Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on A Spiritual, Dangerous Quest in the Himalayas
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Lost in the Valley of Death
Lost in the Valley of Death by Harley Rustad is a gripping true-crime and investigative biography that chronicles the mysterious disappearance of a traveler seeking spiritual enlightenment in the Himalayas.
Recommended“people can read the book but just one quick question about that Legacy when you look back now at his Instagram at his social media presence having researched the book and written the book what strikes you about it now”
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Small Animals
Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear is a compelling nonfiction memoir by Kim Brooks that examines contemporary parenting culture and societal anxieties surrounding raising children.
Discussed“there's a lot of conversation around Foster Parenthood and why kids get taken away and it reminded me of Brooks's small animals which is a memoir that came out a few years ago”
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French Braid
French Braid by Anne Tyler is a richly observed novel that explores the complex dynamics, unspoken tensions, and enduring bonds within a Baltimore family across multiple decades.
Discussed“some of the books that I'm looking forward to or have read in early copies include an Tyler's French braid that's coming out this March from knoff and it's very much an an Tyler classic”
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Life Without Children
Discussed“other ones that are coming out this year include Rody Doyle's short Story collection life without children which looks at the impact of the pandemic on everyday life”
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Our Country Friends
Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart is a pandemic-era novel that follows a group of friends who isolate together in a country house as the world shuts down.
Discussed“like Gary steinard who wrote a pandemic novel our country friends that came out last fall got great reviews”
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They Came Like Swallows
They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell is an exquisite autobiographical novel that captures the profound ripple effects of the 1918 influenza epidemic on a Midwestern family through the shifting perspectives of its members.
Recommended“well I'm going to mention a book that I've mentioned at least four times on this podcast over the years but it is so good which is William Maxwell's they came like swallows which was about the 1918 pandemic specifically about his mother's death”
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Station Eleven
Station Eleven by Emily St.
Discussed“so I inhaled all of station 11 I binged it this is a adaptation of Emily St John Mandel's pandemic novel which actually came out in 2014”
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2666
2666 is a massive, complex novel by Roberto Bolaño that explores a wide range of themes, most famously centering on the unsolved femicides in a fictional Mexican border city.
Discussed“well I'm still reading 2666 by Roberto Balano but it's going slow and I'm not at the femicide section yet”
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Mercy Street
Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh is a compelling novel that explores complex contemporary social issues through the lens of a Boston women's health clinic.
Recommended“I'm reading Mercy Street by Jennifer hag”
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After me comes the flood
After Me Comes the Flood is a mysterious and atmospheric debut novel by British writer Sarah Perry that follows a man who wanders into an isolated English home during a heatwave and becomes entangled in the lives of its eccentric residents.
Recommended“I'm reading after me Comes The Flood by Sarah har”
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Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens stands as a sweeping Victorian masterpiece that examines money, morality, and social pretense in nineteenth-century London through a complex web of intersecting lives.
Recommended“and I read our mutual friend by Charles Dickens”
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Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Harley rustad joins us now from Toronto he is the author of big lonely Doug the story of one of Canada's last great trees”
“and his latest book is called Lost In the Valley of Death a story of obsession and danger in the Himalayas”
“Harley Road's new book is called Lost In the Valley of Death a story of obsession and danger in the Himalayas”
“another one I forgot to mention that was announced recently but won't come out until the fall is Ian mcan's novel can will be publishing that in September and it's titled lessons”
“after she became a bit more welln here for her ensuing novels one of which is called the Essex Serpent and one of which is called melmoth m m o”
“after she became a bit more welln here for her ensuing novels one of which is called the Essex Serpent and one of which is called melmoth m m o”
“I read Great Expectations in high school but I haven't read anything else”
“it was there that I started the habit I think with Bleak House which I read by the fire”
“one is in this book he Dickens I think tries to make amends for the perceived and probably actual anti-Semitism of Oliver Twist which of course he later went back and rewrote Fagan a little bit”