Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on David Sedaris’s Diaries and Paul McCartney’s Songs
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Princess Diarist
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher is a candid and reflective memoir compiling the late actress and writer's personal journals from her time filming the original Star Wars trilogy.
Critiqued“like I really liked Carri Fischer right I thought Carrie Fisher was really funny and I I enjoyed books and then she had that book where it was The Princess Diaries and she had her Diaries from when she was working on Star Wars”
Where to get it
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Middlemarch
Middlemarch by George Eliot is widely regarded as a masterwork of Victorian literature, brilliantly capturing the complex social fabric, political undercurrents, and psychological depths of provincial English life.
Recommended“I'm reading Middle March by George Elliot”
Where to get it
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Daniel Deronda
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot is a sweeping Victorian novel that explores complex themes of identity, morality, and cultural heritage through the lives of its diverse characters.
Recommended“I am a huge fan although you know you're avoiding the elephant in the room which is that I did tell you to read Daniel D first and you ignored me”
Where to get it
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Less
Less by Andrew Sean Greer is a comedic and deeply moving Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that follows a middle-aged writer named Arthur Less as he embarks on a chaotic, globe-trotting journey to avoid an ex-boyfriend's wedding.
Recommended“I'm reading less by Andrew Shan Greer”
Where to get it
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The Corrections
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen is a sweeping, critically acclaimed novel that explores the complex dynamics of an American family at the turn of the twenty-first century, ultimately propelling the author to massive mainstream prominence.
Recommended“and I read the corrections by Jonathan Franzen”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (10) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and Paul C had already done a book with Bob while he' done U blackbird singing some of his poems”
“I'd done a book for livite which was an introduction to a new edition of the Wasteland which of course had originally been published by Horus livite”
“it's like for me there's a part that's like the battlefield scene of War and Peace where at least I don't know maybe for some readers that's very exciting for me”
“it's like for me there's a part that's like the battlefield scene of War and Peace where at least I don't know maybe for some readers that's very exciting for me”
“You may remember that the last time I was here I talked about Amore tls's novel a gentleman in Moscow and in some ways this is a really perfect book to follow that one”
“and there's a sequel to this book Les is lost that is coming out I I believe this fall”
“which is of course something that David Foster Wallace very deliberately did with infinite Jess”
“I I really do like friends and I liked the corrections I liked freedom”
“I may not have read more than those and Crossroads but I like cross roads less than the corrections are Freedom”
“and of course fransen's new Trilogy is is titled after something in Middle March so we're connecting Dots here”