Mona Susan Power, Brian Duren, Paul Brannigan, and Lucille Ball walk into a bar... and I review their books: A Council of Dolls, The Gravity of Love, Birth School Metallica Death and Into the Black, and Love, Lucy.

What can you expect? Quick unsolicited book reviews of whatever Michael David MacBride is reading and has enjoyed recently. Typically 3-5 minutes per review, and typically 3-5 reviews per episode.

Michael's webpage: ⁠https://www.michaelmacbride.com/⁠

Links to the books:

David Graeber and David Wengrow, Kate Summerscale, Allie Brosh, Shehan Karunatilaka, and David Macaulay walk into a bar... and I review their books: The Dawn of Everything, The Book of Phobias and Manias, Solutions and Other Problems / Hyperbole and a Half, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Motel of the Mysteries.

What can you expect? Quick unsolicited book reviews of whatever Michael David MacBride is reading and has enjoyed recently. Typically 3-5 minutes per review, and typically 3-5 reviews per episode.

Michael's webpage: ⁠https://www.michaelmacbride.com/⁠

Links to the books:

Anna Wiener, Bill Bryson, Blake J Harris, Edward Powys Mathers, and Dennis Duncan walk into a bar... and I review their books: Uncanny Valley: A Memoir, At Home: A Short History of Private Life, Console Wars, Cain's Jawbone, Dennis Duncan Index, a History of the.

What can you expect? Quick unsolicited book reviews of whatever Michael David MacBride is reading and has enjoyed recently. Typically 3-5 minutes per review, and typically 3-5 reviews per episode.

Michael's webpage: ⁠https://www.michaelmacbride.com/⁠

Links to the books:

Steven Levy, Miguel Cervantes, Peter Wohlleben, Kristal Leebrick, and Michelle Obama walk into a bar... and I review their books: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Don Quixote, The Hidden Life of Trees, Thank You for Shopping: The Golden Age of Minnesota Department Stores, and The Light We Carry.

What can you expect? Quick unsolicited book reviews of whatever Michael David MacBride is reading and has enjoyed recently. Typically 3-5 minutes per review, and typically 3-5 reviews per episode.

Michael's webpage: ⁠https://www.michaelmacbride.com/⁠

Links to the books:

James Bridle, Lucy Cooke, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Donovan Hohn, and Tamar Adler walk into a bar... and I review their books: Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence, Bitch: On the Female of the Species, The Five Wounds, Moby-Duck : the true story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea, and of the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists, and fools-- including the author-- who went in search of them, and The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A-Z.

What can you expect? Quick unsolicited book reviews of whatever Michael David MacBride is reading and has enjoyed recently. Typically 3-5 minutes per review, and typically 3-5 reviews per episode.

Michael's webpage: ⁠https://www.michaelmacbride.com/⁠

Links to the books:

Bono, Cody Cassidy, Dana Spiotta, James Spooner, and Manuel Gonzales walk into a bar... and I review their books: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, Who Ate the First Oyster?, Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview, The High Desert, and The Miniature Wife: And Other Stories.

What can you expect? Quick unsolicited book reviews of whatever Michael David MacBride is reading and has enjoyed recently. Typically 3-5 minutes per review, and typically 3-5 reviews per episode.

Michael's webpage: ⁠https://www.michaelmacbride.com/⁠

Links to the books:

Year end review. Year in review? Either way? Both ways. These are the reviews of my favorite books that I read in 2023.

Michael's webpage: ⁠https://www.michaelmacbride.com/⁠

Quentin Tarantino, Iain Gately, Vidya Krishnan, Alexandra Lange, and Brian Cook walk into a bar... and I review their books: Cinema Speculation, Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol, Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History, Meet Me by the Fountain, and Butts on things.

What can you expect? Quick unsolicited book reviews of whatever Michael David MacBride is reading and has enjoyed recently. Typically 3-5 minutes per review, and typically 3-5 reviews per episode.

Michael's webpage: ⁠https://www.michaelmacbride.com/⁠

Links to the books:

Email bag, Q&A, including the "Unsolicited Book Review" song in its entirety

No book reviews for this "very special" episode. But, I just wanted to answer the three questions I got in my inbox:

I answer them in reverse order, and then play the song in its entirety.

Connect with me at http://www.michaelmacbride.com or via social media.

Thanks for listening!

Sinéad O'Connor, Robert F. Bruner, Sean D. Carr, T. Colin Campbell, Steve Stewart-Williams, and Shannon Chakraborty walk into a bar... and I review their books: Rememberings, The Panic of 1907 (2nd Edition), The Future of Nutrition, The Ape That Understood the Universe, and The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi.

What can you expect? Quick unsolicited book reviews of whatever Michael David MacBride is reading and has enjoyed recently. Typically 3-5 minutes per review, and typically 3-5 reviews per episode.

Michael's webpage: ⁠https://www.michaelmacbride.com/⁠

Links to the books: