The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
The Impossible Fairy Tale by Han Yujoo
Tilted Axis Press

Hunger by Roxane Gay
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
Turf by Elizabeth Crane
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill
David Mitchell
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
The Idiot by Elif Batuman (Penguin Press)
Decatur Book Festival
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Algonquin)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (Algonquin)


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Jenny at Goodreads
Jenny on Twitter
Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy
Reading Women Podcast
Kendra on Instagram,  Twitter, Goodreads, and YouTube
Autumn on Instagram, Twitter, Goodreads