Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Love and Lies’
Gilbert Cruz discussed Love and Lies by Clancy Martin and The test by Anya Kamenetz. Alexandra Alter discussed To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee. Greg Cowles discussed Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges and Pioneer girl by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Love and Lies
Discussed“this is the question Clancy Martin poses in his new book and Adele Waldman joins us to talk about her review of love and lies”
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird explores themes of racial injustice, moral growth, and empathy in the American South through the eyes of young Scout Finch.
Discussed“I mean the excitement is I've never seen sort of excitement like this of a novel this you know as you know tequilla Mockingbird was haror Le's only book and it's still a classic that everyone reads it's sold more than 40 million copies”
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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“and now the title is go set a watch um but basically this was her first attempt to tell the story of adus Finch”
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The test
Discussed“and this week reviews a book called The Test why our schools are obsessed with standardized testing but you don't have to be by Ana kenet”
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges is a definitive biography detailing the life, brilliant mathematical achievements, and tragic persecution of the pioneering computer scientist who cracked the Enigma code during the Second World War.
Discussed“her name is Vicky Kar and the book is Allan Turing the Enigma”
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Pioneer girl
Discussed“it's a book called Pioneer Girl by Laura Engles Wilder who of course wrote The Little House on the Prairie books”
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Other mentions in this episode (18) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and you are also I should say the author of the novel The love affairs of Nathaniel P which came out two years ago yeah about two years ago”
“he also published a novel in 2009 called how to sell and he he writes for various um Publications”
“you know it's connected to te Killa Mockingbird there's overlapping characters and themes”
“and that was essentially how we got to Kill Mockingbird”
“she is the author of the teacher Wars a history of America's most embattled profession”
“and presumably and I imagine your research on the teacher Wars factors and on your understanding of this that's why so many teachers dislike testing”
“and this week she reviews Ana ket's book The Test why our schools are obsessed with standardized testing”
“she has a book called zombies and calculus”
“she has a book called zombies and calculus”
“the randman Rob yeah what if”
“at number 11 Samantha Shannon has a fantasy book it's the second in a fantasy series that she's started uh the name of the book is the mime order”
“and at number three our old friend James Patterson uh is back with his frequent co-author Maxine Petro in their private series uh this book is called private Vegas new at number three”
“Jill leoi the Los Angeles Times Reporter um has her book ghetto side”
“and so this book is kind of riding the wave that American Sniper started”
“at number six Nicholas Irving with Gary Bros has a book called The Reaper Nicholas Irving was a sniper in Afghanistan and so this book is kind of riding the wave that American Sniper started there's a little streak here we go from the reaper to killing Patton to God's gun grits and gravy”
“we go from the reaper to killing Patton to God's gun grits and gravy”
“we go from the reaper to killing Patton to God's gun grits and gravy”
“by Laura Engles Wilder who of course wrote The Little House on the Prairie books those books were based on her life”