Reading Envy 167: Book Pendulum with Reggie

Reggie is a reading friend Jenny made in Litsy. Together we discuss coming back to reading, international postal book groups, plant blindness, and Reggie tries to talk Jenny into giving a book a second try.

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Books discussed:



Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hyomi Kawakami, translated by Allison Markin Powell
The Girl who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood


Other mentions:

Clive Barker
Anna Castillo
Julia Alvarez
For Real (Book Riot podcast)
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
The Fireman by Joe Hill
The Stand by Stephen King
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
A Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Haruki Murakami
Natsumi Sashimi
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (tv show)
Stray City by Chelsea Johnson
Chasing Amy (film)
Black Wave by Michelle Tea
The Troop by Nick Cutter
The Deep by Nick Cutter
Nobody Cries at Bingo by Dawn Dumont
Frankly in Love by David Yoon
Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams


Related Episodes:

Episode 079 - Deliberately Silenced and Preferably Unheard with Rima Abunasser
Episode 080 - The Wild Things Helped with Jason Roland
Episode 086 - The Queen of Bailing with Shawn Mooney
Episode 101 - A Different Kind of Time Travel with Karen Acosta
Episode 105 - Best Reads of 2017 
Episode 112 - Reset Button with Eleanor Thoele
Episode 130 - All the Jennifers with Fern Ronay
Episode 161 - Women in Translation Month Recommendations with Lauren


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Reggie is @reggie on Litsy

Reading Envy 145: Things Get Dark

Bianca joins Jenny for a late-night chat about books, and we follow all tangents to the end. We cover cults, manga and comics, and middle-grade reads. Bianca talks about her monthly themed reads in 2018 and how that has inspired her focused reading in 2019. Jenny begs your forgiveness for a few coughing spells; allergies have hit early in the south. (She edited everything out that she could.)

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Books discussed:



Breaking Free by Rachel Jeffs
Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty
Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn
My Brother's Husband Vol. 1 by Gengoroh Tagame
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

Other mentions:

I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole
Big Love (tv show)
Serafina and the Black Cloak book trailer
Biltmore Estate
Willa of the Wood by Robert Beatty
Over the Rainbow Booklist final bibliographies for 2018
Heavy Vinyl (comic series)
Backstagers (comic series)
Boom Studios
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Phoenix ComiCon (formerly known as)
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

Related Episodes:

Episode 051 - Dreaming in Books with Karen
Episode 127 - The Sadness Between Books with Bianca Escalante

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Reading Envy 144: For the Fans with Thomas of Hogglestock

Thomas, who many know from his former stint on The Readers podcast, joins Jenny in the pub to chat books. The number of books both of us have read makes the discussion deep and well-considered, although Jenny never admits to reading the postman-haiku book. Jenny also shares a little about her experience on the ALA Over the Rainbow Booklist Committee. This episode is a little longer than many of the Reading Envy episodes, but as Thomas says, this is for the fans.

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Books discussed:



Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
The Debut by Anita Brookner
The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault
Outline by Rachel Cusk
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara


Other mentions:

Anita Brookner's London (still in process)
What's Gaby Cooking by Gaby Dalkin
Smitten Kitchen
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Free Air by Sinclair Lewis
The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
Providence by Anita Brookner
Look at Me by Anita Brookner
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
E.M. Forster
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
The Tournament of Books
Andorra by James Cameron
The Infatuations by Javier Marias
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
ALA Over the Rainbow Booklist Committee
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (later known as Carol)
Paris is Burning (film)
Helen McGuinness
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
Anthony Trolloppe
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Jeff VanderMeer's review of Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Colm Toibin


Related Episodes:

Episode 085 - An Acquired Taste with Thomas Otto
Episode 139 - Stocking Stuffer (Best Reads of 2018)


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