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

Jenny is joined by a new guest for Episode 070. Jenny put out a call out for guests in Litsy and Yanira is one of the people to jump in. I'm so glad she did! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 070: Words Like Weapons. 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 Books discussed: Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education by Mychal Denzel Smith The North Water by Ian McGuire Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson Guapa by Salim Haddad The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Other mentions: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race edited by Jesmyn Ward Man Booker Prize Clarice Lispector The Vegetarian by Han Kang Beyonce - Lemonade If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo Junot Diaz Roxane Gay Drown by Junot Diaz The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton Twilight by William Gay Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Ed Tarkington Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy too Yanira on Wordpress Yanira is @notafraidofwords on Litsy

Scott returns for a visit to the familiar Reading Envy Pub. We both bring spooky reads, memoirs, and... priests? Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 071: Bad Priest, Good Priest, No Priest. 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 Books discussed:   Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison A Pearl in the Storm by Tori Murden McClure I Fired God: My Life Inside -- And Escape From -- The Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Cult by Jocelyn R. Zichterman The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Other mentions: The Battle of Agincourt, 1415 Henry the V by William Shakespeare Henry the V (film with Kenneth Branagh) Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara The Source by James Michener Patrick O'Brien 1356 by Bernard Cornwell The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell Philip K. Dick Award The Cruelest Journey by Kira Salak (I said Longest) Sleepy Hollow (film) Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell 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   Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Scott on Twitter Scott on his blog

Jenny sits down in the Reading Envy pub with another new guest she recruited from Litsy - Sarah K. We discuss medicine, Man Booker Prize runners up, book swaps, and genres people don't read all that often. (But we think they should!) Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 072: Books are my Bag. 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 Books discussed: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien Now You See Me by Sharon Bolton Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur My Misspent Youth: Essays by Meghan Daum The Sea of Light by Jennifer Levin Other mentions: Karin Slaughter Mo Yan Nobel Prize for literature The Blackhouse by Peter May Fringe Festival (Edinburgh) International Book Festival (Edinburgh) Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories by Terrence Holt Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande The Sellout by Paul Beatty Man Booker Prize Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson Alex Delaware series by Jonathan Kellerman The Americans (tv show) Dr. Who (tv show) The Troop by Nick Cutter The Many by WYl Menmuir  Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids edited by Meghan Daum Unspeakable by Meghan Daum A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Books on the Nightstand podcast Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Frasier Orphans at the Carnival by Carol Birch A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin Related episodes: Episode 063 - Desolation Road (book speed dating and books on grief) Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy too Sarah on Facebook Sarah is @SJTedford on Instagram and @SarahK on Litsy

Jason Roland is back, this time in person, and we discuss some of our best recent reads. Also southern wisdom and natural disasters, which always seem to happen around the time we record an episode. Is it the books? Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 073: Buried Under the Beets. 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 Books discussed: Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke The Redemption of Galen Pike by Carys Davies My Struggle, Book One by Karl Ove Knaussgard The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South by Vivian Howard Twilight by William Gay Other mentions: The Risen by Ron Rash The Hottest State by Ethan Hawke Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke Before Sunrise (film) Magnificent Seven (film) Indeh by Ethan Hawke and Greg Ruth The Road by Cormac McCarthy VICE - Knaussgard interview Autumn by Ali Smith The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson A Chef's Life (PBS show) The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz Sean Brock Anson Mills Child of God by Cormac McCarthy Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Barkskins by Annie Proulx Related podcast episodes: Reading Envy Episode 014: Flannery O'Connor with Zombies Reading Envy Episode 025: Mule and Plow Reading Envy Episode 042 - It Begins with Rain Reading Envy Episode 046 - Books for Your Kitty Party (The Best of 2015)  Reading Envy Episode 054 - Retired Pirates Stalk us online: Jason on Twitter Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter

I visited a new podcast guest and we recorded this episode, talking about the books we did read (or should have read) in high school, books that have been made into movies and tv shows, and a few more surprises. Listen to the entire episode to find out who the dog is named after! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 074: The Books We Didn't Love in High School. 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 Books discussed: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume Voices in the Night: Stories by Steven Millhauser Other mentions: Anthony Trollope R.F. Delderfield Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens The Muppet Christmas Carol (film) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Animal Farm by George Orwell Lord of the Flies by William Golding Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee John Dos Passos East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Mask of Dimitrios (film) A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler Topkapi (film) North by Northwest (film) The Man Who Knew too Much (film) The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad The 39 Steps by John Buchan Queen Sugar (tv show)  Island of Sheep by John Buchan Mister Standfast by John Buchan Sugar in the Blood by Andrea Stuart The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts The Librarian is In (NYPL) podcast T.C. Boyle LitWit podcast  The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson Empire Falls by Richard Russo Empire Falls (film) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck Alexander McCall Smith Stamped from the Beginning: the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi Paulina Chiziane Related Episodes: Episode 049 - The Legendary Cheese with Holly and Caroline Episode 055 - Too Late for an Autopsy with Julie Davis Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter

Scott and Jenny discuss our best books of the year and share some of the contributions people sent in. These books might include books from any decade, just books that were read in 2016. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 075: After the Year We've Had (Best of 2016). 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 Books discussed: Kinder than Solitude by Yiyun Li Gutenberg's Apprentice by Alix Christie The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell Benediction by Kent Haruf The Divine Comedy by Dante The Vegetarian by Han Kang A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers The First Men on the Moon by H.G. Wells Pavane by Keith Roberts Lab Girl by Hope Jahren Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett Half Wild: Stories by Robin MacArthur The North Water by Ian McGuire My Last Continent by Midge Raymond News of the World by Paulette Jiles Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson Empire of Deception by Dean Joff Ark by Ed Madden Physical by Andrew McMillan On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers Guapa by Saleem Haddad Doc by Mary Doria Russell Dune by Frank Herbert The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien The More They Disappear by Jesse Donaldson Atomic Robo: The Everything Explodes Collection by Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegoner Lazarus by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark Light Years by James Salter The One in a Million Boy by Monica Ward The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy by Pauline Chiziane Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin Kalahari by Jessica Khoury Spaceman by Mike Massimino The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichi The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trolloppe Other mentions: Kij Johnson LTUE Stephen King Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Litsy A Good Story is Hard to Find Podcast - Dante 1 | 2 | 3 Science Fiction Book Review Podcast (Luke & Juliane) Andrew McMillan reading his poem "Yoga" Beyonce - Lemonade  Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert Secret Stacks podcast Reading Envy Episode list Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Scott on Twitter Scott on his blog Scott is @sddanielson on Litsy (for now!)

Jenny sits in a corner alone at the Reading Envy pub and reflects on the goals of 2016, establishes new goals for the new year, and finishes up a few book speed-dating projects. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 076: Borderlands. 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 Relevant links: Original 2016 reading goals Africa2016 reading report (this is where the top five are listed) Goals for 2017: Read books from the borders, from people who are displaced or forced out, and maybe indigenous groups. Host a Reading Envy readalong of East of Eden by John SteinbeckRead about mythologyActually read books from book subscriptions I haveExplore indie/micro/small pressesSpeed-Dating Round 5 of 2016 Wave by Sonya Deraniyagala The Weight of Mercy: A Novice Pastor on the City Streets by Deb Richardson-Moore Time and Again by Jack Finney A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L'Engle Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre  Boston Noir: Stories edited by Dennis Lehane Old Filth by Jane Gardam Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler My Sergei: A Love Story by Ekaterina Gordeeva The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith Speed-Dating Round 6 of 2016 Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood A Short History of a Small Place by T.R. Pearson Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts by Mark Kurlansky Bluebeard's Egg: Stories by Margaret Atwood Skinned Alive: Stories by Edmund White House Rules by Rachel Sontag Devils in the Sugar Shop by Timothy Schaffert Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Stalk me online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy