Friday Reads: I feel ‘back’
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- Friday Reads: I feel ‘back’
The week in review on my channel:
Novelist Barb Howard and Shawn launch their 2nd annual novella reading project: please join us!: • Novelist Barb Howard a...
Book Haul: • Book Haul
Suzanne Scanlon’s memoir Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen was a transformative read: here’s why: • Suzanne Scanlon’s memo...
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Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):
00:00 Introduction
02:11 Mystery guest
20:13 Week in Review
21:13 Patreon news
23:18 Spring on the Peninsula by Ery Shin
24:01 Blackouts by Justin Torres
26:00 Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen by Suzanne Scanlon
26:51 All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones
30:12 A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton
31:20 Blue Postcards by Douglas Bruton
32:13 Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann
34:50 The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer
35:35 Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
36:46 Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
37:10 Birding by Rose Ruane
Books mentioned:
I Never Met a Rattlesnake I Didn’t Like: a Memoir by David Carpentern
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
The Emotional Wound Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Psychological Trauma by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi
www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
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Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
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Spring on the Peninsula by Ery Shin
www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Blackouts by Justin Torres
www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
Lindy of Lindy's Magpie Reads review of Blackouts starts at 14:05 here: • A Queer & BIPOC author...
Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen by Suzanne Scanlon
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My ‘mystery guest’ chat with Suzanne Scanlon starts at 2:17 here: • Friday Reads: An imme...
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones
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A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton
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Blue Postcards by Douglas Bruton
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My interview with Douglas Bruton: • A chat with British no...
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann
www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer
James Young (Translator)
www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
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Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
Birding by Rose Ruane
www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
This week’s mystery guest, Jaclyn Morken, is so deeply immersed in the face-to-face Saskatoon literary community and her own writing projects that she has no online presence whatsoever.
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Heee's back! Watch out books...
I can’t help chuckling and feeling joyful when you start bailing again 😉 Jaclyn seems like the perfect person to immerse you still further in the Saskatoon literary community!
Loved that your mystery guest was so far out of your comfort zone! Fun!
Love that blouse ❤
Linked dystopian/sci-fi short stories that also have a hopeful element? How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu! And another of Emily St. John Mandel's books, Sea of Tranquility (I also loved Station Eleven). Or The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea by Sara Pinsker is a really good collection of dystopian scifi. I remember them feeling connected, but don't remember for sure.
I hope you enjoy Fire Exit as much as I did! Love your shirt, too.
I agree with your mystery guest. Station Eleven is a fantastic book, and I recommend it highly. I was also disappointed in Blackouts. Thank you for another great video!
Shawn, I can’t wait for you to read Soldier Sailor. I can’t praise it enough 😊 I almost whooped out loud when you lifted it up 🎉
I picked up a copy of Birding this week following your mystery guest discussion with Rose. I can’t wait to dive in.
It’s nice to see you so excited about your reading! I am very much looking forward to starting Blue Postcards in a few days. And I’m on the library waiting list for Morgan Talty’s latest. 📚
So good to see you on a reading high! 🤩
Yayyy
It's interesting to hear why you bail on books--it's something I've only recently given myself permission to do. It's that English major "it must be that I'm too dense to get it" feeling. And you're right, there's a real energy that comes from saying "not for me"!
I am also wondering why Jones has not published anything in 15 years. He has disappeared from the literary scene. Sad and puzzling.
I cant imagine Blackouts working as an audiobook. I really liked it. I buddy read All Aunt Hagar’s Children and found so many to be excellent. Did we buddy read his other collection? My brain isn’t what it used to be. I thought A Son at the Front was good if a bit unusual.
Linked dystopian/sci-fi short stories with a hopeful element:
Five Ways To Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Shawn - I’m always wondering what show/movie your opening clip is from? The older boy reminds me of a Twilight Zone character from an episode in the 1960’s.