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Karen comes for a visit and once our dogs get along, we run off to record a podcast episode about books! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 146: Complicated, Crazy, and Loud 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 discussed: The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras The Customer is Always Wrong by Mimi Pond The Word for Woman is Wilderness by Abi Andrews Giant Days by John Allison et al Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn Other mentions: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Pulitzer Prize - FictionThe Clan/ El Clan (film) Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon Best Graphic Novels of 2017 -Entertainment Weekly's List -AV Club's List -Forbes' List Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Time and Again by Jack Finney Sword and Laser Book Club on Time and Again (Jenny mentioned SFF Audio but that was wrong) From Time to Time by Jack Finney Dakota Building The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone 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  Bonus Pictures:  June Bug meets Doyle and Winnie Karen recommends this one! Reading Date   Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

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.) Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 145: Things Get Dark 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: 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 Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Bianca is @bianca on Litsy

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. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 144: For the Fans 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: 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) Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Thomas on Twitter Thomas at his blog, hogglestock

Spoiler alert - it's not all pain. Kala visits with Jenny in the Reading Envy Pub for the first time, and talks about how she likes books that put her in her feelings best. Near the end of this episode, Kala performs a book identification feat that rivals most librarians - figuring out a book from Jenny's desperate plea - "It's pink!" Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 143: Reading the Pain 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 NEW! Listen through Spotify Books discussed: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle Lucky You by Erika Carter The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib The Best American Food Writing 2018 edited by Ruth Reichl Other mentions: 3 Book Girls podcast Segu by Maryse Conde Children of Segu by Maryse Conde The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson Educated by Tara Westover Heavy by Kiese Laymon Hunger by Roxane Gay Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain The Hundred Wells of Salaga by Ayesha Harruna Attah The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai Severance by Ling Ma   Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Kala on Twitter Jenny on Twitter Kala on Facebook Kala's blog, Reader then Blogger Kala is @ReaderthenBlogger on Instagram Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Recent birthday boy Shawn Mooney returns to the Reading Envy pub to chat books. Shawn has had a fantastic year, but in his reading, he has somehow focused on a narrow window of literature. He will share more with us on this episode. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 142: Borders and Bails 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 NEW! Listen through Spotify Books discussed: Country Dance by Margiad Evans Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd Aunty Lee's Delights by Ovidia Lu Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose Other mentions: Shawn and Charlotte discuss Country Dance on YouTube Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan State of Emergency by Jeremy Tiang Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi Old Baggage by Lissa Evans Woman at 1,000 Degrees by Hallgrímur Helgason, translated by Brian FitzGibbon A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson Related episodes: Episode 077 - No One Messes With a Wolf with Shawn Mooney Episode 086 - The Queen of Bailing with Shawn Mooney Episode 100 - 100 Reasons Why  Episode 107 - Reading Goals 2018  Episode 111 - Emotional Dipsy Doodles with Shawn Mooney Episode 140 - Woman Greets Bear (Reading Goals 2019)     Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Shawn at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Shawn on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Shawn is @shawnmooney on Litsy BookTube channel: Shawn the Book Maniac

Yanira and Jenny gather again at the turning of the year to talk about books we have read and liked lately, and books we hope to read in the near future. We are not afraid, not of tedium, not of long books, okay but maybe we don't want to read about whales. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 141: Profound and Tedious Work 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 NEW! Listen through Spotify Books discussed: Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating by Moira Weigel Sula by Toni Morrison When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy Eliza Waite by Ashley E. Sweeney Villette by Charlotte Bronte 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Other mentions: Book Riot Challenge 2018 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Moby Dick by Herman Melville Les Miserables by Victor Hugo War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy American Hookup by Lisa Wade Jenny Colgan Louise Miller (I called her Louise Baker because she is a baker, whoops!) My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Ruby by Cynthia Bond Jesmyn Ward Swing Time by Zadie Smith Beloved by Toni Morrison The Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison The Origins of Others by Toni Morrison From the Land of Green Ghosts by Pascal Khoo Thwe Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight Related episodes: Episode 070 - Words Like Weapons with Yanira Ramirez Episode 096 - Not Without Hope with Yanira Ramirez Episode 108 - Venn Diagram with Yanira Ramirez    Stalk me online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Yanira is @notafraidofwords on Litsy 

Reading goals, old and new! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 140: Woman Greets Bear (Reading Goals 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 NEW! Listen through Spotify Reading Goals 2018 1. Read Canada and Alaska Canada and Alaska Reading Roundup 2. Complete six book speed-dating projects I did five! Episode 113 - Speed Dating 2018, round 1 Episode 117 - Speed Dating 2018, round 2 Episode 120 - Summer Reading; Speed Dating 2018, round 3 Episode 128 - Poetry and Whale Guts (Bonus episode; Speed Dating 2018, round 4) Episode 135 - Speed Dating 2018, Round 5  3. Host two Reading Envy readalongs Complete! Episode 118 - Reading Envy Readalong: To the Bright Edge of the World Episode 137 - Reading Envy Readalong: The Golden Notebook 4. Reading challenges Reading Women Challenge Complete! Unread Shelf Project 2018 (found in Instagram) Not really! I talk about it during the episode. 5. Keep book data outside of Goodreads Planner and Google spreadsheet. Reading Goals 2019 1. Read Asia Books set in Asian countries I still need to tackle, from my collection 2. Host two readalongs 3. Six themed recommendations episodes 4. Back to the Classics Challenge (see my potential choices) Stalk me online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy  

I put out the call for the best books you read this year, so this episode is a combination of my favorite reads in 2018 and the books you liked best. Not all books are published in 2018 since that's not how most of us read. And thanks to Casey for the episode title idea. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 139: Stocking Stuffer (Best of 2018). 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 NEW! Listen through Spotify Books Discussed: Elizabeth (Episodes 33, 61, 136) The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara Dominic (@Literary.Libations in Instagram) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoesvksy Jenny’s top reads in Literary fiction Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro (discussed Episode 110) White Tears by Hari Kunzru (discussed Episode 110) Idaho by Emily Ruskovich (discussed Episodes 86, 111, 116) Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (discussed Episode 127) The Overstory by Richard Powers (discussed Episode 130) Normal People by Sally Rooney (discussed Episode 132) This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila Casey Stepaniuk (Episodes 107 & 110) The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Jeff Makala The Shakespeare Requirement by Julie Schumacher (mentioned Episode 129) Jenny’s top reads in Canada/Alaska fiction The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper (discussed Episode 132) Annie Muktuk and Other Stories by Norma Dunning (discussed Episode 134) Ellie Shatterlings (Shatterlings on Instagram) Brother in Ice by Alicia Kopf Joshua The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Magareta Magnussen 10% Happier by Dan Harris. Jenny’s top reads in Canadian/Alaskan non-fiction I Am Hutterite by Mary-Ann Kirkby (discussed Episode 130) Being Caribou by Karsten Hauer (discussed Episode 136) Laurie  (@DrYapYapi in Instagram) The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capó Crucet Last Night at the Blue Angel by Rebecca Rotert Scott The October Country: Stories by Ray Bradbury Jenny’s top reads in Non-fiction: Memoir The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy Becoming by Michelle Obama Sara (Episode 122) Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirahk Jeff Koeppen (Episodes 93 and 116) Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (discussed Episode 116) Idaho by Emily Ruskovich (discussed Episodes 86, 111, 116) Educated by Tara Westover Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking Jenny’s top reads in Non-fiction: nature Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams (discussed Episode 112) Rising by Elizabeth Rush (discussed Episode 131) Lauren (Episodes 97, 123, 133, 138) Dune by Frank Herbert Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar Marion (@kammbiamh in Instagram) Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah Jenny’s top reads in general Non-fiction Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks (discussed Episode 127) Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxane Gay Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee (discussed Episode 119) Ruth (Episodes 33, 67, 134) Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant Steve Richardson A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Jenny’s top reads in Poetry Virgin by Analicia Sotelo (discussed Episode 115) When My Brother was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz (discussed Episode 116) Karen (Episodes 4, 15, 51, 66, 101, 114) Lethal White by Robert Galbraith You Think It, I’ll Say it by Curtis Sittenfeld Casey Hampton (Episode 121) You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes Letters to a Young Poet by Ranier Maria Rilke Jenny’s top rea

Jenny and Lauren get together to talk books one last time in 2018. If Jenny seems loopy at the end, she was recording in a new audio space where she works and the chemicals were strong! We also manage to talk about our preliminary thoughts on 2019 reading goals. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 138: Shared Landscape 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 NEW! Listen through Spotify Books Discussed: Plum Rains by Andromeda Romano Lax A Hidden Fire by Elizabeth Hunter You and I Eat the Same edited by Chris Ying Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me by Teffi Lost Connections by Johann Hari Sonora by Hannah Lillith Assadi Other Discussion: Anthem by Ayn Rand Becky Chambers #whodunitbymail Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyers Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris The Passage by Justin Cronin Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv show) True Blood (tv show) Big Little Lies (tv show) Ugly Delicious (tv show) Chris Ying on Instagram Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari Hutterite Study Joe Rogan with Johann Hari Robert Sapolsky The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami Saints of Big Harbour by Lynn Coady The Idiot by Elif Batuman The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman Related episodes: Episode 067 - Rain and Readability with Ruth(iella) Episode 097 - Blank Spaces with Lauren Weinhold Episode 123 - Godlets and Forests with Lauren Weinhold Episode 133 - To Understand the World 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 

Vinny and Jenny discuss the last Reading Envy Readalong for the year, and we picked a challenging one! This is Vinny's second read of the novel, while Jenny is still trying to make sense of her first reading experience. We touch on form, history, feminism, "women's literature," Instagram culture, and more. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 137: Reading Envy Readalong - The Golden Notebook. 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 NEW! Listen through Spotify Books Discussed: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Other Discussion: Bio and facts from Nobel Prize website The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing Briefing for a Descent Into Hell by Doris Lessing Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian The Golden Notebook joint read (with annotations, entire text online) Survey about readalongs in 2019 Related episodes: Episode 085 - An Acquired Taste with Thomas Otto Episode 090 - Reading Envy Readalong: East of Eden with Ellie and Jeff Episode 099 - Readalong: The Secret History Episode 118 - Reading Envy Readalong: To the Bright Edge of the World Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Vinny is @billypar on Litsy