Reading Envy 098: Just a Bunch of Stuff that Happened

Jenny sits down to talk to Dr. Bryan Bibb, an associate professor of religion at the university where she works. We talk about horror and religion, mythology and ... baseball? Well. Jenny likes to have guests who read in genres not frequently featured on Reading Envy.

Warning: this episode is a bit longer than the average episode, and there may be triggers for sexual abuse and spiders.

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Books featured:



It by Stephen King
After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones
Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty by Charles Leerhsen
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Judges (the book of, from The Bible)
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Other mentions:

After Class Podcast
American Gods (tv series)
Insomnia by Stephen King
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King
On Writing by Stephen King
Stranger Things (tv series)
Ready Player One by Ernst Cline
Master of None (tv series)
Roots by Alex Haley
Charles Leerhsen
Dead Ball Era
Detroit Tigers
Cobb (film)
Cobb by Al Stump
Ken Burns' Baseball (documentary series)
Field of Dreams (film)
Texts of Terror by Phyllis Trible
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books by Fernando Baez
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity by Eva Mroczek

The Nomadic Text by Brennan Breed
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Armada by Ernst Cline
Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby by Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden
Museum of the Bible
Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Springtime: A Ghost Story by Michelle de Kretser


Stalk us online:

Bryan at the After Class Podcast
Jenny at Goodreads
Jenny on Twitter
Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Reading Envy 017: Homeric Radiation at Lake Inverness

In this episode we bring our pal Luke Burrage, who was recording past midnight in Berlin for Episode 017.

Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy Episode 017

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Books discussed:

 

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark by Dennis Ronald MacDonald
what the world will look like when the water leaves us by Laura van den Berg
Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
The Son of God in the Roman World by Michael Peppard
As They Were by M.F.K. Fisher


Other books and topics that came up along the way:
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, the new audiobook
The "Bryan List" of post-modern literature (see comments on Reading Envy Episode 003)
SFF Audio Odyssey readalong (first of six episodes)
Engaging the Powers by Walter Wink
Find Me by Laura van den Berg
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
George Singleton, author
George Saunders, author
The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
The Persistence of Vision by John Varley
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Gladiator, the movie, which Jenny has never seen
Les Miserables, the movie, where Russell Crowe sings
Les Miserables, the 25th anniversary tv special

You can find Luke Burrage, international juggler and entertainer, on his website.  He is also known for the Science Fiction Book Review Podcast, where he reviews every single science fiction book that he reads.

More stalking:
Jenny at GoodReads
Scott at GoodReads
Jenny on Twitter
Scott on Twitter
Scott on his blog