Tales In Our Times

Hello, beautiful readers. This week we talk about the ways in which different narratives are adapted. In a world with so many forms of media available, it’s interesting to see how some narratives are brought from one medium to another. See below for books mentioned!

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Books Mentioned:

How The Boogeyman Became a Poet by Tony Keith Jr

Quicksand by Nella Larsen

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Room and The Wonder (erroneously referred to as “The Gift” by the hosts) by Emma Donoghue

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Witches and James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Hello, readers! We are back with another episode, this time all about the ways in which writers use magic. It’s such a keystone metaphor, it feels very interesting to us! Alright, I’m lying; this is a George episode. But Mum enjoyed herself, swear! See below for books mentioned.

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Books Mentioned:

Word Poem by Nicki Giovanni

Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo

Quicksand and Passing by Nella Larsen

They Were Her Property by Stephanie E Jones-Rogers

Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien

The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

The Broken Earth series by NK Jemisin

Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone

Mrs Pepperpot Stories by Alf Prøysen

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

The Testament of Solomon

The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

The Abhorsen series by Garth Nix

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Deltora Quest by Emily Rodda (Jennifer Rowe)

Hello again, our friends! Please join us for this incredible discussion with our friend and family member, Annmarie Lockhart. We talk about poetry and all the ways in which verse can open our minds. It’s a fantastic discussion, I sincerely became smarter for it. Hope you enjoy, and see below for a list of books mentioned!

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Books Mentioned:

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

If Beale Street Could Talk and Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Monstrilio: A Novel by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo

The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Beaver Girl by Cassie Premo Steele

The Last Chairlift by John Irving

James by Percival Everett

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe

Now We Are Six and When We Were Very Young by AA Milne

If by Rudyard Kipling

Beowulf

The Terrible Stories by Lucille Clifton

The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats

This Be The Verse by Phillip Larkin

Mitochondrial Night by Ed Bok Lee

Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón

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Hello, readers! It’s been so long! We’re so happy to be back with a few episodes we recorded earlier last year, and soon will be back with some new episodes, huzzah! This episode we get a little judgmental; we look over an updated Top 100 list and George runs his mouth (que sorpresa). It’s fun to chat a bit of trash! Hope you enjoy, and please see below for books mentioned.

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Books Mentioned:

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Staying On Alone and The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook by Alice B Toklas

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

About a Boy, Juliet, Naked, and High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Goosebumps by RL Stine

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling

A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Circe and Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Knowledge by Mark Jackson

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie

The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Rawwwwwr! It’s an episode about big bloomin’ lizards! Mum’s a huge dino fan, so we thought we’d look at some of the best narratives that include them, and what they’re helpful for. See below for books mentioned!

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Books Mentioned:

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyan

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Jurassic Park and Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton

The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling

Dinotopia by James Gurney

Deltora Quest by Jennifer Rowe as Emily Rodda

The Last Dinosaur by Jim Murphy

Hell Creek by C Robert Cargill

Hello, again! We’re fresh off of George’s wedding, finally back to weekly posting, first off with our episode on Dystopian Narratives! A dystopia is…well, we probably don’t need to describe it to our listeners in the US, but there’s a rich vein of books and stories written in dystopian society settings, whether you think of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale, or Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, we’re sure everyone has enjoyed a narrative like this in their time. Chune in, we hope you enjoy! See below for a list of the books mentioned.

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We are so blessed to have had the opportunity to interview friend and excellent librarian, Amelia Zimmerman!!! We talk to her about the need for third places, the ways that librarians work to provide valuable resources to their communities, and generally just have a laugh about the books we love. Thanks so much to Amelia for coming and hanging out with us, she’s the best. See below for books mentioned!

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Books Mentioned:

If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffrey

The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

The Prisoner’s Throne by Holly Black

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

Passing and Quicksand by Nella Larsen

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

The Incendiaries by RO Kwon

A Visit from the Goon Squad and The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan

Infinite Jest and Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

The Watchmen by Alan Moore

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

In this week’s episode, we take an excursion through the work of one of our literary heroes: the excellent Terry Pratchett! The nerds talk about his beginning and evolution into the wizard of the Discworld that he became. See below for books mentioned!

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Books Mentioned:

If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffrey

Passing and Quicksand by Nella Larsen

The Immortals of Tehran by Ali Araghi

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Clear by Carys Davies

Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan

The Discworld series: The Color of Magic, Mort, Guards, Guards!, Feet of Clay, Men at Arms, The Truth, Going Postal, Moving Pictures, Making Money, Raising Steam and many more by Terry Pratchett

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

My Man Jeeves by PG Wodehouse

Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth by Lloyd Alexander

Give it to me; ONE TIME! And then never again. That’s what we’re talking about today, those authors who crushed the assignment so completely that they simply could not touch that record again. We don’t want this to seem like a list of “one-trick ponies”—this is a celebration. Come and have a giggle at how poorly we misremember titles from beloved authors like Harper Lee and JD Salinger. See below for books mentioned!

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Books Mentioned:

The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics by Raina Lipsitz

The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker

Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse

If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffrey

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Bible by God

Babel: Or The Necessity of Violence by RF Kuang

the bell jar by Sylvia Plath

Frankenstein and The Last Man by Mary Shelley

Dracula by Bram Stoker

To Kill A Mockingbird and Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O’Toole

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters by JD Salinger

Ooh, flippin’ ‘eck. It’s gettin’ dark in ‘ere. Today the nerds talk about the dark night of the soul! We discuss the ways in which depressing narratives can secretly be liberating, and we highlight some of our absolute faves. See below for books mentioned.

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Books Mentioned:

Toska by Alina Polyskava

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse

The Eyes of the Impossible by Dave Eggers

Big by Vashti Harrison

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Hellraiser by Clive Barker

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

1984 by George Orwell