Reading Envy 092: Reading Friends Sarah and Preston

Sarah makes another visit to the Reading Envy Pub, and this time she brought the reading friend she mentioned on Episode 072. We chat reading friendships, books we've read recently, and the difference between mystery and true crime. Cats are the bonus!

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Books featured:



Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese O'Neal
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
Marlena by Julie Buntin
While the City Slept by Eli Sanders
The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Other mentions:

Liza Marklund - Annika Bengzton series
S.J. Bolton
List of female detectives on The Guardian, 2010
Karin Slaughter - Grant County series
Karin Slaughter - Will Trent series
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
Boing Boing
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
For the Win by Cory Doctorow
The Center for Fiction -  First Novel Prize
Tournament of Books Summer Reading Challenge
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
The Rumpus book club
"The Bravest Woman in Seattle" by Eli Sanders
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Colm Toibin review of The End of Eddy (NYRB)
The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Camino Island by John Grisham

Related Episodes:

Episode 072 - Books Are My Bag with Sarah K
Episode 089 - Hodge Podge with Jenny alone 
Episode 091 - Watching Our Stories with Tracy Landrith  


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Reading Envy 083: Slowing Down and Rereading

Julie Davis stops by the Reading Envy Pub, where we talk about rereading, slowing down to appreciate an author's craft, and the best spy adventure the Vatican has ever seen! We also talk about good books we've read lately.

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Books featured:



The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi
Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
The Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran by Jennifer Kinec
Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler by Mark Riebling
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin


Also discussed:

The Tolkien Professor
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit by Corey Olsen
Les Enfantes des Troumarons (film)
Slumdog Millionaire (film)

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
Taste of Persia by Naomi Duguid
America, the Last Best Hope by William J. Bennett
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
The Book of Etta by Meg Elison


Related Episodes:

Episode 003 - 3 of 5 Stars with guest Julie Davis
Episode 055 - Too Late for an Autopsy with Julie Davis
Episode 071 - Bad Priest, Good Priest, No Priest with Scott (discussion of The Unnamed Midwife)


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Reading Envy 079: Deliberately Silenced and Preferably Unheard

Rima Abunasser is a late-night guest to the Reading Envy pub. Jenny and Rima have traded book recommendations for years in social media, and it was nice to have a longer conversation about international literature, revolution, female voices, and how students respond to first-time exposure to some of these topics in her classes.

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The title to this episode comes from the following quote from Arundhati Roy, from The 2004 Sydney Peace Prize Lecture:

"We know of course there's really no such thing as the 'voiceless.' There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard." 

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Books featured:



The Dewbreaker by Edwidge Danticat
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams
The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz

Other mentions:

Stanford prison experiment
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Hamitic myth
The Uncondemned (film)
"The Clan of One-Breasted Women" by Terry Tempest Williams
Arabic Literature in English (blog)
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
10 Books by Arab Women Writers That Should Be Translated (LitHub)

Related Episodes:
Episode 053 - The Pool I Rarely Swim In with Luke Christie

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Reading Envy 064: Reading Down the Rabbit Hole

Jenny talks books with anyone who will listen, and finds a new reading friend in the library where she works. Tracy, who appeared at the tail end of episode 063, is back for a full episode. We discuss books that tie into movies, real life experiences, and more. (Caution: this episode may make you hungry!)

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Books discussed:



The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
The City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Baker
Julia Child: A Life by Julie Shapiro
The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy by Pauline Chiziane; translated by David Brookshaw

Other mentions:

Walter Edgar - SC writers
Dorothea Benton Frank
Mary Alice Monroe
Fran Rizer
Carolyn Hart
The Big Year (film)
John Adams by David McCullough
1776 by David McCullough
Joanne Fluke's Hannah Swensen series
Diane Mott Davidson
The Forgotten Recipe by Amy Clipston
JennyBakes raspberry pie
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss by Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper
As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto by Joan Reardon
My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prudhomme
Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
Julie & Julia (film)
The Last Queen of England by Steve Robinson
My Husband's Sweethearts by Bridget Asher
#scifijuly
Apex by Ramez Naam
The Big Book of Science Fiction ed. by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
BookBub


Related Episodes:

Reading Envy 005: The Second Definition of Geek (mention of Penguin Lives)
Reading Envy 048: Reading Goals 2016
Reading Envy 063: Desolation Road (Tracy makes another brief appearance)


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Library Books Mid-May 2016

The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry
The Front Seat Passenger by Pascal Garnier
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories by Alice Walker
The Door by Magda Szabo
Some Day by Shemi Zarhin
The Forgotten Recipe by Amy Clipston
Upstairs at the Strand: Writers in Conversation by Jessica Strand
Hotels of North America by Rick Moody
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
Arcadia by Iain Pears

I am teaching a reading class in the month of May for our May Experience term. Two of these books are in genres I haven't yet read - sports and Amish romance. I haven't decided which way to go so I may go both ways and read the Bissinger and the Clipston.

The McKenzie is on the Baileys shortlist, the Okorafor is on the Arthur C. Clarke shortlist (but I have read other books by her, and The Book of Phoenix is the prequel to my favorite, Who Fears Death.) The Moody just jumped out at me while at the public library, as did the Pears (I had tried the audio and couldn't get into it but still was intrigued by the description... I suspect this author may just not be for me....)

I requested the McCarry, the Garnier, the Walker, and the Zarhin through interlibrary loan. I loved the first Paul Christopher novel, and came across the Zarhin on a publisher's website sale. The Walker is the May read for a feminist book club in Goodreads; I've read poetry by Walker before but not short stories.

I have been wanting to read the Szabo but haven't cracked it yet. Robyn, my amazing co-worker with impeccable book taste, thought I might want to read the Strand so she saved it for me. I've dipped into one interview and enjoyed it, so I will likely read it in chunks between other things.

New Books In - April 2016

The pile was manageable and then I stopped at the Friends of the Library Book Sale for the Greenville County Public Library. I've lived in Greenville County ten years but this was the first time at this book sale. I will add it to my rotation now! I ended up with several memoirs and other books I've been wanting to read, only one I had read previously. I have some other books in this pile from other places, so I will explain more below!

Passages: Africa edited by Antonio Aiello and Billy Kahora
Man with No Name by Laird Barron
The Lost Garden by Li Ang
Bluebeard's Egg: Stories by Margaret Atwood
All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
The Last Supper by Charles McCarry
House Rules by Rachel Sontag
The Believers by Zoe Heller
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bonjalian
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Towes
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Faithful Place by Tana French
Broken Harbor by Tana French
The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
Hold Still by Sally Mann

I recently contributed to a PEN America kickstarter campaign that will work to bring additional translations of literature from other places to our publishing industry. Part of my donation came with the gift of Passages: Africa and the Ang. 

The Barron and the Liu were recent wins in Goodreads giveaways.

The rest are from the book sale - Atwood because I always snag a book by her if I haven't read it yet, the Bragg because it seems like an important southern work, the McCarry because I recently read a book by him and really enjoyed it, the Sontag because it sounded like a memoir that might cover some familiar ground, Heller & Bonjalian because I've always meant to try them, Doctorow because I've read that book a million times but want to own the paperback, French because I read the first one and wanted to keep going, Ozma because it seemed related, and Mann because it was a finalist in nonfiction for the National Book Award in 2015.

Reading Envy 053: The Pool I Rarely Swim In

Jenny meets up with Luke Christie, a recent graduate of the university where she works, and avid reader. We compete with the squirrels in the ceiling to talk about the books we have been reading. The file is a little distorted, for which I apologize - I'm having some issues in somehow adding distortion when I export to MP3 in Audacity.

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Books discussed:

 

My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (Norton Critical Editions)
The Sunlight Dialogues by John Gardner
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff 
Speak by Louisa Hall

Other mentions:
Furman University Communication Studies
M. Judson Books - Lauren Groff Sit-Down Supper
Ron Rash
George Singleton
Wiley Cash
Lee Smith
Louise Erdrich
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Ursula K. Le Guin
Olive Kittredge by Elizabeth Strout
Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout
We Wish to Inform You... by Philip Gourevitch
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Joni Tevis
The Moby-Dick Marathon at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Les Misérables (the musical)
Hope Leslie by Catharina Maria Sedgwick
Grendel by John Gardner
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace (miniseries)
How to be Both by Ali Smith
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Fortune Smiles:Stories by Adam Johnson
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
The Met Live in HD
Elena Ferrante
Best of 2015 New York times lists
Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
10:04 by Ben Lerner

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