Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on A Class in ‘Dreyer’s English’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Landfall
Discussed“Thomas melon joins us appropriately from Washington to discuss his latest no landfall”
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Miss Thistlebottom's hobgoblins
Miss Thistlebottom's hobgoblins by Theodore Menline Bernstein is a celebrated and witty guide to English usage, style, and the persistent myths and misconceptions that trouble writers.
Recommended“I Like Woe Is I and I love a book by Theodore Bernstein called Miss thistle Bottom's hob goblins which is really one of the best books about being in the trenches with writing”
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Woe is I
Woe is I by Patricia T.
Recommended“I Like Woe Is I and I love a book by Theodore Bernstein called Miss thistle Bottom's hob goblins”
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Henry and Clara
Discussed“I actually found that to be the opposite If Only from a reader's point of view because the further you go back the less the reader knows as well as the writer knows and in some ways I found it easier to write about the Civil War in an old novel of mine called Henry and clar”
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Dewey defeats Truman
Discussed“that was the novel I wrote before Dewey defeats Truman which was set in the late 40s and I didn't have any living memory of the Truman years”
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Merchants of Truth
Discussed“and then last week we had the question surrounding Joel abramson's book Merchant of Truth”
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La mujer en la ventana / The Woman in the Window
La mujer en la ventana, known in English as The Woman in the Window, is a gripping psychological thriller by A.J.
Discussed“and then this week I was looking at new questions about Dan mallerie who is the author of the bestselling Thriller the woman in the window”
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The Nun. by Diderot. Translated from the French. ... of 2; Volume 1
The Nun by Denis Diderot is an 18th-century epistolary novel that chronicles the harrowing experiences of a young woman forced into a convent against her will.
Recommended“I'm reading a novel called the nun from a very long time ago by Deni dito the philosopher novelist art critic maybe most famously encyclopedist”
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The Unwinding of the Miracle
The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams is a deeply moving memoir written by a woman who faced a terminal cancer diagnosis with extraordinary grace and introspection.
Recommended“so I'm reading a cancer Memoir called the unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip Williams”
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Master of the Senate
Master of the Senate by Robert A.
Discussed“my main book is Robert Caro's master the Senate which is the third volume in his LBJ biography”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Landfall
“all right well a trip back to the early a with landfall by Thomas Malon”