12/19/20

Episode 31: things we learned/things we got wrong

News

Australia's hottest day on record  

Edward Snowden memoir

Ancient Greek burial site. Other tombs discovered include the Griffin Warrior Tomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin_Warrior_Tomb

highest selling books

Boeing 737 Max Airliner

impeachment

Eddie Murphy hosted SNL after a 35-year absence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK9wny0lWSA

Boeing Starline Rocket

Topics

Emily's top books

Gambling terms cooler and slowroll

2021 Top 10 Fiction

- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik - Before the Coffee Gets Cold By Toshikazu Kawaguchi - Prefecture D by Hideo Yokoyama - It Will Just Be Us by Jo Kaplan -  Mary: The Adventures of Mary Shelley’s Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Granddaughter by Brea Grant - The Hollow Places by T Kingfisher - Real Life by Brandon Taylor - Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury by Sigrid Nunez - The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin - Native Son by Richard Wright

2021 Top 10 Non-fiction

- Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig - The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey - In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson - Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom - Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon - One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew Us to the Moon by Charles Fishman - Know My Name by Chanel Miller - Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

antiques and memory objects 

Antiques Roadshow

Rodney Dangerfield’s No Respect board game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQaI953_zWU

Lockdown and minimalism https://www.canvas8.com/content/2020/08/11/covid-19-minimalism.html

Marie Kondo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Kondo

Onions are like people. Just gotta strip back the tears/tiers.