Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
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Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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If I Stay
Discussed“we're talking about Paper Towns Looking for Alaska The Fault in Our stars from John Green and then if I stay and where she went from D Foreman”
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Looking for Alaska
Looking for Alaska by John Green is a celebrated young adult coming-of-age novel that explores the intense emotions, friendships, and existential questions of teenagers attending a boarding school.
Discussed“we're talking about Paper Towns Looking for Alaska The Fault in Our stars from John Green and then if I stay and where she went from D Foreman”
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Paper Towns
Paper Towns by John Green is a young adult novel centered on themes of coming-of-age and mystery.
Discussed“and um John Green's other book Paper Towns which came out in 2008 is coming out in July as a movie by the same team that did the Fon art Stars”
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The Fault in Our Stars
John Green's The Fault in Our Stars is a young adult novel that follows two teenagers with terminal cancer who fall in love while navigating the profound realities of illness and mortality.
Discussed“and that's an interesting point because obviously the fonar Stars movie was what made the whole phenomena explode it was already a bestseller but that at this point not has more than 18 million copies in print”
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Where She Went
Discussed“we're talking about Paper Towns Looking for Alaska The Fault in Our stars from John Green and then if I stay and where she went from D Foreman”
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The Happiness Project
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin is a popular self-help and memoir hybrid chronicling the author's year-long experiment to test various theories, ancient wisdom, and scientific studies about how to achieve personal fulfillment.
Discussed“so you are the author obviously of the Happiness Project and then happiness at home how did you decide to write about habits”
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The Skull Throne
Discussed“well on the fiction side of things starting down at number 14 there's a new book by Peter V Brett it's book four of his demon cycle and it's called the skull Throne”
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The harder they come
Discussed“uh this year it's the Harder They Come his new novel about kind of a right-wing militia group and how it affects one particular family that's new at number 13”
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At the water's edge
Discussed“aless all right our next bestseller uh at The Waters Edge by Sarah gr who of course is famous for Water for Elephants”
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The patriot threat
Discussed“then new at number five Steve Barry continues his cotton Malone um Thriller series uh with a book called The Patriot threat”
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The Shadows
Discussed“the last new entry on the hard cover fiction list is a book called The Shadows by Jr Ward who is also known as the romance writer Jessica bird”
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Unforgettable
Discussed“the NPR host Scott Simon uh who's had bestselling books before has a memoir of his mother called Unforgettable uh that is new at number 14”
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Between You & Me
Discussed“a book called between you and me by Mary Norris who has spent decades as a copy editor at the New Yorker between you and me is part grammar manual and part Memoir of her time there”
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson is a thought-provoking non-fiction exploration of modern digital outrage, the mechanics of internet mobs, and the severe psychological toll of public humiliation.
Discussed“then new at number 12 John Ronson the Welsh uh journalist who's got a radio presence uh has a new book called so you've been publicly shamed in which he looks at Twitter Facebook really especially Twitter”
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In defense of a liberal education
Discussed“then finally uh new number six fared Zakaria has a book called in defense of a liberal education it is basically a defense of the traditional curriculum in the Arts and Sciences”
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Other mentions in this episode (15) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“they're the publisher of Winnie the Pooh and she narrowed it down from you know 50 or 60 titles a year to 10 titles a year”
Passing Divergent
“and it seems like there's one of these movies every year I mean right now we had another Divergent movie came out last year was another Hunger Games”
Passing The Hunger Games
“and it seems like there's one of these movies every year I mean right now we had another Divergent movie came out last year was another Hunger Games”
Passing Water music
“four of those books have made the list going all the way back to 1981 when water music made the list”
Passing Drop City
“the others are his novel drop City from 200 for and the women from 2009”
Passing The Women
“the others are his novel drop City from 200 for and the women from 2009”
Passing The road to Wellville
“so far it's been four to hit the actual print list but not the road to wellville which was made into a famous flop of a movie”
Passing Water for Elephants
“aless all right our next bestseller uh at The Waters Edge by Sarah gr who of course is famous for Water for Elephants which spent three years on the trade paperback list”
Passing Eats, Shoots & Leaves
“of course is this the first grammar bestseller since e shoots and leaves I don't know the answer to that question but it is a book that is very much in the vein of eats shoots and leaves and uh sure to find the same audience”
Passing Being Mortal
“number one dead weake by Eric Larson number two being mortal by Atul goand at number five killing Patton by Bill O'Reilly”
Passing Dead Wake
“number one dead weake by Eric Larson number two being mortal by Atul goand at number five killing Patton by Bill O'Reilly”
Passing Killing Patton
“number one dead weake by Eric Larson number two being mortal by Atul goand at number five killing Patton by Bill O'Reilly”
Passing Killing Jesus
“at number 15 Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly so death is going strong”
Passing H Is for Hawk
“um at number four H is for Hawk by Helen McDonald is a memoir of her father's death and how she kind of coped with her grief uh through learning falconry”
Passing Every day I fight
“and at number 16 every day I fight by the ESPN anchor Stuart Scott is about his battle against cancer which he lost in January of this year and the book is being published posthumously”