Reading Envy 194: Squirreling Books Away with Andrew

Jenny welcomes Andrew to discuss books, and we discuss myth and folk tale retellings, classics, and reading around the world. Andrew finishes every book he starts and has been in the same book group for 20 years.

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Books discussed:



Middlemarch by George Eliot
These Ghosts are Family by Maisy Card
Old School by Tobias Wolff
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
Swansong by Kerry Andrew


Other mentions:

The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
Thomas Hardy
D.H. Lawrence
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Austen
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time podcast
Literary Disco Podcast
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Ulysses by James Joyce
Ulysses dramatisation

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Eighth Life by Nino Harataschwili
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
Milkman by Anna Burns
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Age 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Robert Frost
Ayn Rand
Ernest Hemingway
New Yorker Podcast - Tobias Wolff
The other Tobias Wolfe
Marian Keyes
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Molly Brown
Folk on Foot Podcast
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson (and it's Oedipus, not Hansel and Gretel!)
Country by Michael Hughes
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
The Prince of West End Avenue by Alan Isler (not available in USA)
IraqiGirl: the Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq


Related episodes:

Episode 099 - Readalong: The Secret History
Episode 176 - Best of 2019
Episode 182 - Reading Slump with Eleanor Thoele
Episode 192 - Sly Milieu with Thomas

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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 117: Bonus Episode, Book Speed Dating Round 2

As promised, I am back with another round of book speed dating, and all of them are galleys. Most came out in April so you can read them right away if they are up your alley but one will wait until June. I think even the books I didn't love might be perfect for someone else. I also have an announcement about summer reading.

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Books Discussed:

Eventide by Therese Bohman, translated by Marlaine Delargy
Acid West: Essays by Joshua Wheeler
The Linden Tree by César Aira, translated by Chris Andrews
West by Carys Davies
Rough Animals by Rae DelBianco
Godforsaken Grapes: A Slightly Tipsy Journey through the World of Strange, Obscure, and Underappreciated Wine by Jason Wilson
The Changeling by Joy Williams
Screwnomics: How Our Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change by Rickey Gard Diamond
Pearls on a Branch: Oral Tales by Najla Jraissaty Khoury, translated by Inea Bushnaq
The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America by Sarah Kendzior
Shunned: How I Lost My Religion and Found Myself by Carol A. Curtis



Other Mentions: 

Ema, the Captive by César Aira
JennyBakes
The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It by Tilar Mazzeo
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
The Original Reading Envy Speed Dating Project (with rules)
Speed Dating Round Two
Speed Dating Round Three
Speed Dating Round Four


Related Episodes:

Episode 035 - Speed Dating Books
Episode 047 - Sex with Elvis: Bonus Book Speed Dating Episode
Episode 059 - Are you Inspired Yet? bonus book speed dating 
Episode 063 - Desolation Road (book speed dating and books on grief) 
Episode 076 - Borderlands (Reading Goals 2017) - includes speed dating rounds 5-6 of 2016
Episode 113 - Speed Dating 2018, round 1

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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


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Reading Envy 071: Bad Priest, Good Priest, No Priest

Scott returns for a visit to the familiar Reading Envy Pub. We both bring spooky reads, memoirs, and... priests?

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Books discussed:

 

Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
A Pearl in the Storm by Tori Murden McClure
I Fired God: My Life Inside -- And Escape From -- The Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Cult by Jocelyn R. Zichterman
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Other mentions:

The Battle of Agincourt, 1415
Henry the V by William Shakespeare
Henry the V (film with Kenneth Branagh)
Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Source by James Michener
Patrick O'Brien
1356 by Bernard Cornwell
The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell
Philip K. Dick Award

The Cruelest Journey by Kira Salak (I said Longest)
Sleepy Hollow (film)
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

Related Episodes:
Episode 014 - Flannery O'Connor with Zombies with Jason and Scott
Episode 052 - The Man with the Eyebrows with Philip and Scott
Episode 058 - Wishing for a Sequel with Scott
 
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Library Books Mid-September 2016

It is prize long list season, which has definitely had an impact on the books I get from the library. But there are other reasons for some of the books in these piles.

The Many by Wyl Menmuir
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
Ethan Frome, etc.by Edith Wharton
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
I Fired God: My Life Inside - and Escape from - the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult by Jocelyn Zichterman
Not pictured: The North Water by Ian McGuire
Not pictured: My Antonia by Willa Cather

The Strout, Levy, Beatty, McGuire, and Menmuir were all on the Man Booker Prize Long List, and so far I've read three of the four. The Beatty is on the shortlist but it is going to take something to get me back to it. Vinge is the Sword and Laser pick for September. I requested the Zichterman, Nuland, and Russo based on reviews by others (usually Litsy). The Wharton, Laskin, Cather, and Levin are required readings for some of the classes I'm librarianing for. I don't really need to read them, but find that knowing what they are starting from makes me more helpful with their research. I want to read the rest of the Neapolitan novels by Ferrante but so far all I have done is bring book two home.

The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Tranh Nguyen
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan Southard

A few days after taking the initial photo so I could return some of my books, I checked more out. The National Book Award long list was announced between then and now. I am currently reading The Sympathizer for my in-person book club, and the same author wrote the memoir Nothing Ever Dies, which was named to the longlist. With so many titles about politics, I was happy to see a memoir! I'm hoping to finish both by book club to contribute even better to the discussion. I saw the Southard mentioned somewhere, maybe Instagram, and thought it would be a nice additional read to the book club discussion I'll lead in 2017, for The Dictionary of Mutual Understanding. The Winterson is on the shortlist of Winterson books I have yet to read, and I thought it sounded spooky in the right way for October. I'll stick it in a pile until then... not difficult to do.

New Books In, May 2016

The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Likeness by Tana French
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Leaving the Fold by Marlene Winell

I purchased the Ballingrud, French, and Winell from Amazon, for entirely different reasons! I had recently acquired French #3 and #4 at a used book sale, previously read #1, and wanted to remedy missing a volume, so just bought a random used copy that I could use Amazon Prime to ship. Ballingrud of course has been on my podcast and I would have ended up reading this one, but then he was nominated for an award, and I wanted to read it sooner rather than later! The Winell is for my own personal journey, about dealing with a past laden with fundamentalism.

I staged a readathon for my Reading Class and one of the things we did was have a book swap. I snagged the Eggers and Lindbergh from the table - I actually don't want to read the Eggers but it was on the nomination list for my book club, and I thought if it ended up on the list I might as well have a copy! I know I've heard about the Lindbergh but can't exactly remember in what context. Probably a quick read.

The Brooks-Dalton is a review copy from a publisher, a post-apocalyptic novel featuring an astronaut and a scientist. It sounded kind of like a less funny version of that tv show, Last Man on Earth. I was up for it!

Reading Envy 022: Gods and Cannibals

Today we keep it all in the family, well kind of, and Scott's son joins us to talk about books we have been reading AND enjoying lately. It is funny how sometimes unintentional themes emerge, within our own reading and between reading friends.

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Books discussed:



Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Cobra Event by Richard Preston
Euphoria by Lily King
Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? by Guy Consolmagno and Paul Mueller
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey

Other books or topics that came up:

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Orphan's Tales by Catherynne Valente
Bones (TV show)
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Stand by Stephen King
The Higgs boson
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Also Lily King did not write The News from Paraguay. That was Lily Tuck. Jenny got a little too excited.

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