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Bookrageous Episode 8: Our Literary Lovefest

2010 at 6pm     Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Josh, Jenn, and I finally got the old gang together to chat about, well, pretty much everything we love about books. This is the opposite of last week’s Ranty McRanterson whinefest, and it just feels so right. So behold. Enjoy. Join Team Bookrageous in being thankful for having so freaking many good books to love.

Seriously. As Jenn said, we talked about a “floppity jillion” books in this one, so the show notes are long, but hey, we’re making the whole holiday-wish-list thing easy for you. And if you prefer ye old iTunes, just clickity here to subscribe.


Super long show notes with links to EVERY LAST BOOK we discuss after the jump. 

Bookrageous Episode 8; Our Literary Lovefest

Intro Music; The Power of Love – Huey Lewis and the News

What We’re Reading

Rebecca

[1:10] Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

[2:00] Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor

Jenn

[3:34] Instant Love by Jami Attenberg

[4:40] Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake and Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord by Sarah MacLean

[5:51] Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie

Josh

[6:11] 500 Essential Cult Books by Gina McKinnon

[6:55] Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre

[8:07] The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson

[8:39] SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas

[9:50] Knuckle Supper by Drew Stepek

Jenn Interrupts

[10:50] Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein

Back to Josh

[12:54] I Found This Funny edited by Judd Apatow

[13:40] The Foremost Good Fortune by Susan Conley

[13:48] Father of the Rain by Lily King

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Break Music; Love Power – Lorenzo St. DuBois (From Mel Brooks’ The Producers)

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Literary Group Hug

[16:25] Book within a book, story within a story

[16:35] Hamlet by William Shakespeare

[16:47] Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross

[17:30] Kilgore Trout a.k.a Kurt Vonnegut

[17:37] A Widow For One Year by John Irving

[18:00] The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

[19:13] Watchmen by Alan Moore

[19:27] Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

[19:38] House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski

[20:17] Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

[20:26] Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer

[20:56] Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz

[21:38] Newspaper Blackout by Austin Kleon

[21:50] An Unconventional Structure

[22:18] The Interrogative Mood by Pagett Powell

[22:50] How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

[24:33] A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

[24:55] Day for Night by Frederick Reiken

[25:13] Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross

[25:30] Linked Story Sets

[25:44] Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. LeGuin

[26:02] A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

[26:04] Instant Love by Jami Attenberg

[26:10] Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

[26:25] Doctor Olaf Van Schuler’s Brain by Kirsten Menger-Anderson

[27:33] What Will the World Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura Van Den Berg

[29:18] Mattaponi Queen by Belle Boggs

[29:42] Nonfiction that makes the ordinary extraordinary

[29:58] Mark Kurlansky

[30:20] Ok by Allan Metcalf

[30:32] Mary Roach

[30:52] A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage

[31:16] Narrative Nonfiction

[31:26] The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

[32:02] The Lost City of Z by David Grann

[33:16] Charlatan by Pope Brock

[33:52] Cranioklepty by Colin Dickey

[34:16] Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson

[35:08] The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

[35:15] Flawless by Scott Andrew Selby; Greg Campbell

[36:01] Well-Choreographed Action

[36:30] Parker by Darwyn Cooke

[37:20] The Passage by Justin Cronin

[37:32] The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway

[37:49] The Fall by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan

[38:37] The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan

[38:42] Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

[39:35] Characters in Crisis

[39:53] Dystopias and the Paranormal

[40:35] Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow

[41:35] World War Z by Max Brooks

[42:29] The Passage by Justin Cronin

[44:00] Strong World-Building

[45:08] The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

[45:52] China Mieville

[46:27] The Magicians by Lev Grossman

[46:55] The City and the City by China Mieville

[47:53] Liberation by Brian Francis Slattery

[48:41] Spaceman Blues by Brian Francis Slattery

[49:03] Dragonlance by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

[50:30] Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

[51:33] The Good Twist Ending/Reframing

[51:54] The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

[53:00] The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway

[54:08] Oryx and Crake; The Year of the Flood

[55:58] The Bookrageous Calendar

[56:31] First Book FTW

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Outro Music; The Power of Love – Huey Lewis and the News

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