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Bookrageous Podcast Episode 7: Literary Pet Peeves
2010 at 2pm Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky
After a few rounds of scheduling issues and technical snafus, we at the Bookrageous dirigible (don’t you just love that word?) are rolling out the snarkiest episode yet. Check it, and be sure to subscribe on Tumblr, PodBean, and iTunes so you don’t miss any of the action.
Show notes and links to every book we discuss after the jump.
Show Notes:
Special note; Technical issues abound! Sorry about the spotty sound quality in this episode.
Episode 7; Literary Pet Peeves
Intro Music; The Bump – The Haggis Horns
What We’re Reading
Jenn
[1:10] Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III
[2:40] The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
3:20 In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Rebecca
[4:40] Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind: A Bestseller’s Oddyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood by Ellen Brown, John Wiley
[7:00] You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know by Heather Sellers
Michele
[7:58] Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
[10:00] Other People We Married by Emma Straub
[10:49] Best American Short Stories 2010, edited by Richard Russo
[11:33] The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak
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Break Music; Somebody Hates Me – Reel Big Fish
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Literary Pet Peeves
[12:45] Nicholas Sparks Is Not A Romance Writer
[15:20] Formulas For Success Failure
[16:14] The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
[17:00] John Irving-gasm
[18:04] Keep Your Author-Self Out of My Fiction
[18:25] Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel
[18:47] The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
[19:12] The Book of Laughter & Forgetting by Milan Kundera
[19:42] The Internet Says: No Wish Fulfillment Please
[20:05] Authors Writing Writers
[21:26] If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
[22:08] The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
[22:26] Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston
[22:39] raych & books i done read
[23:02] Bad Sex Writing in a Literary Novel
[23:26] Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
[24:20] Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
[25:06] Emily Pullen Hates Die-Cut Covers
[25:19] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
[26:03] Rebecca’s Husband Hates Misleading Jacket Blurbs
[27:15] Books That Are Too Long
[27:22] The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
[28:33] Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
[28:40] Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
[28:45] The Passage by Justin Cronin
[29:35] TWIST ENDINGS ZOMG
[30:49] Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
[31:31] Life of Pi by Yann Martel
[33:01] The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha
[34:30] The Internet Hates: Dream Sequences; Cover Tropes
[36:10] Liar by Justine Larbalestier
[39:10] The Nobodies Album by Caroline Parkhurst
[39:31] Precocious Child Narrators
[40:40] Room by Emma Donoghue
[41:00] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
[41:23] The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Find Us Online: Rebecca, Jenn, Michele Filgate
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Outro Music; The Bump – The Haggis Horns
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