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My Ántonia
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Which is will cather's my Antonia it came out in 1918 over a hundred years ago but it feels like it could have been written last year.
Why people recommend it
Willa Cather's classic novel My Ántonia portrays life on the Nebraska frontier through the perspective of an immigrant family and their neighbors. On The Book Review, Greg Cowles discussed reading and enjoying the novel for the first time, noting that although it was published in 1918, it felt remarkably contemporary. In another episode of The Book Review, Alex Ross discussed the novel alongside O Pioneers!, noting Willa Cather's fondness for powerful female figures and Wagnerian tropes reminiscent of Brunhilda. Greg Cowles also mentioned starting the book as a potential new reading journey. Meanwhile, the host and a guest on The Jordan Harbinger Show referenced various memoirs, personal survival stories, and accounts of individuals navigating radical Islam, discussing how outside readers perceive these struggles either as a fairy tale existence or as a continuous battle against submission. Another segment mentioned a child abuse investigator reading the prologue of a guest's book regarding a true crime case. Across these diverse conversations, readers continually return to Cather's timeless portrait of the American prairie, reflecting on its enduring literary resonance, its striking emotional power, and the profound depth of its frontier characters, which together cement its status as an enduring masterwork of American fiction that captivates new generations of critics and casual readers alike.
Every mention
Greg Cowles which is will cather's my Antonia it came out in 1918 over a hundred years ago but it feels like it could h… 2
“which is will cather's my Antonia it came out in 1918 over a hundred years ago but it feels like it could have been written last year”
“I'm in the very early stages of reading will Cather for the first time my Antonia and I've never read any will cther before and this might be the next book”
Alex Ross and O pioneers and and my Antonia you can sort of see her fondness for the figure of Brun Hilda especially… 1
“and O pioneers and and my Antonia you can sort of see her fondness for the figure of Brun Hilda especially vogner's powerful female figures”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker4
“That was to show that people read my book and think, 'Oh my gosh, I can’t believe things are so horrible,' when so many from Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen read my book and think I lived a fairy tale existence.”
“I’ve discussed in my book how my mom would actually name my friends, saying things like, 'Are you prepared to kill Tiffany when the caliphate rises?'”
“So the definition of the word Islam is to submit, and my whole life, because you've read my book, you know this, it's a series of me trying to stand up and getting swatted down, and then standing up again and getting swatted down, standing up again and getting swatted down.”
“One of my friends, Dave Grice, from Small Town Dicks, who was a child abuse investigator for 10 years, read the prologue to my book where I talk about Carla Walker and Jumbos.”
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Other mentions (14: passing, ad reads, own books)
“We we're reading Willa Cather's Myia now. It's great.”
“Yeah, but I wonder if he’s coming across my book because he’s quoted a lot in it!”
“There's plenty out there, but in my book, these are probably the three best, I think.”
“As I noted in my book, we might understand reality about as well as a dog understands a TV screen; we have no concept of the mechanisms that produce the images in front of us.”
“So this is much of what my book is about. There was a clash within W State that got really hot in the '90s, where you had one figure with one leader trying to pull it in the opposite direction, saying, 'Hey, let's actually make friends with America and wind down the drug trade.”
“I mean, it's recognizable to Asian drug users as the Nike Swoosh, as I say in my book. I don't know exactly what the 'WY' is all about, but I do know this: Originally, in the middle of the last century, aetam tablets were sold here, and they were sold by Burroughs Welcome, a huge pharmaceutical company.”
“It's not going to work out, but it did work out, and that's kind of what I want to put across in my book. This is a serious nation-state; you might want to take it seriously.”
“However, step by step, I began to see things differently, which I describe in my book. There's a chapter called 'The Red Beret'; every kid wants one because it symbolizes prestige.”
“In my first book, I argue that for a time, that wasn't the case at the DOJ. We should base our assessment on the process itself, not just the results.”
“Okay, I just want to snapshot that quote and put it on my LinkedIn and the back of my book. When is your autobiography coming out?”
“I think standards are more important than goals because I teach in my book how to set the standards that will help you achieve those goals. In essence, we really don't want the jet, the hit song, the amazing relationship, or the million dollars.”
“Most of us have an emotional home with three, four, or five emotions we experience regularly, which I write about in my book. Regardless of what happens, we find a way to experience those emotions.”
“Let me say one thing to everybody: your book that's out right now, my book, podcasts, those are in extreme proximity to you. They're literally in your ear; they're in your visual awareness.”
“Well, that was really what ultimately emerged as a primary message of my book.”