Episode · The Book Review · 2024-06-28
Books mentioned on Book Club: 'Headshot,' by Rita Bullwinkel
MJ Franklin discussed To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, and read Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel and The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith for a book club. Lauren Christensen recommended The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka, and discussed Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Joumana Khatib recommended Mythologies by Roland Barthes.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Headshot
Book club“and for this month's book club we're talking about Rita bowinkle's new novel headshot”
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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.
Discussed“and I think we've all all three of us have read um Chang gang Allstars by Nana kuame AJ Ena I think that book too had had a real to use the word again a kinetic quality”
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To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is a modernist novel exploring themes of art, time, family, and the human condition through the experiences of the Ramsay family.
Discussed“it made me think of Virginia wolf into the lighthouse which I feel feels like Galaxy brain number one I mentioned how much I loved um till lighthouse in the last book club episode”
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Little Women
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is a beloved classic novel that chronicles the lives, struggles, and personal growth of the four March sisters in nineteenth-century New England.
Discussed“and then the other one is Little Women which I think is another book about a series of very different girls with individual philosophies trying to find success on their own terms”
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The Swimmers
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka is a poignant novel that centers on an eclectic community of regular swimmers who frequent a subterranean municipal pool, before shifting into a deeply moving and powerful narrative about a specific mother and daughter.
Recommended“mine is a swimmers by juliao which came out a couple years ago it's a just it's a book about this community of Swimmers at a community pool”
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Mythologies
Mythologies is a renowned collection of essays by French semiotician and philosopher Roland Barthes that deconstructs modern cultural myths and everyday signs.
Recommended“rolon Bart you guys I'm not yeah guys yeah yeah Challengers so that is actually the opening essay in his collection mythologies which is good”
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Invisible Man
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is a landmark twentieth-century American novel that explores the complex themes of identity, race, and societal invisibility through the eyes of an unnamed Black narrator moving from the American South to Harlem.
Discussed“and then that scene calls back a scene from The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison where again there's boxing and I think what the floor is electrified or something”
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Talented Mr.
Book club“in July we'll be discussing The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia heith just wanted to have a fun Thriller for the summer as they say”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and then I was thinking of Katie kimura's debut which is called the long shot I think that's actually about an MMA fighter who's been out of the ring for but you know functionally it's the same Vibe I have never read that but I read a separation and I've read intimacies”