Reading Envy

Lindy is back, just in time to share about her appointment to the Shadow Giller Jury. We talk about the Canadian book prize and its shadow, recent crafting projects, and recent reads. Jenny is focused on Persian lands in fantasy and a debut novel while Lindy has been reading Canadians from other places. If you would like to contribute to the 200th episode, please see the link in the show notes. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 196: Miscommunication 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: Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya Daughters of Smoke and Fire by Ava Horna How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa Other mentions: Contribute to the 200th episode (words, not money) Scotiabank Giller Prize Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust Helen Humphreys Thomas King Sorcery & Cecelia by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer Vanishing Monuments by John Elizabeth Stintzi Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford Related episodes: Episode 095 - Lose the Outside World with Lindy Pratch Episode 107 - Reading Goals 2018  Episode 124 - Mush Creatures with Lindy Pratch Episode 159 - Reading Doorways with Lindy Episode 191 - Stealthy yet Sparkly with Gail Carriger (Sorcery & Cecelia) Episode 192 - Sly Milieu with Thomas (The Subtweet)   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 Follow ShadowGiller on Twitter

Nadine is back to talk about books we've read and liked recently, and we also end up thinking more about campus novels, mighty tomes, and short science fiction. If you want to contribute to the 200th episode, please see the link in the show notes. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 195: Muchness 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:   99 Nights in Logar by Jamil Jan Kochai The Eighth Life by Nino Harataschvili, translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin Bunny by Mona Awad The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann Other mentions: Contribute to the 200th episode (words, not money) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights by Anon Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes Eric Karl Anderson, LonesomeReader - interview with Nino, Charlotte, and Ruth International Booker Prize Barkskins by Annie Proulx 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad The Pisces by Melissa Broder The Secret History by Donna Tartt Moo by Jane Smiley The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf The Empress of Salt & Fortune by Nghi Vo P. Djeli Clark Tor.com ebook club The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal 2020 Locus Awards Murderbot series by Martha Wells Clarkesworld Kate Baker In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho Related episodes: Episode 118 - Reading Envy Readalong: To the Bright Edge of the World Episode 129 - Coming Back to Books with Nadine Episode 152 - Kill 'em and Leave with Nadine  Episode 185 - The Loyal Swineherd (Odyssey readalong)   Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Nadine at Goodreads

Jenny welcomes Andrew to discuss books, and we discuss myth and folk tale retellings, classics, and reading around the world. Andrew finishes every book he starts and has been in the same book group for 20 years. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 194: Squirreling Books Away 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: Middlemarch by George Eliot These Ghosts are Family by Maisy Card Old School by Tobias Wolff The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd Swansong by Kerry Andrew Other mentions: The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon Thomas Hardy D.H. Lawrence The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë Shirley by Charlotte Bronte Jane Austen BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time podcast Literary Disco Podcast Silas Marner by George Eliot The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Ulysses by James Joyce Ulysses dramatisation War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The Eighth Life by Nino Harataschwili Solar Bones by Mike McCormack Milkman by Anna Burns The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Age 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste An Untamed State by Roxane Gay The Secret History by Donna Tartt Robert Frost Ayn Rand Ernest Hemingway New Yorker Podcast - Tobias Wolff The other Tobias Wolfe Marian Keyes The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Molly Brown Folk on Foot Podcast Everything Under by Daisy Johnson (and it's Oedipus, not Hansel and Gretel!) Country by Michael Hughes The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes The Prince of West End Avenue by Alan Isler (not available in USA) IraqiGirl: the Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq Related episodes: Episode 099 - Readalong: The Secret History Episode 176 - Best of 2019 Episode 182 - Reading Slump with Eleanor Thoele Episode 192 - Sly Milieu with Thomas Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Andrew at Goodreads Andrew is @andrew61 on Litsy

In the midst of protests and a pandemic, Jenny hosts a bonus readalong discussion of Ducks, Newburyport. What seems like the random thoughts of a pie-making Midwestern woman turn out to be so much more, and we untangle only a few of the threads in this complex tome. Spoilers Inside. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 193: And I Feel Fine 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: Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann Other mentions: Pioneer Girl: the Annotated Bibliography by Laura Ingalls Wilder Silent Spring by Rachel Carson JennyBakes - lemon drizzle cake disaster JennyBakes - tarte tatin Reading Envy Readers (Goodreads group) After the Cuyahoga River Fire - Great Lakes Now (video) Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K. Dick The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu Apocalypse Whenever (Goodreads group) The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin The City and the City by China Mieville The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin Marchpane review of Ducks, Newburyport It's the End of the World by R.E.M. Related episodes: Episode 090 - Reading Envy Readalong: East of Eden with Ellie and Jeff Episode 093 - Spewing Science with Jeff Koeppen Episode 099 - Readalong: The Secret History Episode 116 - Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again with Jeff Koeppen Episode 118 - Reading Envy Readalong: To the Bright Edge of the World Episode 137 - Reading Envy Readalong: The Golden Notebook Episode 148 - Multiple Lives with Jeff  Episode 157 - Joint Readalong of Gone with the Wind with Book Cougars Episode 185 - The Loyal Swineherd (Odyssey readalong) Book Cougars - Joint Readalong of Sapphira and the Slave Girl   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  

Thomas is back! We discuss reading during a pandemic and more importantly, the books we've managed to order online during the pandemic. Jenny gets Thomas to talk about audiobooks, and we follow every tangent from E.M. Forster to epistolary novels. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 192: Sly Milieu 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: Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn Other mentions: In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut "Every Song" by Vivek Shraya (both versions in Spotify) Camp ToB "Italy Before the Plague" (Thomas's blog entry) The Mirror and the Light by Hillary Mantel Timothy West Simon Vance Sinclair Lewis Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Graham Greene 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Patrick Modiano WG Sebwald Helen MacInnes Charles McCarthy Malaprop's Bookstore Old Town Books Blue Hill Books Boulder Book Store Three Lives & Company Bear Pond Books Nonsuch Book Mahogany Books Furrowed Middlebrow from Dean Street Books Stuck in a Book Powells Lion Cross Point by Masatsugu Ono A Room with a View by E.M. Forster A Room with a View (film) Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster Howards End by E.M. Forster A Passage to India by E.M. Forster Maurice by E.M. Forster Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher Hotels of North America by Rick Moody Interview between Tommy Orange and Kawai Strong Washburn Stories of Hawaii by Jack London Excellent Women by Barbara Pym Related episodes: Episode 085 - An Acquired Taste with Thomas Otto Episode 144 - For the Fans with Thomas of Hogglestock Episode 155 - Books About Music Recommendations Episode with Thomas Episode 191 - Stealthy yet Sparkly with Gail Carriger Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Thomas on Twitter Thomas at his blog, hogglestock

Author Gail Carriger sits down with me at the Reading Envy Pub, and we discuss her voracious reading habits, and topics in books ranging from little squiddies to magical chocolate pots. Ms. Carriger must have a happy ending, and Jenny is content with fragmentary reads. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 191: Stealthy Yet Sparkly 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 in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton Sorcery & Cecelia by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera, translated by Christina MacSweeney Warprize by Elizabeth Vaughan Other mentions: Defy or Defend by Gail Carriger Romancing the Inventor by Gail Carriger Meat Cute by Gail Carriger Soulless by Gail Carriger The Lightning-Struck Heart by TJ Klune Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ranson Riggs Wolfsong by TJ Klune Court of Fives by Kate Elliot LitHub The 50 Best Contemporary Novels under 200 Pages The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish My Enemy the Queen by Victoria Holt A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede Grace Draven Taji Beyond the Rings by R. Cooper The 5th Gender by G.L. Carriger Earth Fathers are Weird by Lyn Gala White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn Related episodes: Episode 015 - The Time for Exclaiming Over Costumes with Jean and Karen Episode 060 - A Good Era for Communists with Rose Davis Episode 187 - Sentient Snails and Spaceships with Paula Stalk us online: Gail Carriger website (includes more social media links) Gail Carriger on Twitter Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Alex Wieckowski of of Alex & Books joins me to talk about books. Alex prefers books where he can learn something that can be applied to his life, and this will come across in his selections. He also talks about a book he has coming out in June about reading habits. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 190: The Good Life 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: Atomic Habits by James Clear Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass Other mentions: The Reader's Journey by Alex Wieckowski The Sunlit Night by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute How to Write Copy that Sells by Ray Edwards Made to Stick by Chip & Dan Heath To Be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers Related episodes: Episode 114 - Raised by Wolves with Karen Acosta Episode 181 - An Awkward Woman with Yanira Ramirez Episode 186 - This is Gravity with Jeff Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Alex and Books blog Alex's book The Reader's Journey Alex is @alexandbooks_ on Instagram

First time novelist Tim Ewins joins Jenny in the Reading Envy Pub between their mutual time zones. We discuss humor and surrealism, translated works, and indie presses. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 189: Surreal Superpowers 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 Listen through Spotify Books discussed: All My Friends are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo A Right Royal Face-Off by Simon Edge Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth Elefant by Martin Suter, translated by Jamie Bulloch Other mentions: We Are Animals by Tim Ewins Eye and Lightning Books Roald Dahl Charlotte's Web by E.B. White The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe Jeanette Winterson The Beat of the Pendulum by Catherine Chidgey Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Brutally Honest by Melanie Brown Good-bye Pink Pig by C.S. Adler (the only copies are worth almost $1k!) The Codes of Love by Hannah Persaud (not out in USA as of now) The Ticking Heart by Andrew Kaufman   Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Tim at Goodreads Tim's website Tim is @quickbooksummaries on Instagram

On this bonus episode, Jenny reports on the first quarter of her TBR Explode project (now on its second year) and announces this year's Reading Envy Summer Reading Challenge! It's almost May, so it's almost summer, depending on how you define it. Please let me know what you are reading for your summer reading by using the hashtag #readingenvysummerreading - yes I left the challenge part out but it's long enough. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 188: TBR Explode and SUMMER 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 Listen via Stitcher Listen through Spotify Books discussed: Kept on TBR but did not finish The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton Talking to Girls About Duran Duran by Rob Sheffield Went ahead and read The River Gods by Brian Kiteley The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse Beginner’s Greek by James Collins A Brief History of Time by Shaindel Beers Unformed Landscape by Peter Stamm Tried and abandoned The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais Heart of Lies by M.L. Malcolm My Empire of Dirt by Manny Howard Wonder by Hugo Claus The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer Two Marriages by Phillip Lopate What is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman The Bible Salesman by Clyde Edgerton Lush Life by Richard Price In the Kitchen by Monica Ali The Grift by Debra Ginsberg My Father’s Tears and Other Stories by John Updike Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk A Good Fall by Ha Jin The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman Cheese Making by Rita Ash The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald Country Driving by Peter Hessler The Big Short by Michael Lewis Other mentions: The Last Policeman series by Ben H. Winters (The Last Policeman is book 1) Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French (In the Woods is book 1) Tana French - Book Riot recommended order The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante (My Brilliant Friend is book 1) Related episodes: Episode 024 - The Attention of Humanity with guests Seth Wilson and Barret Newman Episode 149 - TBR Explode! (2019) Episode 158 - TBR Explode 2 (2019) Episode 168 - TBR Explode 3 (2019) Episode 169 - Simulacrum with Jon Sealy   Episode 174 - Cozy Holiday Reads and TBR Explode 4 (2019) Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

Paula joins Jenny from New Zealand, where everyone is getting a little antsy from having to stay home. Jenny chats poetry and non-fiction while Paula brings historical and science fiction, and one gritty regional novel winning all the awards in Australia. In fact, we talk about several book awards. One of these books doesn't come out in the USA until June, but that's publishing for you! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 187: Sentient Snails and Spaceships 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 Listen through Spotify Books discussed: Shadowplay by Joseph O'Connor The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko Other mentions: Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera @cathythoughts and @carolynm on Litsy Costa Book Awards Dracula by Bram Stroker The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Nebula Award Hugo Award Arthur C. Clarke Award When My Brother was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz See the poet read "Ode to the Beloved's Hips" Miles Franklin Award Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko Tim Winton Books on the Go podcast Stella Prize Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi Related episodes: Episode 119 - Bread and Butter Writing with Paula Episode 154 - Is If If with Paula Episode 176 - Best of 2019   Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Paula is @centique on Litsy