Reading Envy 044: Of Survival and Memory

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Book selections:


Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson
This Earth of Mankind (Buru Quartet #1) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Race by Nick Ward and Sinead O'Brien, read by Simon Vance
The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
The Secret History of Star Wars by Michael Kaminski
The Chimes by Anna Smaill

More mentions:
Touching the void (documentary)
Everest (film)
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air (film)
BBC film reviews podcast 
Hello Internet podcast
Traveler's Century Club list of nations
The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
Star Wars Episode 7 (film)
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Serpent in Paradise by Dea Birkett
We Dream of Water by Srdjan Smajić
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
Luke's review of the North


And check Luke out juggling in all the places!


Related Episodes:
Episode 017 - Homeric Radiation at Lake Inverness with guest Luke Burrage
Episode 032 - Her Smoke Rose Up Forever with Luke Burrage, crosspost with SFBRP podcast

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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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