Reading Envy 207: Innocent and Ruthless with Tricia Deegan

Jenny records across the sea to talk to artist and English teacher Tricia Deegan. If you hear any words that seem stretched out, blame the internet under the ocean! I did what I could in the editing but there are a few unavoidable blips. Nothing too bad, so please enjoy this new guest to the show.

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Books discussed:

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Farewell, Ghosts by Nadia Terranova; translated by Ann Goldstein
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Travels with a Tangerine by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Other mentions:

Leila Slimani
Maupassant
Delpine De Vigan
The Years by Annie Ernaux
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Elena Ferrante
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Darwin
Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier (William Blake)
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
Native Son by Richard Wright
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Becoming by Michelle Obama
These Truths by Jill LePore
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi
Stamped! Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X Kendi and Jason Reynolds
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Kim JiYoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo, translated by Jamie Chang
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab

Related episodes:

Episode 071 - Bad Priest, Good Priest, No Priest with Scott
Episode 098 - Just a Bunch of Stuff that Happened with Bryan Bibb

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Tricia is @trishadeegan on Instagram
Jenny at Goodreads
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Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

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Middle Eastern Reading 2020 TBR

This is a place I wanted to list the books I'm thinking about or know about for my focus on the Middle East in 2020. I would love more recommendations, particularly of native authors, translated into English.

Bahrain   
To read: The Meeting Point by Lucy Caldwell (the 1 Bahraini author translated into English has super bad reviews)

Cyprus

To read: Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

Iran

Already read: Reading Lolita in Tehran, Persepolis, The Blindfold Horse, Suvashun, The Temporary Bride
To read: The Blood of Flowers, My Uncle Napoleon, Persian Girls, Moon Brow

Iraq

Already read: Fifteen Iraqi Poets
To read: Without an Alphabet, Without a Face; The Corpse Exhibition, Nostalgia My Enemy; Frankenstein in Baghdad, The Baghdad Eucharist

Israel

Already read: Sadness is a White Bird, Some Day, The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust, Second Person Singular

Jordan

Already read: Salt Houses
To read: Inside the Night 

Kuwait

Lebanon

Already read: Pearls on a Branch, Unnecessary Woman

Oman

To read: Celestial Bodies

Palestine, Gaza Strip, West Bank

Already read: Sadness is a White Bird
To read: A Woman is No Man, A River Dies of Thirst, The Blue Between Sky and Water, Time of White Horses, Wild Thorns, Rain Inside, Inside the Night

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Already read: Habibi, The Wrong End of the Table, A Sinner in Mecca, 

Syria

Already read: No Knives in the Kitchens of this City, A Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know
To read: The Crossing by Samar Yazbek

Turkey

Already read: so many! 

UAE

Already read: The Dog by Joseph O’Neill, Minutes from Miracle City by Omar Sabbagh
To read: Temporary People

Yemen
Already read: Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed

Could read: Henna House by Nomi Eve

Kurdistan and all other border places

Already read: A Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know, 
To read: stuff from Red Emmas, Women from a Non-State Nation, I Stared at the Night of the City