Reading Envy

Jenny once made a friend on Goodreads. This friend read all the same books Jenny read. They met up in Baltimore at an interesting bookstore and could have talked for days! So we decided to meet up again to talk books for the podcast. I hope you enjoy hearing from Lauren, because I'm so happy for you to meet her. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 097: Blank Spaces with Lauren Weinhold Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher I am starting to schedule guests for 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Books featured: Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen Boxers by Gene Luen Yang Saints by Gene Luen Yang Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio by Jessica Abel Ghachar, Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart Other mentions:    Who's Allowed to Hold Hands? by Nicole Dennis-Benn (New Yorker) The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang Boxer Rebellion Macarthur Genius Grant - Gene Luen Yang Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge This American Life Filmish by Edward Ross Rectify (tv show) Kannada (language) Anais Nin Djuna Barnes Jeanette Winterson The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals by Elizabeth Smart Command and Control by Eric Schlosser The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster Elmet by Fiona Mozley 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

Yanira returns to discuss books with Jenny. We each select three books we've read and liked recently but also manage to throw in other books we like. That's pretty typical! And we agree - talking about books is the best therapy. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 096: Not Without Hope with Yanira Ramirez Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher I am starting to schedule guests for 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Books featured: Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening by Manal al-Sharif Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Leger Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward This Close to Happy by Daphne Merkin Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion Other mentions:    @bookishfeminist and @mauveandrosysky in Litsy The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer Wanda (film) Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward Tony Morrison John Steinbeck Daphne Merkin on NPR The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Blue Nights by Joan Didion South and West by Joan Didion Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders A List of Things that Didn't Kill Me by Jason Schmidt The Secret History by Donna Tartt Related episodes: Episode 063 - Desolation Road (book speed dating and books on grief)  Episode 070 - Words Like Weapons with Yanira Ramirez Stalk us online: Yanira is @notafraidofwords on Litsy Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Lindy is a Canadian reader who joins Jenny to talk about books we've read recently. You will learn about Lindy's interesting book clubs, authors from Alberta, and how books can form movies in your mind. Please forgive Jenny's voice as she suffered a coughing fit. The coughs were edited out but the voice struggled at the end! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 095: Lose the Outside World with Lindy Pratch Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher I am starting to schedule guests for 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Books featured: The Heavy Bear by Tim Bowling The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa Monoceros by Suzette Mayr The Amputee's Guide to Sex by Jillian Weise Nuala by Kimmy Beach August by Romina Paula Other mentions: Nobody Cries at Bingo by Dawn Dumont Ariel by Sylvia Plath Delmore Schwartz Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall by Suzette Mayr Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor Giant marionettes Autumn by Ali Smith The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy Everything is Flammable by Gabrielle Bell The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund 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

Sarah makes another visit to the Reading Envy Pub, and this time she brought the reading friend she mentioned on Episode 072. We chat reading friendships, books we've read recently, and the difference between mystery and true crime. Cats are the bonus! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 092: Reading Friends Sarah and Preston. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher I am starting to schedule guests for 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Books featured: Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese O'Neal Walkaway by Cory Doctorow Marlena by Julie Buntin While the City Slept by Eli Sanders The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis Salt Houses by Hala Alyan Other mentions: Liza Marklund - Annika Bengzton series S.J. Bolton List of female detectives on The Guardian, 2010 Karin Slaughter - Grant County series Karin Slaughter - Will Trent series Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow Boing Boing Electronic Frontier Foundation Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow For the Win by Cory Doctorow The Center for Fiction -  First Novel Prize Tournament of Books Summer Reading Challenge My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante The Rumpus book club "The Bravest Woman in Seattle" by Eli Sanders Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson Colm Toibin review of The End of Eddy (NYRB) The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie Camino Island by John Grisham Related Episodes: Episode 072 - Books Are My Bag with Sarah K Episode 089 - Hodge Podge with Jenny alone  Episode 091 - Watching Our Stories with Tracy Landrith   Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Sarah on Facebook Sarah is @SJTedford on Instagram and @SarahK on Litsy Preston is not available on the internet

Jeff Koeppen returns and brings two science books! Have we ever had science books on Reading Envy before? Perhaps not, and it was time. We also talk about other things. But also science. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 093: Spewing Science. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher I am starting to schedule guests for 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Books featured: Lab Girl by Hope Jahren Midnight Riot (Peter Grant #1) by Ben Aaronovitch The Dog Stars by Peter Heller Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work (A StoryCorps Book) by Dave Isay The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan In the Time of the Blue Ball by Manuela Draeger Other mentions: Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End by Philip Plait Carrington Event (Wikipedia entry) American Gods by Neil Gaiman The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher Excerpt of Rivers of London aka Midnight Riot audiobook Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Earth Abides by George R. Stewart The Road by Cormac McCarthy Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling The Stand by Stephen King The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison StoryCorps app The View from a Drawbridge (blog)  Face on Mars (NASA article) Richard Hoagland - The Other Side of Midnight website A Candle in the Dark by Thomas Ady The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach Related Episodes: Episode 042 - It Begins with Rain with Jason Roland Episode 071 - Bad Priest, Good Priest, No Priest with Scott Episode 090 - Reading Envy Readalong: East of Eden with Ellie and Jeff 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

Jenny talks Tracy into returning to the Reading Envy Pub, and to share what she is reading for the summer. We discuss HEA endings and why everything happy happens in Cornwall. There are a lot of ocean and beach reads on this list, plus a handful of others from Jenny's darker reading. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 091: Watching Our Stories. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher I am starting to schedule guests for 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Books featured: The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe Just This Once by Rosalind James (Escape to New Zealand Series #1) Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald Crazy Little Thing by Tracy Brogan (Bell Harbor Series #1) Ill Will by Dan Chaon Escape for the Summer by Ruth Saberton (Escape Series #1) Other mentions: Sword and Laser Hum and Shiver discussion Joanna’s shelf Shall We Gather by Alex Bledsoe The Two Weddings of Bronwyn Hyatt by Alex Bledsoe Mandie books by Lois Gladys Leppard Foxfire series Haka by the NZ All Blacks Man Booker Prize Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald Marina Adair Tournament of Books summer reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Love Between the Covers (film) The Cafe by the Sea by Jenny Colgan Summer at the Little Wedding Shop by Jane Linfoot Christmas at the Little Wedding Shop by Jane Linfoot The Summer Girls by Mary Alice Monroe Harry Potter audiobooks narrated by Stephen Fry Fran Rizer The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa Related Episodes: Episode 063 - Desolation Road (book speed dating and books on grief) Episode 064 - Reading Down the Rabbit Hole with guest Tracy Landrith Episode 085 - An Acquired Taste with Thomas Otto Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Tracy is maintaining stealth status

This episode's guest is a librarian whose office is near mine, so we recorded at my desk in the library before the craziness of the semester hit. Please forgive our occasional thumps - my wooden desk picks up every bump. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 094: House Arrest with Libby Young Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher I am starting to schedule guests for 2018! If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Books featured: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Autumn by Ali Smith Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates Born a Crime by Trevor Noah The Hamilton Affair by Elizabeth Cobbs Other mentions: The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi Pauline Boty  Man Booker Prize Long List 2017 How to Be Both by Ali Smith  NY Times article where J.D. Vance is the "representative voice" of conservative America Scott McClanahan - Crapalachia; Hill William   Mad Men (IMDB) Hamilton (the musical)  The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Train to Pakistan by Khuswant Singh The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar My Temples, Too by Qurratulain Hyder Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley Related Episodes: Episode 008 - Gone Rogue with guests Steve Richardson, Libby Young, and Mike Winiski Episode 046 - Books for Your Kitty Party (The Best of 2015) with Libby Young and many other guests Episode 067 - Rain and Readability with Ruth(iella)  Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

For the past few months, readers have been participating in the first-ever Reading Envy Readalong, of East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Two of those readers, Ellie and Jeff, were brave enough to join Jenny on a rainy evening to discuss the book. This conversation contains spoilers and no summary of East of Eden, so you may want to catch up before you listen. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 090: Readalong of East of Eden. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ Thanks to everyone who read along! Feel free to take the survey about the readalong if you have feedback or want to nominate a book for next time. Books discussed, other than East of Eden: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins The Loved Ones by Sonya Chung The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck The Long Valley by John Steinbeck The Red Pony by John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters by John Steinbeck Genesis 4 Related episodes: Episode 074 - The Books We Didn't Love in High School with Blaine DeSantis Episode 077 - No One Messes With a Wolf with Shawn Mooney Episode 081 - Reading Envy Readalong Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Ellie is @elliedottie on Litsy Jeff at Goodreads Jeff on Twitter Jeff is @jeffkoeppen on Litsy

Jenny had to postpone some guests so this is a solo episode. One round of book speed-dating, bookish beach adventures, and 5-star reads that haven't made it into the podcast yet. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 089: Hodgepodge. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ The first Reading Envy Readalong is trucking along!  If you have been reading along and want to participate in the online chat (which will become podcast episode 090), please provide your availability in this updated poll. Book Speed Dating Round 5/26/17 The Loved Ones by Sonya Chung After James by Mark Helms A Spare Life by Lidija Dimkovska; translated by Christina E. Kramer Shot Blue by Jesse Ruddock Dance of the Jakaranda by Peter Kimani A Cowrie of Hope by Binwell Sinyangwe We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier by Thad Carhart Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald Fish Have No Feet by Jon Kalman Stefansson; translated by Philip Roughton It's You by Jane Porter Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors; translated by Misha Hoekstra Beachy Bookish Explorations: Nye Beach Book House 727 NW Third Street Newport, OR 97365 Squinting Books 1547 N Coast Hwy Newport, OR 97365 Five-Star Reads not featured on the podcast (books I read in 2017, not necessarily published in 2017): Through the Woods by Emily Carroll El Deafo by Cece Bell In Praise of Defeat: Poems of Abdellatif Laabi Rowing Inland by Jim Daniels Satan Says by Sharon Olds even this page is white by Vivek Shraya A Place Called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom The Leavers by Lisa Ko Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher Related episodes: Episode 085 - An Acquired Taste with Thomas Otto  Episode 086 - The Queen of Bailing with Shawn Mooney Stalk me online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Sara and Jenny have been reading friends in Goodreads and Litsy for a while now. So which books will we end up talking about when we get together at the pub? We talk about books we've read and loved lately, how to tackle short stories, and more. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 088: Author Head Space. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ The first Reading Envy Readalong is trucking along! Books featured: Fair Play by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel Borzutzky Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov: A Life in Letters by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by J.A.E. Curtis Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country: and Other Stories by Chavisa Woods Other mentions: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson Moomins Ali Smith Talking to Girls about Duran Duran by Rob Sheffield Dreaming the Beatles by Rob Sheffield The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Book of the Month Daniel Borzutzky reading some of his poems Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien Eclectic Readers Mad Libs Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country book trailer The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Dracula by Bram Stoker The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Shostakovich We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Short stories by Cecil Dawkins Short stories by Flannery O'Connor Toy Story (film) A Constellation of Vital Phenomoena by Anthony Marra Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Sara is @saresmoore on Litsy Sara at Goodreads