Episode · The Book Review · 2016-01-15
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘City of Thorns’
Gilbert Cruz discussed City of thorns by Ben Rawlence and The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee. Alexandra Alter recommended Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain and others, and discussed Carol by Patricia Highsmith and others, The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff and others, The big short by Michael Lewis, The Martian by Andy Weir, The Revenant by Michael Punke, Room by Emma Donoghue, Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín, and The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. Janice Y.K. Lee discussed The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee. Greg Cowles discussed The guest room by Christopher A. Bohjalian, Star Wars: The Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster, Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, and When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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City of thorns
Discussed“Ben Rollins will be here to talk about his new book city of thorns”
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The Expatriates
Discussed“Janice YK Lee will be here to talk about her new novel The expatriates”
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Carol
Discussed“nominations went to the Danish girl which is based on a novel by David iof and Carol which is based on a Patricia heith novel”
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The Danish Girl
Discussed“nominations went to the Danish girl which is based on a novel by David iof and Carol which is based on a Patricia heith novel”
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The big short
The Big Short by Michael Lewis is a non-fiction book examining the accumulation of risk and the bursting of the housing bubble that led to the 2008 financial crisis.
Discussed“among the nominations are um Brooklyn by col toyin The Big Short by Michael Lewis room by Emma Donahue which is a really sort of chilling novel and a hard one to adapt and the Martian by Andy Weir and the Revenant which is based on U Michael pun's 2002 novel about a frontiersmen that actually picked up 12 nominations”
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The Martian
The Martian by Andy Weir is a hard science fiction novel about an astronaut stranded alone on Mars who must use his engineering ingenuity and scientific knowledge to survive.
Discussed“among the nominations are um Brooklyn by col toyin The Big Short by Michael Lewis room by Emma Donahue which is a really sort of chilling novel and a hard one to adapt and the Martian by Andy Weir and the Revenant which is based on U Michael pun's 2002 novel about a frontiersmen that actually picked up 12 nominations”
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The Revenant
The Revenant by Michael Punke is a gripping historical survival novel inspired by the harrowing true-life ordeal of frontier fur trapper Hugh Glass, who was mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his companions in the American wilderness.
Discussed“among the nominations are um Brooklyn by col toyin The Big Short by Michael Lewis room by Emma Donahue which is a really sort of chilling novel and a hard one to adapt and the Martian by Andy Weir and the Revenant which is based on U Michael pun's 2002 novel about a frontiersmen that actually picked up 12 nominations”
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Room
Why people recommend it: Emma Donoghue's chilling novel portrays a mother and son surviving years of captivity in a single small room, offering a suspenseful and claustrophobic look at trauma and resilience.
Discussed“among the nominations are um Brooklyn by col toyin The Big Short by Michael Lewis room by Emma Donahue which is a really sort of chilling novel and a hard one to adapt and the Martian by Andy Weir and the Revenant which is based on U Michael pun's 2002 novel about a frontiersmen that actually picked up 12 nominations”
Where to get it
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín is a celebrated novel about a young Irish immigrant navigating homesickness, romantic choices, and a dual identity in 1950s New York and her native village.
Discussed“among the nominations are um Brooklyn by col toyin The Big Short by Michael Lewis room by Emma Donahue which is a really sort of chilling novel and a hard one to adapt and the Martian by Andy Weir and the Revenant which is based on U Michael pun's 2002 novel about a frontiersmen that actually picked up 12 nominations”
Where to get it
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The Girl on the Train
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins is a psychological thriller novel that follows an unstable commuter who becomes dangerously entangled in a missing person investigation after observing something suspicious from her train window.
Discussed“some of the ones I'm really looking forward to are Billy Lynn's long halftime walk which is being adapted by angle and that's another book that I loved as well as uh the girl on the train which is based on the hugely best-selling novel by Paula Hawkins”
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain is a satirical novel following a young soldier during a Thanksgiving Day football game home tour after surviving a fierce firefight in Iraq.
Recommended“some of the ones I'm really looking forward to are Billy Lynn's long halftime walk which is being adapted by angle and that's another book that I loved as well as uh the girl on the train which is based on the hugely best-selling novel by Paula Hawkins”
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The Piano Teacher
Discussed“yes I I started my novel in New York and then I finished it to a novel and a half the first one the piano teacher right”
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The guest room
Discussed“Chris boalan returns to the list with uh his new the guest room this is about a Suburban husband”
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Discussed“that is the force awakens the movie novelization by alen Dean Foster it's not actually the first novelization of the force weens to hit the list uh there's been a junior novelization kicking around the middle grade hard cover list”
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Being Mortal
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande is a profound exploration of aging, serious illness, and the limitations of modern medicine in dealing with the end of life.
Discussed“but I did want to quickly point out that um Atul gandes being mortal has returned to the list after falling off for a few weeks”
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When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi is a profound posthumous memoir written by a neurosurgeon facing a terminal cancer diagnosis, exploring mortality, meaning, and the human condition.
Discussed“and I expect death will return to the list again next week when I imagine Paul Ken's book when breath becomes air hits the list yeah that's book that's getting a lot of attention Paul keni of course um the Doctor Who died young”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“if they did make movies based on books it was always the big fantasy series like The Hunger Games books that um obviously that helps sales”
“alen Dean Foster is the same author that George Lucas turned to back in 1976 to ghost write the very first novelization of the Star Wars movies”