Reading Envy

Jenny welcomes a new guest - Tina - and we chat about reading more books from our own shelves and great books we've read recently. Jenny also asks about Tina's knitting, a new hobby she enjoys alongside reading. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 206: Black Sheep 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 Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  New! Listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea Silences So Deep by John Luther Adams A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa, translated by Risa Kobayashi Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley Two Wings to Fly Away by Penny Mickelbury The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste Other mentions: #audioknitting Rizzoli & Isles novels by Tess Gerritsen I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee 2 Knit Lit Chicks (podcast) Ravelry RBG dissent sweater and Empower cowl #yarnbombing Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea Queen of America by Luis Alberto Urrea PBS Reads July 2019 Urrea Facebook page The Writer's Library edited by Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori Mimi Patterson books by Penny Mickelbury Smart Podcast, Trashy Books - Beverly Jenkins, episode 421 Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli New York Society Library - Maaza Mengiste Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman Related episodes: Episode 088 - Author Head Space with Sara Moore Episode 133 - To Understand the World with Lauren Weinhold Episode 160 - Reading Plays with Elizabeth Episode 161 - Women in Translation Month Recommendations with Lauren Episode 183 - Birthing Rabbits with Jessica Episode 189 - Surreal Superpowers with Tim Episode 203 - Backlist with Marion Stalk us online: Tina at Goodreads Tina is @godmotherx5 on Instagram and Litsy Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors.

Jenny speaks with author Bryan Washington about his new novel, Memorial, and also gets to know more about him as a reader. This bonus episode also contains information about a last-minute readalong, how to contribute to the best of the year episode, and what to expect for the rest of 2020. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 205: Life and Time 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 Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  New! Listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:Memorial by Bryan Washington Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington Other mentions: Nights when Nothing Happened by Simon Han Luster by Raven Leilani Pieces by Helen Oyeyemi Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi Bestiary by K-Ming Chang My Brother's Husband by Gengoroh Tagame Breasts & Eggs by Mieko Kawakami Dubliners by James Joyce Daily Beast: Bryan Washington recommends 5 Books Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo Book Cougars Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko Reading Envy Readers on Goodreads - Readalong discussion Related episodes: Episode 145 - Things Get Dark with Bianca Escalante Episode 175 - Reading on Impulse with Marion Hill Episode 196 - Miscommunication with Lindy   Stalk us online: Bryan Washington website Bryan on Twitter Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors, and less to Jeff Bezos. I only link to Amazon in cases where Bookshop.org does not carry a backlist title, which took place a few times for this list.

While a lot of readers have struggled during the pandemic, Scott had a reading breakthrough this past year. We talk about BookTube, places for readalongs, and books we've read and liked recently. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 204: BookTube Season 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 Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  New! Listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine How Long 'Til Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline Last Call by Tim Powers Other mentions: The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan Coode St. Podcast with Arkady Martine Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin Sistah Scifi The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers The Great & Secret Show by Clive Barker The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons Get Booked Podcast Hugos There Podcast A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell Everyone who Reads Must Converse (YouTube) Endymion by Dan Simmons A Case of Conscience by James Blish Welcome Home: An Anthology of Love and Adoption edited by Eric Smith Related episodes: Episode 009 - Pirates and Noonday Demons Episode 039 - Paranoid Squint with Fred Episode 058 - Wishing for a Sequel with Scott D. Danielson Episode 123 - Godlets and Forests with Lauren Weinhold Episode 202 - Jacket Flap with Chris and Emily Shelf Wear - Book 3 - The Only Good Indians   Stalk us online: Scott on A Good Story is Hard to Find (podcast) Scott on Shelf Wear (blog and podcast) Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors, and less to Jeff Bezos. I only link to Amazon in cases where Bookshop.org does not carry a backlist title, which took place a few times for this list.

Marion and I talk about the rich possibilities of exploring author backlists and catch up on recent reads. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 203: Backlist 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 Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  New! Listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: White Pages by Ran Walker Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Face of an Angel by Denise Chavez The Writer's Library by Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwanger Alburguerque by Rudolfo Anaya Other mentions: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Loving Pedro Infante by Denise Chavez Maybe Esther by Katja Petrowskaja Pain by Zerula Shalev Book of Mutter by Kate Zambreno Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya Dona Flor and her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado Captains of the Sands by Jordge Amado North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud Monsterland (tv show on Hulu) Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline Related episodes: Episode 041 - Grotesque Beauty with Nathan Ballingrud Episode 175 - Reading on Impulse with Marion Hill Episode 202 - Jacket Flap with Chris and Emily   Stalk us online: Marion Hill's website Marion on Goodreads Marion on Instagram Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors, and less to Jeff Bezos. I only link to Amazon in cases where Bookshop.org does not carry a backlist title, which took place a few times for this list.

Chris and Emily, known fondly as Book Cougars, join me to discuss books we've read and liked recently. We address the controversy of one of the books selected, new books by well-loved authors, and authors that we're just discovering (and whose back files we need to read.) Links to Book Cougars are included at the end of the shownotes so check out their podcast too. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 202: Jacket Flap 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 Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  New! Listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:   All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny Rage Baking edited by Kathy Gunst and Katherine Alford Tides by Jonathan White The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Other mentions: Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi Book Cougars Goodreads Group - Sapphira and the Slave Girl discussion Hurma by Ali Al-Muqri (book mentioned from Yemen) Booktopia (at Northshire Bookstore) Ann Kingman Michael Kindness Books on the Nightstand podcast (no new episodes) Powells City of Books Library of Congress - National Book Festival Bloody Scotland Festival Decatur Book Festival Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson Circe by Madeline Miller* Emily's Lists Tangerine Jones @ragebaking Jenny's video playlist to accompany Tides Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Bestiary by K. Ming Chang Trumbull Park by Frank London Brown Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman *I kept referring to Madeline Miller as a translator. I do think she has the scholarly chops to translate, but her works that I've read and loved are novels that are retellings of myths. I know this, but misspoke during our discussion. Sorry! Related episodes: Episode 037 - Breakdancing to Bach with Juliane Kunzendorf Episode 131 - Tartan Noir and More with Claire Duffy Episode 133 - To Understand the World with Lauren Weinhold Episode 157 - Joint Readalong of Gone with the Wind with Book Cougars   Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Book Cougars website/podcast Book Cougars are @bookcougars in Instagram

Elizabeth and Laurie join me in the pub to chat about books we've read and liked lately, from memoirs to fantasy to YA to poetry. I'd love to hear feedback on the three-person episodes; there will be a few before the end of the year. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 201: Wrestling with Complexity 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 Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  New! Listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Voices in the Air by Naomi Shihab-Nye The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg Eat a Peach by David Chang The Liars of Mariposa Island by Jennifer Mathieu The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Other mentions: The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin Pop Sugar Reading Challenge 2020 MountTBR challenge #readwhatyouown challenge (in Instagram) yutori How to Fly by Barbara Kingsolver Devotions by Mary Oliver Elizabeth's review of Devotions Orangette blog A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg Delancey by Molly Wizenberg Tin Man by Sarah Winman Lucky Peach magazine Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein* The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon Apeirogon by Colum McCann All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny Tides by Jonathan White *I was foolish and referred to this as "Music Makes Me a Modern Girl"   Related episodes: Episode 033 - An Undulating Thrum with guests Ruth and Elizabeth Episode 051 - Dreaming in Books with Karen Episode 061 - Never Do That to a Book with Elizabeth Episode 136 - Six Pack with Elizabeth Episode 160 - Reading Plays with Elizabeth   Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Elizabeth at Goodreads    Laurie on Twitter Laurie is @dryapyapi on Instagram Laurie at Goodreads

The Reading Envy Pub is crammed full of people who want to share their recent projects, where they go for book ideas, and more. Jenny will probably sneak out and let them have the episode, but first she'll talk a little about the last 199 episodes - where do guests come from, and how often? Which books has Jenny read lately but not managed to share about? Please enjoy this bonus episode to celebrate 200. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 200: Reading Envy Turns 200 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 Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  New! Listen through Google Podcasts Books mentioned:     Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid These Ghosts are Family by Maisy Card Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo Sorcery & Cecelia by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver A History of my Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt The Long Walk by Stephen King Bellevue by David Oshinsky The Good Luck Stone by Heather Bell Adams So You Want to be a Novelist by Jon Sealy The Merciful by Jon Sealy Other mentions: Goodreads Scotiabank Giller Prize Governor General’s Literary Awards CBC - The Next Chapter BBC Radio 4 - Open Book BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read Two Crime Writers and a Microphone Tartan Noir Podcast Literary Friction You’re Bookedpodcast Women’s Prize for Fiction Simon Mayo's Books of the Year Book Cougars Reddit - /r/books, /r/fantasy, /r/what’s that book, /r/suggest me a book Sword and Laser Reading Glasses Deep Vellum Brazos Bookstore (Houston) Haywire Books CostaPrize The BookerPrizes The StellaPrize Stonewall Book Awards LAMBDA LiteraryAward International Dublin Literary Award Saturday Morning with Kim Hill on Radio New Zealand Tom Merritt’s books Bookmarks section of LitHub NetGalley Edelweiss @princejvstin Patreon.com/princejvstin Nerds of a Feather Skiffy and Fanty SFF Audio Litsy BookRiot The Get Booked Podcast BookRiot For Real Podcast BookTube - ComfyCozyUp, Booksaremysociallife, Poptimist (David Yoon), Audrey from Perpetual Pages The Librarian is In KCRW Bookworm BacklistedPodcast Shawnthebookmaniac SavidgeReads Book Women - readers community Slightly Foxed- the Real Readers Quarterly Stuck in a Book - Simon Thomas Tea or Books? - Simon Thomas So Many Damn Books A Good Story is Hard to Find podcast Shelf Wear podcast ShelfWear youtube BookRiot All the Books NYT Book review podcast CrimeReads Literary Hub Dylan Thomas Prize National Book Award The Morning News Tournament of Books Millions Most Anticipated Books   Related episodes: All of them!   Stalk me online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Karen returns to chat books, and we talk about how we met the Reading Envy Summer Reading challenge, the awkward melancholy of books we are drawn to in dark times, and the translated standalone graphic memoirs that seem to call to each of us. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 199: Awkward Melancholy 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 Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  New! Listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:       Broken Harbour by Tana French Transit by Rachel Cusk 5,000 Kilometers Per Second by Manuele Flor Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust, translated by Kim Thompson Luisa: Now & Then by Carole Maurel The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, translated by Michele Hutchison Other mentions: Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French Outline series by Rachel Cusk War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The Last Policeman trilogy by Ben H. Winters Broadchurch (tv show) Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell Fantagraphics in Hoopla Shine, Pamela! Shine! by Kate Atkinson Just Like You by Nick Hornby The Searcher by Tana French The Survivors by Jane Harper Siete Casas Vacias by Samantha Schweblin Little Eyes by Samantha Schweblin Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid The Margot Affair by Sanaë Lemoine Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir   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 101 - A Different Kind of Time Travel with Karen Acosta Episode 114 - Raised by Wolves with Karen Acosta Episode 146 - Complicated, Crazy, and Loud with Karen   Episode 151 - The Stories They Tell with Karen Episode 161 - Women in Translation Month Recommendations with Lauren Episode 166 - On Brand with Karen   Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Jenny hosts a new guest in the Reading Envy Pub and we chat mood reading, new releases, the line between gothic and horror, and more. Robin talks about a book club she's been in that's older than a typical college student, and because we are both academic librarians facing reopening in a pandemic, we talk a little baseball. If you aren't interested or just can't with COVID-19 in your podcasts, skip from 2:15-7:00. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 198: Mood Reading 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 Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  New! Listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Fair Play by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adriane Tomine Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri Other mentions: Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck The Book Cougars Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata Beverly Cleary Judy Blume Moby Dick by Herman Melville Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami Mexican Gothic playlist Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson Nimona by Noelle Stevenson The Fire Never Goes Out by Noelle Stevenson Fun Home by Alison Bechdel Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi El Deafo by Cece Bell Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell Slade House by David Mitchell The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell City of Thorns by Ben Rawlence Video of Klovharun TOVE (film trailer, 2020) The Summer Book by Tove Jansson Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd Real Life by Brandon Taylor The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels The Mussel Feast by Brigit Vanderbeke Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash   Related episodes: Episode 185 - The Loyal Swineherd (Odyssey readalong) Episode 194 - Squirreling Books Away with Andrew Episode 197 - Surly Magnificence with Lauren   Stalk us online: Robin at Goodreads Robin on Twitter Robin is @robinlgustafson on Instagram Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Lauren is back and fresh from June's Read Caribbean challenge and July's Sci-Fi July. We also talk summer reading, Women in Translation Month, and colonization. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 197: Surly Magnificence 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 Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  New! Listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Dancing in the Baron's Shadow by Fabienne Josaphat That We May Live edited by various Soviet Milk by Norah Ikstena Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull Other mentions: Contribute to the 200th episode (words, not money) Chef by Jaspreet Sing The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy Hadriana in All My Dreams by Rene Depestre Everything is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia by Sigrid Rausing Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich Dublin Murder Squad by Tana French Justine by Lawrence Durrell Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell Clea by Lawrence Durrell My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell The Durrells in Corfu (tv show) Arc of a Scythe trilogy by Neal Shusterman Wayfarers by Becky Chambers Dawn by Octavia Butler Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell   Related episodes: Episode 097 - Blank Spaces with Lauren Weinhold Episode 123 - Godlets and Forests with Lauren Weinhold Episode 133 - To Understand the World with Lauren Weinhold Episode 138 - Shared Landscape with Lauren Weinhold  Episode 147 - Bonus Poetry Recommendations with Lauren Episode 161 - Women in Translation Month Recommendations with Lauren Episode 163 - Fainting Goats with Lauren   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