Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Book Bans and What to Read in May
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Hate U Give
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas is a powerful young adult contemporary novel that follows a teenage girl grappling with the fatal police shooting of her childhood best friend.
Discussed“that is a theme that seems to be coming up time and time again in these efforts to remove books from schools and you see books like Angie Thomas's the hate you give which deals very bluntly with police brutality and police violence”
Where to get it
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All Boys Aren't Blue
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M.
Discussed“one of the most BN books for the past two years has been all boys aren't Blue by George Johnson which is about the author's experience growing up black and queer”
Where to get it
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Chain Gang All Stars
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is a gripping futuristic dystopian novel that explores institutionalized violence and the American prison-industrial complex through a high-stakes gladiatorial combat program.
Recommended“so one novel I'll talk about today is Nana kuame AJ br's debut called Chain Gang All Stars”
Where to get it
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Quietly Hostile
Quietly Hostile is an essay collection by Samantha Irby that offers readers a humorous and relatable look at contemporary life through the author's signature witty perspective.
Recommended“so uh Samantha irvy who is a hysterical essayist has a new book coming out called quietly hostile”
Where to get it
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Yellowface
Yellowface by R.
Recommended“yeah yeah we could call it capital S satire called it's called yellow face by RF Quang this writer”
Where to get it
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The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese is an expansive, multigenerational epic novel set in Kerala, India, following a family afflicted by a peculiar affliction where at least one person in every generation dies by drowning.
Recommended“so out now out this week in addition to chain gang Allstars is the new book by Abraham F gazy”
Where to get it
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the Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks is a sweeping contemporary novel that offers a fictionalized, behind-the-scenes look into the chaotic production of a multi-million-dollar Hollywood blockbuster.
Recommended“this new Tom Hanks book is a novel it's titled the making of another Motion Picture Masterpiece and it's a fictional accounts of a Hollywood Blockbuster production which I reckon is something he knows a little about”
Where to get it
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The Guest
The Guest by Emma Cline is a contemporary novel that follows a troubled young woman navigating the elite and often unforgiving social landscape of the Hamptons.
Recommended“and out May 9th is the guest by Emma Klein and you may know Emma from her book the girls which was an account of a group of women and a Charles mans Andes cult this one is about a somewhat troubled young woman who after getting kicked out out of her Lover's house in the Hamptons finds herself at”
Where to get it
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How to End a Story
How to End a Story by Helen Garner is the final, deeply intimate volume of diaries by the celebrated Australian author, chronicling the painful dissolution of a significant relationship.
Recommended“so one book that I just finished is the last volume of Diaries by an Australian novelist named Helen Garner... this last volume it's called how to end a story”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“last week the novelist Elanor katten joined us to talk about her book Burnham Wood a thriller set New Zealand”
“and before that we had the New Yorker journalist David Gran who told us about what it was like to write his latest book The Wager a tale of 18th century British Sailors who shipwreck in Mutiny on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia”
“her last book came out in 2020 it was called wow no thank you”
“she's the author of a best-selling fantasy series called the poppy War”
“he's a doctor and novelist whose debut novel cutting for stone was kind of a sensation when it came out in 2009”
“so Cronin is the author behind a Trilogy of books about a Vampire post-apocalypse the first book the passage from 2010 in particular is quite good”
“Thomas Hanks has a followup to his 2018 collection of short stories which was called uncommon type”
“and out May 9th is the guest by Emma Klein and you may know Emma from her book the girls which was an account of a group of women and a Charles mans Andes cult”