Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Fates and Furies’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Fates and Furies
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff is a structurally ambitious novel that examines a long marriage through the sharply contrasting perspectives of both partners.
Discussed“she is the author of two novels previously the monsters of Templeton and Arcadia and a Story collection delicate edible birds and she now has a new book Fates and Furies getting a lot of attention and reviewed this week on our cover”
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Arcadia
Discussed“so I was writing this book while I was writing Arcadia which is my previous novel and I am fascinated by communities and Aradia was about this Utopian community and I thought what could be the smallest community on the planet”
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Gone Girl
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is a psychological thriller novel centering on the turbulent marriage and sudden disappearance of Amy Dunne, told through deceptive alternating perspectives.
Discussed“well one thing I think uh is not a big giveaway uh because it's so fundamental to the book is is the structure which I think you know in an odd way um is similar to Gone Girl”
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Mr. Bridge
Mr.
Recommended“uh because I I've been influenced by jeene gardam who is amazing and she's not as well known as she should be uh and evanes Connell who wrote Mr bridge and Mrs Bridge the these are extraordinary books that I would urge everybody to read”
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Mrs. Bridge
Mrs.
Recommended“uh because I I've been influenced by jeene gardam who is amazing and she's not as well known as she should be uh and evanes Connell who wrote Mr bridge and Mrs Bridge the these are extraordinary books that I would urge everybody to read”
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Knowing your value
Discussed“um although there were some practical answers and Janette Lao answered knowing your value by Ma brazinski it changed the way I worked including how I advise my clients on how they create their brand”
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Working
Working by Studs Terkel is a celebrated nonfiction book composed of extensive interviews with a wide array of American workers regarding their daily occupations and personal feelings about their labor.
Discussed“we had one answer on Facebook uh that I thought was interesting because I expected more people to say it which is Cleaves who answered stud Turles working which is the sort of oral history of people talking about life on their jobs”
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Other mentions in this episode (14) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Arcadia
“she is the author of two novels previously the monsters of Templeton and Arcadia and a Story collection delicate edible birds and she now has a new book Fates and Furies getting a lot of attention and reviewed this week on our cover”
Passing Delicate Edible Birds
“she is the author of two novels previously the monsters of Templeton and Arcadia and a Story collection delicate edible birds and she now has a new book Fates and Furies getting a lot of attention and reviewed this week on our cover”
Passing The monsters of Templeton
“she is the author of two novels previously the monsters of Templeton and Arcadia and a Story collection delicate edible birds and she now has a new book Fates and Furies getting a lot of attention and reviewed this week on our cover”
Passing The Girl in the Spider's Web
“the latest book in that series uh is called the girl in The Spiders web was reviewed in our cover of course by the child child”
Passing Go Set A Watchman
“there was Harper Le's go a Watchman and eel James Gray”
Passing Grey
“there was Harper Le's go a Watchman and eel James Gray”
Passing Dismantling Utopia
“so I wrote a book on the Soviet collapse that was published in '94 called dismantling Utopia”
Passing Dark Ghost
“starting down at number 11 Christine fan continues her dark series uh paranormal romance about a species called the carpathians with a book called Dark ghost”
Passing The Solomon Curse
“then at number nine Clive kusler and his co-writer Russell Blake also continuous Series this is the Fargo Adventure series um with a book called The Solomon curse”
Passing Undercover
“then at number eight Danielle Steel with a standalone book uh called undercover a romantic suspense novel”
“up at number four more series action uh from Czech wendig continuing the Star Wars series with a book called Star Wars aftermath”
Passing Relentless strike
“down at number 12 sha naor has a book called Relentless strike that looks at the Joint Special Operations Command uh which takes on the war on terror”
Passing Sisters in Law
“then at number 11 Linda hman has written about Sandra Deo Conor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the first women on the Supreme Court a book called sisters in law”
Passing Endzone
“then up at number six John U bacon the sports journalist uh has written a book about the Michigan Wolverines college football program called Endzone”