Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Diana Goetsch on ‘This Body I Wore’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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This Body I Wore
Discussed“the book again is a memoir titled this body I wore by by Diana getch Diana thanks so much for being here to talk about it”
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Family of Origin
Discussed“I am a novelist and I was doing research for my last novel which had a bunch of crazed scientists who were studying a duck to prove that the world was ending and so I went to study whooping cranes as part of research for that book”
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High Fidelity
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby is a widely recognized breakup novel published in 1995 that explores romance, music obsession, and personal growth through the lens of a struggling record store owner.
Discussed“I was reminded of a line in Nick hornby's High Fidelity something about how if someone's favorite things you know them their favorite movies their favorite music”
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Harry Sylvester Bird
Discussed“one of them which is just out is Harry Sylvester Bird by Chinelo oara and this is her second novel her third book and her first really overt satire I would say”
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Otherbound
Discussed“one of them which is just out is Harry Sylvester Bird by Chinelo oara and this is her second novel her third book and her first really overt satire I would say”
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The Last White Man
Discussed“so that was one of the books that I wrote about another that's coming out soon called the last white man is also very overtly about racial identity”
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Exit West
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid is a contemporary magical realist novel that explores migration, refugees, and global upheaval through the lens of a couple fleeing a war-torn country.
Discussed“his last novel exit West was about the refugee crisis and migration um particularly migration from countries in the Middle East and Asia where war and extremism has been a problem”
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha is a historical fiction novel by Arthur Golden that chronicles the life of a Japanese woman who rises from poverty to become a celebrated geisha in Kyoto before and during World War Two.
Discussed“in 's case she started thinking about it several years ago when she was teaching a class at Colombia a writing class and they were talking about the issue of cultural appropriation in novels like William styron's the confession of Nat Turner or in Memoirs of AA books where white writers had tried to write about someone from another background”
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
Discussed“in 's case she started thinking about it several years ago when she was teaching a class at Colombia a writing class and they were talking about the issue of cultural appropriation in novels like William styron's the confession of Nat Turner or in Memoirs of AA books where white writers had tried to write about someone from another background”
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin is a contemporary novel following the decades-long creative and personal partnership of two friends who achieve massive success as video game designers.
Discussed“I read tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zan”
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Klara and the Sun: A GMA Book Club Pick
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro is a thought-provoking dystopian novel that explores the nature of artificial intelligence, companionship, and humanity through the eyes of an engineered solar-powered friend.
Recommended“and I'll kind of spare all the details but I think I just basically love this book for a lot of the same reasons that I loved a very different story but Kazo ishiguro Clara and the sun I think these are two writers who are just pure storytellers”
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Klara and the Sun
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro is a dystopian novel narrated by an artificial intelligence companion who observes human society and reflects on the nature of love and loneliness.
Recommended“and I'll kind of spare all the details but I think I just basically love this book for a lot of the same reasons that I loved a very different story but Kazo ishiguro Clara and the sun I think these are two writers who are just pure storytellers”
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The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt is a critically acclaimed and inventive novel that follows a single mother raising a precocious young boy in Tokyo as he becomes obsessed with Akira Kurosawa's film.
Discussed“well there is still a threat of a severe illness in this book that I'm reading and dedicated listeners of the book review podcast will remember that I am reading tremendously out ofd books between the secret history and The Last Samurai”
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The Secret History
The Secret History by Donna Tartt is a gripping psychological thriller that follows a tightly knit group of classics students at an elite Vermont college who become morally corrupted after committing murder.
Discussed“well there is still a threat of a severe illness in this book that I'm reading and dedicated listeners of the book review podcast will remember that I am reading tremendously out ofd books between the secret history and The Last Samurai”
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Mating
Mating by Norman Rush is a sprawling, intellectually ambitious novel following a brilliant female American anthropologist in Botswana as she navigates an intellectual and romantic entanglement with a utopian community leader.
Discussed“I'm reading mating by Norman rush”
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Norwood
Norwood by Charles Portis is a humorous and idiosyncratic road novel about an ex-marine from Texas who gets pulled into a peculiar journey up to New York City.
Discussed“and I'm reading Norwood by Charles pis”
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True Grit
Charles Portis's classic novel True Grit is a celebrated adventure story following young Mattie Ross as she hires a hardened U.S.
Recommended“and I would highly urge people if you want to start with True Grit you can it's the obvious one and it's kind of a perfect book in its way”
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The Dog of the South
The Dog of the South by Charles Portis is a brilliantly eccentric and darkly humorous comic novel that follows a deadpan protagonist on a bizarre road trip across America in pursuit of his runaway wife and her scheming lover.
Recommended“True Grit is fantastic the dog of the South is a comic novel that's really funny”
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