Reading Envy

As promised, I am back with another round of book speed dating, and all of them are galleys. Most came out in April so you can read them right away if they are up your alley but one will wait until June. I think even the books I didn't love might be perfect for someone else. I also have an announcement about summer reading. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 117: Bonus Speed Dating 2018-2 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 Click here to read about Reading Envy Summer Reading Books Discussed: Eventideby Therese Bohman, translated by Marlaine Delargy Acid West: Essaysby Joshua Wheeler The Linden Tree by César Aira, translated by Chris Andrews West by Carys Davies Rough Animalsby Rae DelBianco Godforsaken Grapes: A Slightly Tipsy Journey through the World of Strange, Obscure, and Underappreciated Wine by Jason Wilson The Changelingby Joy Williams Screwnomics: How Our Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Changeby Rickey Gard Diamond Pearls on a Branch: Oral Tales by Najla Jraissaty Khoury, translated by Inea Bushnaq The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten Americaby Sarah Kendzior Shunned: How I Lost My Religion and Found Myself by Carol A. Curtis Other Mentions:  Ema, the Captive by César Aira JennyBakes The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It by Tilar Mazzeo Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell The Original Reading Envy Speed Dating Project (with rules) Speed Dating Round Two Speed Dating Round Three Speed Dating Round Four Related Episodes: Episode 035 - Speed Dating Books Episode 047 - Sex with Elvis: Bonus Book Speed Dating Episode Episode 059 - Are you Inspired Yet? bonus book speed dating  Episode 063 - Desolation Road (book speed dating and books on grief)  Episode 076 - Borderlands (Reading Goals 2017) - includes speed dating rounds 5-6 of 2016 Episode 113 - Speed Dating 2018, round 1 Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy   

Jeff Koeppen returns to the Reading Envy Pub, stamping the snow from his boots so we can chat books. We cover poetry for National Poetry Month, science in tribute to his first episode, North Korea, Scotland, apocalypse, and a new modern classic. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 116: Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again. 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 I have just a few spaces left for the second half of 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Books Discussed: Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky When My Brother Was An Aztec by Natalie Díaz Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon Red Clocks by Leni Zumas Other Mentions:  Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr Forgotten Superheroes of Science podcast episodes The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson Pachinko by Min Jin Lee What Should I Read Next? podcast Modern Mrs. Darcy Stoner by John Williams Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner Flowers of the Forest (song) Cloud Howe by Lewis Grassic Gibbon Gray Granite by Lewis Grassic Gibbon Farewell Navigator by Leni Zumas Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado The Wilds by Julia Elliott St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell Idaho by Emily Ruskovich Syncing Forward by W. Lawrence Apocalypse Whenever Goodreads Group Related Episodes: Episode 086 - The Queen of Bailing with Shawn Mooney   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 111 - Emotional Dipsy Doodles with Shawn Mooney Episode 112 - Reset Button with Eleanor Thoele 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

Jenny sits down in the Reading Envy pub with a friend known to many Litsy buddy reads and challenges - Scott Eaton, aka vivastory. We chat about true crime, vampires, character studies, and more. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 115: Quote, Unquote. 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 I have just a few spaces left for the second half of 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Books Discussed: The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya Virgin by Analicia Sotelo I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara The Hunger by Alma Katsu Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs by Molly Harper Other Mentions:  Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury NYRB Classics We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Graywolf Press The Loft Literary Center Robert Bly Eileen Miller Marlon James The Terror by Dan Simmons Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh Marlena by Julie Buntin American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis What We Do in the Shadows (film) The Golden Ass translated by Robert Graves Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown Refuge by Dina Nayeri Related Episodes: Episode 092 - Reading Friends Sarah and Preston Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Scott is @vivastory on Litsy

 A much beloved guest of Reading Envy, Karen Acosta, is back to talk about a few recent reads and related films she is excited about. She sneaks in a few extra titles by talking about related books in series or trilogies. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 114: Raised by Wolves 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 I am scheduling guests for the second half of 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Books Discussed: The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gayle Honeyman A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute Other Mentions:  A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Kingkiller Chronicles #1) C.B. Strike (tv show) The Tournament of Books 2018 Red Sparrow (film) Palace of Treason by Jason Matthews The Kremlin's Candidate by Jason Matthews The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Stones of Summer by Dow Mossman Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Ulysses by James Joyce The Americans (tv series) Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie Bunheads by Sophie Flack Bunheads (tv series) Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman The Mothers by Brit Bennett White Houses by Amy Bloom 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 106 - Falling Asleep During Tarkovsky Films with Jon Laubinger  Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

I promised to do more book speed dating in 2018, and here is my first round. See below for more information on book speed dating! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 113: Bonus Speed Dating 2018-1 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 I am scheduling guests for the second half of 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Books Discussed: Collision by Merle Kroger Follow Me Into the Dark by Felicia C. Sullivan The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult Autonomous by Annalee Newitz  The Living Infinite by Chantal Acevedo Here in Berlin by Cristina Garcia Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo The Time of Mute Swans by Ece Temelkuran Other Mentions:  The Original Reading Envy Speed Dating Project (with rules) Speed Dating Round Two Speed Dating Round Three Speed Dating Round Four The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult Related Episodes: Episode 035 - Speed Dating Books Episode 047 - Sex with Elvis: Bonus Book Speed Dating Episode Episode 059 - Are you Inspired Yet? bonus book speed dating  Episode 063 - Desolation Road (book speed dating and books on grief)  Episode 076 - Borderlands (Reading Goals 2017) - includes speed dating rounds 5-6 of 2016 Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy  

Eleanor Thoele has participated in the two Reading Envy Readalongs, but this is her first time as a featured guest. We talk about the comfort of cozy mysteries, the challenge of graphic novels, understanding Japanese culture, and more. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 112: Reset Button 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 I am scheduling guests for the second half of 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Books Discussed:   Japanese Destroyer Captain by Captain Tameichi Hara Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Jason Reynolds Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family & Place by Terry Tempest Williams The Sleeping Beauty Killer by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke Winter by Ali Smith Other Mentions:  Rizzoli & Isles (tv series) Anna Pigeon series by Nevada Barr #whodunitbymail USS Juneau USS The Sullivans Dead Wake by Erik Larson Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J. Maas A Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams The Hour of Land by Terry Tempest Williams Mary Higgins Clark Award The Wife by Alafair Burke The Boat People by Sharon Bala An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Related Episodes: Episode 014 - Flannery O'Connor With Zombies with guest Jason Roland Episode 079 - Deliberately Silenced and Preferably Unheard with Rima Abunasser Episode 088 - Author Head Space with Sara Moore  Episode 090 - Reading Envy Readalong: East of Eden with Ellie and Jeff Episode 094 - House Arrest with Libby Young Episode 099 - Readalong: The Secret History  Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Ellie at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Ellie is @elliedottie on Litsy Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy  

Shawn revisits the Reading Envy pub to try talking about poetry, a genre he has only recently started exploring. We talk about what it's like to start a BookTube channel and the best books we've read lately. There are a few background noises to try to listen for - a rice cooker chime and my dog's play whine. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 111: Emotional Dipsy Doodles 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 I am scheduling guests for the second half of 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Books Discussed: Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong Woman at 1,000 Degrees by Hallgrímur Helgason, translated by Brian FitzGibbon Attrib. and other stories by Eley Williams The Wind Off the Small Isles and The Lost One by Mary Stewart Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore Idaho by Emily Ruskovich Other Mentions:  Suit and Tie (poem) by Hallgrímur Helgason, performed by the poet Republic of Consciousness prize As a God Might Be by Neil Griffiths The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart Tournament of Books Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson The Round House by Louise Erdrich Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cattrell Heartland by Ana Simo The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker 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 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

Casey Stepaniuk, aka the Canadian Lesbrarian, makes her first official visit to the Reading Envy Pub, and brings books she's read and liked recently. Discussions include Vancouver Island, bisexual representation, and YA characters that we want to empathize with! We ended up talking about relationships and love a lot in many of our book picks, so happy valentines day, accidentally. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 110: The Accidental Love Episode 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 I am scheduling guests for the second half of 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Books Discussed:   Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro Republic of Dirt: A Return to Woefield Farm by Susan Juby The Dry by Jane Harper In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan White Tears by Hari Kunzru Other Mentions:  Out On The Shelves on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr Smart Bitches, Trashy Books blog All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley I Want to Show You More by Jamie Quatro The Change Room by Karen Connolly The Alice Series by Susan Juby - Alice, I Think is the first book Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison Home to Woefield by Susan Juby Tournament of Books Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This by Mandy Len Catron How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays by Mandy Len Catron Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari Idaho by Emily Ruskovich The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis   Related Episodes: Episode 107 - Reading Goals 2018 Stalk us online: Casey's blog,  Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian Casey's articles on Book Riot Casey on Twitter Casey at Goodreads  Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

It is the very best time of the year, the time to pick new reading goals and to see how we did the last time around. I share progress on the goals from 2017, new goals for 2018, and a few surprise guests join me to offer their ideas for one of my goals. At the end, I rattle off a few statistics from my 2017 reading year. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 107: Reading Goals 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 I am scheduling guests for 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Goals for 2018 1. Read Canada and Alaska (See some recommendations below) 2. Complete six book speed-dating projects 3. Host two Reading Envy readalongs 4. Reading challenges Reading Women Challenge Unread Shelf Project 2018 (found in Instagram) #theunreadshelfproject2018 @theunreadshelf @calsreads @katereadsbooks 5. Keep book data outside of Goodreads Canadian recommendations from guests: Lindy recommends:  Bear by Marian Engel Half World by Hiromi Goto Rumi and the Red Handbag by Shawna Lemay The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline The Nest by Kenneth Oppel Mr and Mrs Bunny, Detectives Extraordinaire by Polly Horvath The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill Shawn recommends: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross The Lamb at Noon and Other Stories by Sinclair Ross Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald The Break by Katherina Vermette Brother by David Chariandy Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien Memory Board by Jane Rule We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night by Joel Hynes Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden The Orenda by Joseph Boyden Casey recommends: The Mystics of Mile End by Sigal Samuel Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway Canary by Nancy Jo Cullen Queer Can Lit Links (from Casey's blog) Additional Canadian Lit Resources: The Best Canadian Fiction of 2017 (CBC) The Best Canadian Non-Fiction of 2017 (CBC) The Best Canadian Poetry of 2017 (CBC) Can't Lit Podcast Governor General's Literary Award Scotiabank Giller Prize Writers & Company Podcast (Eleanor Watchel, CBC) Stalk us online: Lindy Reads and Reviews (blog) Lindy on Twitter Lindy is @Lindy on Litsy Shawn at Goodreads Shawn on Twitter  Shawn the Book Maniac (YouTube) Shawn is @shawnmooney on Litsy Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian (blog) Casey at Goodreads Casey on Twitter Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Scott Danielson stops by to share some of his recent non-fiction reads, and Jenny accidentally has the theme of female power from different genres and eras. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 109: Stuxnet Pancakes 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 I am scheduling guests for the second half of 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Books Discussed:   Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter Other Men's Daughters by Richard Stern Pancakes in Paris: Living the American Dream in France by Craig Carlson Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival by Velma Wallis Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry The Power by Naomi Alderman Other Mentions:  A Good Story is Hard to Find (podcast) SFF Audio (podcast) Wired Magazine Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick Gatekeepers (film) Mr. Robot (tv show) The Cubs' Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse by Tom Verducci The Sweet Life in Paris by David Leibovitz Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Bailey's Women's Prize (now just the Women's Prize for Fiction) Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof Animal Farm by George Orwell The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Broadchurch (tv show) In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson The Crown (tv show) The Dry by Jane Harper The Stones of Summer by Dow Mossman   Related Episodes: 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 Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Scott on Twitter