Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘H Is for Hawk’
Pamela Paul recommended H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, and discussed Funny Girl by Nick Hornby. Carl Segel discussed Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee and What Pet Should I Get? by Dr. Seuss. Greg Cowles discussed Holy Cow by David Duchovny, A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler, and Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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H Is for Hawk
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald is a critically acclaimed memoir that chronicles the author's harrowing journey through grief following the sudden death of her father, which she processes by training a notoriously aggressive goshawk.
Recommended“Vicky Constantine croak will tell us about Helen McDonald's H is for Hawk a memoir which she reviews this week on our cover there's nothing clich in this book whatsoever”
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Funny Girl
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby is a humorous novel exploring the world of British television and comedy during the 1960s.
Discussed“John Williams will be here to discuss his review of funny girl and this is a book I think where he's looking back at a time where he either remembers or was living right around when these sort of purely comic and slightly more traditional writers were doing these shows and it's a bit of a valentine to them”
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Go Set A Watchman
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee is a novel written before To Kill a Mockingbird that follows an adult Scout returning to Maycomb, Alabama, and confronting her aging father's complex racial views.
Discussed“so the big news has been the discovery of a long lost manuscript by Harper Lee right um this ghost set of Watchmen which is coming out in July and it turns out it now has competition”
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What Pet Should I Get?
What Pet Should I Get? is a posthumously discovered and published children's picture book by the legendary author Dr.
Discussed“because there's another long lost manuscript on the scene and that's what pet should I get by who else Dr Seuss”
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Holy Cow
Discussed“well a whole lot of fiction and not a whole lot of non-fiction this week um we have six new titles on the hard cover fiction side of things um starting down at number 16 a book a debut novel called holy cow by David dukov of fox Moulder Fame”
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A Spool of Blue Thread
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler is a rich, domestic novel that traces the multi-generational dynamics, quiet triumphs, and hidden tensions within an ordinary family rooted in Baltimore.
Discussed“then at number four an Tyler is back on the list with her 20th novel um again set in Baltimore again a family kind of a domestic uh story that's a spool of blue thread”
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Sapiens
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari is an expansive exploration of how Homo sapiens evolved, dominated the planet, and constructed complex societies through shared myths and imagined realities.
Discussed“in non-fiction there are just two new books um one of them new at number six is by a guy named Yuval Noah Harari h a r a r i that book is called sapiens and it's um kind of a a pop science book”
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Other mentions in this episode (10) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“she had always been fascinated by them partly through the work of th white Sword and the stone and partly because she was interested again in this belong”
“it features the same brother and sister uh featured in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish and the book uh sort of follows them as they look for the newest addition”
“Hornby of course is known uh for weaving lots of music into his books um in particular High Fidelity and um About a Boy about the uh post one hit wonder life”
“Hornby of course is known uh for weaving lots of music into his books um in particular High Fidelity and um About a Boy about the uh post one hit wonder life”
“he writes screenplays for other people including most recently um wild which was Cheryl str's Memoir turned into a big movie with Reese Witherspoon”
“that was John Williams who reviews Nick hornby's new novel funny girl this week in the book revieww”
“and number 11 James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell finish their religious fantasy Trilogy the order of the sanguins trilogy uh that book is called blood infernal”
“uh at number seven Jonathan Kellerman has a new um Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis novel called motive”
“and finally um on the fiction side of things JD Rob who of course is really Nora Roberts doing her futuristic paranormal um investigating series the in series so Nora Roberts as JD Rob has a new book called Obsession in death new it number three”
“and then uh at number three David Axelrod of course the Obama advisor and uh White House consiliary has a book called believer uh new at number three and that was reviewed last week in our Pages by David ggen”