tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59622226886990156172024-03-17T23:02:49.408-04:00Reading EnvyI'll have what you're reading!Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.comBlogger1232125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-84763777024548392392022-05-01T13:30:00.004-04:002022-05-01T13:30:42.065-04:00Books Read April 2022: 49-73<p>A gentle reminder that all reviews can still be seen on my <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/68030-jenny-reading-envy">Goodreads profile</a> (the review will be with the book; the format will be specified unless it's in print.) And the books with green outlines are my 5-star reads for the month!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4rIL_GwSx3NVy3e1lbM1MUTY4JTjbk5-rycABpZULBlrK7ZqjUKybkZBIEz9BfdiP36CBgZr1-vWhCn4teZDOS-mmeDFyi7KxFxpgqy_rehuOGiieGV599JmAY32hCN0pfMg_5N1xHsF8cHmi3xbBrrrYnJ7kRns6OiswjrNacRGSxtXOgvcWyqnFFw/s673/AprilBooksRead.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="673" data-original-width="673" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4rIL_GwSx3NVy3e1lbM1MUTY4JTjbk5-rycABpZULBlrK7ZqjUKybkZBIEz9BfdiP36CBgZr1-vWhCn4teZDOS-mmeDFyi7KxFxpgqy_rehuOGiieGV599JmAY32hCN0pfMg_5N1xHsF8cHmi3xbBrrrYnJ7kRns6OiswjrNacRGSxtXOgvcWyqnFFw/w400-h400/AprilBooksRead.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>
49.
<i>A
Dead Djinn in Cairo </i>by
P.
Djeli Clark
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />50.
<i>Below
Zero</i>
by Ali
Hazelwood, read by
Savannah
Peachwood
⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />51.
<i> Time
is a Mother</i>
by Ocean
Vuong, read by
Ocean
Vuong
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
52.<i>
The
Genius Under the Table</i>
by Eugene
Yelchin
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />53.
<i> The
Angel of Khan el-Khalili</i> by
P.
Djeli Clark
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
54.
<i>Pandora's
Star</i>
by Peter
F. Hamilton
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
55.
<i>The
Haunting of Tram Car 015</i>
by P.
Djeli Clark, read by
Julian
Thomas
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
56.
<i> Woman,
Eat Me Whole</i>
by Ama
Asantewa Diaka
⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
57.<i>
I
Will Die in a Foreign Land</i>
by Kalani
Pickhart
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
58.
<i> By
Any Other Name</i>
by Lauren
Kate
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
59.
<i> Thresh
& Hold</i>
by Marlanda
Dekine
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
60.
<i> Wildcat
</i>by Ameila
Morris
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
61.
<i>Whatever
Happened to Interracial Love?</i>
by Kathleen
Collins, performed by
Nina
Collins, Cherise Boothe, Adenrele Ojo, Paula J. Parker, Desean Terry, and Dan
Woren
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />62.
<i>Lord
of the Flies</i>
by William
Golding
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />63.
<i>The
Path to Kindness</i>
by James
Crews (ed.)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />64.
<i> The
Black Agenda</i> by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman (ed.)⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
65.
<i>End
of the World House</i> by
Adrienne
Celt
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />66.
<i> The
Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer</i>
by Janelle
Monae et al
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
67.
<i> A
Sister's Story</i>
by Donatella
di Pietrantonio, translated by
Ann
Goldstein
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />68.
<i>Deaf
Republic</i> by
Ilya
Kaminsky
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
69.
<i> Heartstopper </i>by
Alice
Oseman
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />70.
<i>Lessons
in Chemistry</i>
by Bonnie
Garmus, read by
Miranda
Raison
⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
71.
<i>Symphony
for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad</i> by
M.T.
Anderson, read by
M.T.
Anderson
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />72.
<i>A
Master of Djinn</i>
by P.
Djeli Clark
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />73.
<i>Red
Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine</i>
by Anne
Applebaum
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />74.<i>
The
Stone Collection</i>
by Kateri
Akiwenzie-Damm
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ </p><p>Books read: 26
<br /><br />
Audiobook: 6<br />Ebook: 11<br />Print: 9<br /><br />
Library: 6<br />TBR: 1<br />
Purchased 2022: 5<br />Review copy: 11<br />
Subscription: 1<br /><br />1954- Club: 1<br />Around the World: 11<br />Booker International Prize: 0<br />Indigenous Reading Circle: 1<br />Indigenous Reads otherwise: 0<br />Melanated Reader's 20 Books by Black Women: 4<br />Mid-Century Women: 0<br />Reading Envy Russia: 5<br />Sword and Laser: 5<br />Tournament of Books: 0<br />Women's Prize: 0<br /></p>Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-29199821182175890672022-05-01T11:19:00.002-04:002022-05-01T11:20:11.142-04:00Review: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33998347">Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/64761">Anne Applebaum</a><br />
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4656985047">4 of 5 stars</a>
<br /><br />
This is a feat of research and writing about Ukraine in the 1930s, and
how Stalin's policies intentionally targeted Ukrainians, resulting in
widespread famine and what many consider genocide. From collectivization
to dekulakization, the author shows how Ukraine was stripped of its
resources and culture and then punished further for not being able to
provide more. I was shocked this time period is still highly
debated/contested - largely by the Russian government - well shocked
might be too strong of a word, after all Putin borrows from Stalin in
categorizing Ukrainians as Nazis in order to justify his decisions.<br /><br />For
my tastes, there are so many names and so many details that the reading
was sometimes a slog. However I don't know how the author could have
written it without those details since she has done so well pulling them
all together. I just don't read a lot of history. <br /><br />This is one
of the books I selected for the non-fiction quarter of Reading Envy
Russia (#readingenvyrussia) - April was month 1 so you can still join in
with 2 more months of non-fiction reading to go.
<br /><br />
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Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-26439445253129801382022-04-29T11:04:00.002-04:002022-04-29T11:04:37.872-04:00Review: Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24727079" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px;"><img alt="Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad" border="0" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1426255855l/24727079._SX98_.jpg" /></a>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24727079">Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/31688">M.T. Anderson</a><br />
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4658041978">5 of 5 stars</a>
<br /><br />
If you're like me and struggle to read history, make it a cultural history like this one, where the history is told sideways through the life and work of an artist, in this case the composer Dmitri Shostakovich and his hometown of Leningrad, up until and during the Siege itself. The publisher is also YA and while this book is considered YA, I didn't find it overly simplified in its discussion of the music or the history. The author does a fantastic job narrating his own work, bringing a vibrance to the political and musical worlds of Shostakovich.<br /><br />One of my goals this year was to better understand how Russia moved from WWI into the 1950s and still remain a powerhouse despite - or as I'm learning on top of - the devastation to the country and its people. The background of this story displays many of the missteps made by the Soviet government - really mostly Stalin - on the German front in particular, but also in dealing with their own citizens. One somewhat sordid argument this author uncovers is that it was Stalin's history of food deprivation that may have trained the citizens of Leningrad to survive what should have been an impossible solution. I don't want to give him that much credit, but it was an interesting tangent.<br /><br />And who will now go on a Shostakovich listening spree? It's me!<br /><br /><br />
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Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-91433732424677341742022-04-26T00:00:00.030-04:002022-04-26T00:00:00.190-04:00Reading Envy 246: Unsettling Endings with YaniraYanira shares why she deleted Goodreads and how it's improved her reading life, and we talk about rereading books before we dig into books we've read and liked lately. <br /><p>Download or listen via this link:<i><b> <br /></b></i><a href="http://www.nathanielcolvin.com/readingenvy/episodes/ReadingEnvy246.mp3">Reading Envy 246: Unsettling Endings</a> <br />
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<a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2017/09/reading-envy-096-not-without-hope.html">Episode 096</a> - <i>Not Without Hope</i> with Yanira Ramirez<br />
<a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-envy-108-venn-diagram-with.html">Episode 108</a> - <i>Venn Diagram</i> with Yanira Ramirez<i> </i> <br /><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2019/01/reading-envy-141-profound-and-tedious.html">Episode 141</a> - <i>Profound and Tedious Work</i> with Yanira Ramirez<br /><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2020/02/reading-envy-181-awkward-woman-with.html">Episode 181</a> - <i>An Awkward Woman</i> with Yanira Ramirez<p>
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Or listen through <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLmZlZWRidXJuZXIuY29tL2Jsb2dzcG90L09GT3VR">Google Podcasts </a><br /><br /></p><p>Books discussed:<i> </i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0seFFqjUdXFtiOdNUpWmxvMr6Cwn0oMJ_vZZ2R6o4kyBs-MhUyofX0puleZfJDgW4-tDCrxH-vYTlc7XGyC26LYUHlGyyAQIoKTMnb1TJG_g9tptztGZdOzlL0fDEqly7eYg696FKRRAMct9kvl46llbuT9gJaH5sJQyybYmXVM_CA4nrSIt8l_ZaWg/s2048/PhotoGrid_Plus_1649979061361.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Some of the book covers for books discussed in this episode, in a 3x3 grid" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0seFFqjUdXFtiOdNUpWmxvMr6Cwn0oMJ_vZZ2R6o4kyBs-MhUyofX0puleZfJDgW4-tDCrxH-vYTlc7XGyC26LYUHlGyyAQIoKTMnb1TJG_g9tptztGZdOzlL0fDEqly7eYg696FKRRAMct9kvl46llbuT9gJaH5sJQyybYmXVM_CA4nrSIt8l_ZaWg/w400-h400/PhotoGrid_Plus_1649979061361.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><i><br /></i><p></p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780374532185"><i>The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them</i></a> by Elif Batuman<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781419735189"><i>The Anna Karenina Fix</i></a> by Viv Groskop<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780679776444"><i>Dead Souls</i></a> by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780140447958"><i>A Hero of Our Time</i></a> by Mikhail Lermontov, translated by Paul Foote<br /><a href="https://amzn.to/3xpq3YV"><i>The Aviator</i></a> by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Lisa C. Hayden<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781780748719"><i>Laurus </i></a>by Eugene Vodolazkin<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780156030083"><i>Flowers for Algernon</i></a> by Daniel Keyes<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781941920152"><i>The Mountain and the Wall</i></a> by Alisa Ganieva, translated by Carol Apollonio<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780811219426">The Hall of the Singing Caryatids</a></i> by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9798747647671"><i>War and Peace</i></a> by Leo Tolstoy<br /><i><a href="https://amzn.to/3rs6GKJ">The Kingdom of God is Within You</a> </i>by Leo Tolstoy<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780679723424"><i>Pale Fire</i></a> by Vladimir Nabokov<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780679723165"><i>Lolita</i> </a>by Vladimir Nabokov<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780316066525"><i>Infinite Jest</i></a> by David Foster Wallace<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781786076847"><i>Zuleikha </i></a>by Guzel Yakhina, translated by Lisa C. Hayden<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781953387080"><i>I Will Die in a Foreign Land</i></a> by Kalani Pickhart<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781636080451"><i>Brisbane </i></a>by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Marian Schwarz<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780300243017"><i>The Orphanage</i></a> by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780811229845"><i>Lucky Breaks</i></a> by Yevgenia Belorusets, translated by Eugene Ostahevsky<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781941920879">Life Went on Anyway: Stories</a> </i>by Oleg Sentsov, translated by Uilleam Blacker<span class="comma-after-except-last"><a class="text-secondary" href="https://bookshop.org/contributors/reilly-costigan-humes"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"></span></a></span><br /><br /><br /> Other mentions:</p><p>Ted Chiang<br />Ken Liu<br />Hanya Yanagihara<br /><a href="https://lithub.com/men-explain-lolita-to-me/">"Men Who Explain Lolita to Me"</a> by Rebecca Solnit on LitHub<br /><a href="https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2008/10/dead-soul">"Dead Soul" </a>by Masha Gessen in Vanity Fair<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/phEgKT62Eb8">St. Michael's bells ringing in 2013</a><br /></p><p><br />Related episodes:<br /></p><p><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2022/01/reading-envy-237-reading-goals-2022.html" target="_blank">Episode 237</a> - Reading Goals 2022<br /><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2022/03/reading-envy-241-feral-pigeons-with.html">Episode 241</a> - Feral Pigeons with Laurie<br /><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2022/03/reading-envy-243-russian-novel-speed.html">Episode 243</a> - Russian Novel Speed Date </p><p><br />Stalk us online:</p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/213993-reading-envy-readers">Reading Envy Readers</a> on Goodreads (home of Reading Envy Russia)<br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/68030-jenny-reading-envy">Jenny at Goodreads</a><br />
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<br /><br /><i>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. You can see the full collection for <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/reading-envy-russia-2022">Reading Envy Russia 2022 on Bookshop.org</a>.</i> <br /></p>Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-45989672420364673822022-04-18T07:00:00.011-04:002022-04-18T07:00:00.251-04:00#1954Club - Lord of the Flies by William Golding<p>A year or so ago, I happened across the 'club' year posts from Simon (<a href="http://www.stuckinabook.com/1954club-not-long-now/">Stuck in a Book</a>) and Karen (<a href="https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2022/04/16/coming-up-on-monday-lets-explore-past-books-for-the-1954club-d/">Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings</a>), where they pick a random year in history and everyone who wants to reads a book (or several books) originally published in that year and posts about it. I've participated twice so far, when I read <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53101.Nightwood"><i>Nightwood </i></a>by Djuna Barnes for <a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2021/04/review-nightwood.html">1936Club last April</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60944.Meridian"><i>Meridian</i> </a>by Alice Walker for <a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2021/10/review-meridian.html">1976Club in October</a>.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQpuFcnJWa9Wa0653U69SN1yXbgXO1zSCYUl5uzqNE2_HvkbZoM84M1F6-H7bNHujti9SfY71V7-9EoFOLx9JmzQw4dRQyFebLW8nmL0eViDsXOVWnUFZMv4lt61V5NGsRQHC9D-hvv0ZuRuFGVX_bJO3y2Mh0FdlpfuQEhs7c6xoQ9TcMcQc-5Va9g/s1080/1954club.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image for 1954club, yanked from Simon and Karen's blogs, not sure of the origin" border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQpuFcnJWa9Wa0653U69SN1yXbgXO1zSCYUl5uzqNE2_HvkbZoM84M1F6-H7bNHujti9SfY71V7-9EoFOLx9JmzQw4dRQyFebLW8nmL0eViDsXOVWnUFZMv4lt61V5NGsRQHC9D-hvv0ZuRuFGVX_bJO3y2Mh0FdlpfuQEhs7c6xoQ9TcMcQc-5Va9g/w400-h400/1954club.webp" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>1954 is an interesting year for books, and also is the right timing for one of my reading goals for the year that I've not really done well - to read books by mid-century women. My first selection for the club this year still doesn't meet that goal since it's a male author, but perhaps I'll find another that will before the end of the week. I'd previously read <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40483.Story_of_O"><i>The Story of O</i></a> by Pauline Reage, translated by Sabine d'Estree, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84119.The_Horse_and_His_Boy"><i>A Horse and His Boy</i></a> by C.S. Lewis (probably not since I was a child,) and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1785957.Who_Was_Changed_and_Who_Was_Dead"><i>Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead</i></a> by Barbara Comyns, in a delightful edition from Dorothy Publishing.</p><p>I have a copy of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395182.Lucky_Jim"><i>Lucky Jim</i></a> on my shelves, a 1954 novel I purchased for a classics challenge to fulfill the category of a comic novel. I never read it, just went a different direction, but the academia angle is always compelling. But I went first with <i>Lord of the Flies.</i> A few months ago, our foster son at the time wanted to read it and I decided I should read it first, since he was 9. I wasn't sure it was age appropriate. I only knew vaguely it was about boys who need to survive on an island and turn to their animal natures, and that since the novel was published a lot of other books and TV shows have been roughly based on the premise (the most recent I saw was <i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8633062/">The Wilds</a>, </i>a 2020 TV show about a bunch of teenage girls that are dumped on an island for some kind of experiment for which they are uninformed.)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4FILwu4O_SGkCf1bE2DVTPAQp0oKM2njnznmvuzVZnO8Si7i_wK5tEsR8_S_EMH78Hfd62OvPPdTZ241XJdgE1R_GVKfT4OWfj0zq8hMHSBao46sbISY1qtKy62I3Kd_rNvVorTmhV7ovFfU4nvRcq-syg2wY-b_Dn6hf2284ruz4RBvWrOwdpFzQRQ/s1080/LotFphotogrid.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="6 variations of book covers of Lord of the Flies" border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4FILwu4O_SGkCf1bE2DVTPAQp0oKM2njnznmvuzVZnO8Si7i_wK5tEsR8_S_EMH78Hfd62OvPPdTZ241XJdgE1R_GVKfT4OWfj0zq8hMHSBao46sbISY1qtKy62I3Kd_rNvVorTmhV7ovFfU4nvRcq-syg2wY-b_Dn6hf2284ruz4RBvWrOwdpFzQRQ/w400-h400/LotFphotogrid.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br />I understand some people read Lord of the Flies in school and while I had a very intensive English literature year in high school, Golding was not included for whatever reason. I found it interesting how many ways the novel is portrayed in the cover art - the bloodthirsty open mouth of the most recent, the calmer jungle type images, several pig-themed covers, a cover with glasses that is more reminiscent of Harry Potter, and a bizarre giant fly with a little boy. </p><p>I read the edition with an introduction by E.M. Forster. I very brilliantly waited until finishing the novel to read his introduction, which would have spoiled practically every significant plot point besides suggesting broader themes that I'm not sure I agree with. I expected there to be memorable characters and there are - Simon, Ralph, Piggy, Roger, etc. - I don't think I expected some of the ethereal writing that I encountered. It made me wish I was reading the same author on different content!</p><p>Here is the first paragraph and a few more lines from Chapter 4: <br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">"The first rhythm that they became used to was the slow swing from dawn to quick dusk. They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten. Toward noon, as the floods of light fell more nearly to the perpendicular, the stark colors of the morning were smoothed in pearl and opalescence; and the heat - as though the impending sun's height gave it momentum - became a blow that they ducked, running to the shade and lying there, perhaps even sleeping.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Strange things happened at midday. The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility; the coral reef and the few stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky, would quiver, be plucked apart, run like raindrops on a wire or be repeated as in an odd succession of mirrors...."</p><p style="text-align: left;">Beautiful, dangerous, foreboding, yet somehow familiar. I know how this feeling he describes feels. I am like the kids, I identify with them, at least in some of these early moments, and then of course they do some terrible things, so of course the author wants the reader to ask what would you do? Would you try for democracy or anarchy? Fruit or meat? Mountain or beach? Survival is one of the quickest scenarios to see a person's true colors. Do we know this for sure or do we know this because of this book? It feels very much a part of the fabric of our culture, so when I realized it was one of the books on the Modern Library's <a href="https://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/">100 Best Novels</a> list, one of those silly lists I still would like to check off eventually, it made sense to me that it would be included, even if we never talk about any of the other works by this author.<br /></p><p>Stay tuned if I read any more books from 1954. And thanks to Karen and Simon for hosting a fun challenge.<br /></p><p><br /></p>Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-10683771387142810712022-04-14T20:29:00.002-04:002022-04-14T20:30:52.408-04:00Review: I Will Die in a Foreign Land
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57064835">I Will Die in a Foreign Land</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21185623">Kalani Pickhart</a><br />
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4631450056">5 of 5 stars</a>
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I'm one of many people who felt drawn to reading more about Ukraine.
This novel was already on my radar so I purchased it from Two Dollar
Radio.<br /><br />Publisher summary excerpt:<br />"[This novel] follows four
individuals over the course of a volatile Ukrainian winter, as their
lives are forever changed by the Euromaidan protests. Katya is a
Ukrainian-American doctor stationed at a makeshift medical clinic in St.
Michael’s Monastery; Misha is an engineer originally from Pripyat, who
has lived in Kyiv since his wife’s death; Slava is a fiery young
activist whose past hardships steel her determination in the face of
persecution; and Aleksandr Ivanovich, a former KGB agent, climbs atop a
burned-out police bus at Independence Square and plays the piano."<br /><br />Set
in 2013-14 but also rooted in the complexities of the past (from the
mythical Rus to Cossacks to Chernobyl), alternating viewpoints include
the four characters plus news articles, cassette recordings, songs, and
more. It's very readable and brings the reader into the intimacy of the
recent past for Ukraine. Honestly I was trying to read non-fiction about
Stalin's war on Ukraine and was drawn back into fiction instead.<br /><br />The
author is not Ukrainian but is donating all proceeds of the book to
relief orgs benefitting Ukrainian people at the time of this review. <br /><br />One
friend said they couldn't tell if I liked the book and my feelings are
mixed - it has many techniques I like, the rotating perspectives, the
various format types, the short chapters, the tidbits that send me off
on research projects, for instance listening to the bells of St.
Michaels in 2013 on YouTube (only the second time they were played as
part of a conflict, the previous time was with the Mongols!) But it
feels weird to say I liked a novel about a previous conflict when the
country it's about it in such turmoil now with people dead in the
street. It even took me a while to read because I struggled to return to
a setting that doesn't even exist as it's described because of the
Russian invasion, and the book is set only 8 years in the past. I can be
quite the emotional reader sometimes.<br /><br />This book has come up a few times on the Reading Envy podcast this year, and will also be mentioned on episode 245.<br /><br />The
author is not from Ukraine but is a bit of a subject matter expert, and
also published<a href="https://electricliterature.com/a-literary-guide-to-understanding-ukraine-past-and-present-russian-invasion-war-books/"> this list of suggested books</a> to read to learn more.<br /><br />
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Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-37596575377300727242022-04-05T15:19:00.001-04:002022-04-05T15:54:28.021-04:00Reading Envy 244: 2nd Quarter - Russian Non-Fiction<p>Lauren W. will be co-hosting this non-fiction quarter of Reading Envy Russia. We share books we have already read and freely recommend, and also chat about the piles and shelves of books we are considering. Let us know your recommendations and where you hope to start in the comments, or join the conversation in Goodreads.<br /></p><p>Download or listen via this link:<i><b> <br /></b></i><a href="http://www.nathanielcolvin.com/readingenvy/episodes/ReadingEnvy244.mp3">Reading Envy 244: 2nd Quarter - Russian Non-Fiction</a> <br />
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<br /></p><p>Books we can recommend:<i> <br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781590179512">Memories from Moscow to the Black Sea</a> </i>by Teffi <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781590179963"><i>Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi</i></a> by Teffi<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780399588822"><i>Secondhand Time</i></a>
by Svetlana Alexievich<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780399588747"><i>The Unwomanly Face of War</i></a>
by Svetlana Alexievich<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780399588761"><i>Last Witnesses</i></a>
by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Pevear & Volokhonsky<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780393336863"><i>Zinky Boys</i></a>
by Svetlana Alexievich<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781628973303"><i>Voices of Chernobyl</i></a> (also titled <i>Chernobyl Prayer</i>) by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Keith Gessen<br /><a href="https://amzn.to/3iWCqDh"><i>Other Russias</i></a> by Victoria Lomasko, translated by Thomas Campbell<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781594634543"><i>The Future is History</i> </a>
by Masha Gessen <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780997722963"><i>Never Remember</i></a>
by Masha Gessen, photography by Misha Friedman<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780805242461"><i>Where the Jews Aren’t</i> </a>
by Masha Gessen <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780618125005"><i>Pushkin’s Children</i></a> by Tatyana Tolstaya
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781590171967"><i>The Slynx</i></a> by Tatyana Tolstaya<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780679747802"><i>Imperium </i></a>by Ryszard Kapucinski, translated by Klara Glowczewska<br />
<a href="https://amzn.to/3DEEKIz"><i>A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia’s Most Seductive Spy</i></a> by Deborah McDonald and Jeremy Dronfield<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781250118110"><i>Putin Country</i></a>
by Anne Garrels<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781250118110"><i>Letters: Summer 1926</i> </a>by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781643137698"><i>Sovietistan </i></a>by Erika Fatland
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781849762519"><i>The Commissar Vanishes</i></a> by David King
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781400034093"><i>Gulag </i></a>by Anne Applebaum
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781400095933"><i>The Iron Curtain</i></a> by Anne Applebaum
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781400077861"><i>The Magical Chorus</i></a> by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonina Bouis
<br /><a href="https://amzn.to/36H0GXH"><i>Shostaskovich and Stalin</i></a> by Solomon Volkov
<br /><a href="https://amzn.to/3iYrG7q"><i>The Tiger</i></a> by John Vaillant
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780374228484"><i>Owls of the Eastern Ice</i></a> by Jonathan Slaght
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780226599717"><i>How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution</i></a> by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut
<br /><a href="https://amzn.to/3qVjBVr"><i>Please to the Table</i></a> by Anya von Bremzen
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780307886828"><i>Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking</i></a> by Anya von Bremzen <br /><br /></p><p></p><p>Books we are considering: <br /><br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781644210161"><i>All Lara’s Wars</i></a> by Wojchiech Jagielski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones<br />
<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780061253713"><i>Gulag Archipelago</i></a> by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Eric Ericson (there is a unabridged 1800+ pg, and an author approved <a href="https://amzn.to/35xzppZ">abridged </a>version, 400-some pages)
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780156027519"><i>Journey into the Whirlwind</i></a> by Eugenia Ginzburg, translated by Paul Stevenson, Max Hayward <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780140186956"><i>Kolyma Tales</i></a> by Varlam Shalamov, translated by John Glad<br /><a href="https://amzn.to/3wY9Rh2"><i>Riot Days</i></a> by Maria Alyokhina<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780679723394"><i>Speak, Memory</i></a> by Vladimir Nabokov
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780231198097"><i>The Life Written by Himself</i></a> by Avvakum Petrov <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781545099698"><i>My Childhood</i></a> by Maxim Gorky
<i><br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781788312585">Teffi: A Life of Letters and Laughter</a></i> by Edythe Haber
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780375753169"><i>Hope Against Hope</i></a> by Nadezhda Mandelstam, tr. Max Hayward
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781536215526"><i>The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain</i></a> by Eugene Yelchin
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780805082500"><i>Putin's Russia: life in a failing democracy</i></a> by Anna Politkovskaya ; translated by Arch Tait.
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9788184982343"><i>A Russian diary: a journalist's final account of life, corruption, and death in Putin's Russia</i></a> by Anna Politkovskaya <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9785519600958"><i>Notes on Russian Literature</i></a> by F.M. Dostoevsky<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781594206306"><i>The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece</i></a> by Kevin Birmingham
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780143127543"><i>The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses</i></a> by Kevin Birmingham<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780374539054"><i>Less than One: Selected Essays</i></a> by Joseph Brodsky
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781734590760"><i>Tolstoy Together</i></a> by Yiyun Li
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781643139494"><i>The Border</i></a> by Erika Fatland
<br />
<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780763691004"><i>Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad</i></a> by M.T. Anderson
<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781555976040"><i>Red Plenty</i></a> by Francis Spufford
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780679751250"><i>Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire</i></a> by David Remnick
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780465031474"><i>Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin</i></a> by Timothy Snyder
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780465046713"><i>The Last Empire: Final Days of the Soviet Union</i></a> by Serhii Plokhy<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781541675643"><i>The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine</i></a> by Serhii Plokhy<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781541617070"><i>Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe</i></a> by Serhii Plokhy<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780393540819"><i>Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis</i></a> by Serhii Plokhy<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780465035908"><i>Man with the Poison Gun: a Cold War Spy Story</i></a> by Serhii Plokhy<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780374528171"><i>Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel</i></a> by Anatoly Kuznetsov, tr. David Floyd <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780393357769"><i>Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster</i></a> by Kate Brown <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780190233105"><i>Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters</i></a> by Kate Brown<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780674019492"><i>A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland </i></a>by Kate Brown<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781784782788"><i>October: The Story of the Russian Revolution</i></a> by China Mieville <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781610396004"><i>Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia</i></a> by Peter Pomerantsev <br />
<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780253022158"><i>Across the Ussuri Kray</i></a> by Vladimir Arsenyev, translated by Slaght
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781590176184"><i>An Armenian Sketchbook</i></a> by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler <br />
<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780307275332"><i>A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army</i></a> by Vasily Grossman<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781590173619"><i>The Road</i></a> by Vasily Grossman<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781662601279"><i>Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and Depraved of Chernobyl</i></a> by Markiyan Kamysh <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780393351873"><i>Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia</i></a> by David Greene <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781616289614"><i>Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine & beyond</i></a> by Olia Hercules<br />
<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781787134829"><i>Red Sands </i></a>
by Caroline Eden<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781787131316"><i>Black Sea</i></a> by Caroline Eden
<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781623719555"><i>Tasting Georgia</i></a> by Carla Capalbo<br /> <br /><br /> Other mentions:</p><p><a href="https://pen-international.org/news/nobel-laureates-writers-and-artists-worldwide-condemn-russias-invasion-of-ukraine">PEN list of writers against Putin</a><br /><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/masha-and-keith-gessen-on-writing-about-russia">New Yorker article about Gessen siblings</a>
<br /><a href="http://jennybakes.blogspot.com/2013/11/thanksgivukkah-report.html">Thanksgivukkah 2013 </a>
<br />League of Kitchens - <a href="https://www.leagueofkitchens.com/instructors/uzbek-cooking-with-damira ">Uzbek lesson</a><br />League of Kitchens - <a href="https://www.leagueofkitchens.com/cooking-classes/2112 ">Russian lesson</a><br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-masha-gessen.html">Masha Gessen on Ezra Klein podcast, March 2022</a></p><p><br />Related episodes:<br /></p><p><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2016/09/reading-envy-067-rain-and-readability.html">Episode 067</a> - <i>Rain and Readability</i> with Ruth(iella)<i> <br /></i><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2017/04/reading-envy-084-worthy-tangent.html">Episode 084</a> - <i><i>A Worthy Tangent</i> </i>with Bryan Alexander<i><i> <br /></i></i><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2018/12/reading-envy-138-shared-landscape.html">Episode 138</a> - <i>Shared Landscape</i> with Lauren Weinhold<i> <br /></i><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2022/01/reading-envy-237-reading-goals-2022.html" target="_blank">Episode 237</a> - Reading Goals 2022<br /><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2022/03/reading-envy-243-russian-novel-speed.html">Episode 243</a> - Russian Novel Speed Date </p><p><br />Stalk us online:</p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/213993-reading-envy-readers">Reading Envy Readers</a> on Goodreads (home of Reading Envy Russia)<br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1291915-lauren">Lauren at Goodreads</a><br />
Lauren is @end.notes on Instagram<br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/68030-jenny-reading-envy">Jenny at Goodreads</a><br />
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Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy
<br /><br /><i>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. You can see the full collection for <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/reading-envy-russia-2022">Reading Envy Russia 2022 on Bookshop.org</a>.</i> <br /></p>Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-2820458211648787022022-03-31T21:05:00.004-04:002022-03-31T21:05:52.194-04:00Books Read March 2022: 33-48<p>Overload check: last March I read 28 books. This March, 16. Plus 680 pages of <i>Pandora's Star.</i> I looked at the 450 remaining pages tonight and decided there was no chance I'd finish it before April so I might as well work on my Books of March list instead! </p><p>Not counted: Pete the Cat books, dinosaur books, and a new favorite, <i>Swim, Swim, Sink.</i><br /><br />A gentle reminder that all reviews can still be seen on my <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/68030-jenny-reading-envy">Goodreads profile</a> (the review will be with the book; the format will be specified unless it's in print.) And the books with green outlines are my 5-star reads for the month!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinIqnbwHAIby6C_tOVOES36G85sAO9B48ZTi3J0VdvTzzT5d3JFl3538VKqBWqyC4aXrAh8rZZVKa_JqoRrYWMM82-hej5Aj0DDr5OFBeCAtN5lXQ5C8TJm28frowGRawY3r0oh7pbRdwpvePaDVu-ixaIF86uS29xeNOZBtpiC5yfPisgCJhPIqD2Ew/s651/March2022.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cover images listed below" border="0" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="651" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinIqnbwHAIby6C_tOVOES36G85sAO9B48ZTi3J0VdvTzzT5d3JFl3538VKqBWqyC4aXrAh8rZZVKa_JqoRrYWMM82-hej5Aj0DDr5OFBeCAtN5lXQ5C8TJm28frowGRawY3r0oh7pbRdwpvePaDVu-ixaIF86uS29xeNOZBtpiC5yfPisgCJhPIqD2Ew/w400-h400/March2022.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>33.
<i> Nervous
System</i>
by Lina
Meruane; translated by
Megan
McDowell
⭐️⭐️
<br />34.
<i>Stuck
with You</i>
by Ali
Hazelwood; narrated by
Meg
Sylvan
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
35.<i>
Emily
of New Moon</i>
by L.M.
Montgomery
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />36.
<i>The
Fell</i>
by Sarah
Moss
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />37.
<i>Truly,
Devious</i>
by Maureen
Johnson
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️<br />
38.
<i>If
You Ask Me</i>
by Libby
Hubscher
⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />39.
<i> Heaven
</i>by Mieko
Kawakami; translated by
Sam
Bett and David Boyd
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
40.
<i>Free
Love</i>
by Tessa
Hadley
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
41.
<i>The
School for Good Mothers</i>
by Jessamine
Chan
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />42.
<i> Zuleikha </i>by<i> </i>Guzel
Yakhina; translated by
Lisa
Hayden
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
43.
<i>Light
Years from Home</i>
by Mike
Chen
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />44.
<i> Recitatif
</i>by Toni
Morrison; narrated by
Bahni
Turpen; introduction by Zadie Smith
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />45.
<i>Love
After the End</i>
by Joshua
Whitehead, ed.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />46.<i>
Love
Beyond Body, Space, & Time</i>
by Hope
Nicholson, ed.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ <br /> 47.
<i> The
Time of Women</i>
by Elena
Chizhova; translated by
Simon
Patterson and Nina Chordas
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️<br />
48.
<i>Good
Talk</i> by Mira
Jacob
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ </p><p><br />
Books read: 16
<br /><br />
Audiobook:
2<br />Ebook:
10<br />Print:
4<br /><br />
Library:
6<br />TBR: 0<br />
Purchased 2022:
1<br />Review copy: 7<br />
Subscription:
1<br /><br />Around the World:
4<br />Booker International Prize: 1<br />Indigenous Reading Circle:
1<br />Indigenous Reads otherwise: 1<br />Melanated Reader's 20 Books by Black Women: 1<br />Mid-Century Women: 1<br />Reading Envy Russia:
2<br />Sword and Laser:
0<br />Tournament of Books: 1<br />Women's Prize: 0<br /></p>Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-59629092051535049022022-03-30T09:42:00.002-04:002022-03-30T09:43:15.573-04:00Review: Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36700347" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px;"><img alt="Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations" border="0" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1534098775l/36700347._SX98_.jpg" /></a>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36700347">Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7273922">Mira Jacob</a><br />
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2839959086">5 of 5 stars</a>
<br /><br />
I've had this book on my TBR forever and finally got it from the
library. I didn't really even know what it was about and went in cold.
Mira Jacob writes about what it is like to be brown (for her, Indian
with darker skin than her other family members) in the America post 9/11
up through Trump's election win. Not only that but married to a Jewish
(white) man whose parents refuse to see the harm in voting for Trump,
and mother of a young mixed race boy with Questions.<br /><br />What I love
is her very frank tone. In all the "talks" in the book she shows how she
navigates difficult situations where people want her to make them feel
better about racism, often their own, and what happens when she doesn't.
This includes one very difficult conversation with her husband! The art
is hand-drawn people often cut out (or the appearance of being cut out)
and laid over stock photos, which adds a dimension of reality to what
is happening (although to Mira it's only too real.) <br /><br />I'd love to see her take on our current situation, and I hope she continues writing in this form.
<br /><br />
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Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-38718443009073692882022-03-29T00:00:00.001-04:002022-03-29T00:00:00.214-04:00Reading Envy 243: Russian Novel Speed DateIt's been a while since I've done a speed dating bonus episode, and this one is all about Russian novels for the Reading Envy Russia novel quarter. I discuss books I tried, what I think of them, and books I read previously. We might be moving on to non-fiction officially, but that doesn't mean we have to leave Russian literature behind forever. <br /><p>Download or listen via this link:<i><b> <br /></b></i><a href="http://www.nathanielcolvin.com/readingenvy/episodes/ReadingEnvy243.mp3">Reading Envy 243: Russian Novel Speed Date</a> <br />
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<br />Books discussed:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi76Uwuhrd1zK-tLesumLuiiSF8uMpjHnw9XrFXlBoMoPFOHfNpSyoiasDFLEghZHVU_Da3VH0ZLCNtRkTunx6Lux09VIAMFnJUhEOVtiM0NGiVflDc8Psk-VtZmPKZQw2WFt_bUnkQb-zcU880Ee34CoY3rCp-Z3Px7z5bXmvAregxegK-gdCzGZCJQ/s2048/PhotoGrid_Plus_1648511170626.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cover image excerpts from some of the titles listed below" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi76Uwuhrd1zK-tLesumLuiiSF8uMpjHnw9XrFXlBoMoPFOHfNpSyoiasDFLEghZHVU_Da3VH0ZLCNtRkTunx6Lux09VIAMFnJUhEOVtiM0NGiVflDc8Psk-VtZmPKZQw2WFt_bUnkQb-zcU880Ee34CoY3rCp-Z3Px7z5bXmvAregxegK-gdCzGZCJQ/w400-h400/PhotoGrid_Plus_1648511170626.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781782276050"><i>An Evening with Claire</i></a> by Gaito Gazdanov, translated by Bryan Karetnyk<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780062671127"><i>The Sentence</i></a> by Louise Erdrich<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780199540402"><i>First Love</i></a> by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Richard Freeborn<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780199538645"><i>Eugene Onegin</i></a> by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Leo Tolstoy<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781847493446"><i>Oblomov</i> </a>by Ivan Goncherov, translated by Stephen Pearl<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780679723165"><i>Lolita</i> </a>by Vladimir Nabokov<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781786076847"><i>Zuleikha</i> </a>by Guzel Yakhina, translated by Lisa C. Hayden<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9789081823906"><i>The Time of Women</i></a> by Elena Chizhova, translated by Simon Patterson and Nina Chordas<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781939931900"><i>Untraceable</i> </a>by Sergei Lebedev, translated by Antonina W. Bouis<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781939931252"><i>Oblivion </i></a>by Sergei Lebedev, translated by Antonina W. Bouis<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781636080451"><i>Brisbane</i> </a>by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Marian Schwartz<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781780748719"><i>Laurus</i> </a>by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Lisa C. Hayden<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781250236449">Anna K.: A Love Story</a> </i>by Jenny Lee<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781607108153"><i>Anna Karenina</i></a> by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Constance Garrett<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780140449242"><i>The Brothers Karamazov</i></a> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by David McDuff<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780143108276"><i>The Master and Margarita</i></a> by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780770436421"><i>A Constellation of Vital Phenomena</i></a> by Anthony Marra<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780770436452"><i>The Tsar of Love and Techno</i></a> by Anthony Marra<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780452295292"><i>City of Thieves</i></a> by David Benioff<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780143110439"><i>A Gentleman in Moscow</i></a> by Amor Towles<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781643131481"><i>The Bookworm</i></a> by Mitch Silver<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780735221338">A Terrible Country</a> </i>by Keith Gessen<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781632060396">Fardwor, Russia!</a> </i>by Oleg Kashin, translated by Will Evans<br /><br /></p><p>Related episodes: <i> </i></p><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2021/09/reading-envy-228-full-of-secrets-with.html" target="_blank">Episode 228</a> - Full of Secrets with Audrey <br /><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2018/11/reading-envy-135-speed-dating-2018.html">Episode 135</a> - Speed Dating 2018, Round 5<br />
<a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2018/03/reading-envy-113-bonus-episode-book.html">Episode 113</a> - Speed Dating 2018, round 1<br />
<a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2018/05/reading-envy-117-bonus-episode-book.html">Episode 117</a> - Speed Dating 2018, round 2<br />
<a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2018/05/reading-envy-120-summer-reading.html">Episode 120</a> - Summer Reading; Speed Dating 2018, round 3 <b> </b><br />
<a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2018/09/reading-envy-128-poetry-and-whale-guts.html">Episode 128</a> - Poetry and Whale Guts (Bonus episode; Speed Dating 2018, round 4)<br />
<a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2016/07/reading-envy-063-desolation-road.html">Episode 063</a> - Desolation Road (book speed dating and books on grief)<br />
<a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2016/05/reading-envy-059-are-you-inspired-yet.html">Episode 059</a> - Are you Inspired Yet? bonus book speed dating<br />
<a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2015/12/reading-envy-047-sex-with-elvis-book.html">Episode 047</a> - Sex with Elvis: Bonus Book Speed Dating Episode<br />
<a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2015/07/reading-envy-035-speed-dating-books.html">Episode 035</a> - Speed Dating Books<b> <i> </i></b><br /><p> <br /></p><p>
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Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy <br /><br /><br /><i>All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an
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authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.</i><br /></p>Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-2213849500096742412022-03-25T14:04:00.002-04:002022-03-25T14:04:31.742-04:00Review: Recitatif: A Story
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58729866">Recitatif: A Story</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3534">Toni Morrison</a><br />
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4625441541">5 of 5 stars</a>
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I listened to the audio edition of the only short story Toni Morrison ever wrote, narrated by Bahni Turpen. If you get the audio, which is under two hours, the story doesn't start until 59:21, because the entire first half is an essay on the story by Zadie Smith. I'm of the personal opinion that one should read the work before reading commentary on said work, and continue to skip intros, prefaces, and more.<br /><br />The story is "an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial" - so either the reader knows this going in and goes looking for clues, or doesn't know this and makes a lot of assumptions and then is forced to confront themselves with their biases.<br /><br />Twyla and Roberta meet as 8 year olds at a school for orphans, and then several more times as they move through time.<br /><br />
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Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-59822970646434130912022-03-23T11:32:00.002-04:002022-03-23T11:33:25.939-04:00Review: Light Years From Home
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57724261">Light Years From Home</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1155463">Mike Chen</a><br />
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4620495203">4 of 5 stars</a>
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"The Shao family had become a textbook case study in trauma. But with aliens."<br /><br />I
first heard of Mike Chen on the Reading Glasses podcast, as he's a
friend of their show. This book is a different sort of read because it
really is more about this one family than it is a more traditional
science fiction novel, and even the idea of whether it is a science
fiction novel depends on which character you find most trustworthy.<br /><br />It's
been 15 years since Jakob disappeared on a family hike at a lake, and
14 years since the father died trying to look for him. Kass, the self
proclaimed responsible one, is caring for her mother who has dementia,
while Evie has become the host of a show about alien abductions. Evie
and Jakob are twins and she's convinced he was abducted. Kass is pretty
sure he is dead or being irresponsible, probably on drugs in some
foreign country. Then Jakob returns, dot dot dot.<br /><br /><i>I received a copy from the publisher through NetGalley. The book came out January 25, 2022.</i><br /><br />
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Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-43834264724792075032022-03-22T17:22:00.002-04:002022-03-22T17:22:56.465-04:00Review: Zuleikha
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36295979">Zuleikha</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16364511">Guzel Yakhina</a><br />
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4620188374">5 of 5 stars</a>
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<br />This 21st century Russian novel, by a woman and about a woman, rose to the top of the novels I was considering for Reading Envy Russia - it is set in the 1930s as the Red Army is moving through rural regions of the country, removing people from land they owned and had worked while moving toward collectivism for all farming.<br /><br />I had the mistaken impression that Communism was pro-peasant class but learned that landowning people, referred to as kulak, were treated as enemies. Many were killed outright, as Zuleikha's husband is, and many were sent to work camps in Siberia, as Zuleikha is. Neither of these are really spoilers although they take some time to happen. This period is referred to as the <i>kulakization</i>.<br />Other parts of interest - Zuleikha and her husband are Muslim, something I haven't seen much of in Russian literature so far. She also is in service to her mother in law, a terrible woman. The underlying premise seems to be that her life improves in Siberia. There are other memorable characters like a doctor, the commandant, a female soldier, even an artist. But the real star is Zuleikha.</p><p><br />
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</p>Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-82356644362769472902022-03-22T00:00:00.001-04:002022-03-22T00:00:00.213-04:00Reading Envy 242: Dark and Gloomy with Claire<p>I was happy to sit down and talk to Claire, a reader from the upcoming generation. She likes dark and gloomy books! Jenny also took the opportunity to read a few YA books she had not yet gotten to, and went dark and gloomy too.<br /></p><p>Download or listen via this link:<i><b> <br /></b></i><a href="http://www.nathanielcolvin.com/readingenvy/episodes/ReadingEnvy242.mp3">Reading Envy 242: Dark and Gloomy</a> <br />
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<br />Books discussed:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-KWbhaVnsa8bGi_AaS_F3MKIOpQrKj6F44vrHk_iJ7jFJUo35EXH7K8MWtfSb1S7ipPRKoTZRNXBySqWmqFvob4qyb7Ul0XLcP2MV8UlC8GNJAvixdcjLo6io9FhJIwTYFGI0l3lmkrBA6ZI9EpbqpZj01GHt0YUASOyyyrMbaSZnMBqR43IX8mNFzg=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="book cover images from list below" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-KWbhaVnsa8bGi_AaS_F3MKIOpQrKj6F44vrHk_iJ7jFJUo35EXH7K8MWtfSb1S7ipPRKoTZRNXBySqWmqFvob4qyb7Ul0XLcP2MV8UlC8GNJAvixdcjLo6io9FhJIwTYFGI0l3lmkrBA6ZI9EpbqpZj01GHt0YUASOyyyrMbaSZnMBqR43IX8mNFzg=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div> <p></p><p><span><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780544813106"><i>Took</i></a> by Mary Downing Hahn<i> <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780062338068">Truly, Devious</a></i> by Maureen Johnson<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780545459013">Prisoner B-3087</a> </i>by Alan Gratz<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780553233704"><i>Emily of New Moon</i></a> by L.M. Montgomery<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780439023528"><i>The Hunger Games</i></a> by Suzanne Collins</span><br /><br /></p><p>Other mentions: <br /></p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780547028644"><i>Wait Till Helen Comes</i></a> by Mary Downing Hahn<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780679406419"><i>Maus</i></a> by Art Spiegelman<br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/73758-the-hunger-games">The Hunger Games</a> series<br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/57530-divergent">Divergent</a> series<br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/110451-the-maze-runner">Maze Runner</a> series<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781619638198"><i>Dangerous</i></a> by Shannon Hale<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780735231498"><i>A Map of Days</i></a> by Ransom Riggs<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781250773012"><i>Ender's Game</i></a> by Orson Scott Card<br /><br /></p><p>Related episodes: </p><p><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2019/12/reading-envy-173-expecting-lot-from-book.html"></a><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2015/02/reading-envy-podcast-episode-022-gods.html"></a><u><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2014/08/reading-envy-episode-010-death-and.html">Episode 010</a> - YA Literature:<i> Death and Mayhem </i>with guests Alex and Carissa<br /><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2015/02/reading-envy-podcast-episode-022-gods.html">Episode 022</a> - <i>Gods and Cannibals</i> with guest Chris<br />Episode 173</u> -<i> Expecting a Lot from a Book</i> with Sarah Tittle<i> </i><br /> <br /></p><p>
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authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.</i><br /></p>Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-15803928924419985732022-03-08T00:00:00.014-05:002022-03-08T00:00:00.195-05:00Reading Envy 241: Feral Pigeons with LaurieLaurie is back and we talk about book challenges, even one in French! Since she is a biologist, science comes up as a theme in multiple ways. <br /><p>Download or listen via this link:<i><b> <br /></b></i><a href="http://www.nathanielcolvin.com/readingenvy/episodes/ReadingEnvy241.mp3">Reading Envy 241: Feral Pigeons</a> <br />
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<br />Books discussed:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5wi7qGHJUGPtg66cuj0O1yAMrBli9vdj-Hn5L9RCnpC2ut3cj11l46rWzJpbA29u0c38_t9DwM0vmCZj6VzlV2xlcsXLVUFkLT4ENPhUo8mhqX0v277M0x6AIOw0aWiC6wtkI_OZn-7-7eWsOkmJbazZ8cWXwhXKwSGPnAeEfZnpiHxOcccV9EnAbWA=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="book covers from featured titles, listed below" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5wi7qGHJUGPtg66cuj0O1yAMrBli9vdj-Hn5L9RCnpC2ut3cj11l46rWzJpbA29u0c38_t9DwM0vmCZj6VzlV2xlcsXLVUFkLT4ENPhUo8mhqX0v277M0x6AIOw0aWiC6wtkI_OZn-7-7eWsOkmJbazZ8cWXwhXKwSGPnAeEfZnpiHxOcccV9EnAbWA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780385333481">Cat's Cradle</a></i> by Kurt Vonnegut<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781644450642">The Trees</a></i> by Percival Everett<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781523511341">A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching</a></i> by Rosemary Mosco<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781662600791">Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems</a></i> by Aaiún Nin<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781783529353">The Unwinding and Other Dreams</a></i> by Jackie Morris<br /><br /></p><p>Other mentions: <br /></p><p><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781984878106">Think Again</a></i> by Adam Grant<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780811219426">The Hall of the Singing Caryatids</a></i> by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780374532185">The Possessed</a></i> by Elif Batuman<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781770465046">Putin's Russia</a></i> by Darryl Cunningham<br />Lilly Library - <a href="https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library/kurt-vonnegut">Kurt Vonnegut collection</a><br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781644450222"><i>Telephone</i> </a>by Percival Everett<br /><a href="https://www.theamericanpigeonmuseum.org/about">The American Pigeon Museum</a><br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780156012195">The Little Prince</a></i> by Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br /><a href="https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/pigeons/pigeonetics/">Pigeonetics</a><br /><a href="https://unbound.com/">Unbound Publisher</a><br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781783529612">The Silent Unwinding</a> </i>by Jackie Morris<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780140280463">My Year of Meats</a></i> by Ruth Ozeki<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780765326386">Rhythm of War</a></i> by Brandon Sanderson<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780312278502">Great Plains</a></i> by Ian Frazier<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781250759559"><i>Echo</i> </a>by Thomas Olde Heuvelt<br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/335106-the-steminist-novellas"> </a> by Ali Hazelwood<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780593336823"><i>The Love Hypothesis</i></a> by Ali Hazelwood<br /><a href="https://amzn.to/3Kpr6LJ"><i>The Three Robbers</i></a> by Tomi Ungerer<br /><br /></p><p>Related episodes: </p><p><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2016/08/reading-envy-065-creeping-through.html" style="background-color: white; color: #993300; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;">Episode 065</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> - </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Creeping through the Uncanny Valley</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> with guest Bryan Alexander</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> <br /></i><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2016/09/reading-envy-069-evil-librarian-sfbrp.html" style="background-color: white; color: #993300; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;">Episode 069</a><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> - Evil Librarian/SFBRP Crossover Episode</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> with Luke and Juliane <br /></span><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2020/09/reading-envy-201-wrestling-with.html" style="background-color: white; color: #993300; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;">Episode 201</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> - Wrestling with Complexity with Elizabeth and Laurie<br /></span><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2021/03/reading-envy-216-eloquent-and-elegant.html" style="background-color: white; color: #993300; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Episode 216</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> - Eloquent and Elegant with Kala<br /></span><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2021/10/reading-envy-231-psychological.html" target="_blank">Episode 231</a> - Psychological Terrorism with Reggie <br /><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2021/11/reading-envy-233-get-into-trouble-with.html" target="_blank">Episode 233</a> - Get Into Trouble with Ruth<br /> <br /></p><p>
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Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy <br /><a href="https://twitter.com/dryapyapi" style="background-color: white; color: #993300; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;">Laurie on Twitter</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Laurie is @dryapyapi on Instagram</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/218269-laurie" style="background-color: white; color: #993300; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;">Laurie at Goodreads</a><br /><br /><br /><i>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.</i><br /></p>Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-5997134891721242132022-03-02T21:16:00.005-05:002022-03-02T21:16:48.341-05:00Books Read February 2022: 15-32<div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">This month was chaos as I tried to finish the remaining Tournament of Books shortlist (still reading the last one when March hit) and to try out a bunch of Russian novels for whoever decided to make this year of all years the year of reading Russia! </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">I missed one book club discussion (Darcie Little Badger with the Book Cougars) but finally was able to attend the Indigenous Reading Circle discussion. I've heard Tournament of Books is moving to Discord so now I need to learn one more social network - or excuse me, digital discussion platform - and I'm too old! Sword and Laser has been trying to live in both Goodreads and Discord so maybe it will give me a different perspective on that group.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">A gentle reminder that all reviews can still be seen on my </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/68030-jenny-reading-envy" style="background-color: white; color: #993300; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Goodreads profile</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> (the review will be with the book; the format will be specified unless it's in print.) And the books with green outlines are my 5-star reads for the month!</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEo_S0qDEOcPna0o0ZegDfoYcviFyx9-LYFOHFXBI_zwBR6p8ub-EcvOh4vVsYFq4WMRzkZOcD-bvnzHoLZJRW479TiBHzZEi5mPFXDJdfZxkpPlY0xLUIQ1TSkyMXHFVXfkbh_ZjARH-Nd2EFOKqin6-kQmAB_T1qmeR0vWch-VsGEz5GzVOf17H9uw=s661" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="images of books read in February, same list as below" border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="661" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEo_S0qDEOcPna0o0ZegDfoYcviFyx9-LYFOHFXBI_zwBR6p8ub-EcvOh4vVsYFq4WMRzkZOcD-bvnzHoLZJRW479TiBHzZEi5mPFXDJdfZxkpPlY0xLUIQ1TSkyMXHFVXfkbh_ZjARH-Nd2EFOKqin6-kQmAB_T1qmeR0vWch-VsGEz5GzVOf17H9uw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>15. <i>The Sentence</i> by Louise Erdrich, narrated by Louise Erdrich ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />16. <i>The 1619 Project: Born on the Water </i>by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renee Watson, narrated by Nikole Hannah-Jones ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />17. <i>Seek You: A Journey through American Loneliness</i> by Kristen Radtke ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />18.<i> Putin's Russia</i> by Darryl Cunningham ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />19.<i> In Concrete</i> by Anne Garrétta, translated by Emma Ramadan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />20. <i>A Snake Falls to Earth</i> by Darcie Little Badger ⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />21.<i> Islands of Decolonial Love</i> by Leslie Betasamosake Simpson, narrated by Tantoo Cardinal ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️<br />22. <i>How High We Go in the Dark </i>by Sequoia Nagamatsu ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />23.<i> The Employees</i> by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />24. <i>Joan is Okay</i> by Weike Wang, narrated by Catherine Ho ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />25. <i>Conversations with Friends</i> by Sally Rooney ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />26. <i>Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems</i> by Aaiún Nin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ <br />27. <i>The Interior Silence</i> by Sarah Sands ⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />28. <i>Must Love Books</i> by Shauna Robinson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />29. <i>Quiet Girl in a Noisy World</i> by Debbie Tung ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />30. <i>The Trees</i> by Percival Everett ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />31. <i>First Love</i> by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Constance Garnett ⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />32. <i>It Would Be Night in Caracas</i> by Karina Sainz Borgo, translated by Elizabeth Bryer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<div><br /></div><div>Books read: 18</div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Audiobook: 4<br />Ebook: 11<br />Print: 3</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Library: 5<br />TBR: 1<br />Purchased 2022: 3<br />Review copy: 8<br />Subscription: 1</p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Around the World: 6<br /></span>Indigenous Reading Circle: 1<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Melanated Reader's 20 Books by Black Women: 3</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Reading Envy Russia: 2</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Sword and Laser: 0</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Tournament of Books: 1</span></div>Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-26812102179787321592022-02-26T16:35:00.002-05:002022-02-26T16:35:46.593-05:00Review: It Would Be Night in Caracas
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43884206">It Would Be Night in Caracas</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18566946">Karina Sainz Borgo</a><br />
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4443201021">4 of 5 stars</a>
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I'm trying to read books from the last few countries in my around the world project that I've been working on since 2012, and It Would Be Night in Caracas was recommended by several people for Venezuela.<br /><br />The author is a journalist from Venezuela who relocated to Madrid, and the main character of the novel follows a similar path. The novel is so focused on her life and struggles without a lot of context so I had to do a lot of reading about Venezuela - its government, the poverty, the violence - it's all there in the background but not something I knew a lot about. And the way the main character encounters it is as a woman alone - at the beginning she has to bury her mother who died because there was no health care infrastructure, without family because they were either dead or unwilling to risk traveling. It isn't long before she decides she has to flee the country, and while a lot of convenient things have to happen for that to work, it is still harrowing.<br /><br />Interestingly, Venezuela has been in the news this week because they blamed the U.N. and United States for what is happening in Ukraine. That initiated another internet rabbit hole, to find Venezuela closely aligned with Russia and Cuba.<br /><br />The other thing I did was to spend some time in Google Maps, looking at some of the amazing rainforest landscapes found in the south of the country, and read recent stories about an American who has been held under espionage charges for several years.<br /><br />You'll see below that this took me a while to read - it's because the violence would make me put it aside for a while.<br /><br />
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Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-87057147461526235632022-02-22T09:47:00.002-05:002022-02-22T09:47:46.292-05:00Review: The Trees
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269278">The Trees</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/31723">Percival Everett</a><br />
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4559196988">5 of 5 stars</a>
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My penultimate book from the Tournament of Books shortlist, and I had to reread the end before I weighed in. This is an engaging read, about mysterious deaths in the town of Money, Mississippi, and they seem to be related to racist killings from previous generations. The white sheriff's department comes up against two Black MBI agents as they try to figure out what's happening. (MBI = Mississippi Bureau of Investigation)<br /><br />There is satire in the sense that many characters have funny names and some have argued that the white people are written to the extreme but... I don't know that they are. I appreciated that the satire was there but not everything. My reason for rereading the ending was this feeling that it ended abruptly and it does, but I liked the little turn a few chapters from the end featuring Trump, basically, giving a speech about how he never uses the "n" word while frequently using it.<br /><br />It should be an interesting one to discuss in the tournament!<br /><br />
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Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-82307863070963220912022-02-22T00:00:00.001-05:002022-02-22T00:00:00.224-05:00Reading Envy 240: Air Quotes with Chris Carey<p>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!</p><p>Download or listen via this link:<i><b> <br /></b></i><a href="http://www.nathanielcolvin.com/readingenvy/episodes/ReadingEnvy240.mp3">Reading Envy 240: Air Quotes</a> <br />
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<br />Books discussed:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_qsiJ_fb2aGX2fUHXQBj3ojGZ0Jhp-dhNZ0jWTJBBuyo8CXfecjcTspi7ZG8DPNYrHNWAMhR3n44TbGzfhuKt7WY42v7BH5F6RatlHZVd_-F6trT2VJ5Zx1kgqipw1RmIEww5gkVWQJeHwJKPuXJkBG6UCOoPbpm0kCjv1qfXZDAPEz0RKMeS-hwqRA=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Images of five books discussed plus user icons for Chris and ReadingEnvy" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_qsiJ_fb2aGX2fUHXQBj3ojGZ0Jhp-dhNZ0jWTJBBuyo8CXfecjcTspi7ZG8DPNYrHNWAMhR3n44TbGzfhuKt7WY42v7BH5F6RatlHZVd_-F6trT2VJ5Zx1kgqipw1RmIEww5gkVWQJeHwJKPuXJkBG6UCOoPbpm0kCjv1qfXZDAPEz0RKMeS-hwqRA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a><br /><br /></div><i><a href="https://amzn.to/36giFmY">The Wolf at the Door</a></i> by Charlie Adhara<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780063072640">How High We Go in the Dark</a></i> by Sequoia Nagamatsu<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781982170714">The Charm Offensive</a></i> by Alison Cochrun<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781894037884">Islands of Decolonial Love</a></i> by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, performed by Tantoo Cardinal<br /><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781250790286">Summer Sons</a></i> by Lee Mandelo<br /><br /><p>Other mentions: <br /></p><p><a href="https://batmanbookclub.libsyn.com/">Gotham Outsiders</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/thirstyontoon">Thirsty on Toon</a><br /><a href="http://talkingcomicbooks.com/">Talking Comics</a><br /><a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/my-gentle-giant-/list?title_no=297098&page=1">My Gentle Giant</a><br /><a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/">WEBTOON</a><br /><a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/slice-of-life/batman-wayne-family-adventures/list?title_no=3180">Batman: Wayne Family Adventures</a><br /><a href="https://www.wattpad.com/">Wattpad</a><br /><a href="https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/reading-glasses/">Reading Glasses Podcast</a><br /><a href="https://maximumfun.org/episodes/reading-glasses/ep-237-reading-glasses-challenge-2022-and-new-years-reader-resolutions/">Reading Glasses Challenge</a><br /><a href="https://www.heavingbosoms.com/">Heaving Bosoms Podcast</a><br /><a href="https://www.heavingbosoms.com/reading-embrace">Heaving Bosoms' Reading Embrace</a><br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/226484-big-bad-wolf">Big Bad Wolf Series</a> by Charlie Adhara<br /><a href="https://gailcarriger.com/">Gail Carriger<br /></a><a href="http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2022/01/sequoia_nagamat.html">Nagamatsu playlist</a> at Largehearted Boy<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780393881721"><i>Stiff</i></a> by Mary Roach<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780393351903"><i>Smoke Gets in Your Eyes</i></a> by Caitlin Doughty<br /><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0862846/"><i>Sunshine Cleaning</i></a> (film)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781250101204"><i>The Trauma Cleaner</i></a> by Sarah Krasnosteinrom<br /><a href="https://www.patreon.com/IndigenousReadingCircle/posts">Indigenous Reading Circle</a> in Patreon<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781517911256"><i>Noopiming</i></a> by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson<br /><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3398228/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1"><i>Bojack Horseman</i></a> (tv show)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781594745263"><i>Horrorstör</i></a> by Grady Hendrix<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781683691433"><i>The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires</i></a> by Grady Hendrix<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781683691242"><i>We Sold Our Souls </i></a>by Grady Hendrix<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780063140882"><i>Woman Eating</i></a> by Claire Kohda<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780593201237"><i>The Final Girl Support Group</i></a> by Grady Hendrix<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780811231350"><i>The Employees</i></a> by Olga Gavn, translated by Martin Aitken</p><p><br /></p><p>Related episodes: </p><p><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2016/06/reading-envy-060-good-era-for-communists.html">Episode 060</a> - <i>A Good Era for Communists</i> with Rose Davis<i> <br /></i><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2019/04/reading-envy-148-multiple-lives-with.html">Episode 148</a> - <i>Multiple Lives</i> with Jeff<br /><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2020/06/reading-envy-191-stealthy-yet-sparkly.html">Episode 191</a> - <i>Stealthy yet Sparkly</i> with Gail Carriger<br /><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2021/10/reading-envy-231-psychological.html" target="_blank">Episode 231</a> - <i>Psychological Terrorism</i> with Reggie <br /><br /></p><p>
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Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy <br /><a href="https://twitter.com/themythofpsyche">Chris on Twitter</a><br /><br /><br /><i>All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an
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authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.</i><br /></p>Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-56310398485704514012022-02-15T11:19:00.002-05:002022-02-15T11:20:04.799-05:00Review: Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48836789">Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2857904">Leanne Betasamosake Simpson</a><br />
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4537414314">4 of 5 stars</a>
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First I read <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29750405.This_Accident_of_Being_Lost_Songs_and_Stories" rel="nofollow noopener" title="This Accident of Being Lost Songs and Stories by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson">This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories</a>, pushed into my hands by someone at House of Anansi Press when I went to AWP in Tampa. Last year I read <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51236405.Noopiming_The_Cure_for_White_Ladies" rel="nofollow noopener" title="Noopiming The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson">Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies</a>.<br /><br />This
year, thanks to Erin and Dani's Book Club, now Indigenous Reading
Circle (you can join in Patreon) - I got to read her earlier book of
short stories and songs as they spend the first half of the year
focusing on story collections. The stories deal with similar themes, all
featuring Nishnaabeg characters close to home for Simpson (apologies if
my spelling is incorrect for this form of the word, sometimes I see it
starting with an A and don't know the rules. On her website, this
spelling is used.)<br /><br />My absolutely favorite story features two
friends or lovers who have waited so long to meet in person and when
they do find their suspicions correct - and it has to do with what we
call "sasquatch" but they would not. (It harkens back to <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56816904.The_Sentence" rel="nofollow noopener" title="The Sentence by Louise Erdrich">The Sentence</a> which had a chapter called "Tender Sasquatch" as a joke self-pub title.)<br /><br />Several
reviews say the book comes with songs recorded to accompany the stories
but I listed to the audio version in Hoopla and it did not have any
performances included, and the one publisher site that claims to have
them to listen to for free doesn't seem to. I'd welcome any guidance
there as I'd love to hear them. I really enjoyed this book in audio! So
much I listened to it back to back twice!<br /><br />I'll attempt to discuss it a bit more on upcoming Episode 240 of the Reading Envy Podcast.
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Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-72508658225155752542022-02-08T10:20:00.000-05:002022-02-08T10:20:41.710-05:00Reading Envy 239: Gross but Subtle with KatieKatie joins me for the first time from the far north to discuss her own reading, plus one very creative solution for reading short stories with a book club. <br /><p>Download or listen via this link:<i><b> <br /></b></i><a href="http://www.nathanielcolvin.com/readingenvy/episodes/ReadingEnvy239.mp3">Reading Envy 239: Gross but Subtle</a> <br />
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<br />Books discussed:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpCEVOvZL-2Ez_gv8XKLebtiVAVD-5Nd2m9XUp0aS_i-qxQush5HKlnteBJW__thK5-q6B0e7BorkR3tBGZ9VD6-UlmmbFEiGZqHcqczpY6_nZg_tvUsPB-RHwR0OjOgfKWFfTJ9ldCY5OONB7G09THhh9XPNB7WRZk4iTgEDvsMNYPi39DvDfU9AS6g=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Book cover images from books listed below" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpCEVOvZL-2Ez_gv8XKLebtiVAVD-5Nd2m9XUp0aS_i-qxQush5HKlnteBJW__thK5-q6B0e7BorkR3tBGZ9VD6-UlmmbFEiGZqHcqczpY6_nZg_tvUsPB-RHwR0OjOgfKWFfTJ9ldCY5OONB7G09THhh9XPNB7WRZk4iTgEDvsMNYPi39DvDfU9AS6g=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781250224774" target=""><i>Salt Slow</i></a> by Julia Armfield<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780062671127" target=""><i>The Sentence</i></a> by Louise Erdrich<i><br /><a href="https://amzn.to/3B5snUv" target="">Sufferance</a></i> by Thomas King<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781524748067" target=""><i>Seek You: A Journey through American Loneliness</i></a> by Kristen Radtke<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781443457842" target=""><i>Gutter Child</i></a> by Jael Richardson<br /><br /><p>Other mentions: </p><p><a href="http://yukonbooks.ca/" target="_blank">Well-Read Books</a><br /><a href="https://www.chapters.indigo.ca" target="_blank">Coles Books</a><br /><a href="https://www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/the-great-awake/" target="_blank">"The Great Awake" by Julia Armfield</a><br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/165484-wayward-children">Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire</a><br /><a href="https://themorningnews.org/article/the-2022-tournament-of-books-shortlist-and-judges">Tournament of Books</a><br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780061787423" target=""><i>Love Medicine</i></a> by Louise Erdrich<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780062671196" target=""><i>The Night Watchman</i></a> by Louise Erdrich<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780553373684" target=""><i>Green Grass, Running Water</i></a> by Thomas King<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781571311306" target=""><i>Indian Horse</i></a> by Richard Wagamese<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781770864863" target=""><i>The Marrow Thieves</i></a> by Cherie Dimaline<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781487001117" target=""><i>The Break</i></a> by Katherena Vermette<br /><i>The Strangers </i>by Katherena Vermette (forthcoming, hopefully)<br /><i><a href="https://youtu.be/6P6-QJE9i8U" target="_blank">Drawing Loneliness with Kristen Radtke</a> </i>(video)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780062484154" target=""><i>Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories</i></a> by Kathleen Collins<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781250012708" target=""><i>Half-Blood Blues</i></a> by Esi Edugyan<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781646050550" target=""><i>In Concrete</i></a> by Anne Garrétta, translated by Emma Ramadan<br /><br /></p><p>Related episodes: </p><p><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2017/01/reading-envy-077-no-one-messes-with-wolf.html">Episode 077</a> - <i>No One Messes With a Wolf</i> with Shawn Mooney<br /><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2020/02/reading-envy-181-awkward-woman-with.html">Episode 181</a> - <i>An Awkward Woman</i> with Yanira Ramirez<br /><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2020/05/reading-envy-190-good-life-with-alex.html">Episode 190</a> - <i>The Good Life</i> with Alex<br /><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2020/10/reading-envy-202-jacket-flap-with-chris.html">Episode 202</a> - Jacket Flap with Chris and Emily<br /><br /></p><p>
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authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.</i><br /></p>Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-14589565204020253982022-02-07T14:56:00.002-05:002022-02-07T16:26:05.577-05:00Review: Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59679316" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px;"><img alt="Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator" border="0" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1643627354l/59679316._SX98_.jpg" /></a>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59679316">Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3185725">Darryl Cunningham</a><br />
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4535588812">4 of 5 stars</a>
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<span class="readable reviewText">
<span id="freeTextreview4535588812">This comes out February
15th and I had a digital copy from Drawn and Quarterly via Netgalley -
to read the story of Putin is to better understand the story of Russia,
unfortunately. He was born in Leningrad/St Petersburg only eight years
after the siege and clawed his way to positions of power and money. He's
like the Dick Cheney of Russia, where for every shady situation, you
pull back the curtain and there he is.<br /><br />This is content that
probably exists in biographies and other critiques of Putin and his
policies, but for me, easier to consume in graphic form. It's really
astounding how Putin can have such a high popularity rating when we know
about the people he's had killed (goodbye, free press, goodbye, vocal
opponents), the countries he's invaded or destroyed, but since we have a
person who copies his playbook, it also feels familiar.<br /><br />In my
year of reading Russia I worry I lack the knowledge to understand the
subtext of the literature I'm reading, and from that perspective this
graphic non fiction book helps provide context about Russia's power and
control from the fall of the Soviet Union to the present day. Putin has
been there all along....</span>
</span><br /><br />
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Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5962222688699015617.post-5137042018071418762022-02-01T09:34:00.000-05:002022-02-01T09:34:04.162-05:00Books Read January 2022: 1-14<p>This might be the least number of books I've read in a month. I had one week with family in Myrtle Beach, the first time traveling with kids and also cooking meals so I found I had even less time to read. We returned home to one child in covid quarantine and another in virtual school for the week for covid/weather issues at the school. I was also dipping into some Russian novels that won't be reflected yet, but do take some time.</p><p>The Ozeki was the one book I had started in 2021, and my top five-star read was the Shafak.<br /></p><p>A gentle reminder that all reviews can still be seen on my <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/68030-jenny-reading-envy" target="_blank">Goodreads profile</a>
(the review will be with the book; the format will be specified unless
it's in print.) And the books with green outlines are my 5-star reads
for the month! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDHTRjtVkZLdBdYQH1cGUQVh9z1uTneNPRvPAGTx2N1_3V5BeX15JS5YWNmejIeOw5dV3bkRJhgqK4awilVLoV9ratI9zCpt4DI3B6Z93oy3zLTxpbxlBatQDFW631_kjPC-P4a-Gss-kynvMs-T5RdBqaBwirvCpcg1WAjXJpdLS3JiciNzrh6yf2pw=s541" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Book covers from list below." border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="541" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDHTRjtVkZLdBdYQH1cGUQVh9z1uTneNPRvPAGTx2N1_3V5BeX15JS5YWNmejIeOw5dV3bkRJhgqK4awilVLoV9ratI9zCpt4DI3B6Z93oy3zLTxpbxlBatQDFW631_kjPC-P4a-Gss-kynvMs-T5RdBqaBwirvCpcg1WAjXJpdLS3JiciNzrh6yf2pw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p>1. <i>The
Book of Form and Emptiness</i>
by Ruth
Ozeki
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
2. <i>Where
the Drowned Girls Go</i>
by Seanan
McGuire
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />3.
<i>The
Possessed </i>by
Elif
Batuman ⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
4.
<i>You
Sexy Thing</i>
by Cat
Rambo
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />5.
<i>The
Island of Missing Trees</i>
by Elif
Shafak
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />6.
<i>The
Woman in the Purple Skirt</i>
by Natsuko
Imamura, translated by
Lucy
North
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />7.
<i>Light
from Uncommon Stars</i>
by Ryka
Aoki
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />8.
<i>An
Evening with Claire</i>
by Gaito
Gazdanov, translated by
Bryan
Karetnyk
⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />9.
<i>Breath
Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood</i>
by DaMaris
B. Hill
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />10.
<i>Under
One Roof</i>
by Ali
Hazelwood, narrated by
Emma
Link
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />11.
<i> Anna
Karenina Fix</i>
by Viv
Groskop
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />12.
<i> Sticker</i>
by Henry
Hoke
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />13.
<i>Colored:
The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin</i>
by Emilie
Plateau, illustrated by
Emilie
Plateau ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />14.
<i> Libertie</i>
by Kaitlyn
Greenidge
⭐️⭐️⭐️ </p><p> Books read: 14</p><p>Audiobook: 1<br />Ebook: 9<br />Print: 4</p><p>Library: 6<br />TBR: 1<br />Purchased 2022: 0<br />Review copy: 7<br /></p>Around the World: 5<br />Melanated Reader's 20 Books by Black Women: 2<br />Reading Envy Russia: 3<br />Sword and Laser: 1<br />Tournament of Books: 2<br /><p><style>table
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(the review will be with the book; the format will be specified unless
it's in print.) And the books with green outlines are my 5-star reads
for the month! </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghewl1cs_G6uByWWeuGSNUycXIJbafR6TdP2fSr_T392zd5DZHO4x1KAEONsf9Ep5CZLWFsZSRSOlc5O2sm1x61L-mw5S8XfHpJwQXMuUJ-uHgd-XEvLWwoZce177rY-Z6OlcXCRGsO12gi_shd0msgr2Yk2vMvqSh0Z2-yKhd_a3OU4udQzn4ew3G2g=s657" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="657" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghewl1cs_G6uByWWeuGSNUycXIJbafR6TdP2fSr_T392zd5DZHO4x1KAEONsf9Ep5CZLWFsZSRSOlc5O2sm1x61L-mw5S8XfHpJwQXMuUJ-uHgd-XEvLWwoZce177rY-Z6OlcXCRGsO12gi_shd0msgr2Yk2vMvqSh0Z2-yKhd_a3OU4udQzn4ew3G2g=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div> <p></p><p>
257. The
Women's Coffee Shop
by Andriana
Ierodiaconou
⭐️⭐️⭐️ <br />258.
Last
Summer in the City
by Gianfranco
Calligarich, translated by
Howard
Curtis
X
⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />259.
Reparations
Now!
by Ashley
M. Jones
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />260.
Revelator
by Daryl
Gregory
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />261.
Bless
the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
by Warsan
Shire, read by
Warsan
Shire ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />262.
O
Beautiful by Jung
Yun
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />263.
Rise
the Euphrates by
Carol
Edgarian
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />264.
Three
Girls from Bronzeville
by Dawn
Turner
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />265.
And
Then the Grey Heaven
by RE
Katz
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />266.
The
Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
by Zoraida
Córdova
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />267.
Hell
of a Book by Jason
Mott
⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />
268.
Soviet
Milk
by Nora
Ikstena, translated by
Margita
Gailitis
X
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />269.
The
President and the Frog
Carolina
de Robertis
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />270.
Raven
Black
by Ann
Cleeves, read by
Gordon
Griffin
⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />271.
Iona:
New and Selected Poems by Kenneth
Stevens
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />272.
Tell
Me How to Be by Neel
Patel
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />273.
Taste:
My Life Through Food
by Stanley
Tucci
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />274.
Please
Don't Sit On My Bed in Your Outside Clothes
by Phoebe
Robinson, read by
Phoebe
Robinson
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />275.
Toufah by Toufah
Jallow
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />276.
The
Pastor
by Hanne
Ostavik, translated by
Martin
Aitken ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />277.
Stork
Mountain
by Miroslav
Penkov
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
<br />278.
Subdivision
by J.
Robert Lennon, read by
Nicole
Poole
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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mso-font-charset:0;}</style></p><p>Total Books Read: 22</p><p>audio: 5<br />eBook: 13<br />print: 4</p><p>Library: 7<br />TBR: 3<br />Purchased 2021: 2<br />Review copy: 10<br /></p><p>Around the World: 12<br />Europe 2021: 8<br />National Book Award finalist (long or short): 1<br />Read the World 21 (UK): 2<br />Tournament of Books: 4<br /><br />Memoir: 3<br />Poetry: 1<br />Romance: 0<br />Sci-fi/fantasy: 2<br />Translated: 3<br />Women in Translation: 3<br /></p><p> </p>Jenny Colvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01504838127259859300noreply@blogger.com0