Reading Envy

Jenny and Scott chat books they've read and liked lately, from travelogues to medical/cultural miscommunication, from introvert tales to science fiction short stories that are really more about philosophy than anything else. You'll have to excuse them as they nerd out over journaling and planners for a while (and Jenny deleted half that conversation, so you don't even know!) Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 156: Introvert Intentions with Scott Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Listen through Spotify Books discussed: Exhalation by Ted Chiang The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come by Jessica Pan The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap Other mentions: Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain Game of Thrones (tv show) Arrival (film) Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Gardner Dezois Being Mortal by Atul Gawande The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel This is Paradise by Kristiana Khakauwila Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K.J. Parker Ordinary People by Diana Evans Chronicles of a Radical Hag by Lorna Landvik Related Episodes: Episode 004 - Home, Frightening and Banned with guest Karen Acosta 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 Episode 071 - Bad Priest, Good Priest, No Priest with Scott Episode 082 - Reading Envy Envy with Scott Episode 109 - Stuxnet Pancakes with Scott Danielson Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Scott on A Good Story is Hard to Find (podcast)

Thomas and Jenny huddle up in the music nerd corner of the pub, trading recommendations for books that include music in all the best ways. We start out with a few non-fiction titles then move into novels. You'll also hear about an epic list of books including music, and a few books that didn't do as well as would have liked. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 155: Music Reading Recommendations Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Listen through Spotify Books discussed: The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Chimes by Anna Smaill Chamber Music by Doris Grumbach An Equal Music by Vikram Seth Us Conductors by Sean Matthews The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis The Baritone wore Chiffon by Mark Schweizer The Student Conductor by Robert Ford Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty Orfeo by Richard Powers On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway Pastoral by Andre Alexis Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid White Tears by Hari Kunzru Books Jenny meant to mention: Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe Other mentions: Bibliography of musical fiction A Late Quartet (film) On Chesil Beach (film) On Chesil Beach (soundtrack)  The Ensemble by Aja Gabel Compass by Mathias Enard High Fidelity by Nick Hornby Related Episodes: Episode 012 - Some Bookers and Some Madness (Orfeo) Episode 025 - Mule and Plow with guest Jason Roland (Us Conductors) Episode 044 - Of Survival and Memory with Luke Burrage (The Chimes) Episode 072 - Books Are My Bag with Sarah K (Do Not Say We Have Nothing) Episode 085 - An Acquired Taste with Thomas Otto Episode 086 - The Queen of Bailing with Shawn Mooney (The Gustav Sonata) Episode 110 - The Accidental Love Episode with Casey Stepaniuk (White Tears) Episode 144 - For the Fans with Thomas of Hogglestock Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Thomas on Twitter Thomas at his blog, hogglestock

Jenny and Paula discuss what might be lost in translation, and navigate different accents and time zones to chat books. Paula brings one book that was perfect for the date we recorded - ANZAC Day! And Jenny brings one she read after a listener submitted it as one of their favorite reads of 2018. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 154: Is If If with Paula Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Listen through Spotify Books discussed: All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capó Crucet Tu by Patricia Grace Bright by Duanwad Pimwana, translated by Mui Poopoksakul Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza Other mentions: Becky Chambers Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Two Lines Press Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap The Sad Part Was by Prabda Yoon Tilted Axis Press Cairo Trilogy Salman Rushdie Karnak Cafe by Naguib Mahfouz The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell by Nathan Ballingrud Wounds (film( The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman Related Episodes: Episode 041 - Grotesque Beauty with Nathan Ballingrud Episode 119 - Bread and Butter Writing with Paula Episode 139 - Stocking Stuffer (Best Reads of 2018) Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Paula is @centique on Litsy

Jenny repurposes a summer wedding rhyme for this year's summer reading challenge. You get to pick which books fit each category, and make your own square. Something swampySomething blueSomething translatedSomething true Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 153: Reading Envy Summer Reading Challenge 2019 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Listen through Spotify Books discussed: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell by Nathan Ballingrud Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Minnow by James E. McTeer II The Story of Land and Sea by Katy Simpson-Smith Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell Swamplandia! by Karen Russell Florida by Lauren Groff Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen Area X trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer (starts with Annihilation) The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell The Anthropology of Turquoise by Ellen Meloy The Condomnauts by Yoss Fired Up: Kindling and Keeping the Spark in Creative Teams by Andrew Johnston Other mentions: DCL Blue Book List Daily Mayo - Books with Blue Covers Listopia - Best Books with Blue Covers August is Women in Translation month #WITMonth @Biblibio in Twitter May is Asian Pacific Islander Heritage month #apicelebrasian Lost in Translations Man Booker International Prize Related Episodes: Episode 034 - The Liminal Space Between with guest Paul Weimer Episode 041 - Grotesque Beauty with Nathan Ballingrud Episode 054 - Retired Pirates with Jason Roland Episode 131 - Tartan Noir and More with Claire Duffy Episode 133 - To Understand the World with Lauren Weinhold Episode 151- The Stories They Tell with Karen Episode 152 - Kill 'em and Leave with Nadine Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Jenny and Nadine talk about books while Nadine's dog enjoys a bone and chasing his tail. Nadine explains how some books are like a funky bowl of noodles, where you don't think you like it, but crave it later.... Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 152: Kill 'em and Leave with Nadine Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Listen through Spotify Books discussed: The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark Cape May by Chip Cheek Her Mother's Mother's Mother's and Her Daughters by Maria José Silveira; translated by Eric M.B. Becker Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, read by Cassandra Campbell Tonic and Balm by Stephanie Allen The Chef's Secret by Crystal King Other mentions: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez Reading Women Challenge The Roundtable (Goodreads group) Mount TBR CHallenge Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan Monsoon Mansion by Cinelle Barnes A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark (free on Tor.com) The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark Interview with Roxane Coady and Celadon publishers Open Letter Books Nell (film) Milkman by Anna Burns Literary Fiction by People of Color (Goodreads group) Shade Mountain Press The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish by Katya Apekina John Woman by Walter Mosley Restoration by Rose Tremain The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain Music and Silence by Rose Tremain A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear by Walter Moers Caucasia by Danzy Senna White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson (not out until October, wow) Related Episodes: Episode 129 - Coming Back to Books with Nadine Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Nadine at Goodreads

Karen reads memoir for connection; Jenny reads memoir to live her alternate lives. We discuss favorite memoirs, memoirs we've read recently, and memoirs we are excited to read. It's all memoir, and we hope we can recommend something for you! (Please leave a comment to tell us which memoirs are your favorites.) Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 151: The Stories They Tell with Karen Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Listen through Spotify Books featured: Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir by Padma Lakshmi After Visiting Friends: A Son’s Story by Michael Hainey Becoming by Michelle Obama Also discussed: The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson A Million Little Pieces by James Frey Interview with Dani Shapiro on the New York Times Book Review Podcast Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming Lab Girl by Hope Jahren Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain My Kitchen Year by Ruth Reichl Chocolate Cake with Mascarpone and Praline (Ruth Reichl) Monsoon Mansion by Cinelle Barnes Dumb: Living without a Voice by Georgia Webber The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees by Meredith May How to Forget by Kate Mulgrew The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In by Ayser Salman Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business by Matt Lee and Ted Lee Wild Horses of the Summer Sun: A Memoir of Iceland by Tory Bilski No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir by Ani DiFranco Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Kwame Onwuachi Related Episodes: Episode 004 - Home, Frightening and Banned with guest Karen Acosta Episode 015 - The Time for Exclaiming Over Costumes with Jean and Karen Episode 051 - Dreaming in Books with Karen Acosta Episode 066 - When Time Stops with Karen Acosta Episode 100 - 100 Reasons Why  Episode 101 - A Different Kind of Time Travel with Karen Acosta Episode 114 - Raised by Wolves with Karen Acosta  Episode 145 - Things Get Dark with Bianca Escalante Episode 146 - Complicated, Crazy, and Loud with Karen  Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Jenny and Sara combat humidity and allergies to get together to chat books. We cover escapes and intergalactic refugees, snakes and fish, serial killers and out of print reads. Jenny can't decide on a third book so discusses three more books, and Sara has a word bleeped out from a story too funny not to include. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 150: Rife with Storytelling with Sara Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Listen through Spotify Books discussed: The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee and David John The Vela by Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, Rivers Solomon, and SL Huang The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk, translated by Christopher Moseley The Deeper the Water, the Uglier the Fish by Katya Apekina Hotel by Arthur Hailey  The Pisces by Melissa Broder Praise Song for the Butterflies by Bernice L. McFadden My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite  Other mentions: Emily Rosko Magical Negro by Morgan Parker 758 Books (St. Lucia) Airport by Arthur Hailey Just Kids by Patti Smith iHotel by Karen Tei Yamashita The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye James Michener The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Sara's hospitality shelf in Goodreads The Women's Prize for Fiction The Shape of Water (film) BBC Trokosi documentary The Tournament of Books News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikabu The Silence of the Girls by Pat Parker Related Episodes: Episode 069 - Evil Librarian/SFBRP Crossover Episode with Luke Burrage and Juliane Kunzendorf Episode 122 - A Cylon Raider Shaped Hole in Your Heart with Sara Burnett Episode 144 - For the Fans with Thomas of Hogglestock Episode 147 - Bonus Poetry Recommendations with Lauren Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Sara is @addendumadventure on Instagram

Jenny kicks off a short bonus episode with a joint readalong announcement, and covers three months of her TBR Explode project. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 149: TBR Explode! Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Listen through Spotify Just a few of the books in the TBR Explode Project! Books mentioned: Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, A History by Lewis Buzbee The Suicide Collectors by David Oppegard Standing in the Light by Sharman Apt Russell My Life at First Try by Mark Budman When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai Karnak Cafe by Naguib Mahfouz The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology by Nick Gevers South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne The Vegan Monologues by Ben Shaberman Ask the Dust by John Fante Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli Lady Vernon and her Daughter by Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway Omega the Unknown by Jonathan Lethem After Dark by Haruki Murakami After the Quake by Haruki Murakami Children of God by Mary Doria Russell The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux Symmetry by Marcus du Sautoy A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams Other mentions: Book Cougars Episode 73 Book Cougars Goodreads discussion board Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta Reading Envy Readers in Goodreads (for weekly discussions of readalong) Related Episodes: Episode 090 - Reading Envy Readalong: East of Eden Episode 099 - Reading Envy Readalong: The Secret History Episode 118 - Reading Envy Readalong: To the Bright Edge of the World  Episode 137 - Reading Envy Readalong: The Golden Notebook  Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Jeff talks about visiting the actual place where his novels took place, and Jenny discovers Jeff has an entire shelf for a subgenre he's really into. Jenny experiences some weird moments while she's reading weird short stories, and they seem related. We discuss fascinating people and historical fantasy before we're through. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 148: Multiple Lives with Jeff Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Listen through Spotify Books discussed: The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky After the Quake: Stories by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin Grass by Sheri S. Tepper The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein Rocket Men by Robert Kurson The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson Other mentions: Grassic Gibbon Centre Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon Grey Granite by Lewis Grassic Gibbon Go Went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Russian Doll (tv show) The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore Apollo 11 (film) Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson The Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow Wilson The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction translated by Ken Liu Mars by Asja Bakic The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald Z by Therese Anne Fowler Related Episodes: Episode 090 - Reading Envy Readalong: East of Eden with Ellie and Jeff Episode 093 - Spewing Science with Jeff Koeppen Episode 099 - Reading Envy Readalong: The Secret History Episode 116 - Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again with Jeff Koeppen Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Jeff at Goodreads Jeff on Twitter Jeff is @BestDogDad on Litsy

It's National Poetry Month, so Lauren and Jenny have recommendations for you. We will discuss some of our favorite poets, poets we are eager to hear more from, and recent excellent reads in poetry. We read excerpts from some of the collections, and include links to some longer works from others. Follow us during National Poetry Month to see what else we read! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 147: Bonus Poetry Recommendations with Lauren Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Listen through Spotify Books discussed: Hands Washing Water by Chris Abani Magical Negro by Morgan Parker Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith How to Love a Country: Poems by Richard Blanco Citizen Illegal by Jose Olivarez Halal if You Hear Me (Breakbeat Poets v. 3) edited by Safia Elhillo and Fatimah Asghar Microfictions by Ana Maria Shua Poems of the Night by Jorge Luis Borges Archive: South Carolina Poetry Since 2005 (Ninety-Six Press river woman by Katherena Vermette Library of Small Catastrophes by Alison Rollins Other mentions: William Butler Yeats The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker Sara Teasdale Mary Oliver Mark Strand T.S. Eliot Adebe D.A. Ed Madden Claudia Rankine Tracy K, Smith Billy Collins Naomi Shihab Nye Wislawa Szymborska Anna Journey Kaveh Akbar Hieu Minh Nguyen Ocean Vuong Chen Chen Jose Olivarez Analicia Sotelo Safia Elhillo Danez Smith Natalie Diaz Political / Socal erasure poetry booming with governmental documents, etc. Sibling Rivalry Press Copper Canyon Press Graywolf Milkweed Ugly Duckling Press Coffee House Haymarket Sanctificum by Chris Abani There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker Recent reading with Morgan Parker and Danez Smith The January Children by Safia Elhillo If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar Warsan Shire Registers of Illuminated Villages by Tarfia Faizullah On Longing" by Zaina Alsous South Carolina Poetry Archives Emily Rosko “Object Permanence” by Alison Rollins “Original [sin]” by Alison Rollins< Related Episodes: Episode 097 - Blank Spaces with Lauren Weinhold Episode 123 - Godlets and Forests with Lauren Weinhold Episode 133 - To Understand the World with Lauren Weinhold Episode 138 - Shared Landscape with Lauren Weinhold  Stalk us online: Lauren at Goodreads Lauren is @end.notes on Instagram Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy