Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Conservative Heart’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Did you ever have a family
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg is a poignant novel that explores grief, loss, and the complex aftermath of a tragedy.
Discussed“did you ever have a family which comes out this September”
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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“go had a Watchman on the fiction side and between the world and me on the non-fiction side”
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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“Marilyn Robinson for Lyla and Tyler for a spool of blue thread that came out this year”
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Lila
Discussed“Marilyn Robinson for Lyla and Tyler for a spool of blue thread that came out this year”
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James is a sprawling, ambitious historical novel that uses the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley to weave a complex narrative spanning decades of political violence, drug wars, and systemic turmoil in Jamaica and the United States.
Discussed“Marlon James who's from Jamaica was nominated for his novel brief history of seven killings”
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Hiroshima
John Hersey's groundbreaking work of narrative reportage, Hiroshima, documents the devastating atomic bombing of the Japanese city through the personal accounts of six survivors.
Discussed“when you set out to write this book um I imagine John her's hirosima was in your mind”
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The prelude
The Prelude by William Wordsworth is a monumental, book-length autobiographical poem that chronicles the spiritual and intellectual development of the renowned romantic poet.
Discussed“Chris wisman likewise said I disagree strongly re Wordsworth the Prelude is perhaps the first directly confessional poem”
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A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol is a beloved 1843 novella by Charles Dickens that tells the transformative story of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge after he is visited by spectral warnings on Christmas Eve.
Discussed“John R heckerman said my personal pleasure would be to assign A Christmas Carol to a holiday period reading list”
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a bestselling epistolary book written as a letter from the author to his teenage son, exploring the reality of growing up Black in America.
Discussed“go had a Watchman on the fiction side and between the world and me on the non-fiction side”
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Speaking in bones
Discussed“uh the new book is speaking in Bones it is the latest in the temperance Bren in series by Kathy reiches”
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life is a captivating memoir by William Finnegan that chronicles his lifelong obsession with surfing, travel, and journalism across the globe.
Discussed“there's a surfing Memoir um by a guy better known for his War reporting in international coverage for the New Yorker William finnean [skip] his book Barbarian days makes its debut at number five”
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Breath
Breath by Tim Winton is a 2008 novel by the Australian author that follows two teenage boys in Western Australia.
Discussed“the one that comes immediately to mind is the book Breath by the Australian novelist Tim Winton who's an excellent novelist in general”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Scout came from tequilla mocking I don't believe it did all right”
“well I agree with him if it comes to if it's the pck papers”