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Bianca Escalante joins Jenny to talk about great books we've read recently. Discussions include the craft of story, representation in YA literature, and good examples of character studies. Jenny knows Bianca from Litsy, and this is her first appearance on the Reading Envy Podcast. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 127: The Sadness Between Books. 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 Books Discussed: The Devil and Winnie Flynn by Micol Ostow, illustrated by David Ostow The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling by Matthew Dicks Feral Youth edited by Shaun David Hutchison Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively Other Mentions:  Camp NaNoWriMo After Atlas by Emma Newman The Cold Between by Elizabeth Bonesteel Among Others by Jo Walton The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn The Road by Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Anne With an E (tv series) Matthew Dicks - "This is Going to Suck" story The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchison At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchison The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchison All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susana Clarke The Diabolical Miss Hyde by Viola Carr The Wrong Heaven by Amy Bonnaffons A Working Woman by Elvira Navarro, translated by Christina MacSweeney Related Episodes: Episode 086 - The Queen of Bailing with Shawn Mooney Episode 120 - Summer Reading; Speed Dating 2018, round 3 Episode 125 - Strong Tea and Suspicious Penguins with Luke Burrage and Juliane Kunzendorf Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Bianca at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Bianca is @bianca on Litsy

Jon Laubinger, of Film Baby Film and recent game show appearances, returns to the Reading Envy pub for a more traditional episode. We chat books, quitting your job, reading books set where you travel, game shows, and some film talk sneaks in from time to time. Bushido! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 126: Bernice Bobs Her Hair. 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 A dream come true! Books Discussed: Shogun by James Clavell Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers Augustus by John Williams And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O'Connell Passing by Nella Larsen Other Mentions:  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (tv show) Silence (film) Longform book podcasts: Backlisted podcast Overdue podcast Book Fight podcast The Broken Earth Series by N.K. Jemisin Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie The Nebula Awards The Hugo Awards Locus Awards The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell King Rat by James Clavell Alaska by James Michener Hawaii by James Michener The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan Hard to Be a God by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Chess Story by Stefan Zweig I, Claudius by Robert Graves Circe by Madeleine Miller The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith  All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward Six Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin Black Wave by Michelle Tea The Overstory by Richard Powers Related Episodes: Episode 055 - Too Late for an Autopsy with Julie Davis Episode 080 - The Wild Things Helped with Jason Roland Episode 087 - Going Native with Bookclub Social with Amanda and Grace  Episode 106 - Falling Asleep During Tarkovsky Films with Jon Laubinger Episode 122 - A Cylon Raider Shaped Hole in Your Heart with Sara Burnett Stalk us online: Jon's podcast website, Film Baby Film FBF on Instagram Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Luke and Juliane are back to chat books, comedy, and library apps.  Everyone shares what they've been up to this summer, and we start accidentally sportscasting, and have to refocus on books. But we get there. Stay tuned to hear Jenny and Luke disagree about a book, and to hear Jenny talk about birds in Alaska. I admit I'm a bit out of practice with three people, so this episode is a bonus fifty percent longer than a normal episode. You're welcome. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 125: Strong Tea and Suspicious Penguins 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 Books Discussed: James Acaster's Classic Scrapes by James Acaster The Kangaroo Chronicles by Marc-Uwe Kling Farthing by Jo Walton Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture by Ken Jennings Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban Other Mentions:  James Acaster - Repertoire (Netflix special) QualityLand by Marc-Uwe Kling (German language) Ross without laugh track Garfield Minus Garfield Silence of the Lambs recut trailer Among Others by Jo Walton Connie Willis The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick Omnibus podcast Hannah Gadsby - Nanette (Netflix, but don't read the comments, people must be really threated by Hannah) The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon Prador Moon by Neil Asher Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson SFBRP episode on Aurora Pattern Recognition by William Gibson Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor  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 Episode 037 - Breakdancing to Bach with Juliane Kunzendorf Episode 044 - Of Survival and Memory with Luke Burrage Episode 069 - Evil Librarian/SFBRP Crossover Episode with Luke Burrage and Juliane Kunzendorf Stalk us online: Juliane's Website Juliane at Goodreads Luke Burrage on Twitter Luke's podcast/blog, Science Fiction Book Review Podcast Luke at GoodReads Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Lindy, avid reader and bookclub member, is back in the Reading Envy pub to chat poetry and more! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 124: Mush Creatures 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 Books Discussed: Motherhood by Sheila Heti Home to Woefield by Susan Juby Walking Through Turquoise by Laurie MacFayden By Light We Knew Our Names by Anne Valente The Flower Can Always Be Changing by Shawna Lemay To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Other Mentions:  Bear by Marian Engel My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George Gentle Ben by Walt Morey How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti et al Girls (HBO show) Woefield Poultry Collective by Susan Juby (Canadian title for Home to Woefield) Pecking Order (documentary) Alice, I Think by Susan Juby You Fit Into Me by Margaret Atwood (poem) Goldie Awards - Golden Crown Literary Awards Lambda Literary Awards Trouble Came to the Turnip by Caroline Bird Dylan Thomas Prize Watering Can by Caroline Bird (what Jenny meant when she said something about a birdcage) A Family Outing by Ruby Remenda Swanson Mortified Podcast Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down by Anne Valente Rumi and the Red Handbag by Shawna Lemay Clarice Lispector Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard Lysistrata by Aristophanes My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh Related Episodes: Episode 095 - Lose the Outside World with Lindy Pratch Episode 107 - Reading Goals 2018 Stalk us online: Lindy Reads and Reviews (blog) Lindy on Twitter Lindy is @Lindy on Litsy Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Lauren and Jenny discover they have both read the same book recently, and discuss it among others, including translated works and prize winners. Pull up a chair, and enjoy this very conversational episode. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 123: Godlets and Forests 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 Books Discussed: Spring by Karl Ove Knausgaard Commonwealth by Ann Patchett Mad Country by Samrat Upadhyay Circe by Madeleine Miller And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier, translated by Rhonda Mullins Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson Other Mentions:  Autumn by Karl Ove KnausgaardWinter by Karl Ove KnausgaardMy Struggle, Book VI by Karl Ove KnausgaardSong of Achilles by Madeleine MillerWomen & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard Norse Mythology by Neil GaimanThe Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson CBC Canada Reads 2015 Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie The Stranger in the Woods by Michael FinkelBrown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Mama Day by Gloria Naylor Women of Brewster Place by Gloria NaylorFlights by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer CroftBlind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki MurakamiMen Without Women by Haruki MurakamiThe Natural Order of Things by António Lobo AntunesAlaska by James Michener Related Episodes: Episode 073 - Buried Under the Beets with Jason Roland Episode 097 - Blank Spaces with Lauren Weinhold Stalk us online: Lauren at Goodreads Lauren is @lw.flora on Instagram Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Sara joins me to chat books from a tropical location, where we talk about books that capture the hospitality industry, fight about space battles, agree about World War II books, and talk about translated works. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 122: A Cylon Raider Shaped Hole in Your Heart 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 Books Discussed: Don't Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk Illuminae (The Illuminae Files #1) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristof Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Sam Taylor Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Chi-Young Kim Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler Other Mentions:  Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Themis Files by Sylvain Neuvel House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Gemina (The Illuminae Files #2) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristof Battlestar Gallactica (tv series) Caprica (tv series) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) Man Asian Literary Prize The Vegetarian by Han Kang The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang The White Book by Han Kang Tilted Axis Press (Deborah Smith) Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl  My Kitchen Year by Ruth Reichl Insatiable by Gael Greene Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann  Commonwealth by Ann Patchett Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Sara is @addendumadventure on Instagram

This is Casey's first time as a guest on the podcast, although his voice may sound familiar from the Best of the Year episodes. Our original conversation was over three hours long, so Jenny is hoping the holes aren't super obvious, but that you enjoy our chat about northern lit and what we look for in books. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 121: Love, Lust, Loss, and Longing. 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 Books Discussed: I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven Two in the Far North by Margaret Murie Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift Jaws of Life by Laura Leigh Morris Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao Picture of the carving Casey mentions: Other Mentions:  Kwakiutl, self-name Kwakwaka'wakw Frank Muller, audiobook narrator  The Home Front by Margaret Craven One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Richard Proenneke Waterland by Graham Swift Iris Murdoch On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Downton Abbey (tv series) The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Scott McClanahan Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, 2018 West Virginia episode The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector Circe by Madeleine Miller Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel Related episodes: Episode 070 - Words Like Weapons with Yanira Ramirez Episode 105 - Best Reads of 2017  Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

I decided to record a bonus episode. Inside I'll talk about the Reading Envy Summer Reading Challenges, and give you some suggestions of books for those. I'll talk about books in a few categories for more general summer reading, a list if you will, and then move into the third round of book speed dating for 2018. Some of the books mentioned are backlisted titles, while others might not come out until June 2018, or in one tiny case, August. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 120: Summer Reading - Challenges, List, and Speed Dating. 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 Challenges: Reading Envy Picnic and Reading Envy Roadtrip Books Discussed: Off-Season: Discovering America on Winter’s Shore by Ken McAlpine Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey through Chile by Sara Wheeler Thrilling Cities by Ian Fleming A Literary Tea Party: Blends and Treats for Alice, Bilbo, Dorothy, Jo and Book Lovers Everywhere by Alison Walsh The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South by John T. Edge The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee Super Sushi Ramen Express by Michael Booth Even more recommended foodie memoirs Summer Reading List: Canada and Alaska The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban Home to Woefield by Susan Juby Miriam Toews Lynn Coady Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw by Will Ferguson Alaska by James Michener Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey The New Western is Female West by Carys Davies American Hippo by Sarah Gailey Rough Animals by Rae DelBianco Light reads, funny reads Other People’s Houses by Abbi Waxman Less by Andrew Greer Stray City by Chelsey Johnson Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett Prairie Reading (forget beach reading!) Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Biography by Laura Ingalls Wilder Caroline: Little House Revisited by Sarah Miller The Prairie Trilogy by Willa Cather The Dry by Jane Harper The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America by Sarah Kendzior The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich Translated fiction Brother in Ice by Alicia Kopf Moon Brow by Shahriar Mandanipour Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Leger August  by Romina Paula The 6:41 to Paris by Jean-Philippe Blondel My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Speed Dating Round 3 Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership by Michael Ventura  Sisters’ Entrance by Emtithal Mahmoud Sexographies by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Jennifer Adcock and Lucy Greaves Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude by Stephanie Rosenbloom Tonight I’m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson The Honey Farm by Harriet Alida Lye Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese The Waters & The Wild by DeSales Harrison Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett An Intentional Life: Five Foundations of Authenticity and Purpose by Lisa Kentgen Related Episodes: Episode 024 - The Attention of Humanity with guests Seth Wilson and Barret Newman  Episode 067 - Rain and Readability with Ruth(iella) Episode 095 - Lose the Outside World with Lindy Pratch Episode 096 - Not Without Hope with Yanira Ramirez Episode 110 - The Accidental Love Episode with Casey Stepaniuk Episode 113 - Speed Dating 2018, round 1 Episode 117 - Speed Dating 2018, round 2 Episode 119 - Bread and Butter Writing with Paula  Stalk me online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Paula, known as Centique in Litsy, joins me from New Zealand to talk books. Paula tends to read backlisted titles, because she is devoted to her TBR list. We talk translations, gloomy books, and cuteness. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 119: Bread and Butter Writing. 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 Books Discussed: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis Land of Love and Ruins by Oddny Eir Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz Other Mentions:  Blackout by Connie Willis All Clear by Connie Willis To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis Hugo Awards Nebula Awards 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Top Chef (tv show) The Mind of a Chef (tv show) Smoke and Pickles by Edward Lee Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin Tournament of Books The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara The Eight Mountains by Paolo Cognetti The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Paula is @centique on Litsy

Vinny, Jeff, Nadine, AmyB, and Carol join Jenny at the table in the corner of the Reading Envy pub to discuss our latest readalong. There are a few sounds from the resident pets but what can you expect? Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 118: Readalong 3. 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 Book Discussed: To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey Other Mentions: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey American Army History Museum - Colonel Allen expedition (historical basis of novel) Interview with author and her editors  Two Old Women by Velma Wallis Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock Related Episodes: Episode 090 - Reading Envy Readalong: East of Eden with Ellie and Jeff  Episode 099 - Readalong: The Secret History Episode 104 - Uppity Lives and Jelly Melons with Jason Roland   Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Jeff at Goodreads Jeff on Twitter Jeff is @jeffkoeppen on Litsy Carol Ann is @thebookandbeyond on Instagram Vinny is @billypar on Litsy Nadine is @nadine on Litsy Amy is @bookchipmunk on Litsy